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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 411 422
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 192 62 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 0.69% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 42 85
10th Percentile £400 £413 £404
25th Percentile £456 £503 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £568 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% +5.58% -14.00%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £659
90th Percentile £647 £738 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -6.82% +3.77% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £38.75 -

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 14,555 8,971 11,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.39% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,936 6,202 8,454
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £627 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 197 323
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -38.94%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +18 118 £525 -8.70% 15
West Midlands -41 25 £488 +2.63% 2
Midlands -49 25 £488 +2.63% 2
North of England -63 21 £563 +12.50% 8
North West -31 12 £568 +33.53% 6
South East -49 10 £491 -15.30% 10
East of England -31 8 £490 -6.67%
North East -22 6 £519 -
South West - 5 £475 - 3
Yorkshire -58 3 £520 -15.10% 2
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 38 (19.79%) Confluence
2 9 (4.69%) nginx
3 5 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.04%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.04%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.52%) Apache
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 189 (98.44%) AWS
2 108 (56.25%) Amazon S3
3 106 (55.21%) Amazon EC2
4 86 (44.79%) Serverless
5 83 (43.23%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (41.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 79 (41.15%) Amazon EKS
7 55 (28.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 42 (21.88%) Azure
9 39 (20.31%) GitHub
10 36 (18.75%) Route 53
11 34 (17.71%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (16.15%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (15.10%) GCP
14 25 (13.02%) AWS KMS
15 21 (10.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 20 (10.42%) AWS CloudTrail
16 20 (10.42%) AWS Control Tower
17 19 (9.90%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (7.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 54 (28.13%) Firewall
2 36 (18.75%) VPN
3 30 (15.63%) DNS
4 25 (13.02%) TCP/IP
5 18 (9.38%) Network Security
6 14 (7.29%) BGP
7 13 (6.77%) OSPF
8 11 (5.73%) OpenVPN
8 11 (5.73%) WAN
9 8 (4.17%) SSL
10 7 (3.65%) LAN
11 6 (3.13%) Wireless
12 5 (2.60%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (2.08%) NGFW
13 4 (2.08%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (2.08%) VLAN
14 3 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
15 2 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 2 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.60%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (7.81%) Power BI
3 13 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (4.17%) MySQL
6 8 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.17%) Tableau
7 6 (3.13%) DocumentDB
7 6 (3.13%) Redis
8 5 (2.60%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (2.60%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.08%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.04%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.04%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 59 (30.73%) GitLab
2 57 (29.69%) Jenkins
3 36 (18.75%) JIRA
4 31 (16.15%) Git
5 20 (10.42%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.21%) Artifactory
6 10 (5.21%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.08%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.56%) Snyk
9 2 (1.04%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.04%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.52%) AppScan
10 1 (0.52%) JUnit
10 1 (0.52%) MLflow
10 1 (0.52%) sqlmap
General
1 60 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 59 (30.73%) Public Sector
3 28 (14.58%) Finance
4 18 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.60%) Military
8 3 (1.56%) Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.56%) Police
9 2 (1.04%) Games
9 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.04%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (28.65%) Architect
2 39 (20.31%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (14.58%) AWS Architect
4 26 (13.54%) Cloud Architect
5 24 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (9.90%) Senior
8 18 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (8.33%) Lead
10 15 (7.81%) Security Engineer
11 14 (7.29%) Network Engineer
12 13 (6.77%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (5.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (5.73%) Technical Architect
14 11 (5.73%) Technical Manager
15 10 (5.21%) Scrum Master
15 10 (5.21%) Technical Delivery Manager
16 9 (4.69%) Analyst
17 8 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.90%) AWS CDK
2 15 (7.81%) Kafka
2 15 (7.81%) OpenID
3 11 (5.73%) LDAP
4 8 (4.17%) REST
4 8 (4.17%) RESTful
5 7 (3.65%) OAuth
5 7 (3.65%) OAuth2
5 7 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.13%) Spring
6 6 (3.13%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.08%) gRPC
7 4 (2.08%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.08%) JPA
7 4 (2.08%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.56%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.56%) Node.js
8 3 (1.56%) SAML
9 2 (1.04%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.85%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.77%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.13%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.60%) Replication
7 4 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.56%) NHS
8 3 (1.56%) SCADA
9 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) PKI
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.10%) Linux
2 11 (5.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (5.21%) Windows
4 5 (2.60%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.04%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.04%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) CentOS
6 1 (0.52%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (54.69%) CI/CD
2 89 (46.35%) DevOps
3 86 (44.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (23.96%) Containerisation
5 45 (23.44%) Agile
6 40 (20.83%) Migration
7 39 (20.31%) Roadmaps
8 38 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (19.27%) Observability
9 37 (19.27%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (17.19%) Cloud Security
11 27 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (11.46%) Decision-Making
12 22 (11.46%) Microservices
13 21 (10.94%) DevSecOps
14 20 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (9.90%) Event-Driven
15 19 (9.90%) ITIL
16 18 (9.38%) Cost Optimisation
16 18 (9.38%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 67 (34.90%) Python
2 33 (17.19%) Bash
3 23 (11.98%) Java
4 20 (10.42%) SQL
5 17 (8.85%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.65%) Groovy
6 7 (3.65%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.13%) Go
7 6 (3.13%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.08%) Perl
8 4 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.56%) Bicep
10 2 (1.04%) Cypher
10 2 (1.04%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) Lisp
11 1 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 105 (54.69%) Security Cleared
2 95 (49.48%) SC Cleared
3 37 (19.27%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.29%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.21%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.13%) CCNP
8 6 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.08%) Degree
10 3 (1.56%) CISSP
11 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.04%) PMP
12 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.52%) CCIE
12 1 (0.52%) CCNA
12 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.77%) NIST
2 10 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.21%) PCI DSS
3 8 (4.17%) NCSC
4 7 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.65%) PMO
5 6 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (3.13%) QA
6 5 (2.60%) GDPR
6 5 (2.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.52%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 65 (33.85%) Docker
2 17 (8.85%) Squid
3 12 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.60%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.56%) vSphere
7 1 (0.52%) Firmware
7 1 (0.52%) HDFS
7 1 (0.52%) NLBS
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (63.54%) Terraform
2 66 (34.38%) Kubernetes
3 40 (20.83%) Grafana
4 39 (20.31%) Prometheus
5 32 (16.67%) Ansible
6 12 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.21%) FortiGate
8 8 (4.17%) Consul
9 7 (3.65%) Puppet
10 5 (2.60%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.08%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.08%) Kibana
11 4 (2.08%) Salt
11 4 (2.08%) Suricata
12 3 (1.56%) Argo
12 3 (1.56%) Istio
12 3 (1.56%) Packer
12 3 (1.56%) vCenter Server
13 2 (1.04%) linkerd
13 2 (1.04%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 14 (7.29%) Red Hat
1 14 (7.29%) Splunk
2 13 (6.77%) Dynatrace
2 13 (6.77%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.25%) Google
3 12 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.73%) Cisco
5 10 (5.21%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.17%) Citrix
6 8 (4.17%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.65%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.65%) Tenable
8 6 (3.13%) AVEVA
8 6 (3.13%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.13%) CloudEndure
8 6 (3.13%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.60%) VMware
10 4 (2.08%) F5
10 4 (2.08%) Qualys
11 3 (1.56%) Databricks