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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 401 432
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 +5
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 165 79 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 0.81% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 40 97
10th Percentile £368 £518 £425
25th Percentile £450 £563 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £630 £738 £694
90th Percentile £713 £750 £805
UK median daily rate £525 £627 £575
% change year-on-year -16.20% +8.96% -9.45%

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 12,534 9,733 12,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.66% 37.41% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,667 6,462 9,209
10th Percentile £305 £313 £272
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 140 306
10th Percentile £14.43 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.81 £27.50 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +30.22% +23.73% -11.10%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.61 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% +22.22% -6.25%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 97 £538 -11.52% 26
North of England -45 25 £525 -27.59% 6
West Midlands -30 21 £498 - 3
Midlands -33 21 £498 - 3
Yorkshire -52 15 £525 -27.59% 2
South East -14 14 £404 - 11
North East -11 6 £575 -23.33%
North West -22 4 £384 -9.65% 4
South West -24 3 £488 -28.83% 4
East of England -19 1 £600 - 3
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 22 (13.33%) Confluence
2 12 (7.27%) nginx
3 3 (1.82%) SAS
4 2 (1.21%) Apache
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 165 (100.00%) AWS
2 103 (62.42%) Amazon S3
3 94 (56.97%) Amazon EC2
4 70 (42.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 65 (39.39%) AWS Lambda
5 65 (39.39%) Serverless
6 59 (35.76%) Amazon EKS
6 59 (35.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (27.27%) GitHub
8 43 (26.06%) Route 53
9 42 (25.45%) Amazon ECS
10 38 (23.03%) Azure
11 30 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
12 29 (17.58%) GCP
13 27 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (14.55%) AWS KMS
15 19 (11.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 18 (10.91%) Entra ID
17 17 (10.30%) AWS Control Tower
17 17 (10.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 60 (36.36%) Firewall
2 53 (32.12%) DNS
3 47 (28.48%) VPN
4 24 (14.55%) TCP/IP
5 23 (13.94%) Network Security
6 17 (10.30%) SSL
7 13 (7.88%) WAN
8 11 (6.67%) BGP
8 11 (6.67%) OSPF
9 10 (6.06%) SD-WAN
9 10 (6.06%) Wireless
10 9 (5.45%) LAN
11 8 (4.85%) FTP
11 8 (4.85%) HTTP
11 8 (4.85%) SMTP
11 8 (4.85%) SSH
12 6 (3.64%) IMAP
12 6 (3.64%) OpenLDAP
12 6 (3.64%) OpenVPN
12 6 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (37.58%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (9.70%) MongoDB
4 15 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (7.88%) MySQL
6 10 (6.06%) DynamoDB
7 8 (4.85%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.24%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.24%) DocumentDB
8 7 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.24%) Redis
9 6 (3.64%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.03%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.42%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.82%) Big Data
12 3 (1.82%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.21%) Apache Hive
13 2 (1.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 79 (47.88%) Jenkins
2 59 (35.76%) GitLab
3 37 (22.42%) Git
4 26 (15.76%) JIRA
5 10 (6.06%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.85%) Terragrunt
6 8 (4.85%) Vagrant
7 5 (3.03%) SonarQube
7 5 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.42%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.21%) Metasploit
9 2 (1.21%) Snyk
10 1 (0.61%) AppScan
10 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.61%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.61%) JUnit
10 1 (0.61%) Maven
10 1 (0.61%) MLflow
General
1 41 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.42%) Public Sector
3 28 (16.97%) Finance
4 11 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.85%) Banking
7 7 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.03%) Military
10 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 51 (30.91%) Architect
2 42 (25.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (20.61%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (18.18%) AWS Architect
5 28 (16.97%) Cloud Architect
6 27 (16.36%) Senior
7 21 (12.73%) Lead
7 21 (12.73%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (12.12%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (9.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 15 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
10 15 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (7.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.67%) Network Engineer
12 11 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (5.45%) Network Architect
