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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 387 418
Rank change year-on-year +3 +31 +20
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 157 91 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 0.93% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 44 101
10th Percentile £386 £510 £475
25th Percentile £463 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £611 £578
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% +5.67% -11.08%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £694
90th Percentile £713 £750 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £608 £578
% change year-on-year -9.47% +5.10% -11.08%

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 11,786 9,808 12,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.00% 36.72% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,146 6,531 9,054
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 130 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £45.89 £50.79
90th Percentile £78.45 £64.78 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.43 £23.11
% change year-on-year +0.27% +18.68% +2.70%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +20 84 £600 +5.26% 12
West Midlands -12 26 £475 - 2
Midlands -26 26 £475 - 2
North of England -36 26 £550 -24.14% 7
Yorkshire -31 16 £525 -27.59% 1
South East -7 11 £525 - 6
North East -5 5 £575 -23.33% 1
North West -28 5 £500 -16.67% 5
South West -24 4 £488 -28.83% 4
East of England -20 1 £600 - 1
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 25 (15.92%) Confluence
2 9 (5.73%) nginx
3 4 (2.55%) SAS
4 2 (1.27%) Apache
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 9 (5.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 157 (100.00%) AWS
2 101 (64.33%) Amazon S3
3 94 (59.87%) Amazon EC2
4 76 (48.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 52 (33.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 51 (32.48%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (32.48%) Serverless
7 50 (31.85%) GitHub
8 44 (28.03%) Amazon ELB
9 40 (25.48%) Amazon ECS
9 40 (25.48%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (23.57%) Azure
11 32 (20.38%) Route 53
12 30 (19.11%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (18.47%) AWS KMS
14 23 (14.65%) GCP
15 18 (11.46%) Datadog
16 17 (10.83%) Entra ID
17 16 (10.19%) AWS Direct Connect
18 15 (9.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 65 (41.40%) Firewall
2 63 (40.13%) DNS
3 45 (28.66%) VPN
4 27 (17.20%) TCP/IP
5 25 (15.92%) Network Security
5 25 (15.92%) SSL
6 15 (9.55%) FTP
6 15 (9.55%) HTTP
6 15 (9.55%) SMTP
6 15 (9.55%) SSH
7 11 (7.01%) WAN
8 10 (6.37%) Wireless
9 9 (5.73%) IMAP
9 9 (5.73%) LAN
9 9 (5.73%) OpenLDAP
10 8 (5.10%) BGP
10 8 (5.10%) OSPF
10 8 (5.10%) SD-WAN
11 6 (3.82%) DHCP
11 6 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (40.76%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (15.92%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (11.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (10.19%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.64%) MySQL
6 10 (6.37%) DynamoDB
7 8 (5.10%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.46%) DocumentDB
8 7 (4.46%) Redis
9 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.91%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.91%) Big Data
12 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.91%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.27%) Apache Hive
13 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 88 (56.05%) Jenkins
2 60 (38.22%) GitLab
3 51 (32.48%) Git
4 29 (18.47%) JIRA
5 15 (9.55%) Vagrant
6 8 (5.10%) Terragrunt
7 6 (3.82%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.91%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.64%) JUnit
10 1 (0.64%) Maven
10 1 (0.64%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.64%) MLflow
10 1 (0.64%) Snyk
General
1 44 (28.03%) Public Sector
2 35 (22.29%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.92%) Finance
4 10 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.37%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.10%) Banking
6 5 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.18%) Military
7 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 48 (30.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (25.48%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (24.20%) Architect
4 35 (22.29%) Senior
5 28 (17.83%) AWS DevOps
5 28 (17.83%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (15.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 22 (14.01%) AWS Architect
7 22 (14.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 21 (13.38%) Lead
9 20 (12.74%) Cloud Architect
10 17 (10.83%) Senior DevOps
