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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 416 460
Rank change year-on-year +27 +44 -46
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 191 69 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 0.74% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 39 78
10th Percentile £368 £413 £400
25th Percentile £456 £531 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £556
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +9.21% -11.00%
75th Percentile £615 £738 £694
90th Percentile £653 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -14.43% +10.18% -12.00%

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 13,647 9,338 12,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.07% 37.79% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,387 6,476 8,847
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 163 330
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.57 £42.06
90th Percentile £79.80 £76.10 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +12 113 £525 -13.58% 20
North of England -50 31 £550 -24.14% 6
Midlands -39 18 £511 - 3
West Midlands - 18 £511 - 3
South East -39 14 £404 - 9
Yorkshire -52 12 £525 -27.59% 2
North West -26 11 £558 +31.18% 4
North East -8 8 £575 -23.33%
East of England -25 3 £600 -
South West -26 2 £419 - 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 27 (14.14%) Confluence
2 8 (4.19%) nginx
3 4 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.05%) Apache
5 2 (1.05%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 191 (100.00%) AWS
2 112 (58.64%) Amazon S3
3 104 (54.45%) Amazon EC2
4 85 (44.50%) AWS Lambda
4 85 (44.50%) Serverless
5 74 (38.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 72 (37.70%) Amazon EKS
7 61 (31.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (24.61%) GitHub
9 45 (23.56%) Azure
10 42 (21.99%) GCP
11 41 (21.47%) Route 53
12 39 (20.42%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (16.75%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (12.04%) AWS KMS
15 21 (10.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 20 (10.47%) Datadog
17 19 (9.95%) Amazon ELB
17 19 (9.95%) AWS Control Tower
18 17 (8.90%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 56 (29.32%) Firewall
2 47 (24.61%) VPN
3 35 (18.32%) DNS
4 20 (10.47%) Network Security
5 19 (9.95%) TCP/IP
6 17 (8.90%) BGP
7 16 (8.38%) OSPF
8 12 (6.28%) WAN
9 10 (5.24%) OpenVPN
9 10 (5.24%) Wireless
10 9 (4.71%) LAN
10 9 (4.71%) SD-WAN
11 7 (3.66%) SSL
12 6 (3.14%) VLAN
12 6 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (2.62%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (2.62%) EIGRP
13 5 (2.62%) MPLS
13 5 (2.62%) VXLAN
14 4 (2.09%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (37.17%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.81%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.81%) MySQL
3 13 (6.81%) Power BI
4 9 (4.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.71%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.66%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.66%) DocumentDB
5 7 (3.66%) Redis
5 7 (3.66%) Tableau
6 6 (3.14%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.62%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (2.62%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.57%) Big Data
8 3 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 71 (37.17%) Jenkins
2 60 (31.41%) GitLab
3 29 (15.18%) Git
4 28 (14.66%) JIRA
5 15 (7.85%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.71%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (3.14%) Terragrunt
8 4 (2.09%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.09%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.57%) Snyk
10 2 (1.05%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.05%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.52%) AppScan
11 1 (0.52%) JUnit
11 1 (0.52%) Maven
11 1 (0.52%) MLflow
11 1 (0.52%) sqlmap
General
1 52 (27.23%) Public Sector
2 50 (26.18%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.75%) Finance
4 16 (8.38%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.66%) Banking
8 5 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Military
11 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 57 (29.84%) Architect
2 35 (18.32%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (14.66%) AWS Architect
5 25 (13.09%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (10.47%) Senior
7 19 (9.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (9.95%) Lead
8 16 (8.38%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (7.33%) Network Engineer
9 14 (7.33%) Security Engineer
10 13 (6.81%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (6.81%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (6.28%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (5.76%) Technical Manager
13 10 (5.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.24%) Technical Delivery Manager
14 9 (4.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 9 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (4.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.52%) Kafka
