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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 413 446
Rank change year-on-year +22 +33 +10
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 203 62 107
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.67% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 42 77
10th Percentile £400 £407 £405
25th Percentile £456 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -9.09%
75th Percentile £578 £643 £659
90th Percentile £643 £699 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.38% -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 14,828 9,187 11,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.08% 37.76% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,083 6,273 8,559
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 219 330
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.96 £16.02
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +18.83% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £42.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £69.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +29.82% +32.56% -43.42%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +12 124 £525 -6.25% 22
North of England -52 27 £481 +13.24% 7
Midlands -29 26 £488 +2.63% 2
West Midlands -37 26 £488 +2.63% 2
North West -29 17 £495 +16.53% 3
East of England -20 8 £490 -4.39% 2
South East -51 8 £450 -22.41% 11
North East -20 5 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -52 5 £500 - 3
South West - 5 £475 - 3
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 (18.72%) Confluence
2 9 (4.43%) nginx
3 5 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.99%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.99%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 200 (98.52%) AWS
2 115 (56.65%) Amazon EC2
2 115 (56.65%) Amazon S3
3 100 (49.26%) Serverless
4 95 (46.80%) AWS Lambda
5 93 (45.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 88 (43.35%) Amazon EKS
7 53 (26.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (25.12%) Azure
9 40 (19.70%) Amazon ECS
9 40 (19.70%) Route 53
10 38 (18.72%) GCP
10 38 (18.72%) GitHub
11 33 (16.26%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (9.85%) AWS CloudTrail
12 20 (9.85%) AWS KMS
13 18 (8.87%) AWS CodePipeline
14 16 (7.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 16 (7.88%) Power Platform
15 15 (7.39%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 61 (30.05%) Firewall
2 34 (16.75%) VPN
3 31 (15.27%) DNS
4 25 (12.32%) TCP/IP
5 21 (10.34%) Network Security
6 14 (6.90%) BGP
7 13 (6.40%) OSPF
8 12 (5.91%) WAN
9 11 (5.42%) OpenVPN
10 7 (3.45%) LAN
10 7 (3.45%) SSL
11 6 (2.96%) Wireless
12 5 (2.46%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.97%) NGFW
13 4 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (1.97%) VLAN
14 3 (1.48%) Cisco Nexus
15 2 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 2 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (30.05%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (7.88%) Power BI
3 14 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (5.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.43%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.94%) Tableau
8 7 (3.45%) MySQL
9 6 (2.96%) Amazon QuickSight
9 6 (2.96%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.96%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.46%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.97%) Redis
12 2 (0.99%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.99%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.49%) Impala
Development Applications
1 64 (31.53%) GitLab
2 61 (30.05%) Jenkins
3 36 (17.73%) JIRA
4 33 (16.26%) Git
5 21 (10.34%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.91%) Artifactory
7 11 (5.42%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.97%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.48%) Snyk
11 2 (0.99%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.99%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.49%) AppScan
12 1 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.49%) JUnit
12 1 (0.49%) sqlmap
General
1 63 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 54 (26.60%) Public Sector
3 29 (14.29%) Finance
4 19 (9.36%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.46%) Banking
7 5 (2.46%) Military
8 4 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.97%) Law
9 3 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.48%) Police
10 2 (0.99%) Games
11 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (26.11%) Architect
2 44 (21.67%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (13.79%) AWS Architect
4 28 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (10.84%) AWS DevOps
6 21 (10.34%) Security Engineer
7 20 (9.85%) Cloud Architect
7 20 (9.85%) Senior
8 16 (7.88%) Technical Architect
9 15 (7.39%) Network Engineer
10 14 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (6.40%) Lead
