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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 420 418
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 +53
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 151 95 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 0.85% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 50 127
10th Percentile £388 £499 £469
25th Percentile £463 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £608 £579
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% +5.00% -10.99%
75th Percentile £634 £685 £656
90th Percentile £713 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £608 £579
% change year-on-year -13.58% +5.00% -10.99%

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 11,651 11,192 13,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.51% 35.95% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,934 7,433 10,061
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 151 277
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%
75th Percentile £48.31 £59.78 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £30.88 £27.00
% change year-on-year -16.65% +14.35% +22.28%

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 24 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 24 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 +9 69 £600 +6.90% 5
West Midlands +18 37 £475 - 2
Midlands +2 37 £475 - 3
North of England -23 27 £550 -21.43% 7
Yorkshire -25 16 £525 -26.32% 1
South East +2 6 £300 - 3
North West -17 6 £518 +21.76% 6
North East -5 5 £575 -23.33%
South West -8 3 £675 +3.85% 5
East of England -12 2 £488 - 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 31 (20.53%) Confluence
2 12 (7.95%) nginx
3 3 (1.99%) SAS
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.66%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (7.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 151 (100.00%) AWS
2 107 (70.86%) Amazon S3
3 104 (68.87%) Amazon EC2
4 85 (56.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 49 (32.45%) Amazon ELB
5 49 (32.45%) AWS Lambda
5 49 (32.45%) Serverless
6 39 (25.83%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (25.17%) GitHub
8 37 (24.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (22.52%) AWS KMS
10 33 (21.85%) Azure
11 29 (19.21%) Route 53
12 26 (17.22%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (13.91%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (13.25%) AWS Direct Connect
15 18 (11.92%) Datadog
16 15 (9.93%) Entra ID
17 14 (9.27%) Amazon Glacier
18 13 (8.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 72 (47.68%) DNS
2 69 (45.70%) Firewall
3 42 (27.81%) VPN
4 25 (16.56%) TCP/IP
5 24 (15.89%) SMTP
6 22 (14.57%) FTP
6 22 (14.57%) HTTP
6 22 (14.57%) Network Security
6 22 (14.57%) SSH
6 22 (14.57%) SSL
7 12 (7.95%) IMAP
7 12 (7.95%) OpenLDAP
8 11 (7.28%) DHCP
9 10 (6.62%) WAN
10 7 (4.64%) LAN
10 7 (4.64%) SD-WAN
11 6 (3.97%) VLAN
11 6 (3.97%) Wireless
12 5 (3.31%) BGP
12 5 (3.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (46.36%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (15.23%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (11.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (9.93%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.64%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.64%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.64%) MySQL
6 5 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.31%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.99%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.32%) Big Data
9 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.66%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.66%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.66%) Impala
10 1 (0.66%) Metadata
10 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 88 (58.28%) Jenkins
2 58 (38.41%) Git
3 51 (33.77%) GitLab
4 34 (22.52%) JIRA
5 24 (15.89%) Vagrant
6 6 (3.97%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.65%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.32%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.66%) Maven
9 1 (0.66%) Metasploit
General
1 43 (28.48%) Public Sector
2 32 (21.19%) Social Skills
3 19 (12.58%) Finance
4 12 (7.95%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.30%) Banking
6 5 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.65%) Military
8 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.66%) Police
8 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (40.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (33.11%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (23.84%) AWS DevOps
3 36 (23.84%) Senior
4 32 (21.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 30 (19.87%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (17.22%) Architect
6 26 (17.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 19 (12.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 18 (11.92%) Senior DevOps
9 17 (11.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 15 (9.93%) AWS Architect
