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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 403 424
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 +6
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 204 102 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 0.99% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 72 72
10th Percentile £411 £401 £409
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -9.17%
75th Percentile £584 £632 £648
90th Percentile £650 £700 £684
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.60% -10.17%
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 15,886 10,346 11,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.25% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,591 7,013 8,027
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 268 239
10th Percentile £16.56 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.02 £18.13 £16.15
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £84.38 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.98
% change year-on-year +29.09% +14.70% -31.50%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +3 119 £522 -10.04% 48
Midlands -37 30 £484 +1.95% 3
West Midlands -52 28 £488 +2.63% 3
North of England -52 27 £500 -3.38% 15
North West -37 18 £475 -11.21% 9
South East -63 10 £575 -0.86% 4
East of England -13 8 £490 -4.39% 2
South West -34 5 £475 - 4
Yorkshire -44 5 £500 - 4
North East -36 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 (18.14%) Confluence
2 10 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.41%) nginx
4 4 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.98%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 201 (98.53%) AWS
2 118 (57.84%) Amazon EC2
3 113 (55.39%) Amazon S3
4 92 (45.10%) Serverless
5 87 (42.65%) AWS Lambda
6 85 (41.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 71 (34.80%) Amazon EKS
8 53 (25.98%) Azure
9 47 (23.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (18.63%) GitHub
11 33 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (16.18%) GCP
12 29 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (12.25%) AWS CloudTrail
14 22 (10.78%) AWS KMS
15 20 (9.80%) Route 53
16 16 (7.84%) Datadog
16 16 (7.84%) Power Platform
17 15 (7.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 15 (7.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 56 (27.45%) Firewall
2 30 (14.71%) VPN
3 27 (13.24%) TCP/IP
4 22 (10.78%) DNS
5 19 (9.31%) Network Security
6 16 (7.84%) WAN
7 13 (6.37%) BGP
8 11 (5.39%) OSPF
9 10 (4.90%) LAN
9 10 (4.90%) OpenVPN
10 9 (4.41%) SSL
11 7 (3.43%) VLAN
12 6 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.94%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.45%) BIG-IP
13 5 (2.45%) MPLS
13 5 (2.45%) NetScaler
13 5 (2.45%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (7.84%) Power BI
3 13 (6.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (4.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.92%) Tableau
7 5 (2.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.47%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.47%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.98%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.98%) MySQL
10 2 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.49%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 58 (28.43%) GitLab
2 52 (25.49%) Jenkins
3 44 (21.57%) Git
4 33 (16.18%) JIRA
5 16 (7.84%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.88%) Artifactory
7 9 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.94%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.49%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.49%) Maven
9 1 (0.49%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.49%) Snyk
9 1 (0.49%) sqlmap
General
1 68 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 55 (26.96%) Public Sector
3 24 (11.76%) Finance
4 10 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.92%) Banking
6 7 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.45%) Law
7 5 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.96%) Military
8 4 (1.96%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.47%) Police
10 2 (0.98%) Games
10 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (24.02%) Architect
2 47 (23.04%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (15.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 31 (15.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (13.24%) AWS DevOps
5 20 (9.80%) Security Engineer
6 19 (9.31%) AWS Architect
7 18 (8.82%) Senior
8 17 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 17 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (7.35%) Network Engineer
9 15 (7.35%) Technical Architect
10 13 (6.37%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (5.39%) Lead
11 11 (5.39%) Scrum Master
12 10 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.90%) Technical Delivery Manager
12 10 (4.90%) Technical Manager
13 9 (4.41%) Analyst
13 9 (4.41%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.82%) AWS CDK
2 7 (3.43%) LDAP
2 7 (3.43%) OpenID
2 7 (3.43%) SAML
3 5 (2.45%) boto
3 5 (2.45%) Kafka
4 3 (1.47%) Apollo GraphQL
4 3 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.47%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.47%) OAuth
4 3 (1.47%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.47%) React
4 3 (1.47%) RESTful
5 2 (0.98%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.98%) REST
6 1 (0.49%) JSON
6 1 (0.49%) Node.js
6 1 (0.49%) Web Services
6 1 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.82%) Security Posture
3 15 (7.35%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.92%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.94%) Replication
8 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.45%) NHS
8 5 (2.45%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.47%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.98%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 47 (23.04%) Linux
2 26 (12.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (10.29%) Windows
4 7 (3.43%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (2.45%) Unix
6 4 (1.96%) AIX
7 3 (1.47%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.49%) CentOS
8 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 107 (52.45%) DevOps
3 102 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (31.37%) Agile
5 50 (24.51%) Containerisation
6 46 (22.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (22.55%) Platform Engineering
7 45 (22.06%) Cloud Security
8 43 (21.08%) Observability
9 38 (18.63%) Roadmaps
10 34 (16.67%) Migration
11 24 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
11 24 (11.76%) Scrum
12 23 (11.27%) Change Management
12 23 (11.27%) DevSecOps
12 23 (11.27%) SIEM
13 22 (10.78%) ITIL
13 22 (10.78%) Microservices
14 21 (10.29%) Decision-Making
15 19 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (40.69%) Python
2 51 (25.00%) Bash
3 30 (14.71%) Java
3 30 (14.71%) PowerShell
4 17 (8.33%) SQL
5 10 (4.90%) Shell Script
6 9 (4.41%) Groovy
7 6 (2.94%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.45%) Perl
9 4 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.47%) Bicep
11 2 (0.98%) Ruby
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) Cypher
12 1 (0.49%) Go
12 1 (0.49%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.49%) R
12 1 (0.49%) SHACL
12 1 (0.49%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 111 (54.41%) Security Cleared
2 100 (49.02%) SC Cleared
3 38 (18.63%) AWS Certification
4 24 (11.76%) Azure Certification
5 20 (9.80%) Degree
6 15 (7.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.39%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (4.41%) CISSP
9 8 (3.92%) CCNP
9 8 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.47%) CCIE
11 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.43%) PMO
3 6 (2.94%) GDPR
3 6 (2.94%) NCSC
4 5 (2.45%) SLA
5 3 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.47%) QA
6 2 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.98%) NIST
7 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (34.80%) Docker
2 14 (6.86%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.88%) Squid
4 9 (4.41%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.47%) vSphere
7 1 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 134 (65.69%) Terraform
2 72 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 43 (21.08%) Grafana
4 42 (20.59%) Ansible
5 39 (19.12%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.88%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.39%) Puppet
8 10 (4.90%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.43%) Packer
10 6 (2.94%) Argo
11 5 (2.45%) Istio
11 5 (2.45%) Salt
12 4 (1.96%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.96%) Suricata
13 3 (1.47%) Consul
13 3 (1.47%) SELinux
13 3 (1.47%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.98%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.49%) Cilium
Vendors
1 24 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 22 (10.78%) ServiceNow
3 20 (9.80%) Google
4 18 (8.82%) Cisco
4 18 (8.82%) Microsoft
5 13 (6.37%) VMware
6 10 (4.90%) Dynatrace
6 10 (4.90%) Splunk
7 9 (4.41%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.43%) F5
8 7 (3.43%) SolarWinds
8 7 (3.43%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.45%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.96%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.96%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.96%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.47%) Aruba
11 3 (1.47%) Oracle
11 3 (1.47%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.47%) Veeam