12 12 (5.91%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (5.42%) Scrum Master
13 11 (5.42%) Technical Manager
14 10 (4.93%) Technical Delivery Manager
15 9 (4.43%) Analyst
16 8 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.85%) AWS CDK
2 17 (8.37%) OpenID
3 12 (5.91%) Kafka
4 11 (5.42%) LDAP
5 9 (4.43%) OAuth
5 9 (4.43%) OAuth2
6 7 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.45%) RESTful
7 6 (2.96%) REST
8 5 (2.46%) SAML
9 4 (1.97%) gRPC
9 4 (1.97%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.97%) JPA
9 4 (1.97%) Spring
9 4 (1.97%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.97%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.48%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.48%) Apollo GraphQL
10 3 (1.48%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.37%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 13 (6.40%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.46%) Replication
9 4 (1.97%) NHS
10 3 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.48%) SCADA
11 2 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.99%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.99%) PKI
12 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.23%) Linux
2 19 (9.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (7.88%) Windows
4 5 (2.46%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.99%) Unix
6 1 (0.49%) CentOS
6 1 (0.49%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (59.11%) CI/CD
2 105 (51.72%) DevOps
3 97 (47.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (27.09%) Agile
5 51 (25.12%) Containerisation
6 47 (23.15%) Observability
7 44 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (21.18%) Cloud Security
9 42 (20.69%) Roadmaps
10 40 (19.70%) Platform Engineering
11 37 (18.23%) Migration
12 27 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (12.81%) Microservices
14 23 (11.33%) Scrum
14 23 (11.33%) SIEM
15 22 (10.84%) Cost Optimisation
15 22 (10.84%) Decision-Making
15 22 (10.84%) DevSecOps
16 21 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
16 21 (10.34%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 79 (38.92%) Python
2 46 (22.66%) Bash
3 30 (14.78%) Java
4 27 (13.30%) PowerShell
5 18 (8.87%) SQL
6 8 (3.94%) Groovy
7 7 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.96%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.97%) Go
9 4 (1.97%) Perl
9 4 (1.97%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.48%) Bicep
11 2 (0.99%) Cypher
11 2 (0.99%) Ruby
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.49%) Lisp
12 1 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 104 (51.23%) Security Cleared
2 96 (47.29%) SC Cleared
3 39 (19.21%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.85%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (5.91%) Degree
6 11 (5.42%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (4.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.43%) CISSP
8 6 (2.96%) CCNP
8 6 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.99%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.99%) PMP
12 1 (0.49%) CEH
12 1 (0.49%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.49%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.91%) NIST
2 10 (4.93%) PCI DSS
3 9 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.45%) PMO
4 7 (3.45%) QA
5 5 (2.46%) GDPR
5 5 (2.46%) SLA
6 2 (0.99%) NCSC
7 1 (0.49%) COBIT
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.49%) GRC
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 74 (36.45%) Docker
2 18 (8.87%) Squid
3 14 (6.90%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.46%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.48%) vSphere
6 1 (0.49%) Firmware
6 1 (0.49%) HDFS
6 1 (0.49%) NLBS
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (66.01%) Terraform
2 76 (37.44%) Kubernetes
3 43 (21.18%) Grafana
3 43 (21.18%) Prometheus
4 36 (17.73%) Ansible
5 12 (5.91%) Progress Chef
5 12 (5.91%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.93%) FortiGate
7 9 (4.43%) Puppet
8 8 (3.94%) Consul
9 5 (2.46%) Salt
10 4 (1.97%) Argo
10 4 (1.97%) Istio
10 4 (1.97%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.97%) Kibana
10 4 (1.97%) Packer
10 4 (1.97%) Suricata
11 3 (1.48%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.99%) linkerd
12 2 (0.99%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 21 (10.34%) Red Hat
2 18 (8.87%) Google
3 15 (7.39%) Dynatrace
3 15 (7.39%) ServiceNow
4 14 (6.90%) Splunk
5 12 (5.91%) Microsoft
6 11 (5.42%) Cisco
7 10 (4.93%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.94%) Zscaler
9 7 (3.45%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.45%) Tenable
10 6 (2.96%) AVEVA
10 6 (2.96%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.96%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.46%) VMware
12 4 (1.97%) F5
12 4 (1.97%) Qualys
12 4 (1.97%) Trend Micro
13 3 (1.48%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.48%) Veeam