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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 405 439
Rank change year-on-year -39 +34 -11
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 195 115 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.42% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 1.10% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 79 60
10th Percentile £400 £450 £409
25th Percentile £446 £463 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £554
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -5.19% -7.71%
75th Percentile £563 £657 £675
90th Percentile £650 £713 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £565
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.08% -5.83%
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 15,850 10,440 11,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.38% 37.86% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,568 7,059 7,708
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 245 173
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.09 £14.75
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.75
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £64.73
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year +16.07% -11.81% -9.29%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -18 123 £525 -14.63% 139
North of England -57 23 £450 -17.05% 20
Midlands -57 22 £477 +0.42% 10
West Midlands -60 19 £482 +1.53% 9
North West -42 11 £447 -17.60% 12
South East -55 9 £669 - 15
Yorkshire -38 8 £481 -3.75% 5
East of England -26 7 £400 -21.95% 6
South West -37 5 £438 -35.19% 8
North East -38 4 £425 -29.17% 3
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 1
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 26 (13.33%) Confluence
2 9 (4.62%) Apache
2 9 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.10%) nginx
4 7 (3.59%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.03%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.51%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 192 (98.46%) AWS
2 103 (52.82%) Amazon S3
3 102 (52.31%) Amazon EC2
4 88 (45.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 78 (40.00%) Serverless
6 71 (36.41%) AWS Lambda
7 67 (34.36%) Amazon EKS
8 62 (31.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 45 (23.08%) Azure
10 37 (18.97%) GitHub
11 36 (18.46%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (15.38%) AWS KMS
12 30 (15.38%) GCP
13 29 (14.87%) AWS CloudTrail
14 27 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (10.77%) Route 53
16 17 (8.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 14 (7.18%) Datadog
18 13 (6.67%) Entra ID
19 12 (6.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 40 (20.51%) Firewall
2 25 (12.82%) DNS
3 19 (9.74%) TCP/IP
4 15 (7.69%) VPN
5 14 (7.18%) Network Security
5 14 (7.18%) WAN
6 9 (4.62%) LAN
6 9 (4.62%) SSL
7 7 (3.59%) BGP
8 6 (3.08%) OSPF
8 6 (3.08%) SSH
8 6 (3.08%) VLAN
9 5 (2.56%) BIG-IP
9 5 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (2.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (2.56%) MPLS
9 5 (2.56%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.05%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (2.05%) NetScaler
10 4 (2.05%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (31.79%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (11.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (6.67%) MySQL
5 12 (6.15%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (5.13%) SQL Server
7 9 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (4.10%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.10%) DynamoDB
8 8 (4.10%) Redis
9 5 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.05%) Big Data
10 4 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.05%) Power BI
11 3 (1.54%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.54%) Flink
11 3 (1.54%) Metadata
12 2 (1.03%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 55 (28.21%) GitLab
2 44 (22.56%) Jenkins
3 39 (20.00%) Git
4 26 (13.33%) JIRA
5 9 (4.62%) Artifactory
5 9 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (4.10%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.05%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.03%) Maven
8 2 (1.03%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.03%) Vagrant
General
1 75 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.10%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.72%) Finance
4 8 (4.10%) Banking
4 8 (4.10%) Military
5 7 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.08%) Law
7 5 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.54%) Police
10 2 (1.03%) Games
10 2 (1.03%) Legal
10 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.51%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (22.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (21.54%) Architect
4 27 (13.85%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (12.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (11.28%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (11.28%) Senior
7 21 (10.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 20 (10.26%) AWS Architect
9 13 (6.67%) DBA
10 12 (6.15%) Lead
10 12 (6.15%) Technical Architect
11 11 (5.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.64%) Security Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Administrator
13 9 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (4.10%) Network Architect
14 8 (4.10%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (73.33%) Terraform
2 16 (8.21%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.10%) SAML
4 7 (3.59%) Kafka
5 6 (3.08%) boto
5 6 (3.08%) RESTful
6 5 (2.56%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.56%) OpenID
6 5 (2.56%) PySpark
7 4 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.05%) LDAP
7 4 (2.05%) OAuth
7 4 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.05%) OpenTofu
7 4 (2.05%) React
7 4 (2.05%) REST
8 3 (1.54%) .NET
8 3 (1.54%) Apollo GraphQL
8 3 (1.54%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.28%) Replication
3 17 (8.72%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.13%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.59%) Public Cloud
9 6 (3.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (3.08%) NHS
9 6 (3.08%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.56%) Private Cloud
11 4 (2.05%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.54%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.54%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 48 (24.62%) Linux
2 21 (10.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (10.26%) Windows
4 10 (5.13%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (3.08%) Unix
6 5 (2.56%) Ubuntu
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
1 128 (65.64%) CI/CD
2 123 (63.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 112 (57.44%) DevOps
4 54 (27.69%) Agile
5 51 (26.15%) Observability
6 49 (25.13%) Containerisation
7 48 (24.62%) Cloud Security
7 48 (24.62%) Platform Engineering
8 39 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (16.92%) Secrets Management
10 32 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (14.87%) High Availability
12 27 (13.85%) Roadmaps
13 26 (13.33%) Migration
14 24 (12.31%) Infrastructure Automation
14 24 (12.31%) Root Cause Analysis
15 23 (11.79%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (11.28%) Disaster Recovery
16 22 (11.28%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (11.28%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 83 (42.56%) Python
2 50 (25.64%) Bash
3 30 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 28 (14.36%) SQL
5 27 (13.85%) Java
6 14 (7.18%) Groovy
7 8 (4.10%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.59%) Perl
9 6 (3.08%) Go
9 6 (3.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.54%) Bicep
11 2 (1.03%) C#
11 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.03%) Ruby
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Cypher
12 1 (0.51%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) R
12 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 91 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 82 (42.05%) SC Cleared
3 51 (26.15%) AWS Certification
4 27 (13.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (11.28%) Degree
6 19 (9.74%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.62%) CISSP
8 8 (4.10%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.05%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.54%) CCNP
12 3 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (1.03%) CCIE
13 2 (1.03%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.15%) GDPR
3 9 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.62%) NCSC
4 6 (3.08%) 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%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.03%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (34.36%) Docker
2 16 (8.21%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.13%) Squid
4 8 (4.10%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.56%) 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 68 (34.87%) Kubernetes
2 47 (24.10%) Grafana
3 41 (21.03%) Prometheus
4 40 (20.51%) Ansible
5 12 (6.15%) Puppet
6 9 (4.62%) Packer
6 9 (4.62%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.59%) Argo
9 5 (2.56%) Istio
10 4 (2.05%) Salt
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
Vendors
1 17 (8.72%) Microsoft
1 17 (8.72%) ServiceNow
2 16 (8.21%) Cisco
2 16 (8.21%) Red Hat
3 13 (6.67%) VMware
4 12 (6.15%) Google
5 11 (5.64%) Splunk
6 9 (4.62%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.59%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.08%) F5
8 6 (3.08%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.56%) PagerDuty
10 4 (2.05%) Databricks
10 4 (2.05%) Oracle
10 4 (2.05%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.54%) Aruba
11 3 (1.54%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.54%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.54%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.54%) Veeam