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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 389 420
Rank change year-on-year -50 +31 +5
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 191 120 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.44% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.16% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 83 65
10th Percentile £402 £452 £410
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £569 £644 £675
90th Percentile £650 £713 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -6.54% -6.96% -4.17%
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 15,846 10,363 11,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 37.60% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 7,003 7,768
10th Percentile £320 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 252 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.16 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.45% -5.55% -11.79%

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 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 14 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 -23 119 £533 -13.41% 123
Midlands -56 25 £477 +0.42% 7
West Midlands -58 22 £477 +0.42% 7
North of England -67 21 £453 -16.50% 21
North West -46 10 £450 -17.05% 10
South East -47 9 £669 +15.30% 12
East of England -29 7 £450 -12.20% 7
Yorkshire -34 7 £500 - 7
North East -37 4 £425 -29.17% 4
South West -45 4 £450 -33.33% 9
East Midlands - 3 £450 -
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 29 (15.18%) Confluence
2 9 (4.71%) nginx
3 7 (3.66%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.62%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.09%) Apache
6 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.05%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.52%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 188 (98.43%) AWS
2 101 (52.88%) Amazon EC2
3 100 (52.36%) Amazon S3
4 88 (46.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 81 (42.41%) Serverless
6 75 (39.27%) AWS Lambda
7 67 (35.08%) Amazon EKS
8 62 (32.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (22.51%) Azure
10 39 (20.42%) GitHub
11 37 (19.37%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (15.71%) AWS KMS
13 29 (15.18%) AWS CloudTrail
13 29 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (14.14%) GCP
15 23 (12.04%) Route 53
16 17 (8.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 15 (7.85%) AWS CodePipeline
18 14 (7.33%) Datadog
19 13 (6.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 42 (21.99%) Firewall
2 26 (13.61%) DNS
3 21 (10.99%) TCP/IP
4 16 (8.38%) VPN
5 15 (7.85%) WAN
6 14 (7.33%) Network Security
7 10 (5.24%) LAN
8 9 (4.71%) SSL
9 7 (3.66%) BGP
10 6 (3.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (3.14%) OSPF
10 6 (3.14%) SSH
10 6 (3.14%) VLAN
11 5 (2.62%) BIG-IP
11 5 (2.62%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (2.62%) MPLS
11 5 (2.62%) OpenVPN
11 5 (2.62%) SD-WAN
12 4 (2.09%) HTTP
12 4 (2.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (31.94%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (12.57%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (12.04%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (6.28%) MongoDB
4 12 (6.28%) MySQL
5 10 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.71%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (4.19%) Redis
7 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.66%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.62%) Power BI
10 4 (2.09%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.09%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.57%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.57%) Metadata
11 3 (1.57%) Tableau
12 2 (1.05%) Big Data
12 2 (1.05%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 55 (28.80%) GitLab
2 46 (24.08%) Jenkins
3 38 (19.90%) Git
4 28 (14.66%) JIRA
5 11 (5.76%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.71%) Artifactory
6 9 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.57%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.05%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.05%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.52%) Maven
General
1 73 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.13%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.38%) Finance
4 8 (4.19%) Military
5 7 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.66%) Banking
6 6 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.14%) Law
7 5 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.57%) Police
10 2 (1.05%) Games
10 2 (1.05%) Legal
10 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.52%) Local Government
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (24.08%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (22.51%) Architect
3 40 (20.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (14.66%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (12.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (12.04%) Senior
6 21 (10.99%) AWS Architect
6 21 (10.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 20 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (6.81%) DBA
9 12 (6.28%) Lead
9 12 (6.28%) Technical Architect