11 12 (7.95%) Lead
12 11 (7.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (7.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (7.28%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (6.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 9 (5.96%) Network Engineer
14 9 (5.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (5.30%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.60%) Kafka
2 12 (7.95%) LDAP
3 7 (4.64%) AWS CDK
3 7 (4.64%) cloud-init
3 7 (4.64%) Keycloak
4 6 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (3.97%) Node.js
5 5 (3.31%) JSON
6 4 (2.65%) REST
7 3 (1.99%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.32%) Middleware
8 2 (1.32%) Swagger
8 2 (1.32%) YAML
9 1 (0.66%) .NET
9 1 (0.66%) Django
9 1 (0.66%) OAuth
9 1 (0.66%) OpenID
9 1 (0.66%) RESTful
9 1 (0.66%) SOAP
9 1 (0.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.54%) Replication
2 19 (12.58%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (6.62%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.30%) PKI
6 5 (3.31%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.65%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.99%) NHS
9 2 (1.32%) Life Science
10 1 (0.66%) CSOC
10 1 (0.66%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 52 (34.44%) Linux
2 32 (21.19%) Windows
3 27 (17.88%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (15.89%) VMS
5 12 (7.95%) Ubuntu
6 8 (5.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (4.64%) CentOS
7 7 (4.64%) Unix
8 6 (3.97%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.66%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (72.19%) DevOps
2 92 (60.93%) CI/CD
3 88 (58.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (27.15%) High Availability
4 41 (27.15%) Incident Response
5 39 (25.83%) Cloud Security
6 36 (23.84%) Configuration Management
7 34 (22.52%) Platform Engineering
8 33 (21.85%) Infrastructure Automation
9 30 (19.87%) Containerisation
10 28 (18.54%) Mentoring
11 26 (17.22%) Change Management
12 25 (16.56%) Patch Management
13 23 (15.23%) Observability
14 22 (14.57%) DevSecOps
15 19 (12.58%) Cost Optimisation
16 17 (11.26%) Migration
16 17 (11.26%) Performance Tuning
16 17 (11.26%) Root Cause Analysis
17 16 (10.60%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 96 (63.58%) Python
2 45 (29.80%) Bash
3 38 (25.17%) PowerShell
4 24 (15.89%) Groovy
5 23 (15.23%) Java
6 17 (11.26%) SQL
7 16 (10.60%) Perl
8 9 (5.96%) Go
9 6 (3.97%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.65%) Ruby
11 3 (1.99%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.66%) Korn
12 1 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 81 (53.64%) Security Cleared
2 73 (48.34%) SC Cleared
3 40 (26.49%) AWS Certification
4 16 (10.60%) Degree
5 14 (9.27%) Azure Certification
6 13 (8.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.31%) CCSP
9 4 (2.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.65%) CCNP
9 4 (2.65%) CISSP
10 3 (1.99%) CCIE
10 3 (1.99%) CCIE Security
10 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.32%) CCNA
11 2 (1.32%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.32%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.60%) GDPR
2 14 (9.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (6.62%) NIST
4 9 (5.96%) PCI DSS
5 8 (5.30%) NCSC
6 3 (1.99%) QA
7 2 (1.32%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.32%) SLA
8 1 (0.66%) JSP 440
System Software
1 79 (52.32%) Docker
2 22 (14.57%) DFS Replication
3 17 (11.26%) Active Directory
4 12 (7.95%) Dovecot
4 12 (7.95%) Postfix
4 12 (7.95%) Squid
5 6 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.31%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.66%) HDFS
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (82.12%) Terraform
2 47 (31.13%) Ansible
3 39 (25.83%) Prometheus
4 37 (24.50%) Grafana
5 35 (23.18%) Kubernetes
6 13 (8.61%) Nessus
7 10 (6.62%) Packer
7 10 (6.62%) Proxmox
8 8 (5.30%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (3.97%) Puppet
10 4 (2.65%) Argo
11 3 (1.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.99%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.99%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.99%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.32%) Kibana
12 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.66%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (19.87%) Palo Alto
2 27 (17.88%) F5
3 25 (16.56%) ServiceNow
4 23 (15.23%) CheckPoint
5 13 (8.61%) Splunk
6 12 (7.95%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (5.30%) Cisco
7 8 (5.30%) Microsoft
7 8 (5.30%) Okta
8 7 (4.64%) Dynatrace
8 7 (4.64%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.64%) VMware
9 5 (3.31%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.65%) CloudEndure
10 4 (2.65%) Meraki
10 4 (2.65%) Oracle
10 4 (2.65%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.99%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.99%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.99%) Commvault