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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 425 428
Rank change year-on-year +38 +3 +35
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 163 94 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.85% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 49 117
10th Percentile £368 £497 £469
25th Percentile £463 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £579
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +5.00% -10.99%
75th Percentile £634 £685 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £815
UK median daily rate £536 £608 £578
% change year-on-year -11.73% +5.10% -11.08%

All Cloud 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 11,931 11,085 13,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.30% 36.26% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,163 7,389 9,709
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 148 267
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.32
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.83 £56.31 £54.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +17.33%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 +18 75 £600 +6.90% 7
West Midlands +4 37 £475 - 1
Midlands 0 37 £475 - 1
North of England -29 28 £550 -22.81% 3
Yorkshire -23 16 £525 -26.32%
South East +4 11 £600 - 2
North East -5 6 £575 -23.33%
North West -19 6 £518 +15.00% 3
South West -19 3 £675 -1.46% 8
East of England -15 1 £600 -
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 33 (20.25%) Confluence
2 12 (7.36%) nginx
3 4 (2.45%) SAS
4 3 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (7.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 163 (100.00%) AWS
2 111 (68.10%) Amazon S3
3 107 (65.64%) Amazon EC2
4 85 (52.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 51 (31.29%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (31.29%) Serverless
6 48 (29.45%) Amazon ELB
7 46 (28.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (26.99%) GitHub
9 41 (25.15%) Amazon ECS
10 39 (23.93%) AWS KMS
11 33 (20.25%) Azure
12 30 (18.40%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (18.40%) Route 53
13 23 (14.11%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (12.88%) Entra ID
15 19 (11.66%) AWS Direct Connect
16 18 (11.04%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (11.04%) Datadog
17 15 (9.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 71 (43.56%) DNS
2 67 (41.10%) Firewall
3 43 (26.38%) VPN
4 25 (15.34%) TCP/IP
5 24 (14.72%) SSL
6 23 (14.11%) SMTP
7 22 (13.50%) Network Security
8 21 (12.88%) FTP
8 21 (12.88%) HTTP
8 21 (12.88%) SSH
9 12 (7.36%) IMAP
9 12 (7.36%) OpenLDAP
10 11 (6.75%) DHCP
11 9 (5.52%) WAN
12 7 (4.29%) LAN
13 6 (3.68%) SD-WAN
13 6 (3.68%) Wireless
14 5 (3.07%) VLAN
15 4 (2.45%) Cisco ASA
15 4 (2.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (43.56%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (14.11%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (11.04%) MongoDB
4 17 (10.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (4.91%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.91%) MySQL
6 7 (4.29%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.84%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.84%) Redis
10 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.23%) Big Data
11 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.61%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (55.21%) Jenkins
2 59 (36.20%) Git
3 54 (33.13%) GitLab
4 36 (22.09%) JIRA
5 23 (14.11%) Vagrant
6 6 (3.68%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.45%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.84%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.61%) Maven
9 1 (0.61%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.61%) MLflow
General
1 50 (30.67%) Public Sector
2 35 (21.47%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.95%) Finance
4 12 (7.36%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.91%) Banking
7 5 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.45%) Military
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.61%) Police
9 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (36.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (30.67%) AWS Engineer
3 37 (22.70%) Senior
4 36 (22.09%) AWS DevOps
5 33 (20.25%) Architect
6 32 (19.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 31 (19.02%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (15.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 20 (12.27%) AWS Architect
10 19 (11.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 18 (11.04%) Lead
11 18 (11.04%) Senior DevOps
12 17 (10.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (7.36%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (6.75%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (6.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
