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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 419 428
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 150 92 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 0.83% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 48 124
10th Percentile £389 £496 £466
25th Percentile £463 £535 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £606 £579
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +4.74% -10.99%
75th Percentile £626 £685 £650
90th Percentile £713 £750 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £606 £579
% change year-on-year -13.37% +4.74% -10.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £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 11,544 11,091 14,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.64% 35.90% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,863 7,378 10,253
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 140 279
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.47
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £44.43 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.73 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £32.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +3.97% +46.19%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +26 65 £588 +6.09% 51
West Midlands +6 37 £475 - 2
Midlands +1 37 £475 - 3
North of England -23 28 £543 -22.50% 14
Yorkshire -25 17 £525 -26.32% 2
South East +2 6 £300 - 7
North West -20 6 £518 +21.76% 11
North East -5 5 £575 -23.33% 1
East of England -13 4 £500 - 3
South West -9 3 £675 +3.85% 5
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 31 (20.67%) Confluence
2 12 (8.00%) nginx
3 3 (2.00%) SAS
4 2 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.67%) Apache
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (8.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 150 (100.00%) AWS
2 105 (70.00%) Amazon S3
3 103 (68.67%) Amazon EC2
4 82 (54.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 50 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
6 47 (31.33%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (31.33%) Serverless
7 40 (26.67%) GitHub
8 38 (25.33%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (22.67%) AWS KMS
10 33 (22.00%) Azure
11 28 (18.67%) Route 53
12 23 (15.33%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (14.00%) AWS Direct Connect
13 21 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (10.67%) AWS CloudTrail
14 16 (10.67%) Datadog
15 15 (10.00%) Entra ID
16 14 (9.33%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 73 (48.67%) DNS
2 71 (47.33%) Firewall
3 43 (28.67%) VPN
4 26 (17.33%) TCP/IP
5 24 (16.00%) SMTP
6 23 (15.33%) Network Security
6 23 (15.33%) SSL
7 22 (14.67%) FTP
7 22 (14.67%) HTTP
7 22 (14.67%) SSH
8 12 (8.00%) IMAP
8 12 (8.00%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (7.33%) DHCP
10 10 (6.67%) WAN
11 7 (4.67%) LAN
11 7 (4.67%) SD-WAN
11 7 (4.67%) VLAN
12 6 (4.00%) BGP
12 6 (4.00%) OSPF
12 6 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (44.00%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.67%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.67%) MySQL
6 6 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.67%) Big Data
11 1 (0.67%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.67%) Metadata
11 1 (0.67%) Power BI
11 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (58.00%) Jenkins
2 61 (40.67%) Git
3 48 (32.00%) GitLab
4 34 (22.67%) JIRA
5 24 (16.00%) Vagrant
6 6 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.67%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.33%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.67%) Maven
9 1 (0.67%) Metasploit
General
1 43 (28.67%) Public Sector
2 32 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.00%) Finance
4 12 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.33%) Banking
6 5 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.67%) Military
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.67%) Police
8 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (41.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (34.00%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (24.00%) AWS DevOps
3 36 (24.00%) Senior
4 33 (22.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 30 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (17.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 25 (16.67%) Architect
8 19 (12.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 18 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (11.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 15 (10.00%) AWS Architect
12 12 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (8.00%) Lead
13 11 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (7.33%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 10 (6.67%) Network Engineer
15 9 (6.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 7 (4.67%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.67%) Kafka
2 12 (8.00%) LDAP
3 7 (4.67%) AWS CDK
3 7 (4.67%) cloud-init
3 7 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (4.67%) Keycloak
4 6 (4.00%) Node.js
5 4 (2.67%) JSON
5 4 (2.67%) REST
6 3 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.33%) Middleware
7 2 (1.33%) Swagger
8 1 (0.67%) .NET
8 1 (0.67%) Django
8 1 (0.67%) OAuth
8 1 (0.67%) OpenID
8 1 (0.67%) RESTful
8 1 (0.67%) SOAP
8 1 (0.67%) Spring
8 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.67%) Replication
2 19 (12.67%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.00%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.33%) PKI
5 5 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.00%) NHS
8 2 (1.33%) Life Science
9 1 (0.67%) CSOC
9 1 (0.67%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 49 (32.67%) Linux
2 32 (21.33%) Windows
3 27 (18.00%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (16.00%) VMS
5 12 (8.00%) Ubuntu
6 8 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (4.67%) CentOS
7 7 (4.67%) Unix
8 6 (4.00%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.67%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (73.33%) DevOps
2 89 (59.33%) CI/CD
3 84 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (26.00%) Cloud Security
5 38 (25.33%) High Availability
5 38 (25.33%) Incident Response
6 35 (23.33%) Configuration Management
7 34 (22.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 34 (22.67%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (18.67%) Mentoring
9 27 (18.00%) Containerisation
10 26 (17.33%) Change Management
11 25 (16.67%) Patch Management
12 23 (15.33%) DevSecOps
13 22 (14.67%) Observability
14 19 (12.67%) Cost Optimisation
15 17 (11.33%) Performance Tuning
16 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 16 (10.67%) Migration
17 14 (9.33%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 95 (63.33%) Python
2 43 (28.67%) Bash
3 38 (25.33%) PowerShell
4 24 (16.00%) Groovy
5 20 (13.33%) Java
6 17 (11.33%) SQL
7 16 (10.67%) Perl
8 9 (6.00%) Go
8 9 (6.00%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.67%) Ruby
10 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.33%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.67%) Korn
12 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 82 (54.67%) Security Cleared
2 74 (49.33%) SC Cleared
3 39 (26.00%) AWS Certification
4 16 (10.67%) Degree
5 14 (9.33%) Azure Certification
6 11 (7.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.67%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.33%) CCSP
9 4 (2.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.67%) CCNP
9 4 (2.67%) CISSP
10 3 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.00%) CCIE
10 3 (2.00%) CCIE Security
10 3 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.33%) CCNA
11 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.33%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.33%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.67%) GDPR
2 14 (9.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.33%) NIST
4 8 (5.33%) NCSC
4 8 (5.33%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.33%) QA
6 2 (1.33%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.33%) SLA
7 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.67%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (50.67%) Docker
2 22 (14.67%) DFS Replication
3 17 (11.33%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.00%) Dovecot
4 12 (8.00%) Postfix
4 12 (8.00%) Squid
5 6 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.33%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (81.33%) Terraform
2 49 (32.67%) Ansible
3 40 (26.67%) Prometheus
4 38 (25.33%) Grafana
5 33 (22.00%) Kubernetes
6 13 (8.67%) Nessus
7 10 (6.67%) Packer
7 10 (6.67%) Proxmox
8 8 (5.33%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (4.67%) Puppet
10 4 (2.67%) Argo
11 3 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (2.00%) NetBackup
11 3 (2.00%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.33%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.33%) Kibana
12 2 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.67%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.67%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 27 (18.00%) F5
3 25 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 23 (15.33%) CheckPoint
5 14 (9.33%) Splunk
6 12 (8.00%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (5.33%) Cisco
7 8 (5.33%) Fortinet
7 8 (5.33%) Okta
8 7 (4.67%) Dynatrace
8 7 (4.67%) Microsoft
8 7 (4.67%) VMware
9 5 (3.33%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.33%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.67%) CloudEndure
10 4 (2.67%) Meraki
10 4 (2.67%) Oracle
11 3 (2.00%) AppDynamics
11 3 (2.00%) Commvault
11 3 (2.00%) SnapLogic