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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 405 438
Rank change year-on-year -37 +33 -6
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 190 120 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 1.16% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 83 66
10th Percentile £402 £450 £411
25th Percentile £450 £463 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £569 £644 £675
90th Percentile £650 £713 £723
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
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 15,952 10,314 11,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.66% 37.42% 34.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,674 6,967 7,812
10th Percentile £323 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £732 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 262 191
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.60 £19.57
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.01 £60.28
90th Percentile £82.68 £71.43 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.12 £29.07 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.93% -3.10% -14.29%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -16 118 £525 -12.50% 111
Midlands -64 26 £477 +0.42% 8
West Midlands -58 23 £477 +0.42% 8
North of England -62 19 £453 -16.50% 20
North West -48 9 £450 -17.05% 9
South East -65 9 £669 +15.30% 9
East of England -16 8 £450 -12.20% 6
Yorkshire -40 7 £500 - 7
South West -43 4 £450 -33.33% 5
North East -38 3 £438 -27.08% 4
East Midlands - 3 £450 -
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 29 (15.26%) Confluence
2 8 (4.21%) nginx
3 7 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.11%) Apache
6 3 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.05%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 187 (98.42%) AWS
2 102 (53.68%) Amazon EC2
3 101 (53.16%) Amazon S3
4 86 (45.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 83 (43.68%) Serverless
6 77 (40.53%) AWS Lambda
7 65 (34.21%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (30.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (22.63%) Azure
10 41 (21.58%) GitHub
11 35 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (15.79%) AWS CloudTrail
12 30 (15.79%) AWS KMS
12 30 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (13.68%) GCP
14 22 (11.58%) Route 53
15 18 (9.47%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 13 (6.84%) AWS CodePipeline
16 13 (6.84%) Datadog
17 12 (6.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 43 (22.63%) Firewall
2 23 (12.11%) DNS
3 20 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 16 (8.42%) VPN
5 15 (7.89%) Network Security
5 15 (7.89%) WAN
6 10 (5.26%) LAN
7 9 (4.74%) SSL
8 7 (3.68%) BGP
9 6 (3.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (3.16%) OSPF
9 6 (3.16%) SSH
9 6 (3.16%) VLAN
10 5 (2.63%) BIG-IP
10 5 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (2.63%) MPLS
10 5 (2.63%) OpenVPN
10 5 (2.63%) SD-WAN
11 4 (2.11%) HTTP
11 4 (2.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (33.68%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (12.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (6.32%) MySQL
5 11 (5.79%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (4.21%) Redis
8 8 (4.21%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.68%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.16%) Power BI
11 4 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.11%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.11%) Tableau
12 3 (1.58%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.05%) Big Data
13 2 (1.05%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.05%) Metadata
13 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (28.42%) GitLab
2 45 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 38 (20.00%) Git
4 28 (14.74%) JIRA
5 11 (5.79%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.74%) Artifactory
6 9 (4.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.58%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.05%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.05%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.53%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.53%) Maven
9 1 (0.53%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.53%) sqlmap
General
1 73 (38.42%) Social Skills
2 46 (24.21%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.95%) Finance
4 8 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.68%) Banking
6 6 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.16%) Military
7 5 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.63%) Law
8 4 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.11%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.58%) Police
10 2 (1.05%) Games
10 2 (1.05%) Legal
10 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.53%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (25.79%) AWS Engineer
2 41 (21.58%) Architect
2 41 (21.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (15.26%) AWS DevOps
4 25 (13.16%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (11.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 22 (11.58%) Senior
6 20 (10.53%) AWS Architect
6 20 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (6.84%) DBA
7 13 (6.84%) Security Engineer
