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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 397 433
Rank change year-on-year +4 +36 -4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 188 70 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 0.76% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 45 81
10th Percentile £400 £413 £409
25th Percentile £456 £538 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +8.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £738 £694
90th Percentile £653 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -14.60% +10.18% -12.00%

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 13,995 9,174 12,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.58% 37.84% 32.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,640 6,466 8,691
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 180 323
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +26.19% -18.75%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.23 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.05 £61.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +7 112 £525 -13.58% 18
North of England -56 25 £550 -24.14% 5
West Midlands -44 20 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -45 20 £500 +5.26% 2
South East -46 11 £404 -30.34% 9
Yorkshire -53 10 £525 -27.59% 1
North West -28 9 £568 +33.53% 3
East of England -26 8 £530 +3.41% 3
North East -10 6 £600 -20.00% 1
South West - 3 £450 - 4
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 (15.43%) Confluence
2 9 (4.79%) nginx
3 5 (2.66%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.06%) Apache
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 188 (100.00%) AWS
2 112 (59.57%) Amazon S3
3 107 (56.91%) Amazon EC2
4 88 (46.81%) Serverless
5 86 (45.74%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (38.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (37.23%) Amazon EKS
8 64 (34.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 45 (23.94%) GitHub
10 44 (23.40%) Route 53
11 43 (22.87%) Azure
12 39 (20.74%) GCP
13 38 (20.21%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (17.55%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (11.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 22 (11.70%) AWS KMS
16 19 (10.11%) AWS Control Tower
17 18 (9.57%) AWS CloudTrail
18 17 (9.04%) Amazon ELB
19 16 (8.51%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 55 (29.26%) Firewall
2 46 (24.47%) VPN
3 34 (18.09%) DNS
4 20 (10.64%) TCP/IP
5 18 (9.57%) BGP
6 17 (9.04%) Network Security
6 17 (9.04%) OSPF
7 12 (6.38%) WAN
8 11 (5.85%) OpenVPN
9 9 (4.79%) LAN
9 9 (4.79%) SD-WAN
9 9 (4.79%) Wireless
10 8 (4.26%) VLAN
11 6 (3.19%) EIGRP
11 6 (3.19%) SSL
12 5 (2.66%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (2.66%) DHCP
12 5 (2.66%) MPLS
12 5 (2.66%) VXLAN
12 5 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (35.64%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.98%) Power BI
4 13 (6.91%) MySQL
5 10 (5.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (5.32%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (4.26%) DynamoDB
7 8 (4.26%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.26%) Tableau
8 7 (3.72%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.72%) DocumentDB
9 6 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (3.19%) Redis
10 5 (2.66%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (2.66%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.60%) Big Data
11 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 66 (35.11%) Jenkins
2 55 (29.26%) GitLab
3 28 (14.89%) JIRA
4 25 (13.30%) Git
5 15 (7.98%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.79%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.66%) Terragrunt
8 4 (2.13%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.13%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.60%) Snyk
10 2 (1.06%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.06%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.53%) AppScan
11 1 (0.53%) JUnit
11 1 (0.53%) Maven
11 1 (0.53%) MLflow
11 1 (0.53%) sqlmap
General
1 55 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 54 (28.72%) Public Sector
3 32 (17.02%) Finance
4 17 (9.04%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.66%) Banking
8 4 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Military
11 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 57 (30.32%) Architect
2 32 (17.02%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (15.43%) AWS Architect
4 25 (13.30%) Cloud Architect
5 24 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (10.64%) Senior
7 18 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (9.57%) Lead
8 14 (7.45%) Security Engineer
9 13 (6.91%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (6.91%) Network Engineer
10 12 (6.38%) Delivery Manager
10 12 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (5.85%) Technical Manager
12 10 (5.32%) Technical Delivery Manager
13 9 (4.79%) Analyst
13 9 (4.79%) Technical Architect
