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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 420 451
Rank change year-on-year +2 +31 -14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 210 77 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 0.80% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 55 72
10th Percentile £400 £409 £389
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.10% -10.63%
75th Percentile £576 £641 £648
90th Percentile £625 £702 £694
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -2.62% -0.47% -12.08%
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 15,232 9,598 12,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.69% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,279 6,485 8,644
10th Percentile £325 £311 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.77% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 247 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.03
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.35% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +10 127 £519 -8.63% 13
North of England -45 28 £475 +11.76% 7
Midlands -43 27 £488 +2.63% 4
West Midlands -43 27 £488 +2.63% 4
North West -32 18 £475 +11.76% 5
South East -50 11 £533 -8.19% 6
East of England -24 8 £490 -4.39%
North East -33 5 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -44 5 £500 - 1
South West - 4 £500 - 2
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 (17.62%) Confluence
2 9 (4.29%) nginx
3 6 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.95%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 207 (98.57%) AWS
2 117 (55.71%) Amazon EC2
2 117 (55.71%) Amazon S3
3 101 (48.10%) Serverless
4 96 (45.71%) AWS Lambda
5 93 (44.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 86 (40.95%) Amazon EKS
7 50 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (23.81%) Azure
8 40 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
9 37 (17.62%) Route 53
10 34 (16.19%) GitHub
11 32 (15.24%) GCP
12 27 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
13 20 (9.52%) AWS KMS
14 18 (8.57%) AWS CodePipeline
15 16 (7.62%) Power Platform
16 15 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 15 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 65 (30.95%) Firewall
2 38 (18.10%) VPN
3 31 (14.76%) DNS
4 29 (13.81%) TCP/IP
5 21 (10.00%) Network Security
6 18 (8.57%) WAN
7 17 (8.10%) BGP
8 15 (7.14%) OSPF
9 11 (5.24%) OpenVPN
10 10 (4.76%) LAN
11 8 (3.81%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.81%) SSL
12 7 (3.33%) VLAN
13 6 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (2.86%) MPLS
14 5 (2.38%) BIG-IP
14 5 (2.38%) IPsec
14 5 (2.38%) Wireless
15 4 (1.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (29.05%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (7.62%) Power BI
3 13 (6.19%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.81%) Tableau
6 7 (3.33%) MySQL
7 6 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
7 6 (2.86%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.38%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.90%) Redis
10 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.43%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.95%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.48%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 64 (30.48%) GitLab
2 60 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 37 (17.62%) JIRA
4 36 (17.14%) Git
5 21 (10.00%) Bitbucket
6 13 (6.19%) Artifactory
7 11 (5.24%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.95%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.95%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.95%) Snyk
10 1 (0.48%) AppScan
10 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.48%) sqlmap
General
1 67 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 52 (24.76%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.33%) Finance
4 18 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.86%) Banking
7 5 (2.38%) Military
7 5 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.90%) Law
8 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Police
10 2 (0.95%) Games
10 2 (0.95%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (26.67%) Architect
2 46 (21.90%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (14.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 31 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (12.38%) AWS Architect
4 26 (12.38%) AWS DevOps
5 20 (9.52%) Security Engineer
6 19 (9.05%) Technical Architect
7 18 (8.57%) Senior
8 17 (8.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 16 (7.62%) Network Engineer
10 13 (6.19%) Cloud Architect
10 13 (6.19%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (5.71%) Lead
11 12 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.24%) Network Architect
12 11 (5.24%) Scrum Master
12 11 (5.24%) Technical Manager
13 10 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.52%) AWS CDK
2 16 (7.62%) OpenID
3 11 (5.24%) Kafka
3 11 (5.24%) LDAP
4 8 (3.81%) OAuth
4 8 (3.81%) OAuth2
5 7 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (3.33%) RESTful
6 6 (2.86%) REST
6 6 (2.86%) SAML
7 4 (1.90%) gRPC
7 4 (1.90%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.90%) JPA
7 4 (1.90%) Spring
7 4 (1.90%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.90%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.43%) Apollo GraphQL
8 3 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.43%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.95%) React
Miscellaneous
1 48 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 13 (6.19%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.81%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.38%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.38%) Replication
9 4 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.90%) NHS
10 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.43%) SCADA
11 2 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.95%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 39 (18.57%) Linux
2 22 (10.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (9.52%) Windows
4 5 (2.38%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.95%) Unix
7 1 (0.48%) AIX
7 1 (0.48%) CentOS
7 1 (0.48%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.48%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 112 (53.33%) DevOps
3 105 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (29.52%) Agile
5 53 (25.24%) Containerisation
6 46 (21.90%) Roadmaps
7 44 (20.95%) Cloud Security
7 44 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (20.95%) Observability
8 42 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
9 35 (16.67%) Migration
10 27 (12.86%) Decision-Making
10 27 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (12.38%) Microservices
12 25 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (11.43%) Scrum
14 23 (10.95%) Change Management
14 23 (10.95%) DevSecOps
15 22 (10.48%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 83 (39.52%) Python
2 48 (22.86%) Bash
3 30 (14.29%) Java
4 26 (12.38%) PowerShell
5 18 (8.57%) SQL
6 8 (3.81%) Groovy
7 7 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.86%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.90%) Go
9 4 (1.90%) Perl
9 4 (1.90%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.43%) Bicep
10 3 (1.43%) Cypher
11 2 (0.95%) Ruby
12 1 (0.48%) C
12 1 (0.48%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.48%) Lisp
12 1 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (51.90%) Security Cleared
2 97 (46.19%) SC Cleared
3 38 (18.10%) AWS Certification
4 22 (10.48%) Azure Certification
5 18 (8.57%) Degree
6 13 (6.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.24%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (4.29%) CISSP
9 8 (3.81%) CCNP
9 8 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.43%) CCIE
12 3 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.95%) PMP
14 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.29%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.81%) NIST
3 7 (3.33%) PMO
3 7 (3.33%) QA
4 5 (2.38%) GDPR
4 5 (2.38%) NCSC
4 5 (2.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) COBIT
5 1 (0.48%) GRC
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 74 (35.24%) Docker
2 17 (8.10%) Squid
3 13 (6.19%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.29%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.43%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
7 1 (0.48%) NLBS
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 140 (66.67%) Terraform
2 79 (37.62%) Kubernetes
3 46 (21.90%) Prometheus
4 45 (21.43%) Grafana
5 38 (18.10%) Ansible
6 13 (6.19%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.71%) Puppet
8 11 (5.24%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (4.29%) FortiGate
10 8 (3.81%) Consul
11 6 (2.86%) Packer
11 6 (2.86%) Salt
12 4 (1.90%) Argo
12 4 (1.90%) Istio
12 4 (1.90%) Suricata
13 3 (1.43%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.95%) linkerd
14 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.95%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 24 (11.43%) Red Hat
2 20 (9.52%) Google
3 15 (7.14%) Cisco
3 15 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 15 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 13 (6.19%) Splunk
5 10 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 10 (4.76%) VMware
6 7 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.33%) F5
6 7 (3.33%) SolarWinds
6 7 (3.33%) Zscaler
7 6 (2.86%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.86%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.38%) PagerDuty
8 5 (2.38%) Tenable
9 4 (1.90%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.90%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.43%) Oracle