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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 373 441
Rank change year-on-year -72 +68 -3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 195 139 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.50% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 1.29% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 96 52
10th Percentile £400 £400 £475
25th Percentile £435 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £530 £561
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -5.57% -5.51%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £675
90th Percentile £658 £713 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -0.62%
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 15,942 10,772 11,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.60% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,280 7,549
10th Percentile £323 £302 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 260 162
10th Percentile £15.42 £14.99 £16.03
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.69%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -29 125 £525 -12.50% 91
North of England -63 24 £447 -17.60% 15
Midlands -49 22 £477 +0.42% 11
West Midlands -59 19 £482 +1.53% 9
South East -60 11 £638 - 7
Yorkshire -33 10 £432 -17.76% 4
North West -41 10 £447 -13.62% 11
South West -30 4 £425 -37.04% 2
North East -39 4 £425 -26.09%
East of England -23 3 £345 -13.75% 7
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 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 25 (12.82%) Confluence
2 10 (5.13%) Apache
3 9 (4.62%) Apache Spark
4 8 (4.10%) nginx
5 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.03%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.51%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 192 (98.46%) AWS
2 103 (52.82%) Amazon EC2
3 101 (51.79%) Amazon S3
4 94 (48.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 75 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (37.95%) Serverless
7 70 (35.90%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (33.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (25.13%) Azure
10 42 (21.54%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (19.49%) GitHub
12 34 (17.44%) GCP
13 32 (16.41%) AWS KMS
14 30 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
15 28 (14.36%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (11.28%) Route 53
17 16 (8.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 13 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
19 12 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
19 12 (6.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 36 (18.46%) Firewall
2 25 (12.82%) DNS
3 19 (9.74%) TCP/IP
4 17 (8.72%) Network Security
5 14 (7.18%) VPN
5 14 (7.18%) WAN
6 8 (4.10%) LAN
6 8 (4.10%) SSL
7 7 (3.59%) BGP
8 6 (3.08%) SD-WAN
8 6 (3.08%) SSH
9 5 (2.56%) MPLS
9 5 (2.56%) OSPF
10 4 (2.05%) BIG-IP
10 4 (2.05%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (2.05%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (2.05%) HTTP
10 4 (2.05%) IPsec
10 4 (2.05%) OpenVPN
10 4 (2.05%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (34.87%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (13.85%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (12.31%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 14 (7.18%) MySQL
6 11 (5.64%) SQL Server
7 9 (4.62%) Data Lake
7 9 (4.62%) DynamoDB
7 9 (4.62%) Redis
8 8 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (2.05%) Big Data
12 3 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.54%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.54%) Flink
12 3 (1.54%) Metadata
13 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.03%) Power BI
13 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 55 (28.21%) GitLab
2 46 (23.59%) Jenkins
3 41 (21.03%) Git
4 25 (12.82%) JIRA
5 9 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (4.10%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.59%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.03%) Maven
9 2 (1.03%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.03%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 76 (38.97%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.05%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.74%) Finance
4 9 (4.62%) Banking
5 7 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.08%) Military
7 5 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.05%) Law
8 4 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.03%) Legal
9 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Local Government
10 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.51%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (24.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (22.05%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (21.54%) Architect
4 28 (14.36%) AWS DevOps
5 22 (11.28%) AWS Architect
5 22 (11.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 22 (11.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (11.28%) Platform Engineer
5 22 (11.28%) Senior
6 15 (7.69%) DBA
7 12 (6.15%) Administrator
8 11 (5.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.64%) Security Engineer
8 11 (5.64%) Senior DevOps
