Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 411 429
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +2
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 186 68 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 0.74% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 44 80
10th Percentile £400 £413 £408
25th Percentile £456 £538 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £694
90th Percentile £653 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £605 £538
% change year-on-year -14.39% +12.47% -10.79%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Virtual Private Cloud falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,134 9,216 12,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.48% 37.82% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,736 6,497 8,664
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 181 317
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +60.38% +26.37% -20.08%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.52 £75.50 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -24.85%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 5 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +15 112 £525 -13.58% 18
North of England -62 24 £550 -24.14% 5
West Midlands -39 19 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -49 19 £500 +5.26% 2
South East -42 10 £404 -30.34% 9
North West -38 9 £568 +33.53% 3
Yorkshire -54 9 £525 -27.59% 1
East of England -24 8 £530 +3.41% 3
North East -10 6 £600 -20.00% 1
South West - 3 £450 - 4
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (15.59%) Confluence
2 9 (4.84%) nginx
3 5 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.08%) Apache
5 2 (1.08%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 186 (100.00%) AWS
2 110 (59.14%) Amazon S3
3 104 (55.91%) Amazon EC2
4 89 (47.85%) Serverless
5 87 (46.77%) AWS Lambda
6 71 (38.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (37.63%) Amazon EKS
8 63 (33.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (23.66%) Route 53
10 43 (23.12%) Azure
10 43 (23.12%) GitHub
11 39 (20.97%) GCP
12 37 (19.89%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (11.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 22 (11.83%) AWS KMS
15 19 (10.22%) AWS Control Tower
16 18 (9.68%) AWS CloudTrail
17 16 (8.60%) AWS CodePipeline
17 16 (8.60%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 54 (29.03%) Firewall
2 45 (24.19%) VPN
3 33 (17.74%) DNS
4 19 (10.22%) TCP/IP
5 18 (9.68%) BGP
6 17 (9.14%) OSPF
7 16 (8.60%) Network Security
8 12 (6.45%) WAN
9 11 (5.91%) OpenVPN
10 9 (4.84%) LAN
10 9 (4.84%) SD-WAN
10 9 (4.84%) Wireless
11 8 (4.30%) VLAN
12 6 (3.23%) EIGRP
13 5 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (2.69%) DHCP
13 5 (2.69%) MPLS
13 5 (2.69%) SSL
13 5 (2.69%) VXLAN
13 5 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (35.48%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.06%) Power BI
4 13 (6.99%) MySQL
5 10 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.84%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.30%) DynamoDB
7 8 (4.30%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.30%) Tableau
8 7 (3.76%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.76%) DocumentDB
9 6 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (3.23%) Redis
10 5 (2.69%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.15%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.61%) Big Data
12 3 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 64 (34.41%) Jenkins
2 53 (28.49%) GitLab
3 28 (15.05%) JIRA
4 23 (12.37%) Git
5 15 (8.06%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.84%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.69%) Terragrunt
8 4 (2.15%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.15%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.61%) Snyk
10 2 (1.08%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.08%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.54%) AppScan
11 1 (0.54%) JUnit
11 1 (0.54%) Maven
11 1 (0.54%) MLflow
11 1 (0.54%) sqlmap
General
1 56 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 54 (29.03%) Public Sector
3 32 (17.20%) Finance
4 17 (9.14%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.69%) Banking
8 4 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Military
11 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 57 (30.65%) Architect
2 32 (17.20%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (15.59%) AWS Architect
4 25 (13.44%) Cloud Architect
5 22 (11.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (10.22%) Lead
7 18 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (9.14%) Senior
9 14 (7.53%) Security Engineer
10 13 (6.99%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (6.99%) Network Engineer
11 12 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (5.91%) Technical Manager
13 10 (5.38%) Technical Delivery Manager
14 9 (4.84%) Analyst
14 9 (4.84%) Technical Architect
15 8 (4.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 8 (4.30%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.22%) Kafka