14 8 (4.85%) Lead DevOps
15 7 (4.24%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.55%) Kafka
2 12 (7.27%) LDAP
2 12 (7.27%) OpenID
3 10 (6.06%) AWS CDK
4 9 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (5.45%) REST
5 8 (4.85%) Node.js
5 8 (4.85%) OAuth
5 8 (4.85%) OAuth2
5 8 (4.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (4.24%) RESTful
6 7 (4.24%) Spring
6 7 (4.24%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.03%) JSON
8 4 (2.42%) cloud-init
8 4 (2.42%) gRPC
8 4 (2.42%) Hibernate
8 4 (2.42%) JPA
8 4 (2.42%) Keycloak
8 4 (2.42%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.91%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.88%) Replication
4 11 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.85%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.64%) PKI
7 5 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.42%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.82%) Life Science
9 3 (1.82%) NHS
9 3 (1.82%) SCADA
10 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.61%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.03%) Linux
2 17 (10.30%) Windows
3 11 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (5.45%) VMS
5 7 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.24%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.03%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.42%) CentOS
7 4 (2.42%) Unix
8 1 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.61%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (61.82%) CI/CD
2 97 (58.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 95 (57.58%) DevOps
4 43 (26.06%) Incident Response
5 42 (25.45%) Containerisation
6 37 (22.42%) Observability
7 35 (21.21%) High Availability
8 32 (19.39%) Migration
9 31 (18.79%) Mentoring
10 30 (18.18%) Roadmaps
11 28 (16.97%) Cost Optimisation
12 27 (16.36%) Cloud Security
13 25 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
14 24 (14.55%) Microservices
14 24 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (12.73%) DevSecOps
15 21 (12.73%) Performance Tuning
16 20 (12.12%) Configuration Management
17 18 (10.91%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 80 (48.48%) Python
2 40 (24.24%) Bash
3 20 (12.12%) Java
3 20 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 15 (9.09%) SQL
5 11 (6.67%) Go
6 8 (4.85%) Groovy
7 6 (3.64%) Perl
8 4 (2.42%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.42%) Ruby
8 4 (2.42%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.42%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.21%) Bicep
9 2 (1.21%) Cypher
10 1 (0.61%) Lisp
10 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (46.06%) Security Cleared
2 66 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 50 (30.30%) AWS Certification
4 20 (12.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (8.48%) Degree
6 10 (6.06%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.03%) CCNP
9 5 (3.03%) CCSP
9 5 (3.03%) CISSP
9 5 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.82%) CCIE
11 3 (1.82%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.82%) CCNA
11 3 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.21%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.21%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.91%) NIST
2 17 (10.30%) GDPR
2 17 (10.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (9.09%) PCI DSS
4 12 (7.27%) NCSC
5 6 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (3.64%) QA
6 3 (1.82%) SLA
7 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.61%) COBIT
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.61%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
System Software
1 74 (44.85%) Docker
2 13 (7.88%) Squid
3 8 (4.85%) DFS Replication
4 7 (4.24%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.64%) Dovecot
5 6 (3.64%) Postfix
5 6 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (2.42%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.42%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.21%) HDFS
8 1 (0.61%) NLBS
8 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (78.79%) Terraform
2 57 (34.55%) Kubernetes
3 52 (31.52%) Ansible
4 37 (22.42%) Prometheus
5 30 (18.18%) Grafana
6 9 (5.45%) FortiGate
6 9 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (4.85%) Nessus
8 7 (4.24%) Packer
9 6 (3.64%) Kibana
9 6 (3.64%) Proxmox
10 5 (3.03%) Argo
10 5 (3.03%) Consul
10 5 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (3.03%) Karpenter
10 5 (3.03%) Puppet
11 3 (1.82%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.82%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (15.76%) Palo Alto
2 20 (12.12%) F5
3 18 (10.91%) CheckPoint
4 17 (10.30%) Splunk
5 13 (7.88%) Fortinet
6 12 (7.27%) Cisco
7 10 (6.06%) CloudEndure
7 10 (6.06%) Dynatrace
8 9 (5.45%) ServiceNow
9 7 (4.24%) Citrix
9 7 (4.24%) Microsoft
10 6 (3.64%) Atlassian
10 6 (3.64%) AVEVA
10 6 (3.64%) Databricks
10 6 (3.64%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (3.64%) Red Hat
10 6 (3.64%) VMware
11 5 (3.03%) Okta
11 5 (3.03%) Tenable
12 4 (2.42%) Zscaler