8 11 (5.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.64%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.13%) Lead
9 10 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.10%) Network Architect
10 8 (4.10%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (76.41%) Terraform
2 13 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 11 (5.64%) Kafka
4 9 (4.62%) SAML
5 6 (3.08%) boto
5 6 (3.08%) OpenID
5 6 (3.08%) RESTful
6 5 (2.56%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.56%) OAuth
6 5 (2.56%) PySpark
7 4 (2.05%) .NET
7 4 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.05%) LDAP
7 4 (2.05%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.05%) OpenTofu
7 4 (2.05%) React
7 4 (2.05%) REST
8 3 (1.54%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.56%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.79%) Replication
3 17 (8.72%) Security Posture
4 12 (6.15%) Data Centre
4 12 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (5.64%) Product Ownership
6 10 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.10%) Onboarding
7 8 (4.10%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (3.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.56%) NHS
10 5 (2.56%) PKI
10 5 (2.56%) Private Cloud
11 4 (2.05%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.54%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 51 (26.15%) Linux
2 23 (11.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (10.77%) Windows
4 10 (5.13%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (3.59%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.08%) Unix
7 4 (2.05%) AIX
8 3 (1.54%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.03%) CentOS
10 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (69.74%) CI/CD
2 129 (66.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 118 (60.51%) DevOps
4 55 (28.21%) Agile
4 55 (28.21%) Observability
5 54 (27.69%) Containerisation
6 47 (24.10%) Cloud Security
6 47 (24.10%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (21.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (20.00%) Secrets Management
9 36 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (16.41%) High Availability
11 28 (14.36%) Root Cause Analysis
12 26 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
12 26 (13.33%) Microservices
12 26 (13.33%) Migration
12 26 (13.33%) Roadmaps
13 25 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
15 23 (11.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (42.56%) Python
2 49 (25.13%) Bash
3 28 (14.36%) PowerShell
4 27 (13.85%) Java
5 26 (13.33%) SQL
6 13 (6.67%) Groovy
7 8 (4.10%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.59%) Go
8 7 (3.59%) Perl
9 5 (2.56%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.54%) Bicep
10 3 (1.54%) C#
11 1 (0.51%) C
11 1 (0.51%) Cypher
11 1 (0.51%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.51%) R
11 1 (0.51%) SHACL
11 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 91 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 83 (42.56%) SC Cleared
3 51 (26.15%) AWS Certification
4 28 (14.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (11.28%) Degree
6 18 (9.23%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.62%) CISSP
8 8 (4.10%) SAFe Agilist
9 7 (3.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
12 4 (2.05%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.54%) CCNP
13 3 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (1.03%) CCIE
14 2 (1.03%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.13%) GDPR
3 9 (4.62%) NCSC
4 4 (2.05%) QA
5 3 (1.54%) NIST
6 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.03%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (35.90%) Docker
2 11 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.62%) Squid
4 7 (3.59%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.54%) vSphere
7 2 (1.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (1.03%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.03%) Dovecot
7 2 (1.03%) Postfix
7 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 74 (37.95%) Kubernetes
2 49 (25.13%) Grafana
3 43 (22.05%) Prometheus
4 40 (20.51%) Ansible
5 13 (6.67%) Puppet
6 10 (5.13%) Progress Chef
7 9 (4.62%) Packer
8 7 (3.59%) Argo
8 7 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (3.08%) Istio
10 4 (2.05%) Suricata
11 3 (1.54%) Consul
11 3 (1.54%) SELinux
11 3 (1.54%) systemd
11 3 (1.54%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.54%) ZABBIX
12 2 (1.03%) linkerd
12 2 (1.03%) Nessus
12 2 (1.03%) Proxmox
12 2 (1.03%) Salt
Vendors
1 17 (8.72%) ServiceNow
2 16 (8.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.21%) Red Hat
3 14 (7.18%) Cisco
3 14 (7.18%) Google
4 12 (6.15%) VMware
5 11 (5.64%) Splunk
6 8 (4.10%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.59%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.08%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.05%) Databricks
9 4 (2.05%) F5
9 4 (2.05%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.54%) Aruba
10 3 (1.54%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.54%) Tenable
10 3 (1.54%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.54%) Veeam
11 2 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (1.03%) Oracle