2 15 (8.06%) AWS CDK
3 14 (7.53%) OpenID
4 9 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.84%) LDAP
4 9 (4.84%) REST
5 8 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.76%) OAuth
6 7 (3.76%) OAuth2
6 7 (3.76%) Spring
6 7 (3.76%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.23%) JSON
7 6 (3.23%) RESTful
8 5 (2.69%) Node.js
9 4 (2.15%) gRPC
9 4 (2.15%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.15%) JPA
9 4 (2.15%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.61%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.61%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.59%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.83%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.61%) NHS
7 3 (1.61%) PKI
7 3 (1.61%) SCADA
7 3 (1.61%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.08%) Replication
9 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.54%) Life Science
9 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.67%) Linux
2 10 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.30%) Windows
4 4 (2.15%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.08%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.54%) CentOS
6 1 (0.54%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.54%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (54.84%) CI/CD
2 92 (49.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 86 (46.24%) DevOps
4 45 (24.19%) Containerisation
4 45 (24.19%) Migration
5 42 (22.58%) Observability
6 41 (22.04%) Roadmaps
7 37 (19.89%) Agile
8 32 (17.20%) Cloud Security
8 32 (17.20%) Incident Response
9 31 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (12.90%) Cost Optimisation
12 23 (12.37%) Cost Management
12 23 (12.37%) Microservices
13 22 (11.83%) Load Balancing
14 21 (11.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (10.75%) Decision-Making
16 18 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.71%) Python
2 32 (17.20%) Bash
3 24 (12.90%) Java
4 20 (10.75%) SQL
5 16 (8.60%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.30%) Go
7 6 (3.23%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.23%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.15%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.15%) Ruby
9 3 (1.61%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.08%) Bicep
10 2 (1.08%) Cypher
10 2 (1.08%) Perl
11 1 (0.54%) Groovy
11 1 (0.54%) Lisp
11 1 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 89 (47.85%) Security Cleared
2 79 (42.47%) SC Cleared
3 46 (24.73%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.53%) Azure Certification
6 11 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (4.84%) CCNP
8 7 (3.76%) CISSP
8 7 (3.76%) Degree
9 6 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.69%) CCSP
11 4 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.15%) CCIE
12 3 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.61%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.61%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (1.08%) JNCIE
13 2 (1.08%) JNCIP
13 2 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (9.68%) NIST
3 17 (9.14%) PCI DSS
4 14 (7.53%) GDPR
5 9 (4.84%) NCSC
6 7 (3.76%) Data Quality
6 7 (3.76%) PMO
7 6 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (3.23%) SLA
8 5 (2.69%) QA
9 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.54%) COBIT
9 1 (0.54%) GRC
9 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.54%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
System Software
1 68 (36.56%) Docker
2 11 (5.91%) Squid
3 8 (4.30%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.23%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.08%) HDFS
5 2 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.54%) Firmware
6 1 (0.54%) NLBS
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 128 (68.82%) Terraform
2 68 (36.56%) Kubernetes
3 38 (20.43%) Ansible
4 33 (17.74%) Prometheus
5 27 (14.52%) Grafana
6 12 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.38%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.76%) Consul
9 6 (3.23%) Kibana
10 5 (2.69%) Karpenter
10 5 (2.69%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.15%) Argo
11 4 (2.15%) Packer
12 3 (1.61%) Istio
12 3 (1.61%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.61%) Puppet
13 2 (1.08%) linkerd
13 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.08%) Salt
13 2 (1.08%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 18 (9.68%) Splunk
2 13 (6.99%) Google
2 13 (6.99%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.45%) Cisco
3 12 (6.45%) Dynatrace
3 12 (6.45%) Fortinet
4 10 (5.38%) CloudEndure
4 10 (5.38%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.84%) Palo Alto
5 9 (4.84%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.30%) F5
6 8 (4.30%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.76%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.76%) Citrix
8 6 (3.23%) AVEVA
8 6 (3.23%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.23%) Databricks
8 6 (3.23%) VMware
9 5 (2.69%) Meraki
9 5 (2.69%) SolarWinds