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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 414 446
Rank change year-on-year +31 +32 -4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 176 79 107
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.82% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 41 86
10th Percentile £368 £500 £413
25th Percentile £452 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £556
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +16.85% -13.59%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £694
90th Percentile £711 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £626 £564
% change year-on-year -16.07% +10.95% -9.80%

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 12,806 9,658 12,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 37.44% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,843 6,464 9,116
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £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 354 140 299
10th Percentile £14.65 £16.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.19 £49.54
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.93 £67.11
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% +22.22% -10.00%

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 16 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 16 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 +26 104 £525 -13.58% 23
North of England -51 25 £525 -27.59% 9
West Midlands -25 23 £513 - 2
Midlands -34 23 £513 - 2
Yorkshire -51 15 £525 -27.59% 2
South East -19 14 £404 - 10
North East -9 6 £575 -23.33%
North West -29 4 £384 -9.65% 7
South West -29 3 £419 -38.87% 3
East of England -22 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 28 (15.91%) Confluence
2 11 (6.25%) nginx
3 2 (1.14%) Apache
3 2 (1.14%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (1.14%) SAS
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) AWS
2 114 (64.77%) Amazon S3
3 105 (59.66%) Amazon EC2
4 81 (46.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 71 (40.34%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (40.34%) Serverless
6 62 (35.23%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (34.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (26.70%) GitHub
9 42 (23.86%) Route 53
10 41 (23.30%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (19.89%) Amazon ELB
12 33 (18.75%) Azure
13 30 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (16.48%) GCP
15 28 (15.91%) AWS KMS
16 20 (11.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 18 (10.23%) Entra ID
18 17 (9.66%) AWS Control Tower
18 17 (9.66%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 60 (34.09%) Firewall
2 52 (29.55%) DNS
3 46 (26.14%) VPN
4 25 (14.20%) TCP/IP
5 23 (13.07%) Network Security
6 17 (9.66%) SSL
7 11 (6.25%) BGP
7 11 (6.25%) OSPF
7 11 (6.25%) WAN
8 10 (5.68%) Wireless
9 9 (5.11%) LAN
10 8 (4.55%) SD-WAN
11 7 (3.98%) OpenVPN
12 6 (3.41%) FTP
12 6 (3.41%) HTTP
12 6 (3.41%) SMTP
12 6 (3.41%) SSH
12 6 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (2.84%) MPLS
13 5 (2.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (40.34%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (7.39%) MySQL
5 9 (5.11%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (3.98%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.98%) DocumentDB
7 7 (3.98%) Redis
8 6 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.41%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.84%) Power BI
9 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.27%) Tableau
11 3 (1.70%) Big Data
11 3 (1.70%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 80 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 62 (35.23%) GitLab
3 42 (23.86%) Git
4 32 (18.18%) JIRA
5 13 (7.39%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.55%) Terragrunt
7 6 (3.41%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.41%) Vagrant
8 5 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.27%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.14%) Metasploit
10 2 (1.14%) Snyk
11 1 (0.57%) AppScan
11 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.57%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.57%) JUnit
11 1 (0.57%) Maven
11 1 (0.57%) MLflow
General
1 49 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.86%) Public Sector
3 29 (16.48%) Finance
4 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.55%) Banking
7 6 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.84%) Military
9 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 49 (27.84%) Architect
2 41 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (19.32%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (16.48%) AWS Architect
5 27 (15.34%) Senior
6 25 (14.20%) Cloud Architect
7 21 (11.93%) Lead
8 19 (10.80%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (10.80%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (8.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (8.52%) Senior DevOps
