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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 405 448
Rank change year-on-year +9 +43 -16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 183 77 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 0.79% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 41 86
10th Percentile £368 £500 £413
25th Percentile £456 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £569
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +14.29% -11.65%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £694
90th Percentile £701 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £519 £626 £570
% change year-on-year -17.10% +9.74% -8.80%

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 13,090 9,729 12,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.57% 37.49% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,022 6,531 9,016
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 364 147 309
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.44 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.14
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.28 £74.45 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £37.25 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.45% +25.00% -12.00%

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 20 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 20 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 +20 107 £525 -13.58% 26
North of England -51 29 £525 -27.59% 11
West Midlands -23 24 £506 - 5
Midlands -33 24 £506 - 5
Yorkshire -56 16 £525 -27.59% 1
South East -19 14 £404 - 9
North West -23 7 £400 -5.88% 10
North East -12 6 £575 -23.33%
South West -23 2 £419 -38.87% 4
East of England -25 1 £600 - 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 29 (15.85%) Confluence
2 11 (6.01%) nginx
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (1.09%) SAS
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 183 (100.00%) AWS
2 119 (65.03%) Amazon S3
3 110 (60.11%) Amazon EC2
4 87 (47.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 76 (41.53%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (41.53%) Serverless
6 64 (34.97%) Amazon EKS
7 61 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (25.68%) GitHub
9 43 (23.50%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (22.95%) Route 53
11 36 (19.67%) Amazon ELB
12 35 (19.13%) Azure
13 31 (16.94%) GCP
13 31 (16.94%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (15.85%) AWS KMS
15 21 (11.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 18 (9.84%) Datadog
17 17 (9.29%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (9.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (33.33%) Firewall
2 50 (27.32%) DNS
3 45 (24.59%) VPN
4 24 (13.11%) TCP/IP
5 21 (11.48%) Network Security
6 16 (8.74%) SSL
7 11 (6.01%) BGP
7 11 (6.01%) OSPF
7 11 (6.01%) WAN
8 10 (5.46%) Wireless
9 9 (4.92%) LAN
10 8 (4.37%) SD-WAN
11 7 (3.83%) OpenVPN
12 6 (3.28%) FTP
12 6 (3.28%) HTTP
12 6 (3.28%) SMTP
12 6 (3.28%) SSH
12 6 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (2.73%) MPLS
13 5 (2.73%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (40.44%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.20%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (7.10%) MySQL
5 9 (4.92%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (3.83%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.83%) DocumentDB
7 7 (3.83%) Power BI
7 7 (3.83%) Redis
8 6 (3.28%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.28%) Tableau
9 5 (2.73%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.19%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.64%) Big Data
11 3 (1.64%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 80 (43.72%) Jenkins
2 62 (33.88%) GitLab
3 42 (22.95%) Git
4 33 (18.03%) JIRA
5 14 (7.65%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.83%) Terragrunt
7 6 (3.28%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.28%) Vagrant
8 5 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.19%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.64%) Snyk
11 2 (1.09%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.55%) AppScan
12 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.55%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.55%) JUnit
12 1 (0.55%) Maven
12 1 (0.55%) MLflow
General
1 52 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 46 (25.14%) Public Sector
3 31 (16.94%) Finance
4 13 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.83%) Banking
7 6 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.73%) Military
9 3 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (26.23%) Architect
2 41 (22.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (19.67%) AWS Engineer
4 28 (15.30%) AWS Architect
5 26 (14.21%) Senior
6 25 (13.66%) Cloud Architect
7 20 (10.93%) Lead
7 20 (10.93%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (10.38%) AWS DevOps
9 15 (8.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (8.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 15 (8.20%) Senior DevOps
