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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 420 451
Rank change year-on-year 0 +31 -23
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 210 85 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 0.83% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 62 70
10th Percentile £405 £400 £386
25th Percentile £456 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £569 £636 £653
90th Percentile £622 £703 £685
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.87% -10.83%
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 15,751 10,256 11,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 37.42% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,555 6,937 8,512
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.57% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 268 300
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.02 £25.15 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +55.15% +15.63% -37.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £44.36
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.81 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.61% +25.59% -37.14%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +8 126 £518 -6.76% 23
Midlands -37 30 £488 +2.63% 1
West Midlands -48 30 £488 +2.63% 1
North of England -52 27 £500 - 12
North West -34 18 £475 -2.56% 8
South East -61 10 £533 -8.19% 6
East of England -14 8 £490 -4.39%
Yorkshire -46 5 £500 - 2
North East -34 4 £625 - 2
South West - 4 £500 - 6
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 42 (20.00%) Confluence
2 13 (6.19%) nginx
3 10 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.95%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 207 (98.57%) AWS
2 124 (59.05%) Amazon EC2
3 116 (55.24%) Amazon S3
4 98 (46.67%) Serverless
5 93 (44.29%) AWS Lambda
6 90 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 81 (38.57%) Amazon EKS
8 52 (24.76%) Azure
9 49 (23.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (18.10%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (16.67%) GitHub
12 31 (14.76%) GCP
12 31 (14.76%) Route 53
13 27 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (10.00%) AWS KMS
15 20 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (8.57%) AWS CodePipeline
17 16 (7.62%) Datadog
17 16 (7.62%) Power Platform
18 15 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 64 (30.48%) Firewall
2 38 (18.10%) VPN
3 32 (15.24%) TCP/IP
4 27 (12.86%) DNS
5 21 (10.00%) Network Security
6 18 (8.57%) WAN
7 16 (7.62%) BGP
8 15 (7.14%) OpenVPN
9 14 (6.67%) OSPF
10 10 (4.76%) LAN
11 8 (3.81%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.81%) SSL
12 7 (3.33%) VLAN
13 6 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (2.86%) MPLS
14 5 (2.38%) BIG-IP
14 5 (2.38%) IPsec
14 5 (2.38%) NetScaler
15 4 (1.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (29.52%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (7.62%) Power BI
3 11 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.81%) Tableau
7 7 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.95%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.95%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.95%) MySQL
9 2 (0.95%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.48%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.48%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 57 (27.14%) GitLab
2 55 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 41 (19.52%) Git
4 38 (18.10%) JIRA
5 21 (10.00%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.71%) Artifactory
7 11 (5.24%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.95%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.95%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.48%) AppScan
10 1 (0.48%) Snyk
10 1 (0.48%) sqlmap
General
1 68 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 53 (25.24%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.33%) Finance
4 17 (8.10%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.86%) Banking
7 5 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.90%) Law
8 4 (1.90%) Military
8 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Police
10 2 (0.95%) Games
10 2 (0.95%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (26.19%) Architect
2 49 (23.33%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (15.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (12.38%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (10.48%) AWS Architect
7 20 (9.52%) Security Engineer
8 19 (9.05%) Senior
8 19 (9.05%) Technical Architect
9 17 (8.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (7.14%) Network Engineer
10 15 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (6.19%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (5.24%) Lead
12 11 (5.24%) Network Architect
12 11 (5.24%) Scrum Master
12 11 (5.24%) Technical Manager
13 10 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.52%) AWS CDK
2 12 (5.71%) OpenID
3 11 (5.24%) LDAP
4 6 (2.86%) Kafka
4 6 (2.86%) SAML
5 5 (2.38%) boto
6 4 (1.90%) OAuth
6 4 (1.90%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.43%) Apollo GraphQL
7 3 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.43%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.43%) React
7 3 (1.43%) RESTful
8 2 (0.95%) REST
9 1 (0.48%) .NET
9 1 (0.48%) JSON
9 1 (0.48%) Node.js
9 1 (0.48%) Web Services
9 1 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.90%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.05%) Data Centre
3 17 (8.10%) Security Posture
4 12 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.81%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.86%) Replication
8 5 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.38%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.90%) NHS
10 3 (1.43%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.43%) SCADA
11 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (21.90%) Linux
2 25 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (10.95%) Windows
4 6 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.90%) AIX
6 3 (1.43%) Unix
6 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.48%) CentOS
8 1 (0.48%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (59.52%) CI/CD
2 113 (53.81%) DevOps
3 104 (49.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (30.95%) Agile
5 53 (25.24%) Containerisation
6 46 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (20.95%) Cloud Security
8 43 (20.48%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (20.00%) Observability
9 42 (20.00%) Roadmaps
10 35 (16.67%) Migration
11 27 (12.86%) Decision-Making
12 26 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
14 24 (11.43%) DevSecOps
14 24 (11.43%) Scrum
15 23 (10.95%) Change Management
15 23 (10.95%) Microservices
16 22 (10.48%) ITIL
17 21 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 82 (39.05%) Python
2 47 (22.38%) Bash
3 30 (14.29%) Java
4 29 (13.81%) PowerShell
5 14 (6.67%) SQL
6 9 (4.29%) Groovy
7 7 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.86%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.38%) Perl
10 4 (1.90%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.43%) Bicep
12 2 (0.95%) Cypher
12 2 (0.95%) Go
12 2 (0.95%) Ruby
13 1 (0.48%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.48%) Lisp
13 1 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.48%) SHACL
13 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 112 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 100 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 39 (18.57%) AWS Certification
4 23 (10.95%) Azure Certification
5 18 (8.57%) Degree
6 13 (6.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.24%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (4.29%) CISSP
9 8 (3.81%) CCNP
9 8 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.43%) CCIE
12 3 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.95%) PMP
14 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.33%) PMO
3 5 (2.38%) GDPR
3 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.38%) NCSC
3 5 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.38%) SLA
4 3 (1.43%) NIST
4 3 (1.43%) QA
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) COBIT
5 1 (0.48%) GRC
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (34.29%) Docker
2 17 (8.10%) Squid
3 13 (6.19%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.29%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.43%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 141 (67.14%) Terraform
2 73 (34.76%) Kubernetes
3 46 (21.90%) Grafana
3 46 (21.90%) Prometheus
4 42 (20.00%) Ansible
5 15 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (6.19%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.24%) Puppet
8 9 (4.29%) FortiGate
9 8 (3.81%) Consul
10 7 (3.33%) Packer
11 5 (2.38%) Salt
12 4 (1.90%) Argo
12 4 (1.90%) Istio
12 4 (1.90%) Suricata
13 3 (1.43%) SELinux
13 3 (1.43%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.95%) linkerd
14 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.95%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 28 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 22 (10.48%) ServiceNow
3 20 (9.52%) Google
4 18 (8.57%) Cisco
4 18 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 15 (7.14%) Dynatrace
6 13 (6.19%) VMware
7 12 (5.71%) Splunk
8 9 (4.29%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.33%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.33%) F5
9 7 (3.33%) SolarWinds
9 7 (3.33%) Zscaler
10 6 (2.86%) AVEVA
11 5 (2.38%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.90%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.90%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.90%) Tenable
12 4 (1.90%) Trend Micro
13 3 (1.43%) Ping Identity