9 15 (8.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 14 (7.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (6.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (6.25%) Network Engineer
12 11 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.68%) Delivery Manager
14 9 (5.11%) Technical Manager
15 8 (4.55%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.07%) Kafka
2 13 (7.39%) OpenID
3 12 (6.82%) AWS CDK
4 11 (6.25%) LDAP
5 9 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (5.11%) REST
6 8 (4.55%) Node.js
6 8 (4.55%) OAuth
6 8 (4.55%) OAuth2
6 8 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (3.98%) RESTful
7 7 (3.98%) Spring
7 7 (3.98%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.84%) JSON
9 4 (2.27%) cloud-init
9 4 (2.27%) gRPC
9 4 (2.27%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.27%) JPA
9 4 (2.27%) Keycloak
9 4 (2.27%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.25%) Replication
4 8 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.41%) PKI
6 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.70%) Life Science
8 3 (1.70%) NHS
8 3 (1.70%) SCADA
9 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.02%) Linux
2 12 (6.82%) Windows
3 10 (5.68%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.98%) VMS
5 5 (2.84%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.27%) CentOS
6 4 (2.27%) Unix
7 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.57%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.57%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (58.52%) CI/CD
2 97 (55.11%) DevOps
2 97 (55.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 43 (24.43%) Containerisation
5 38 (21.59%) Observability
6 33 (18.75%) High Availability
6 33 (18.75%) Migration
7 30 (17.05%) Roadmaps
8 28 (15.91%) Cost Optimisation
8 28 (15.91%) Mentoring
9 27 (15.34%) Cloud Security
9 27 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (14.20%) Agile
10 25 (14.20%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
11 24 (13.64%) Microservices
12 22 (12.50%) DevSecOps
13 19 (10.80%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (10.80%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.45%) Python
2 41 (23.30%) Bash
3 20 (11.36%) Java
4 17 (9.66%) PowerShell
4 17 (9.66%) SQL
5 11 (6.25%) Go
6 6 (3.41%) Groovy
6 6 (3.41%) Perl
6 6 (3.41%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.27%) Ruby
7 4 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.14%) Bicep
8 2 (1.14%) Cypher
9 1 (0.57%) Lisp
9 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (49.43%) Security Cleared
2 77 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 48 (27.27%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (6.82%) Degree
6 8 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (2.84%) CCNP
8 5 (2.84%) CCSP
8 5 (2.84%) CISSP
8 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.70%) CCIE
10 3 (1.70%) CCIE Security
10 3 (1.70%) CCNA
10 3 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.14%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.23%) NIST
2 17 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (9.09%) GDPR
4 15 (8.52%) PCI DSS
5 12 (6.82%) NCSC
6 6 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.41%) QA
7 4 (2.27%) SLA
8 3 (1.70%) PMO
9 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.57%) COBIT
10 1 (0.57%) GRC
10 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.57%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
System Software
1 74 (42.05%) Docker
2 12 (6.82%) Squid
3 7 (3.98%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.41%) DFS Replication
4 6 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.27%) Dovecot
5 4 (2.27%) Postfix
5 4 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.27%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.14%) HDFS
7 1 (0.57%) NLBS
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (74.43%) Terraform
2 59 (33.52%) Kubernetes
3 53 (30.11%) Ansible
4 36 (20.45%) Prometheus
5 29 (16.48%) Grafana
6 10 (5.68%) FortiGate
6 10 (5.68%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.98%) Packer
8 6 (3.41%) Argo
8 6 (3.41%) Consul
8 6 (3.41%) Kibana
8 6 (3.41%) Nessus
9 5 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (2.84%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.27%) Proxmox
10 4 (2.27%) Puppet
11 3 (1.70%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.14%) Istio
12 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (14.77%) Palo Alto
2 20 (11.36%) F5
3 18 (10.23%) CheckPoint
4 17 (9.66%) Splunk
5 14 (7.95%) ServiceNow
6 13 (7.39%) Fortinet
7 11 (6.25%) Dynatrace
8 10 (5.68%) Cisco
8 10 (5.68%) CloudEndure
9 7 (3.98%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.98%) Citrix
9 7 (3.98%) Microsoft
9 7 (3.98%) Red Hat
10 6 (3.41%) AVEVA
10 6 (3.41%) Databricks
11 5 (2.84%) Okta
11 5 (2.84%) Tenable
12 4 (2.27%) Cloudera
12 4 (2.27%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (2.27%) Zscaler