9 15 (8.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.10%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 13 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (6.56%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (6.01%) Network Engineer
12 11 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (6.01%) Technical Manager
13 10 (5.46%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.57%) Kafka
2 13 (7.10%) OpenID
3 12 (6.56%) AWS CDK
4 11 (6.01%) LDAP
5 10 (5.46%) REST
6 9 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (4.37%) Node.js
7 8 (4.37%) OAuth
7 8 (4.37%) OAuth2
7 8 (4.37%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (3.83%) RESTful
8 7 (3.83%) Spring
8 7 (3.83%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.28%) JSON
10 4 (2.19%) gRPC
10 4 (2.19%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.19%) JPA
10 4 (2.19%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.64%) 802.1X
11 3 (1.64%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.75%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.29%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.01%) Replication
4 8 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.83%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.73%) PKI
7 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.64%) Life Science
8 3 (1.64%) NHS
8 3 (1.64%) SCADA
9 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (21.86%) Linux
2 14 (7.65%) Windows
3 10 (5.46%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (5.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.83%) VMS
5 6 (3.28%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.19%) Unix
7 3 (1.64%) CentOS
8 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.55%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.55%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (59.02%) CI/CD
2 99 (54.10%) DevOps
2 99 (54.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (24.04%) Containerisation
4 43 (23.50%) Incident Response
5 41 (22.40%) Observability
6 35 (19.13%) Migration
7 32 (17.49%) High Availability
7 32 (17.49%) Roadmaps
8 30 (16.39%) Agile
9 29 (15.85%) Cloud Security
10 28 (15.30%) Cost Optimisation
10 28 (15.30%) Mentoring
10 28 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (14.21%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (12.57%) Microservices
14 22 (12.02%) DevSecOps
15 20 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (10.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 83 (45.36%) Python
2 42 (22.95%) Bash
3 23 (12.57%) Java
4 19 (10.38%) PowerShell
4 19 (10.38%) SQL
5 10 (5.46%) Go
6 6 (3.28%) Groovy
6 6 (3.28%) Perl
6 6 (3.28%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.19%) Ruby
7 4 (2.19%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.09%) Bicep
8 2 (1.09%) Cypher
9 1 (0.55%) Lisp
9 1 (0.55%) PHP
9 1 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 93 (50.82%) Security Cleared
2 82 (44.81%) SC Cleared
3 51 (27.87%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.10%) Degree
6 10 (5.46%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.28%) CISSP
9 5 (2.73%) CCNP
9 5 (2.73%) CCSP
9 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.64%) CCIE
11 3 (1.64%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.64%) CCNA
11 3 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.09%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.09%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.38%) NIST
2 17 (9.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.74%) GDPR
4 15 (8.20%) PCI DSS
5 11 (6.01%) NCSC
6 6 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.28%) QA
7 4 (2.19%) PMO
7 4 (2.19%) SLA
8 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.55%) COBIT
9 1 (0.55%) GRC
9 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.55%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.55%) JSP 440
System Software
1 77 (42.08%) Docker
2 12 (6.56%) Squid
3 7 (3.83%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.28%) DFS Replication
4 6 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.19%) Dovecot
5 4 (2.19%) Postfix
5 4 (2.19%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.09%) HDFS
7 1 (0.55%) NLBS
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (74.32%) Terraform
2 61 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 52 (28.42%) Ansible
4 37 (20.22%) Prometheus
5 30 (16.39%) Grafana
6 10 (5.46%) FortiGate
6 10 (5.46%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (3.28%) Argo
7 6 (3.28%) Consul
7 6 (3.28%) Kibana
7 6 (3.28%) Nessus
7 6 (3.28%) Packer
8 5 (2.73%) Karpenter
9 4 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (2.19%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.19%) Proxmox
9 4 (2.19%) Puppet
10 3 (1.64%) Istio
10 3 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (13.66%) Palo Alto
2 19 (10.38%) F5
3 17 (9.29%) CheckPoint
3 17 (9.29%) Splunk
4 16 (8.74%) ServiceNow
5 13 (7.10%) Fortinet
6 11 (6.01%) Dynatrace
7 10 (5.46%) Cisco
7 10 (5.46%) CloudEndure
8 9 (4.92%) Red Hat
9 8 (4.37%) Microsoft
10 7 (3.83%) Atlassian
10 7 (3.83%) Citrix
11 6 (3.28%) AVEVA
11 6 (3.28%) Databricks
11 6 (3.28%) Tenable
12 5 (2.73%) Google
13 4 (2.19%) Oracle
13 4 (2.19%) Qualys
13 4 (2.19%) SolarWinds