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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 410 426
Rank change year-on-year +27 +16 +31
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 162 97 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.32% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.88% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 51 122
10th Percentile £368 £500 £464
25th Percentile £463 £538 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £614 £578
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +6.23% -11.08%
75th Percentile £636 £705 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £811
UK median daily rate £544 £611 £577
% change year-on-year -10.97% +5.94% -11.31%

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 11,806 11,023 13,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.13% 36.35% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,086 7,372 9,861
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 142 270
10th Percentile £14.83 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.94 £55.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £69.98 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +22 76 £600 +6.19% 15
West Midlands +5 35 £475 - 4
Midlands -5 35 £475 - 10
North of England -28 28 £550 -24.14% 14
Yorkshire -33 16 £525 -27.59% 6
South East -5 11 £600 - 14
North East 0 6 £575 -23.33% 1
North West -13 6 £518 +15.00% 7
South West -25 3 £675 -1.46% 13
East of England -14 1 £600 - 11
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 (19.14%) Confluence
2 11 (6.79%) nginx
3 4 (2.47%) SAS
4 3 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 162 (100.00%) AWS
2 110 (67.90%) Amazon S3
3 106 (65.43%) Amazon EC2
4 83 (51.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 52 (32.10%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (32.10%) Serverless
6 46 (28.40%) Amazon ELB
6 46 (28.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 44 (27.16%) GitHub
8 40 (24.69%) Amazon ECS
9 37 (22.84%) AWS KMS
10 33 (20.37%) Azure
11 30 (18.52%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (17.90%) Route 53
13 23 (14.20%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (12.96%) Entra ID
15 19 (11.73%) AWS Direct Connect
16 18 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (11.11%) Datadog
17 15 (9.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 70 (43.21%) DNS
2 66 (40.74%) Firewall
3 43 (26.54%) VPN
4 25 (15.43%) TCP/IP
5 24 (14.81%) SSL
6 22 (13.58%) Network Security
7 21 (12.96%) SMTP
8 20 (12.35%) FTP
8 20 (12.35%) HTTP
8 20 (12.35%) SSH
9 11 (6.79%) DHCP
9 11 (6.79%) IMAP
9 11 (6.79%) OpenLDAP
10 9 (5.56%) WAN
11 7 (4.32%) LAN
12 6 (3.70%) SD-WAN
12 6 (3.70%) Wireless
13 5 (3.09%) VLAN
14 4 (2.47%) IPv4
14 4 (2.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (42.59%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 16 (9.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (4.94%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.94%) MySQL
6 7 (4.32%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.85%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.85%) Redis
10 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.23%) Big Data
11 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.62%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.62%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 89 (54.94%) Jenkins
2 58 (35.80%) Git
3 55 (33.95%) GitLab
4 34 (20.99%) JIRA
5 21 (12.96%) Vagrant
6 6 (3.70%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.47%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.85%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.62%) Maven
9 1 (0.62%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.62%) MLflow
General
1 49 (30.25%) Public Sector
2 35 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 26 (16.05%) Finance
4 12 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.94%) Banking
7 5 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.47%) Military
9 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.62%) Police
9 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (36.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (30.86%) AWS Engineer
3 37 (22.84%) Senior
4 36 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
5 33 (20.37%) Architect
6 32 (19.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 30 (18.52%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (15.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 20 (12.35%) AWS Architect
10 18 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 18 (11.11%) Lead
10 18 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
11 17 (10.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
13 11 (6.79%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 9 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.73%) Kafka