14 8 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 8 (4.26%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.64%) Kafka
2 15 (7.98%) AWS CDK
2 15 (7.98%) OpenID
3 10 (5.32%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (5.32%) REST
4 9 (4.79%) LDAP
5 8 (4.26%) OAuth
5 8 (4.26%) OAuth2
5 8 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.72%) RESTful
6 7 (3.72%) Spring
6 7 (3.72%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.19%) JSON
8 5 (2.66%) Node.js
9 4 (2.13%) gRPC
9 4 (2.13%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.13%) JPA
9 4 (2.13%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.60%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.43%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.70%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.60%) NHS
7 3 (1.60%) PKI
7 3 (1.60%) Replication
7 3 (1.60%) SCADA
7 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.02%) Linux
2 10 (5.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.26%) Windows
4 4 (2.13%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.06%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.53%) CentOS
6 1 (0.53%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.53%) VMS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (55.32%) CI/CD
2 94 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 87 (46.28%) DevOps
4 47 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 44 (23.40%) Migration
6 43 (22.87%) Observability
7 41 (21.81%) Roadmaps
8 37 (19.68%) Agile
9 34 (18.09%) Incident Response
10 32 (17.02%) Cloud Security
10 32 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (13.30%) Cost Optimisation
12 25 (13.30%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (12.23%) Cost Management
13 23 (12.23%) Microservices
14 22 (11.70%) Load Balancing
14 22 (11.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (10.64%) Decision-Making
16 19 (10.11%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (38.83%) Python
2 33 (17.55%) Bash
3 24 (12.77%) Java
4 19 (10.11%) SQL
5 16 (8.51%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.26%) Go
7 6 (3.19%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.19%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.13%) Ruby
9 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.06%) Bicep
10 2 (1.06%) Cypher
10 2 (1.06%) Perl
11 1 (0.53%) Groovy
11 1 (0.53%) Lisp
11 1 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 92 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 81 (43.09%) SC Cleared
3 46 (24.47%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.45%) Azure Certification
6 11 (5.85%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (4.79%) CCNP
8 7 (3.72%) CISSP
8 7 (3.72%) Degree
9 6 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.66%) CCSP
11 4 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (2.13%) CCIE
12 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.60%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.60%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (1.06%) JNCIP
13 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (10.11%) NIST
3 17 (9.04%) PCI DSS
4 15 (7.98%) GDPR
5 9 (4.79%) NCSC
6 7 (3.72%) Data Quality
6 7 (3.72%) PMO
7 6 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (3.19%) SLA
8 5 (2.66%) QA
9 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.53%) COBIT
9 1 (0.53%) GRC
9 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.53%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.53%) JSP 440
System Software
1 71 (37.77%) Docker
2 11 (5.85%) Squid
3 8 (4.26%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.19%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.06%) HDFS
5 2 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.53%) Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) NLBS
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (69.15%) Terraform
2 69 (36.70%) Kubernetes
3 39 (20.74%) Ansible
4 35 (18.62%) Prometheus
5 29 (15.43%) Grafana
6 12 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.32%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.72%) Consul
9 6 (3.19%) Kibana
10 5 (2.66%) Argo
10 5 (2.66%) Karpenter
10 5 (2.66%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.13%) Packer
12 3 (1.60%) Istio
12 3 (1.60%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.60%) Puppet
13 2 (1.06%) linkerd
13 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.06%) Salt
13 2 (1.06%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 18 (9.57%) Splunk
2 13 (6.91%) Google
2 13 (6.91%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.38%) Cisco
3 12 (6.38%) Dynatrace
3 12 (6.38%) Fortinet
4 10 (5.32%) CloudEndure
4 10 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.32%) Palo Alto
5 9 (4.79%) F5
5 9 (4.79%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.26%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.72%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.72%) CheckPoint
7 7 (3.72%) Citrix
8 6 (3.19%) AVEVA
8 6 (3.19%) Databricks
8 6 (3.19%) VMware
9 5 (2.66%) Meraki
9 5 (2.66%) SolarWinds