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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 408 417
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 174 67 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 0.74% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 45 88
10th Percentile £400 £413 £406
25th Percentile £456 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £614 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.75% +11.68% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £675
90th Percentile £638 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £590 £538
% change year-on-year -14.41% +9.77% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £38.75 -

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 14,350 9,074 11,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.36% 37.22% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,857 6,350 8,496
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £744 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 195 318
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.04 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £39.38 £32.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £61.72
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 May 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 May 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 +12 109 £522 -15.33% 20
North of England -51 20 £563 -22.41% 8
West Midlands -42 19 £494 +3.95%
Midlands -54 19 £494 +3.95%
North West -27 11 £568 +33.53% 5
South East -50 9 £450 -22.41% 12
North East -14 7 £575 -23.33% 3
East of England -40 7 £530 +0.95% 1
South West - 5 £475 - 2
Yorkshire -51 2 £490 -32.41%
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 35 (20.11%) Confluence
2 9 (5.17%) nginx
3 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.15%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.15%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.57%) Apache
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 174 (100.00%) AWS
2 105 (60.34%) Amazon S3
3 98 (56.32%) Amazon EC2
4 84 (48.28%) Serverless
5 81 (46.55%) AWS Lambda
6 70 (40.23%) Amazon EKS
7 69 (39.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 53 (30.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (21.84%) Azure
9 38 (21.84%) Route 53
10 37 (21.26%) GitHub
11 36 (20.69%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (17.24%) GCP
13 29 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (13.79%) AWS KMS
15 20 (11.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 20 (11.49%) AWS Control Tower
16 16 (9.20%) AWS CodePipeline
17 15 (8.62%) AWS CloudTrail
17 15 (8.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 47 (27.01%) Firewall
2 35 (20.11%) VPN
3 29 (16.67%) DNS
4 20 (11.49%) TCP/IP
5 16 (9.20%) Network Security
6 14 (8.05%) BGP
7 13 (7.47%) OSPF
8 11 (6.32%) OpenVPN
9 8 (4.60%) WAN
10 6 (3.45%) SSL
11 5 (2.87%) LAN
11 5 (2.87%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.87%) Wireless
12 4 (2.30%) NGFW
12 4 (2.30%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (2.30%) VLAN
13 3 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
14 2 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 2 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (32.18%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.62%) Power BI
3 12 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.60%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (4.60%) MySQL
6 8 (4.60%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.60%) Tableau
7 7 (4.02%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.45%) DocumentDB
8 6 (3.45%) Redis
9 5 (2.87%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.30%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.72%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.15%) Big Data
12 2 (1.15%) Impala
12 2 (1.15%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 54 (31.03%) Jenkins
2 53 (30.46%) GitLab
3 32 (18.39%) JIRA
4 23 (13.22%) Git
5 17 (9.77%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.75%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.45%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.30%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.72%) Snyk
10 2 (1.15%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.15%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.15%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.57%) AppScan
11 1 (0.57%) JUnit
11 1 (0.57%) MLflow
11 1 (0.57%) sqlmap
General
1 55 (31.61%) Public Sector
1 55 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.82%) Finance
3 17 (9.77%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.30%) Military
7 3 (1.72%) Banking
7 3 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.72%) Police
8 2 (1.15%) Games
8 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.15%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (31.03%) Architect
2 31 (17.82%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (16.67%) AWS Architect
4 25 (14.37%) Cloud Architect
5 19 (10.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (9.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (9.77%) Lead
7 16 (9.20%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (9.20%) Senior
8 13 (7.47%) Network Engineer
8 13 (7.47%) Security Engineer
9 12 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (6.32%) Technical Manager
11 10 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Technical Delivery Manager
12 9 (5.17%) Analyst
12 9 (5.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.17%) Technical Architect
13 8 (4.60%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 7 (4.02%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.20%) AWS CDK
2 15 (8.62%) Kafka
2 15 (8.62%) OpenID
3 11 (6.32%) LDAP
4 7 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (4.02%) OAuth
4 7 (4.02%) OAuth2
4 7 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (4.02%) REST
5 6 (3.45%) RESTful
5 6 (3.45%) Spring
5 6 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.30%) gRPC
6 4 (2.30%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.30%) JPA
6 4 (2.30%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (1.72%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.72%) JSON
7 3 (1.72%) Node.js
8 2 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.77%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (5.75%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.30%) Replication
7 3 (1.72%) SCADA
7 3 (1.72%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.15%) NHS
8 2 (1.15%) PKI
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.67%) Linux
2 9 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (5.17%) Windows
3 5 (2.87%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.57%) VMS
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (54.02%) CI/CD
2 84 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 80 (45.98%) DevOps
4 46 (26.44%) Containerisation
5 42 (24.14%) Agile
6 39 (22.41%) Migration
6 39 (22.41%) Observability
7 35 (20.11%) Roadmaps
8 33 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (18.39%) Cloud Security
10 30 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (12.64%) Incident Response
11 22 (12.64%) Microservices
12 21 (12.07%) Decision-Making
13 19 (10.92%) Cost Optimisation
13 19 (10.92%) DevSecOps
13 19 (10.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (10.34%) Cost Management
14 18 (10.34%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 63 (36.21%) Python
2 29 (16.67%) Bash
3 25 (14.37%) Java
4 18 (10.34%) SQL
5 15 (8.62%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.45%) Go
6 6 (3.45%) Kotlin
6 6 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.87%) Groovy
8 4 (2.30%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.72%) Perl
10 2 (1.15%) Bicep
10 2 (1.15%) Cypher
10 2 (1.15%) Ruby
10 2 (1.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.57%) Lisp
11 1 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 93 (53.45%) Security Cleared
2 85 (48.85%) SC Cleared
3 41 (23.56%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (6.90%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.02%) SAFe Agilist
7 6 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.45%) CCNP
8 4 (2.30%) CISSP
9 3 (1.72%) Degree
10 2 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.15%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.15%) PMP
11 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.57%) CCNA
11 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (7.47%) NIST
1 13 (7.47%) PCI DSS
2 7 (4.02%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.02%) GDPR
2 7 (4.02%) NCSC
2 7 (4.02%) PMO
3 6 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.45%) QA
4 5 (2.87%) SLA
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) COBIT
5 1 (0.57%) GRC
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 66 (37.93%) Docker
2 11 (6.32%) Squid
3 10 (5.75%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.15%) HDFS
5 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.15%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.57%) Firmware
6 1 (0.57%) NLBS
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (66.09%) Terraform
2 62 (35.63%) Kubernetes
3 36 (20.69%) Prometheus
4 32 (18.39%) Grafana
5 29 (16.67%) Ansible
6 12 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.75%) FortiGate
8 8 (4.60%) Consul
9 5 (2.87%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.87%) Puppet
10 4 (2.30%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.30%) Kibana
10 4 (2.30%) Salt
11 3 (1.72%) Istio
11 3 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.15%) Argo
12 2 (1.15%) linkerd
12 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.15%) Packer
12 2 (1.15%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 14 (8.05%) Splunk
2 13 (7.47%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.90%) Google
3 12 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 11 (6.32%) Dynatrace
5 10 (5.75%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.60%) Cisco
6 8 (4.60%) Zscaler
7 7 (4.02%) Atlassian
7 7 (4.02%) Citrix
8 6 (3.45%) AVEVA
8 6 (3.45%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.45%) CloudEndure
9 5 (2.87%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.87%) Tenable
10 4 (2.30%) F5
10 4 (2.30%) Qualys
11 3 (1.72%) Databricks
11 3 (1.72%) SAP