2 11 (6.79%) LDAP
3 8 (4.94%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.94%) Node.js
4 7 (4.32%) cloud-init
4 7 (4.32%) Keycloak
5 6 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.70%) REST
6 5 (3.09%) JSON
7 3 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.85%) RESTful
7 3 (1.85%) Spring
7 3 (1.85%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.23%) Middleware
8 2 (1.23%) SignalR
8 2 (1.23%) Swagger
8 2 (1.23%) YAML
9 1 (0.62%) Django
9 1 (0.62%) Memcached
9 1 (0.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.05%) Replication
2 21 (12.96%) Cloud Native
3 13 (8.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (6.17%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.94%) PKI
6 6 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.09%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.47%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.85%) NHS
10 2 (1.23%) Life Science
11 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.62%) CSOC
11 1 (0.62%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (30.86%) Linux
2 31 (19.14%) Windows
3 24 (14.81%) Amazon Linux
4 21 (12.96%) VMS
5 12 (7.41%) Ubuntu
6 8 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (4.32%) CentOS
7 7 (4.32%) Unix
7 7 (4.32%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.62%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (66.67%) DevOps
2 97 (59.88%) CI/CD
3 92 (56.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (25.93%) High Availability
4 42 (25.93%) Incident Response
5 36 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 36 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 34 (20.99%) Configuration Management
6 34 (20.99%) Infrastructure Automation
7 32 (19.75%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (17.28%) Mentoring
9 26 (16.05%) Observability
10 24 (14.81%) Migration
11 23 (14.20%) Change Management
11 23 (14.20%) Patch Management
12 22 (13.58%) DevSecOps
13 20 (12.35%) Cost Optimisation
14 18 (11.11%) Microservices
14 18 (11.11%) Roadmaps
15 17 (10.49%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (59.88%) Python
2 46 (28.40%) Bash
3 36 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 22 (13.58%) Java
5 21 (12.96%) Groovy
6 18 (11.11%) SQL
7 14 (8.64%) Perl
8 11 (6.79%) Go
9 6 (3.70%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.47%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.47%) Ruby
10 4 (2.47%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.62%) Korn
11 1 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (53.70%) Security Cleared
2 77 (47.53%) SC Cleared
3 48 (29.63%) AWS Certification
4 20 (12.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (9.88%) Degree
6 14 (8.64%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.09%) CCSP
9 4 (2.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.47%) CCNP
9 4 (2.47%) CISSP
10 3 (1.85%) CCIE
10 3 (1.85%) CCIE Security
10 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.23%) CCNA
11 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.23%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.23%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.88%) GDPR
2 15 (9.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (8.64%) NCSC
4 11 (6.79%) NIST
5 9 (5.56%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.85%) QA
8 2 (1.23%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.23%) SLA
9 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.62%) JSP 440
System Software
1 82 (50.62%) Docker
2 20 (12.35%) DFS Replication
3 15 (9.26%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.79%) Dovecot
4 11 (6.79%) Postfix
4 11 (6.79%) Squid
5 6 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.09%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.47%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.62%) HDFS
8 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (81.48%) Terraform
2 49 (30.25%) Ansible
3 40 (24.69%) Kubernetes
4 39 (24.07%) Prometheus
5 36 (22.22%) Grafana
6 12 (7.41%) Nessus
7 10 (6.17%) Packer
7 10 (6.17%) Proxmox
8 8 (4.94%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (4.32%) Puppet
10 4 (2.47%) Argo
10 4 (2.47%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.85%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.23%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.23%) Kibana
12 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (18.52%) Palo Alto
2 27 (16.67%) F5
3 23 (14.20%) CheckPoint
4 22 (13.58%) ServiceNow
5 14 (8.64%) Splunk
6 11 (6.79%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (5.56%) CloudEndure
8 8 (4.94%) Cisco
8 8 (4.94%) Microsoft
8 8 (4.94%) Okta
9 7 (4.32%) Dynatrace
9 7 (4.32%) VMware
10 6 (3.70%) Citrix
10 6 (3.70%) Fortinet
11 5 (3.09%) Zscaler
12 4 (2.47%) Commvault
12 4 (2.47%) Databricks
12 4 (2.47%) Meraki
12 4 (2.47%) SnapLogic
12 4 (2.47%) SolarWinds