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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 386 427
Rank change year-on-year +2 +41 +20
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 167 93 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.95% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 47 94
10th Percentile £368 £504 £466
25th Percentile £463 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £614 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +6.78% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £694
90th Percentile £713 £750 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £614 £575
% change year-on-year -14.50% +6.78% -11.54%

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 12,214 9,779 12,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.85% 36.97% 33.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,493 6,481 9,206
10th Percentile £304 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 137 286
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.55 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £17.13
Median hourly rate £30.25 £27.50 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +18.39% -3.22%
75th Percentile £58.16 £45.00 £49.77
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 £66.66
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
% change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +3.76%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +36 97 £550 -4.35% 19
North of England -39 26 £543 -25.17% 5
West Midlands -19 23 £475 - 4
Midlands -30 23 £475 - 4
Yorkshire -39 15 £525 -27.59% 1
South East -23 12 £525 - 6
North East -10 7 £575 -23.33% 1
North West -20 4 £452 +0.33% 3
South West -23 4 £488 -28.83% 5
East of England -13 1 £600 - 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 26 (15.57%) Confluence
2 13 (7.78%) nginx
3 4 (2.40%) SAS
4 2 (1.20%) Apache
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 8 (4.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 167 (100.00%) AWS
2 111 (66.47%) Amazon S3
3 102 (61.08%) Amazon EC2
4 78 (46.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 61 (36.53%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (36.53%) Serverless
6 55 (32.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (31.14%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (28.14%) GitHub
9 41 (24.55%) Amazon ECS
9 41 (24.55%) Amazon ELB
9 41 (24.55%) Route 53
10 36 (21.56%) Azure
11 28 (16.77%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (14.97%) AWS KMS
13 24 (14.37%) GCP
14 18 (10.78%) AWS Direct Connect
15 17 (10.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 17 (10.18%) Datadog
15 17 (10.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 70 (41.92%) Firewall
2 66 (39.52%) DNS
3 52 (31.14%) VPN
4 32 (19.16%) TCP/IP
5 27 (16.17%) Network Security
6 25 (14.97%) SSL
7 13 (7.78%) WAN
8 12 (7.19%) FTP
8 12 (7.19%) HTTP
8 12 (7.19%) SMTP
8 12 (7.19%) SSH
9 10 (5.99%) BGP
9 10 (5.99%) OSPF
9 10 (5.99%) SD-WAN
9 10 (5.99%) Wireless
10 9 (5.39%) LAN
11 8 (4.79%) IMAP
11 8 (4.79%) OpenLDAP
12 6 (3.59%) DHCP
12 6 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (38.92%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (14.37%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (10.18%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (9.58%) MongoDB
5 13 (7.78%) MySQL
6 10 (5.99%) DynamoDB
7 8 (4.79%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.19%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (4.19%) DocumentDB
8 7 (4.19%) Redis
9 6 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.59%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.40%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.80%) Big Data
12 3 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.80%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.20%) Apache Hive
13 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 88 (52.69%) Jenkins
2 62 (37.13%) GitLab
3 48 (28.74%) Git
4 30 (17.96%) JIRA
5 12 (7.19%) Vagrant
6 10 (5.99%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.79%) Terragrunt
8 5 (2.99%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.40%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.20%) Snyk
11 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.60%) JUnit
11 1 (0.60%) Maven
11 1 (0.60%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.60%) MLflow
General
1 42 (25.15%) Public Sector
1 42 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.97%) Finance
3 10 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.19%) Banking
7 6 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.59%) Military
8 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 46 (27.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (26.35%) Architect
3 39 (23.35%) AWS Engineer
4 35 (20.96%) Senior
5 27 (16.17%) AWS Architect
6 25 (14.97%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (14.37%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (14.37%) Cloud Architect