8 12 (6.32%) Technical Architect
9 11 (5.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (5.79%) Lead
9 11 (5.79%) Scrum Master
10 10 (5.26%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.74%) Administrator
12 8 (4.21%) Network Architect
12 8 (4.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (71.58%) Terraform
2 18 (9.47%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.21%) SAML
4 7 (3.68%) boto
5 6 (3.16%) OpenID
6 5 (2.63%) LDAP
7 4 (2.11%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.11%) Kafka
7 4 (2.11%) OAuth
7 4 (2.11%) OpenTofu
7 4 (2.11%) RESTful
8 3 (1.58%) Apollo GraphQL
8 3 (1.58%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.58%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.58%) React
8 3 (1.58%) YAML
9 2 (1.05%) .NET
9 2 (1.05%) Flask
9 2 (1.05%) Node.js
9 2 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.53%) Replication
3 17 (8.95%) Security Posture
4 13 (6.84%) Product Ownership
5 12 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.74%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.74%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 7 (3.68%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.16%) NHS
9 5 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.11%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.58%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.58%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (23.68%) Linux
2 20 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (9.47%) Windows
4 10 (5.26%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (2.63%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.63%) Unix
6 4 (2.11%) AIX
7 3 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (65.26%) CI/CD
2 116 (61.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (58.42%) DevOps
4 54 (28.42%) Agile
5 50 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 49 (25.79%) Platform Engineering
7 45 (23.68%) Cloud Security
8 44 (23.16%) Observability
9 40 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (15.26%) Secrets Management
11 28 (14.74%) Roadmaps
12 27 (14.21%) High Availability
13 26 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (12.63%) Infrastructure Automation
15 23 (12.11%) DevSecOps
15 23 (12.11%) Migration
16 22 (11.58%) ITIL
16 22 (11.58%) SIEM
17 21 (11.05%) Performance Tuning
17 21 (11.05%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 77 (40.53%) Python
2 48 (25.26%) Bash
3 29 (15.26%) PowerShell
4 27 (14.21%) SQL
5 25 (13.16%) Java
6 14 (7.37%) Groovy
7 8 (4.21%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.68%) Perl
9 5 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.58%) Go
11 2 (1.05%) Bicep
11 2 (1.05%) Ruby
12 1 (0.53%) C
12 1 (0.53%) C#
12 1 (0.53%) Cypher
12 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.53%) R
12 1 (0.53%) SHACL
12 1 (0.53%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 94 (49.47%) Security Cleared
2 85 (44.74%) SC Cleared
3 48 (25.26%) AWS Certification
4 26 (13.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 19 (10.00%) Degree
6 11 (5.79%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (4.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (3.68%) CISSP
9 6 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.11%) CCNP
11 4 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.58%) CCIE
12 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.58%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.74%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.74%) GDPR
3 6 (3.16%) NCSC
4 5 (2.63%) QA
5 3 (1.58%) PMO
6 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.05%) NIST
6 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.53%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (36.32%) Docker
2 15 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.79%) Squid
4 9 (4.74%) VMware NSX
5 6 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.58%) vSphere
7 2 (1.05%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.05%) Dovecot
7 2 (1.05%) Postfix
8 1 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (33.68%) Kubernetes
2 43 (22.63%) Grafana
3 39 (20.53%) Ansible
4 38 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.26%) Puppet
6 9 (4.74%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (4.21%) Packer
7 8 (4.21%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.68%) Argo
9 4 (2.11%) Istio
9 4 (2.11%) Salt
9 4 (2.11%) Suricata
10 3 (1.58%) SELinux
10 3 (1.58%) vCenter Server
11 2 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.05%) Consul
11 2 (1.05%) Nessus
11 2 (1.05%) Proxmox
11 2 (1.05%) systemd
11 2 (1.05%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (8.95%) Cisco
1 17 (8.95%) Red Hat
1 17 (8.95%) ServiceNow
2 14 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.84%) VMware
4 11 (5.79%) Google
5 10 (5.26%) Splunk
6 9 (4.74%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.68%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.68%) F5
8 6 (3.16%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.63%) PagerDuty
10 4 (2.11%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.11%) Databricks
10 4 (2.11%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.58%) Aruba
11 3 (1.58%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.58%) Oracle
11 3 (1.58%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.58%) Veeam