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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 403 433
Rank change year-on-year +1 +30 +9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 184 68 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 0.74% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 44 80
10th Percentile £400 £413 £408
25th Percentile £456 £538 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £694
90th Percentile £650 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £605 £538
% change year-on-year -15.22% +12.47% -10.79%

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 14,201 9,200 11,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 37.78% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,803 6,477 8,620
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 185 321
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +27.59% -23.07%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £33.75
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.30 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -27.59%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -1 112 £525 -13.58% 18
North of England -50 24 £550 -24.14% 5
Midlands -45 19 £500 +5.26% 2
West Midlands -47 19 £500 +5.26% 2
South East -37 10 £404 -30.34% 9
North West -25 9 £568 +33.53% 3
Yorkshire -49 9 £525 -27.59% 1
East of England -25 8 £530 +3.41% 3
North East -14 6 £600 -20.00% 1
South West - 3 £450 - 4
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 (15.76%) Confluence
2 9 (4.89%) nginx
3 5 (2.72%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 184 (100.00%) AWS
2 110 (59.78%) Amazon S3
3 104 (56.52%) Amazon EC2
4 89 (48.37%) Serverless
5 87 (47.28%) AWS Lambda
6 70 (38.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 69 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
8 64 (34.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 45 (24.46%) Route 53
10 41 (22.28%) Azure
10 41 (22.28%) GitHub
11 39 (21.20%) GCP
12 37 (20.11%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (15.76%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (11.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 22 (11.96%) AWS KMS
15 19 (10.33%) AWS Control Tower
16 18 (9.78%) AWS CloudTrail
17 16 (8.70%) AWS Direct Connect
18 15 (8.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 54 (29.35%) Firewall
2 43 (23.37%) VPN
3 33 (17.93%) DNS
4 19 (10.33%) TCP/IP
5 18 (9.78%) BGP
6 17 (9.24%) OSPF
7 15 (8.15%) Network Security
8 12 (6.52%) WAN
9 11 (5.98%) OpenVPN
10 9 (4.89%) LAN
10 9 (4.89%) SD-WAN
10 9 (4.89%) Wireless
11 8 (4.35%) VLAN
12 6 (3.26%) EIGRP
13 5 (2.72%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (2.72%) DHCP
13 5 (2.72%) MPLS
13 5 (2.72%) SSL
13 5 (2.72%) VXLAN
13 5 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (35.33%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.15%) Power BI
3 13 (7.07%) MySQL
4 10 (5.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (4.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.89%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.35%) Tableau
7 7 (3.80%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.80%) DocumentDB
8 6 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (3.26%) Redis
9 5 (2.72%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.17%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.63%) Big Data
11 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 64 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 54 (29.35%) GitLab
3 28 (15.22%) JIRA
4 22 (11.96%) Git
5 15 (8.15%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.89%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.72%) Terragrunt
8 4 (2.17%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.17%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.63%) Snyk
10 2 (1.09%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.09%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.54%) AppScan
11 1 (0.54%) JUnit
11 1 (0.54%) Maven
11 1 (0.54%) MLflow
11 1 (0.54%) sqlmap
General
1 56 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 53 (28.80%) Public Sector
3 32 (17.39%) Finance
4 17 (9.24%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.72%) Banking
8 4 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Games
10 2 (1.09%) Military
11 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 57 (30.98%) Architect
2 32 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (15.76%) AWS Architect
4 25 (13.59%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (10.33%) Lead
7 17 (9.24%) Senior
8 16 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (7.07%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.07%) Network Engineer
9 13 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (7.07%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.52%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (5.98%) Technical Manager
12 10 (5.43%) Technical Delivery Manager
13 9 (4.89%) Analyst
13 9 (4.89%) Technical Architect
14 8 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 8 (4.35%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.33%) Kafka
2 15 (8.15%) AWS CDK
3 14 (7.61%) OpenID
4 9 (4.89%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.89%) LDAP
4 9 (4.89%) REST
5 8 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.80%) OAuth
6 7 (3.80%) OAuth2
6 7 (3.80%) Spring
6 7 (3.80%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.26%) RESTful
8 5 (2.72%) JSON
9 4 (2.17%) gRPC
9 4 (2.17%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.17%) JPA
9 4 (2.17%) Node.js
9 4 (2.17%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.63%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.63%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.76%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.96%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.63%) NHS
7 3 (1.63%) PKI
7 3 (1.63%) SCADA
7 3 (1.63%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Replication
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.30%) Linux
2 10 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.35%) Windows
4 4 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.09%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) CentOS
6 1 (0.54%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.54%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (55.43%) CI/CD
2 92 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (45.65%) DevOps
4 45 (24.46%) Containerisation
5 44 (23.91%) Migration
6 43 (23.37%) Observability
7 41 (22.28%) Roadmaps
8 36 (19.57%) Agile
9 31 (16.85%) Incident Response
9 31 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (16.30%) Cloud Security
11 27 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (13.04%) Cost Optimisation
14 23 (12.50%) Cost Management
14 23 (12.50%) Microservices
15 21 (11.41%) Load Balancing
15 21 (11.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 20 (10.87%) Decision-Making
17 18 (9.78%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 72 (39.13%) Python
2 33 (17.93%) Bash
3 24 (13.04%) Java
4 19 (10.33%) SQL
5 16 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.35%) Go
7 6 (3.26%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.26%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.17%) Ruby
9 3 (1.63%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.09%) Bicep
10 2 (1.09%) Cypher
10 2 (1.09%) Perl
10 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.54%) Groovy
11 1 (0.54%) Lisp
11 1 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 87 (47.28%) Security Cleared
2 78 (42.39%) SC Cleared
3 45 (24.46%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.07%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (4.89%) CCNP
8 7 (3.80%) CISSP
8 7 (3.80%) Degree
9 6 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.17%) CCIE
10 4 (2.17%) CCSP
11 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.63%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.63%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (1.09%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.09%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 18 (9.78%) NIST
2 17 (9.24%) PCI DSS
3 13 (7.07%) GDPR
4 8 (4.35%) NCSC
5 7 (3.80%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.80%) PMO
6 6 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.26%) SLA
7 5 (2.72%) QA
8 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.54%) COBIT
8 1 (0.54%) GRC
8 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.54%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 67 (36.41%) Docker
2 11 (5.98%) Squid
3 8 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.26%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.09%) HDFS
5 2 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.54%) Firmware
6 1 (0.54%) NLBS
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 128 (69.57%) Terraform
2 66 (35.87%) Kubernetes
3 38 (20.65%) Ansible
4 33 (17.93%) Prometheus
5 27 (14.67%) Grafana
6 11 (5.98%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.43%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.80%) Consul
9 6 (3.26%) Kibana
10 5 (2.72%) Karpenter
10 5 (2.72%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.17%) Argo
11 4 (2.17%) Packer
12 3 (1.63%) Istio
12 3 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.63%) Puppet
13 2 (1.09%) linkerd
13 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.09%) Salt
13 2 (1.09%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 18 (9.78%) Splunk
2 13 (7.07%) Google
2 13 (7.07%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.52%) Cisco
3 12 (6.52%) Dynatrace
3 12 (6.52%) Fortinet
4 10 (5.43%) CloudEndure
4 10 (5.43%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.89%) Palo Alto
5 9 (4.89%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.35%) F5
6 8 (4.35%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.80%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.80%) Citrix
8 6 (3.26%) AVEVA
8 6 (3.26%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.26%) Databricks
8 6 (3.26%) VMware
9 5 (2.72%) Meraki
9 5 (2.72%) SolarWinds