2 14 (7.33%) OpenID
3 11 (5.76%) AWS CDK
4 10 (5.24%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (5.24%) REST
5 8 (4.19%) LDAP
5 8 (4.19%) Node.js
5 8 (4.19%) OAuth
5 8 (4.19%) OAuth2
5 8 (4.19%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.66%) RESTful
6 7 (3.66%) Spring
6 7 (3.66%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.14%) JSON
8 4 (2.09%) gRPC
8 4 (2.09%) Hibernate
8 4 (2.09%) JPA
8 4 (2.09%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.57%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.57%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.23%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.52%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.09%) PKI
7 4 (2.09%) Replication
8 3 (1.57%) Life Science
8 3 (1.57%) NHS
8 3 (1.57%) SCADA
8 3 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 35 (18.32%) Linux
2 11 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.71%) Windows
4 4 (2.09%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.57%) Unix
6 2 (1.05%) CentOS
6 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.52%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.52%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.52%) VMS
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (57.07%) CI/CD
2 98 (51.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 93 (48.69%) DevOps
4 49 (25.65%) Containerisation
5 45 (23.56%) Observability
6 44 (23.04%) Migration
7 42 (21.99%) Roadmaps
8 35 (18.32%) Incident Response
9 33 (17.28%) Agile
10 31 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (14.66%) Cloud Security
11 28 (14.66%) Microservices
12 27 (14.14%) Cost Optimisation
13 22 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (11.52%) High Availability
13 22 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (10.99%) Infrastructure Automation
14 21 (10.99%) Mentoring
14 21 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (10.47%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (41.36%) Python
2 35 (18.32%) Bash
3 26 (13.61%) Java
4 16 (8.38%) SQL
5 14 (7.33%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.71%) Go
7 7 (3.66%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.62%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.09%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.09%) Perl
9 4 (2.09%) Ruby
9 4 (2.09%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.05%) Bicep
10 2 (1.05%) Cypher
11 1 (0.52%) Lisp
11 1 (0.52%) PHP
11 1 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 90 (47.12%) Security Cleared
2 79 (41.36%) SC Cleared
3 52 (27.23%) AWS Certification
4 22 (11.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (6.81%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.81%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (5.24%) CCNP
7 9 (4.71%) Degree
8 7 (3.66%) CISSP
9 6 (3.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.62%) CCSP
10 5 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.09%) CCIE
12 3 (1.57%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.57%) CCNA
12 3 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (1.05%) JNCIP
13 2 (1.05%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.47%) NIST
2 18 (9.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.38%) GDPR
4 15 (7.85%) PCI DSS
5 10 (5.24%) NCSC
6 7 (3.66%) Data Quality
7 6 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (3.14%) SLA
8 5 (2.62%) PMO
8 5 (2.62%) QA
9 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.52%) COBIT
9 1 (0.52%) GRC
9 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.52%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
System Software
1 73 (38.22%) Docker
2 9 (4.71%) Squid
3 6 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.09%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.09%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.05%) HDFS
6 1 (0.52%) Firmware
6 1 (0.52%) NLBS
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (69.63%) Terraform
2 71 (37.17%) Kubernetes
3 44 (23.04%) Ansible
4 37 (19.37%) Prometheus
5 30 (15.71%) Grafana
6 11 (5.76%) FortiGate
6 11 (5.76%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.66%) Consul
8 6 (3.14%) Kibana
8 6 (3.14%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.62%) Argo
9 5 (2.62%) Karpenter
9 5 (2.62%) Packer
10 4 (2.09%) Puppet
11 3 (1.57%) Istio
11 3 (1.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.05%) Salt
12 2 (1.05%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 19 (9.95%) Splunk
2 14 (7.33%) Fortinet
2 14 (7.33%) Google
3 13 (6.81%) Dynatrace
3 13 (6.81%) Palo Alto
4 12 (6.28%) Red Hat
5 11 (5.76%) Cisco
5 11 (5.76%) Microsoft
6 10 (5.24%) CloudEndure
7 9 (4.71%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.19%) Atlassian
8 8 (4.19%) F5
9 7 (3.66%) Citrix
9 7 (3.66%) Zscaler
10 6 (3.14%) AVEVA
10 6 (3.14%) CheckPoint
10 6 (3.14%) Databricks
11 5 (2.62%) Meraki
11 5 (2.62%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.62%) Tenable