10 11 (5.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.76%) Scrum Master
10 11 (5.76%) Security Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Administrator
12 9 (4.71%) Network Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (72.25%) Terraform
2 18 (9.42%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.19%) SAML
4 6 (3.14%) boto
4 6 (3.14%) Kafka
4 6 (3.14%) OpenID
5 5 (2.62%) LDAP
6 4 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.09%) GraphQL
6 4 (2.09%) OAuth
6 4 (2.09%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.09%) OpenTofu
6 4 (2.09%) RESTful
7 3 (1.57%) Apollo GraphQL
7 3 (1.57%) cloud-init
7 3 (1.57%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.57%) React
7 3 (1.57%) REST
7 3 (1.57%) YAML
8 2 (1.05%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.52%) Replication
3 17 (8.90%) Security Posture
4 12 (6.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (6.28%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.24%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.24%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (3.14%) NHS
8 5 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.62%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.09%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.57%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 47 (24.61%) Linux
2 21 (10.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (9.95%) Windows
4 10 (5.24%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (3.14%) Unix
6 5 (2.62%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.09%) AIX
8 3 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.05%) CentOS
9 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (64.92%) CI/CD
2 117 (61.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (58.12%) DevOps
4 54 (28.27%) Agile
5 52 (27.23%) Containerisation
6 49 (25.65%) Platform Engineering
7 46 (24.08%) Cloud Security
7 46 (24.08%) Observability
8 39 (20.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (16.23%) Secrets Management
10 29 (15.18%) High Availability
11 28 (14.66%) Roadmaps
12 27 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (12.04%) Infrastructure Automation
14 22 (11.52%) Disaster Recovery
14 22 (11.52%) ITIL
14 22 (11.52%) Migration
14 22 (11.52%) SIEM
15 21 (10.99%) Performance Tuning
15 21 (10.99%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 76 (39.79%) Python
2 49 (25.65%) Bash
3 29 (15.18%) PowerShell
4 27 (14.14%) SQL
5 25 (13.09%) Java
6 14 (7.33%) Groovy
7 8 (4.19%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.66%) Perl
9 5 (2.62%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.09%) Go
11 3 (1.57%) Bicep
12 2 (1.05%) Ruby
13 1 (0.52%) C
13 1 (0.52%) C#
13 1 (0.52%) Cypher
13 1 (0.52%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.52%) R
13 1 (0.52%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 95 (49.74%) Security Cleared
2 86 (45.03%) SC Cleared
3 48 (25.13%) AWS Certification
4 25 (13.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (9.95%) Azure Certification
5 19 (9.95%) Degree
6 11 (5.76%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (4.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (3.66%) CISSP
9 6 (3.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.09%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.57%) CCNP
11 3 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.05%) CCIE
13 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.28%) GDPR
3 9 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.71%) NCSC
4 5 (2.62%) QA
5 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.05%) PMO
5 2 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.05%) SLA
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (36.13%) Docker
2 16 (8.38%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.76%) Squid
4 9 (4.71%) VMware NSX
5 6 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.57%) vSphere
7 2 (1.05%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (1.05%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.05%) Dovecot
7 2 (1.05%) Postfix
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 67 (35.08%) Kubernetes
2 48 (25.13%) Grafana
3 42 (21.99%) Prometheus
4 40 (20.94%) Ansible
5 11 (5.76%) Puppet
6 9 (4.71%) Packer
6 9 (4.71%) Progress Chef
6 9 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.66%) Argo
8 5 (2.62%) Istio
9 4 (2.09%) Salt
9 4 (2.09%) Suricata
10 3 (1.57%) Consul
10 3 (1.57%) SELinux
10 3 (1.57%) systemd
10 3 (1.57%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.57%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.05%) linkerd
11 2 (1.05%) Nessus
11 2 (1.05%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 17 (8.90%) Cisco
1 17 (8.90%) Red Hat
1 17 (8.90%) ServiceNow
2 15 (7.85%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.33%) VMware
4 11 (5.76%) Splunk
5 10 (5.24%) Google
6 9 (4.71%) Palo Alto
7 8 (4.19%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.66%) F5
9 6 (3.14%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.62%) PagerDuty
11 4 (2.09%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.09%) Databricks
11 4 (2.09%) Trend Micro
12 3 (1.57%) Aruba
12 3 (1.57%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.57%) Oracle
12 3 (1.57%) Ping Identity
12 3 (1.57%) Veeam