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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 409 433
Rank change year-on-year +31 +24 -1
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 186 76 112
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 0.79% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 38 85
10th Percentile £368 £413 £410
25th Percentile £456 £561 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +10.13% -10.00%
75th Percentile £624 £738 £694
90th Percentile £699 £750 £828
UK median daily rate £519 £608 £564
% change year-on-year -14.52% +7.76% -9.80%

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 13,257 9,627 12,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.44% 37.71% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,149 6,534 8,935
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £707 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 150 325
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.98 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.90 £73.93 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £27.19 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.21% +27.22% -14.52%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +26 106 £525 -13.58% 24
North of England -42 33 £550 -24.14% 28
West Midlands -29 20 £513 - 5
Midlands -34 20 £513 - 16
Yorkshire -58 16 £525 -27.59% 10
South East -24 14 £404 - 32
North West -32 11 £558 +31.18% 15
North East -9 6 £575 -23.33% 3
East of England -28 2 £600 - 18
South West -30 2 £419 -38.87% 23
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 (13.98%) Confluence
2 9 (4.84%) nginx
3 2 (1.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 186 (100.00%) AWS
2 116 (62.37%) Amazon S3
3 108 (58.06%) Amazon EC2
4 82 (44.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 78 (41.94%) AWS Lambda
5 78 (41.94%) Serverless
6 66 (35.48%) Amazon EKS
7 61 (32.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (24.73%) GitHub
9 41 (22.04%) Route 53
10 40 (21.51%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (19.89%) GCP
12 36 (19.35%) Azure
13 32 (17.20%) Amazon ELB
14 31 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (13.44%) AWS KMS
16 21 (11.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 18 (9.68%) AWS Control Tower
17 18 (9.68%) Datadog
17 18 (9.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 65 (34.95%) Firewall
2 49 (26.34%) VPN
3 47 (25.27%) DNS
4 27 (14.52%) TCP/IP
5 23 (12.37%) Network Security
6 16 (8.60%) SSL
7 14 (7.53%) BGP
8 13 (6.99%) OSPF
9 11 (5.91%) WAN
10 10 (5.38%) Wireless
11 9 (4.84%) LAN
12 8 (4.30%) OpenVPN
12 8 (4.30%) SD-WAN
13 6 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (2.69%) MPLS
14 5 (2.69%) VLAN
15 4 (2.15%) DHCP
15 4 (2.15%) EIGRP
15 4 (2.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (37.10%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.06%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.99%) MySQL
5 10 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.84%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (3.76%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.76%) DocumentDB
7 7 (3.76%) Power BI
7 7 (3.76%) Redis
8 6 (3.23%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.23%) Tableau
9 5 (2.69%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (2.69%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.61%) Big Data
10 3 (1.61%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 77 (41.40%) Jenkins
2 64 (34.41%) GitLab
3 40 (21.51%) Git
4 30 (16.13%) JIRA
5 15 (8.06%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.76%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.76%) Terragrunt
7 5 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.15%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.61%) Snyk
10 2 (1.08%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.08%) Metasploit
10 2 (1.08%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.54%) AppScan
11 1 (0.54%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.54%) JUnit
11 1 (0.54%) Maven
11 1 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 50 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.19%) Public Sector
3 31 (16.67%) Finance
4 14 (7.53%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.76%) Banking
8 5 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.69%) Military
9 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 49 (26.34%) Architect
2 39 (20.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (17.74%) AWS Engineer
4 28 (15.05%) AWS Architect
5 27 (14.52%) Senior
6 25 (13.44%) Cloud Architect
7 20 (10.75%) Lead
8 18 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (8.60%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (8.06%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (8.06%) Senior DevOps
10 15 (8.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 14 (7.53%) Network Engineer
12 12 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (6.45%) Security Engineer
12 12 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (5.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (5.91%) Technical Manager