11 16 (10.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 16 (10.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (7.64%) Network Engineer
13 10 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (5.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (5.10%) Lead DevOps
15 8 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
16 7 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.38%) Kafka
2 10 (6.37%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (5.73%) LDAP
3 9 (5.73%) REST
4 8 (5.10%) AWS CDK
4 8 (5.10%) Node.js
5 7 (4.46%) RESTful
5 7 (4.46%) Spring
5 7 (4.46%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.82%) OAuth
6 6 (3.82%) OAuth2
6 6 (3.82%) OpenID
6 6 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (3.18%) cloud-init
7 5 (3.18%) JSON
7 5 (3.18%) Keycloak
8 4 (2.55%) gRPC
8 4 (2.55%) Hibernate
8 4 (2.55%) JPA
8 4 (2.55%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.74%) Replication
3 14 (8.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (7.01%) Data Centre
5 10 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.46%) PKI
7 5 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.18%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.55%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.91%) Life Science
9 3 (1.91%) NHS
9 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.64%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 41 (26.11%) Linux
2 22 (14.01%) Windows
3 18 (11.46%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (9.55%) VMS
5 10 (6.37%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.82%) Windows Server
7 5 (3.18%) CentOS
7 5 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (3.18%) Unix
8 1 (0.64%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (62.42%) DevOps
2 97 (61.78%) CI/CD
3 95 (60.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (29.94%) Incident Response
5 39 (24.84%) High Availability
6 35 (22.29%) Containerisation
6 35 (22.29%) Observability
7 30 (19.11%) Cloud Security
8 28 (17.83%) Configuration Management
8 28 (17.83%) Infrastructure Automation
8 28 (17.83%) Mentoring
8 28 (17.83%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (16.56%) Cost Optimisation
10 25 (15.92%) Migration
11 23 (14.65%) DevSecOps
11 23 (14.65%) Performance Tuning
12 22 (14.01%) Microservices
12 22 (14.01%) Roadmaps
13 19 (12.10%) Root Cause Analysis
14 17 (10.83%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 90 (57.32%) Python
2 46 (29.30%) Bash
3 28 (17.83%) PowerShell
4 23 (14.65%) Java
5 18 (11.46%) SQL
6 15 (9.55%) Groovy
7 10 (6.37%) Go
7 10 (6.37%) Perl
8 6 (3.82%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.55%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.55%) Ruby
9 4 (2.55%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.64%) Cypher
10 1 (0.64%) Korn
10 1 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 77 (49.04%) Security Cleared
2 68 (43.31%) SC Cleared
3 47 (29.94%) AWS Certification
4 19 (12.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (10.19%) Degree
6 13 (8.28%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.18%) CCNP
8 5 (3.18%) CCSP
8 5 (3.18%) CISSP
9 4 (2.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.91%) CCIE
10 3 (1.91%) CCIE Security
10 3 (1.91%) CCNA
10 3 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.27%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.27%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (10.83%) NIST
2 16 (10.19%) GDPR
3 13 (8.28%) NCSC
4 12 (7.64%) PCI DSS
5 7 (4.46%) QA
6 6 (3.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.27%) SLA
8 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.64%) JSP 440
System Software
1 84 (53.50%) Docker
2 15 (9.55%) DFS Replication
3 10 (6.37%) Squid
4 9 (5.73%) Active Directory
4 9 (5.73%) Dovecot
4 9 (5.73%) Postfix
5 6 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (2.55%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.55%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (82.80%) Terraform
2 56 (35.67%) Ansible
3 45 (28.66%) Kubernetes
4 32 (20.38%) Prometheus
5 30 (19.11%) Grafana
6 10 (6.37%) Nessus
7 9 (5.73%) Proxmox
8 8 (5.10%) Packer
9 7 (4.46%) Puppet
10 6 (3.82%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (3.82%) Kibana
11 5 (3.18%) Argo
11 5 (3.18%) Karpenter
12 4 (2.55%) NetBackup
13 3 (1.91%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.91%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (21.66%) Palo Alto
2 28 (17.83%) F5
3 26 (16.56%) CheckPoint
4 16 (10.19%) ServiceNow
5 14 (8.92%) Splunk
6 12 (7.64%) Cisco
6 12 (7.64%) Fortinet
7 10 (6.37%) CloudEndure
8 9 (5.73%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (4.46%) Citrix
10 6 (3.82%) Okta
10 6 (3.82%) VMware
10 6 (3.82%) Zscaler
11 5 (3.18%) Microsoft
12 4 (2.55%) Cloudera
12 4 (2.55%) Commvault
12 4 (2.55%) Databricks
12 4 (2.55%) Meraki
12 4 (2.55%) Oracle
12 4 (2.55%) SolarWinds