8 21 (12.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 21 (12.57%) Lead
9 19 (11.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 16 (9.58%) Senior DevOps
11 15 (8.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 15 (8.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (7.19%) Network Engineer
13 10 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (5.39%) Network Architect
14 9 (5.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.17%) Kafka
2 13 (7.78%) LDAP
3 11 (6.59%) OpenID
4 10 (5.99%) AWS CDK
5 9 (5.39%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (5.39%) REST
6 8 (4.79%) Node.js
7 7 (4.19%) RESTful
7 7 (4.19%) Spring
7 7 (4.19%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.59%) OAuth
8 6 (3.59%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.59%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.99%) JSON
10 4 (2.40%) cloud-init
10 4 (2.40%) gRPC
10 4 (2.40%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.40%) JPA
10 4 (2.40%) Keycloak
10 4 (2.40%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.18%) Replication
3 15 (8.98%) Data Centre
4 14 (8.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.59%) PKI
7 5 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.40%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.80%) Life Science
9 3 (1.80%) NHS
10 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.20%) SCADA
11 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 40 (23.95%) Linux
2 19 (11.38%) Windows
3 15 (8.98%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (7.78%) VMS
5 9 (5.39%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.59%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.40%) CentOS
7 4 (2.40%) Unix
8 1 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (61.68%) DevOps
2 102 (61.08%) CI/CD
3 99 (59.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (28.14%) Incident Response
5 41 (24.55%) High Availability
6 38 (22.75%) Containerisation
7 35 (20.96%) Observability
8 31 (18.56%) Mentoring
9 30 (17.96%) Infrastructure Automation
10 27 (16.17%) Cloud Security
10 27 (16.17%) Roadmaps
11 26 (15.57%) Migration
12 25 (14.97%) Cost Optimisation
12 25 (14.97%) Platform Engineering
13 24 (14.37%) Configuration Management
14 23 (13.77%) DevSecOps
15 22 (13.17%) Microservices
15 22 (13.17%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (12.57%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 90 (53.89%) Python
2 47 (28.14%) Bash
3 25 (14.97%) PowerShell
4 22 (13.17%) Java
5 17 (10.18%) SQL
6 12 (7.19%) Groovy
7 10 (5.99%) Go
8 8 (4.79%) Perl
9 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.40%) Ruby
9 4 (2.40%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.40%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.60%) Cypher
10 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 81 (48.50%) Security Cleared
2 72 (43.11%) SC Cleared
3 51 (30.54%) AWS Certification
4 20 (11.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (8.98%) Degree
6 12 (7.19%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.99%) CCNP
9 5 (2.99%) CCSP
9 5 (2.99%) CISSP
10 4 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.80%) CCIE
11 3 (1.80%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.80%) CCNA
11 3 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.20%) JNCIE
12 2 (1.20%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.18%) NIST
2 16 (9.58%) GDPR
2 16 (9.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.19%) NCSC
3 12 (7.19%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.59%) QA
5 2 (1.20%) SLA
6 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.60%) JSP 440
System Software
1 85 (50.90%) Docker
2 14 (8.38%) Squid
3 12 (7.19%) DFS Replication
4 8 (4.79%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.79%) Dovecot
4 8 (4.79%) Postfix
5 6 (3.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.40%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.20%) HDFS
8 1 (0.60%) NLBS
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (82.63%) Terraform
2 58 (34.73%) Ansible
3 51 (30.54%) Kubernetes
4 37 (22.16%) Prometheus
5 31 (18.56%) Grafana
6 9 (5.39%) Nessus
7 8 (4.79%) FortiGate
7 8 (4.79%) Proxmox
7 8 (4.79%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.19%) Packer
8 7 (4.19%) Puppet
9 6 (3.59%) Kibana
10 5 (2.99%) Argo
10 5 (2.99%) Consul
10 5 (2.99%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (2.99%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.40%) NetBackup
12 3 (1.80%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.60%) Salt
Vendors
1 34 (20.36%) Palo Alto
2 28 (16.77%) F5
3 26 (15.57%) CheckPoint
4 14 (8.38%) Splunk
5 13 (7.78%) Fortinet
5 13 (7.78%) ServiceNow
6 12 (7.19%) Cisco
7 10 (5.99%) CloudEndure
8 9 (5.39%) Dynatrace
9 8 (4.79%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (4.19%) Citrix
10 7 (4.19%) Microsoft
11 6 (3.59%) Atlassian
11 6 (3.59%) Databricks
11 6 (3.59%) VMware
11 6 (3.59%) Zscaler
12 5 (2.99%) AVEVA
12 5 (2.99%) Okta
12 5 (2.99%) Red Hat
13 4 (2.40%) Commvault