14 10 (5.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.83%) Kafka
2 14 (7.53%) OpenID
3 12 (6.45%) AWS CDK
4 10 (5.38%) REST
5 9 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (4.84%) LDAP
6 8 (4.30%) Node.js
6 8 (4.30%) OAuth
6 8 (4.30%) OAuth2
6 8 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (3.76%) RESTful
7 7 (3.76%) Spring
7 7 (3.76%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.23%) JSON
9 4 (2.15%) gRPC
9 4 (2.15%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.15%) JPA
9 4 (2.15%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.61%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.61%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.59%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.22%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.76%) Replication
5 5 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.69%) PKI
6 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.61%) Life Science
7 3 (1.61%) NHS
7 3 (1.61%) SCADA
7 3 (1.61%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 37 (19.89%) Linux
2 12 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (5.91%) Windows
4 6 (3.23%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (2.15%) Unix
6 3 (1.61%) CentOS
6 3 (1.61%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.61%) VMS
7 1 (0.54%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.54%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (59.14%) CI/CD
2 101 (54.30%) DevOps
2 101 (54.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (25.81%) Containerisation
4 43 (23.12%) Incident Response
4 43 (23.12%) Observability
5 34 (18.28%) Migration
5 34 (18.28%) Roadmaps
6 32 (17.20%) High Availability
7 31 (16.67%) Agile
8 30 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (15.59%) Cloud Security
10 28 (15.05%) Cost Optimisation
10 28 (15.05%) Mentoring
11 27 (14.52%) Infrastructure Automation
12 23 (12.37%) Microservices
12 23 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (11.83%) DevSecOps
14 21 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (10.22%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (43.55%) Python
2 46 (24.73%) Bash
3 23 (12.37%) Java
4 16 (8.60%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.60%) SQL
5 10 (5.38%) Go
6 6 (3.23%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.69%) Perl
8 4 (2.15%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.15%) Ruby
8 4 (2.15%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.08%) Bicep
9 2 (1.08%) Cypher
9 2 (1.08%) Groovy
10 1 (0.54%) Lisp
10 1 (0.54%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 92 (49.46%) Security Cleared
2 81 (43.55%) SC Cleared
3 50 (26.88%) AWS Certification
4 20 (10.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (5.38%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.38%) Degree
7 8 (4.30%) CCNP
8 7 (3.76%) CISSP
9 6 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.69%) CCSP
10 5 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.61%) CCIE
12 3 (1.61%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.61%) CCNA
12 3 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (1.08%) JNCIP
13 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.22%) NIST
2 17 (9.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.60%) GDPR
4 15 (8.06%) PCI DSS
5 11 (5.91%) NCSC
6 6 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.23%) QA
7 4 (2.15%) PMO
7 4 (2.15%) SLA
8 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.54%) COBIT
9 1 (0.54%) GRC
9 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.54%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
System Software
1 79 (42.47%) Docker
2 10 (5.38%) Squid
3 7 (3.76%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.15%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.08%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.08%) HDFS
7 1 (0.54%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.54%) NLBS
7 1 (0.54%) Postfix
7 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 137 (73.66%) Terraform
2 67 (36.02%) Kubernetes
3 54 (29.03%) Ansible
4 36 (19.35%) Prometheus
5 29 (15.59%) Grafana
6 11 (5.91%) FortiGate
6 11 (5.91%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.76%) Consul
8 6 (3.23%) Argo
8 6 (3.23%) Kibana
8 6 (3.23%) Packer
8 6 (3.23%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.69%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.15%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (2.15%) Puppet
11 3 (1.61%) Istio
11 3 (1.61%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.61%) Nessus
12 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.08%) Salt
Vendors
1 25 (13.44%) Palo Alto
2 19 (10.22%) F5
3 17 (9.14%) CheckPoint
3 17 (9.14%) Splunk
4 14 (7.53%) Fortinet
5 12 (6.45%) Dynatrace
5 12 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.45%) ServiceNow
6 11 (5.91%) Google
6 11 (5.91%) Microsoft
7 10 (5.38%) Cisco
7 10 (5.38%) CloudEndure
8 8 (4.30%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.76%) Citrix
10 6 (3.23%) AVEVA
10 6 (3.23%) Databricks
10 6 (3.23%) Tenable
11 4 (2.15%) Cloudera
11 4 (2.15%) Okta
11 4 (2.15%) Zscaler