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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 428 452
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 -20
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 207 90 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 0.87% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 65 66
10th Percentile £407 £400 £398
25th Percentile £456 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £582 £630 £658
90th Percentile £650 £702 £685
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -8.33%
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 15,772 10,323 11,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,539 6,986 8,162
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £425
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 £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 261
10th Percentile £16.68 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 27 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 27 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 +17 121 £522 -5.99% 31
Midlands -40 31 £484 +1.95% 1
West Midlands -41 29 £488 +2.63% 1
North of England -55 27 £500 - 11
North West -33 18 £475 -5.00% 7
South East -65 10 £533 -8.19% 4
East of England -17 8 £490 -4.39% 1
Yorkshire -45 5 £500 - 2
South West - 5 £475 - 6
North East -38 4 £625 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £466 -
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 37 (17.87%) Confluence
2 10 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.86%) nginx
4 4 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.97%) Apache
5 2 (0.97%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.97%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 204 (98.55%) AWS
2 118 (57.00%) Amazon EC2
3 113 (54.59%) Amazon S3
4 94 (45.41%) Serverless
5 89 (43.00%) AWS Lambda
6 88 (42.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 73 (35.27%) Amazon EKS
8 53 (25.60%) Azure
9 49 (23.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (16.91%) GitHub
12 33 (15.94%) GCP
13 27 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (11.11%) AWS KMS
15 22 (10.63%) AWS CloudTrail
16 20 (9.66%) Route 53
17 16 (7.73%) Datadog
17 16 (7.73%) Power Platform
18 15 (7.25%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (7.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 57 (27.54%) Firewall
2 30 (14.49%) VPN
3 27 (13.04%) TCP/IP
4 20 (9.66%) DNS
4 20 (9.66%) Network Security
5 16 (7.73%) WAN
6 13 (6.28%) BGP
7 11 (5.31%) OSPF
8 10 (4.83%) LAN
8 10 (4.83%) OpenVPN
9 8 (3.86%) SSL
10 7 (3.38%) VLAN
11 6 (2.90%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (2.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 6 (2.90%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.42%) BIG-IP
12 5 (2.42%) MPLS
12 5 (2.42%) NetScaler
13 4 (1.93%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (1.93%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (29.47%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (7.73%) Power BI
3 13 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (4.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.86%) Tableau
7 5 (2.42%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.45%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.97%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.97%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.97%) MySQL
10 2 (0.97%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (27.54%) GitLab
2 52 (25.12%) Jenkins
3 43 (20.77%) Git
4 33 (15.94%) JIRA
5 16 (7.73%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.80%) Artifactory
7 8 (3.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.90%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.48%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.48%) Snyk
9 1 (0.48%) sqlmap
General
1 67 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 56 (27.05%) Public Sector
3 26 (12.56%) Finance
4 12 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.86%) Banking
6 7 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.42%) Law
7 5 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.93%) Military
8 4 (1.93%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.45%) Police
10 2 (0.97%) Games
10 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (25.12%) Architect
2 49 (23.67%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (14.98%) Cloud Engineer
3 31 (14.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (12.56%) AWS DevOps
5 20 (9.66%) AWS Architect
5 20 (9.66%) Security Engineer
6 18 (8.70%) Senior
7 17 (8.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 16 (7.73%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (7.25%) Network Engineer
9 15 (7.25%) Technical Architect
10 13 (6.28%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (5.31%) Lead
11 11 (5.31%) Scrum Master
11 11 (5.31%) Technical Manager
12 10 (4.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.83%) Technical Delivery Manager
13 9 (4.35%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.70%) AWS CDK
2 7 (3.38%) OpenID
3 6 (2.90%) Kafka
3 6 (2.90%) LDAP
3 6 (2.90%) SAML
4 5 (2.42%) boto
5 4 (1.93%) OAuth
5 4 (1.93%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.93%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.45%) Apollo GraphQL
6 3 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.45%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.45%) React
6 3 (1.45%) RESTful
7 2 (0.97%) REST
8 1 (0.48%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.48%) JSON
8 1 (0.48%) Node.js
8 1 (0.48%) SWRL
8 1 (0.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.29%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.21%) Security Posture
3 16 (7.73%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.80%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.90%) Replication
8 5 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.42%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.93%) NHS
10 3 (1.45%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.97%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 47 (22.71%) Linux
2 25 (12.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (10.63%) Windows
4 6 (2.90%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (2.42%) Unix
6 4 (1.93%) AIX
7 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.97%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (59.42%) CI/CD
2 108 (52.17%) DevOps
3 104 (50.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (31.40%) Agile
5 51 (24.64%) Containerisation
6 46 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
8 44 (21.26%) Cloud Security
8 44 (21.26%) Observability
9 39 (18.84%) Roadmaps
10 38 (18.36%) Migration
11 24 (11.59%) DevSecOps
11 24 (11.59%) Infrastructure Automation
11 24 (11.59%) Scrum
12 23 (11.11%) Change Management
12 23 (11.11%) Microservices
13 22 (10.63%) Decision-Making
13 22 (10.63%) ITIL
14 21 (10.14%) SIEM
15 20 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (41.06%) Python
2 50 (24.15%) Bash
3 30 (14.49%) Java
4 29 (14.01%) PowerShell
5 17 (8.21%) SQL
6 9 (4.35%) Groovy
6 9 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.90%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.42%) Perl
9 4 (1.93%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.45%) Bicep
11 2 (0.97%) Cypher
11 2 (0.97%) Go
11 2 (0.97%) Ruby
12 1 (0.48%) C
12 1 (0.48%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.48%) SHACL
12 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 112 (54.11%) Security Cleared
2 100 (48.31%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.87%) AWS Certification
4 23 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 20 (9.66%) Degree
6 14 (6.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.31%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (4.35%) CISSP
9 8 (3.86%) CCNP
9 8 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.93%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.45%) CCIE
11 3 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.83%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.38%) PMO
3 6 (2.90%) GDPR
4 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.42%) NCSC
4 5 (2.42%) SLA
5 4 (1.93%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.45%) QA
7 2 (0.97%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.97%) NIST
8 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.48%) GRC
8 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.48%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (33.82%) Docker
2 12 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.80%) Squid
3 9 (4.35%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.45%) vSphere
6 1 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 135 (65.22%) Terraform
2 71 (34.30%) Kubernetes
3 43 (20.77%) Grafana
4 41 (19.81%) Ansible
5 40 (19.32%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.80%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.31%) Puppet
8 10 (4.83%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.38%) Packer
10 6 (2.90%) Argo
10 6 (2.90%) Istio
11 5 (2.42%) Salt
12 4 (1.93%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.93%) Suricata
13 3 (1.45%) Consul
13 3 (1.45%) SELinux
13 3 (1.45%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.97%) linkerd
14 2 (0.97%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 23 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 22 (10.63%) ServiceNow
3 20 (9.66%) Google
4 18 (8.70%) Cisco
5 17 (8.21%) Microsoft
6 13 (6.28%) VMware
7 11 (5.31%) Splunk
8 10 (4.83%) Dynatrace
9 9 (4.35%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.38%) F5
10 7 (3.38%) SolarWinds
10 7 (3.38%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.42%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.93%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.93%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.93%) Trend Micro
13 3 (1.45%) Aruba
13 3 (1.45%) Databricks
13 3 (1.45%) Oracle
13 3 (1.45%) Veeam