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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 420 418
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +44
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 188 60 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 0.66% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 39 88
10th Percentile £400 £413 £406
25th Percentile £456 £519 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £580 £547
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +6.13% -12.56%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £675
90th Percentile £640 £740 £753
UK median daily rate £513 £575 £535
% change year-on-year -10.87% +7.48% -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 14,444 9,097 11,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.13% 37.19% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,895 6,302 8,407
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 200 327
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.04 £15.87
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -34.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.81 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.63 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +34.76% +28.69% -38.94%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +21 121 £525 -13.58% 16
West Midlands -40 23 £488 +2.63% 2
Midlands -46 23 £488 +2.63% 2
North of England -54 19 £563 -2.17% 9
North West -28 12 £568 +33.53% 5
South East -53 9 £450 -22.41% 10
East of England -23 7 £530 +0.95% 1
North East -15 6 £519 - 1
South West - 5 £475 - 6
Yorkshire -59 1 £463 -36.21% 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 (20.21%) Confluence
2 9 (4.79%) nginx
3 5 (2.66%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.53%) Apache
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
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
1 187 (99.47%) AWS
2 110 (58.51%) Amazon S3
3 108 (57.45%) Amazon EC2
4 87 (46.28%) Serverless
5 84 (44.68%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (43.09%) Amazon EKS
7 79 (42.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 56 (29.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 42 (22.34%) Azure
10 38 (20.21%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (19.68%) GitHub
12 36 (19.15%) Route 53
13 32 (17.02%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (15.96%) GCP
15 25 (13.30%) AWS KMS
16 20 (10.64%) AWS Control Tower
17 19 (10.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (10.11%) AWS CodePipeline
18 16 (8.51%) Amazon ELB
18 16 (8.51%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 51 (27.13%) Firewall
2 36 (19.15%) VPN
3 29 (15.43%) DNS
4 24 (12.77%) TCP/IP
5 18 (9.57%) Network Security
6 14 (7.45%) BGP
7 13 (6.91%) OSPF
8 11 (5.85%) OpenVPN
9 10 (5.32%) WAN
10 7 (3.72%) LAN
11 6 (3.19%) SSL
12 5 (2.66%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (2.66%) Wireless
13 4 (2.13%) NGFW
13 4 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (2.13%) VLAN
14 3 (1.60%) Cisco Nexus
15 2 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 2 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (29.26%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (7.98%) Power BI
3 12 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (4.26%) MySQL
6 8 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.26%) Tableau
7 6 (3.19%) DocumentDB
7 6 (3.19%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.19%) Redis
8 5 (2.66%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (2.13%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.06%) Big Data
11 2 (1.06%) Impala
11 2 (1.06%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 61 (32.45%) GitLab
2 57 (30.32%) Jenkins
3 35 (18.62%) JIRA
4 30 (15.96%) Git
5 20 (10.64%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.32%) Artifactory
6 10 (5.32%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.13%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.60%) Snyk
9 2 (1.06%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.06%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.53%) AppScan
10 1 (0.53%) JUnit
10 1 (0.53%) MLflow
10 1 (0.53%) sqlmap
General
1 58 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 57 (30.32%) Public Sector
3 32 (17.02%) Finance
4 17 (9.04%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.66%) Military
8 3 (1.60%) Banking
8 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.60%) Police
9 2 (1.06%) Games
9 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.06%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (28.72%) Architect
2 37 (19.68%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (14.36%) AWS Architect
4 26 (13.83%) Cloud Architect
5 23 (12.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (10.11%) AWS DevOps
7 19 (10.11%) Senior
8 18 (9.57%) Lead
9 13 (6.91%) Network Engineer
9 13 (6.91%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.38%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (5.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.85%) Technical Manager
12 10 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.32%) Scrum Master
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.11%) AWS CDK
2 15 (7.98%) Kafka
2 15 (7.98%) OpenID
3 11 (5.85%) LDAP
4 8 (4.26%) REST
5 7 (3.72%) OAuth
5 7 (3.72%) OAuth2
5 7 (3.72%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.19%) RESTful
6 6 (3.19%) Spring
6 6 (3.19%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.13%) gRPC
7 4 (2.13%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.13%) JPA
7 4 (2.13%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.60%) JSON
8 3 (1.60%) Node.js
9 2 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.49%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.04%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.91%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.66%) Replication
7 4 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.60%) SCADA
9 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) PKI
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.96%) Linux
2 9 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (4.79%) Windows
3 5 (2.66%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.06%) Unix
5 1 (0.53%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.53%) VMS
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (55.85%) CI/CD
2 90 (47.87%) DevOps
3 89 (47.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (26.60%) Containerisation
5 44 (23.40%) Agile
6 40 (21.28%) Observability
7 39 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (20.74%) Migration
8 37 (19.68%) Roadmaps
9 35 (18.62%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (17.55%) Cloud Security
11 30 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (12.23%) Microservices
13 22 (11.70%) Decision-Making
13 22 (11.70%) ITIL
14 21 (11.17%) DevSecOps
14 21 (11.17%) Incident Response
15 20 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (10.11%) Event-Driven
16 19 (10.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.23%) Python
2 35 (18.62%) Bash
3 26 (13.83%) Java
4 19 (10.11%) SQL
5 16 (8.51%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.72%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.19%) Go
7 6 (3.19%) Groovy
7 6 (3.19%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.13%) Perl
9 3 (1.60%) Bicep
10 2 (1.06%) Cypher
10 2 (1.06%) Ruby
10 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.53%) Lisp
11 1 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 100 (53.19%) Security Cleared
2 91 (48.40%) SC Cleared
3 40 (21.28%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.45%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.32%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (4.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.19%) CCNP
8 6 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.13%) Degree
11 3 (1.60%) CISSP
12 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.06%) PMP
13 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.53%) CCIE
13 1 (0.53%) CCNA
13 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.91%) NIST
2 11 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (5.85%) PCI DSS
3 8 (4.26%) NCSC
4 7 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.72%) PMO
5 6 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (3.19%) QA
6 5 (2.66%) GDPR
6 5 (2.66%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.53%) COBIT
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 69 (36.70%) Docker
2 16 (8.51%) Squid
3 11 (5.85%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.60%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.06%) HDFS
7 1 (0.53%) Firmware
7 1 (0.53%) NLBS
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (66.49%) Terraform
2 65 (34.57%) Kubernetes
3 38 (20.21%) Grafana
4 37 (19.68%) Prometheus
5 29 (15.43%) Ansible
6 12 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.32%) FortiGate
8 8 (4.26%) Consul
9 5 (2.66%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.66%) Puppet
10 4 (2.13%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.13%) Kibana
10 4 (2.13%) Salt
10 4 (2.13%) Suricata
11 3 (1.60%) Argo
11 3 (1.60%) Istio
11 3 (1.60%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.06%) linkerd
12 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.06%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 13 (6.91%) Dynatrace
1 13 (6.91%) Microsoft
1 13 (6.91%) Red Hat
1 13 (6.91%) ServiceNow
1 13 (6.91%) Splunk
2 12 (6.38%) Google
3 10 (5.32%) Cisco
3 10 (5.32%) Fortinet
4 8 (4.26%) Citrix
4 8 (4.26%) Zscaler
5 7 (3.72%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.19%) AVEVA
6 6 (3.19%) CheckPoint
6 6 (3.19%) CloudEndure
6 6 (3.19%) Tenable
7 5 (2.66%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.13%) F5
8 4 (2.13%) Qualys
9 3 (1.60%) Oracle
9 3 (1.60%) SolarWinds