16 9 (5.52%) Lead DevOps
16 9 (5.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.66%) Kafka
2 12 (7.36%) LDAP
3 8 (4.91%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.91%) Node.js
4 7 (4.29%) cloud-init
4 7 (4.29%) Keycloak
5 6 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.68%) REST
6 5 (3.07%) JSON
7 3 (1.84%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.84%) RESTful
7 3 (1.84%) Spring
7 3 (1.84%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.23%) Middleware
8 2 (1.23%) SignalR
8 2 (1.23%) Swagger
8 2 (1.23%) YAML
9 1 (0.61%) .NET
9 1 (0.61%) HTML
9 1 (0.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.56%) Replication
2 21 (12.88%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (6.13%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.91%) PKI
6 6 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.07%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.45%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.84%) NHS
10 2 (1.23%) Life Science
11 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.61%) CSOC
11 1 (0.61%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 52 (31.90%) Linux
2 32 (19.63%) Windows
3 26 (15.95%) Amazon Linux
4 23 (14.11%) VMS
5 12 (7.36%) Ubuntu
6 8 (4.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (4.29%) CentOS
7 7 (4.29%) Unix
7 7 (4.29%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (66.87%) DevOps
2 97 (59.51%) CI/CD
3 91 (55.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (25.77%) High Availability
4 42 (25.77%) Incident Response
5 38 (23.31%) Cloud Security
6 36 (22.09%) Configuration Management
7 35 (21.47%) Containerisation
8 34 (20.86%) Infrastructure Automation
8 34 (20.86%) Platform Engineering
9 28 (17.18%) Mentoring
10 26 (15.95%) Observability
11 25 (15.34%) Change Management
12 24 (14.72%) Migration
12 24 (14.72%) Patch Management
13 22 (13.50%) DevSecOps
14 20 (12.27%) Cost Optimisation
15 18 (11.04%) Microservices
15 18 (11.04%) Roadmaps
16 17 (10.43%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 98 (60.12%) Python
2 45 (27.61%) Bash
3 38 (23.31%) PowerShell
4 23 (14.11%) Groovy
4 23 (14.11%) Java
5 19 (11.66%) SQL
6 15 (9.20%) Perl
7 11 (6.75%) Go
8 6 (3.68%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.45%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.45%) Ruby
9 4 (2.45%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.61%) Korn
10 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 88 (53.99%) Security Cleared
2 78 (47.85%) SC Cleared
3 48 (29.45%) AWS Certification
4 20 (12.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (9.82%) Degree
6 14 (8.59%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.07%) CCSP
9 4 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.45%) CCNP
9 4 (2.45%) CISSP
10 3 (1.84%) CCIE
10 3 (1.84%) CCIE Security
10 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.23%) CCNA
11 2 (1.23%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.23%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.82%) GDPR
2 15 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (8.59%) NCSC
4 11 (6.75%) NIST
5 9 (5.52%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.84%) QA
8 2 (1.23%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.23%) SLA
9 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
System Software
1 83 (50.92%) Docker
2 21 (12.88%) DFS Replication
3 16 (9.82%) Active Directory
4 12 (7.36%) Dovecot
4 12 (7.36%) Postfix
4 12 (7.36%) Squid
5 6 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.07%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.61%) HDFS
8 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (81.60%) Terraform
2 48 (29.45%) Ansible
3 40 (24.54%) Prometheus
4 39 (23.93%) Kubernetes
5 37 (22.70%) Grafana
6 13 (7.98%) Nessus
7 10 (6.13%) Packer
7 10 (6.13%) Proxmox
8 8 (4.91%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (4.29%) Puppet
10 4 (2.45%) Argo
10 4 (2.45%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.84%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.84%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.23%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.23%) Kibana
12 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (18.40%) Palo Alto
2 27 (16.56%) F5
3 24 (14.72%) ServiceNow
4 23 (14.11%) CheckPoint
5 14 (8.59%) Splunk
6 12 (7.36%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (5.52%) CloudEndure
8 8 (4.91%) Cisco
8 8 (4.91%) Microsoft
8 8 (4.91%) Okta
9 7 (4.29%) Dynatrace
9 7 (4.29%) VMware
10 6 (3.68%) Citrix
10 6 (3.68%) Fortinet
11 5 (3.07%) Zscaler
12 4 (2.45%) Commvault
12 4 (2.45%) Databricks
12 4 (2.45%) Meraki
12 4 (2.45%) Oracle
12 4 (2.45%) SnapLogic