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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 428 418
Rank change year-on-year +33 -10 +110
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 119 100 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.31% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 0.89% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 64 147
10th Percentile £451 £410 £469
25th Percentile £463 £488 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -6.46% -4.00%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £50.00
75th Percentile £39.69 - £52.50
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.75 - £50.00

All Cloud 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 10,343 11,232 15,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.56% 34.55% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,002 7,648 11,230
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 176 306
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.33 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.99 £68.31
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £29.04 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.34% -11.43% +62.79%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +40 58 £615 +14.31% 28
West Midlands +14 34 £475 -26.92% 2
Midlands +10 34 £475 -26.92% 2
North of England -12 13 £543 +21.23% 4
Yorkshire -12 7 £500 +11.11% 1
East of England +9 6 £513 -6.82% 2
North West -13 4 £543 +21.23% 3
South West +8 3 £675 +3.85% 7
South East +18 2 £580 -2.52% 6
North East -3 2 £600 -
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (21.85%) Confluence
2 12 (10.08%) nginx
3 3 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.52%) SAS
4 2 (1.68%) Apache
5 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.84%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 87 (73.11%) Amazon EC2
3 86 (72.27%) Amazon S3
4 65 (54.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 47 (39.50%) Amazon ELB
6 34 (28.57%) Serverless
7 33 (27.73%) AWS KMS
7 33 (27.73%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (26.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (24.37%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (20.17%) Azure
11 23 (19.33%) Route 53
12 22 (18.49%) GitHub
13 17 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
14 15 (12.61%) Amazon Glacier
15 13 (10.92%) AWS Direct Connect
16 12 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
17 9 (7.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 64 (53.78%) DNS
2 62 (52.10%) Firewall
3 40 (33.61%) VPN
4 26 (21.85%) SSL
5 24 (20.17%) SMTP
5 24 (20.17%) TCP/IP
6 22 (18.49%) FTP
6 22 (18.49%) HTTP
6 22 (18.49%) SSH
7 17 (14.29%) Network Security
8 12 (10.08%) IMAP
8 12 (10.08%) OpenLDAP
9 7 (5.88%) DHCP
10 6 (5.04%) WAN
11 4 (3.36%) BGP
11 4 (3.36%) OSPF
12 3 (2.52%) LAN
12 3 (2.52%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (2.52%) SD-WAN
12 3 (2.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (41.18%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (10.92%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (10.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (5.04%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.04%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.84%) Big Data
8 1 (0.84%) Metadata
8 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 56 (47.06%) Git
3 32 (26.89%) GitLab
4 27 (22.69%) JIRA
5 24 (20.17%) Vagrant
6 6 (5.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.68%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.84%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.84%) Snyk
9 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (30.25%) Public Sector
2 23 (19.33%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.61%) Finance
4 11 (9.24%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.36%) Military
6 3 (2.52%) Banking
7 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.84%) Police
7 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (42.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (35.29%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
4 29 (24.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 29 (24.37%) Senior
5 23 (19.33%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (15.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 16 (13.45%) Architect
8 13 (10.92%) AWS Architect
9 12 (10.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 12 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (10.08%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (9.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (8.40%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 9 (7.56%) Lead
12 9 (7.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (6.72%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (5.88%) Network Engineer
15 6 (5.04%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.08%) LDAP
2 10 (8.40%) Kafka
3 5 (4.20%) cloud-init
3 5 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.20%) Keycloak
4 4 (3.36%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.84%) CSS
5 1 (0.84%) HTML
5 1 (0.84%) JSON
5 1 (0.84%) Middleware
5 1 (0.84%) Node.js
5 1 (0.84%) REST
5 1 (0.84%) ServiceStack
5 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.17%) Replication
2 21 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (6.72%) PKI
5 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.52%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (36.13%) Linux
2 33 (27.73%) Windows
3 24 (20.17%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (20.17%) VMS
4 11 (9.24%) Ubuntu
5 8 (6.72%) Unix
6 7 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (5.04%) Windows Server
8 5 (4.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.84%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (75.63%) DevOps
2 70 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 61 (51.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (35.29%) Cloud Security
5 35 (29.41%) Configuration Management
6 31 (26.05%) High Availability
7 29 (24.37%) Infrastructure Automation
8 28 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (21.85%) Change Management
10 25 (21.01%) Patch Management
11 22 (18.49%) DevSecOps
11 22 (18.49%) Incident Response
12 19 (15.97%) Mentoring
13 17 (14.29%) Containerisation
14 15 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (12.61%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (10.08%) Observability
16 11 (9.24%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (9.24%) Root Cause Analysis
17 10 (8.40%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (68.91%) Python
2 37 (31.09%) Bash
3 33 (27.73%) PowerShell
4 25 (21.01%) Groovy
5 17 (14.29%) Java
6 16 (13.45%) SQL
7 13 (10.92%) Shell Script
8 12 (10.08%) Perl
9 5 (4.20%) Go
10 3 (2.52%) CodeQL
11 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.84%) Korn
12 1 (0.84%) Scala
12 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (53.78%) Security Cleared
2 61 (51.26%) SC Cleared
3 29 (24.37%) AWS Certification
4 12 (10.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.24%) Degree
6 10 (8.40%) Azure Certification
7 8 (6.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.40%) NIST
2 7 (5.88%) GDPR
2 7 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.88%) SOC 2
3 5 (4.20%) NCSC
3 5 (4.20%) QA
4 3 (2.52%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.68%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (1.68%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (51.26%) Docker
2 22 (18.49%) DFS Replication
3 18 (15.13%) Active Directory
4 12 (10.08%) Dovecot
4 12 (10.08%) Postfix
4 12 (10.08%) Squid
5 2 (1.68%) Firmware
5 2 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 97 (81.51%) Terraform
2 39 (32.77%) Ansible
3 32 (26.89%) Grafana
3 32 (26.89%) Prometheus
4 24 (20.17%) Kubernetes
5 13 (10.92%) Nessus
6 12 (10.08%) Puppet
7 10 (8.40%) Proxmox
8 7 (5.88%) Progress Chef
9 5 (4.20%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (4.20%) Packer
10 3 (2.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.52%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.68%) Argo
11 2 (1.68%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.84%) Nagios
12 1 (0.84%) Podman
12 1 (0.84%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (21.01%) ServiceNow
2 21 (17.65%) Palo Alto
3 20 (16.81%) CheckPoint
3 20 (16.81%) F5
4 12 (10.08%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (6.72%) Splunk
6 7 (5.88%) Microsoft
7 5 (4.20%) Okta
7 5 (4.20%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.36%) Cisco
8 4 (3.36%) Tenable
9 3 (2.52%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.52%) Commvault
9 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.52%) Qualys
9 3 (2.52%) SnapLogic
9 3 (2.52%) VMware
10 2 (1.68%) Brocade
10 2 (1.68%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.68%) Huawei