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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 395 442
Rank change year-on-year -55 +47 -14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 188 122 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 1.15% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 86 57
10th Percentile £400 £400 £440
25th Percentile £447 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -5.83% -7.08%
75th Percentile £567 £638 £675
90th Percentile £650 £713 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £570
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.89% -4.04%
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 15,857 10,575 11,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.37% 38.12% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,574 7,170 7,575
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £532
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 246 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.38 £15.98
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £69.75 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
% change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -3.61%

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 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 28 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 -22 120 £525 -12.50% 98
North of England -62 23 £450 -17.05% 19
Midlands -53 22 £477 +0.42% 9
West Midlands -58 19 £482 +1.53% 7
North West -50 11 £447 -13.62% 12
South East -52 9 £669 - 10
Yorkshire -39 8 £481 -3.75% 5
East of England -22 4 £373 -29.05% 6
South West -36 4 £425 -37.04% 6
North East -38 4 £425 -26.09% 2
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 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 (13.83%) Confluence
2 9 (4.79%) Apache
2 9 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.26%) nginx
4 6 (3.19%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.06%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.53%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 185 (98.40%) AWS
2 98 (52.13%) Amazon S3
3 97 (51.60%) Amazon EC2
4 85 (45.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 73 (38.83%) Serverless
6 68 (36.17%) AWS Lambda
7 66 (35.11%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (30.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (23.40%) Azure
10 37 (19.68%) GitHub
11 36 (19.15%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (15.96%) AWS KMS
12 30 (15.96%) GCP
13 27 (14.36%) AWS CloudTrail
13 27 (14.36%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (10.64%) Route 53
15 16 (8.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 13 (6.91%) Datadog
17 12 (6.38%) AWS CodePipeline
17 12 (6.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 38 (20.21%) Firewall
2 22 (11.70%) DNS
3 18 (9.57%) TCP/IP
4 14 (7.45%) Network Security
4 14 (7.45%) VPN
4 14 (7.45%) WAN
5 9 (4.79%) LAN
6 8 (4.26%) SSL
7 6 (3.19%) BGP
7 6 (3.19%) SSH
8 5 (2.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (2.66%) MPLS
8 5 (2.66%) OSPF
8 5 (2.66%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.13%) HTTP
9 4 (2.13%) NetScaler
9 4 (2.13%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (31.38%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (12.23%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (11.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (6.38%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.85%) MySQL
6 10 (5.32%) SQL Server
7 9 (4.79%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.26%) Data Lake
8 8 (4.26%) DynamoDB
8 8 (4.26%) Redis
9 5 (2.66%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.13%) Big Data
10 4 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.60%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.60%) Flink
11 3 (1.60%) Metadata
11 3 (1.60%) Power BI
12 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 55 (29.26%) GitLab
2 44 (23.40%) Jenkins
3 38 (20.21%) Git
4 25 (13.30%) JIRA
5 9 (4.79%) Artifactory
5 9 (4.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (4.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.13%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.06%) Maven
8 2 (1.06%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.06%) Vagrant
General
1 73 (38.83%) Social Skills
2 46 (24.47%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.98%) Finance
4 8 (4.26%) Banking
4 8 (4.26%) Military
5 7 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.19%) Law
7 5 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.60%) Police
10 2 (1.06%) Legal
10 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.53%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (23.40%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (22.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (21.81%) Architect
4 27 (14.36%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (12.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (11.70%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (11.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 21 (11.17%) Senior
8 20 (10.64%) AWS Architect
9 13 (6.91%) DBA
10 12 (6.38%) Lead
10 12 (6.38%) Technical Architect
11 11 (5.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.85%) Security Engineer
12 10 (5.32%) Administrator
13 9 (4.79%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (4.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 8 (4.26%) Network Architect
14 8 (4.26%) Network Engineer
14 8 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (74.47%) Terraform
2 13 (6.91%) AWS CDK
3 8 (4.26%) SAML
4 7 (3.72%) Kafka
5 6 (3.19%) boto
5 6 (3.19%) RESTful
6 5 (2.66%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.66%) OpenID
6 5 (2.66%) PySpark
7 4 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.13%) LDAP
7 4 (2.13%) OAuth
7 4 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.13%) OpenTofu
7 4 (2.13%) React
7 4 (2.13%) REST
8 3 (1.60%) .NET
8 3 (1.60%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.60%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.74%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.70%) Replication
3 17 (9.04%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.32%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.32%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (4.79%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.26%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.72%) Public Cloud
9 6 (3.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (3.19%) NHS
9 6 (3.19%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.66%) Private Cloud
11 4 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.60%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.60%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.53%) Linux
2 21 (11.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (10.64%) Windows
4 10 (5.32%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (3.19%) Unix
6 5 (2.66%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.13%) AIX
8 3 (1.60%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.06%) CentOS
10 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (67.55%) CI/CD
2 120 (63.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (59.04%) DevOps
4 52 (27.66%) Agile
5 50 (26.60%) Observability
6 48 (25.53%) Containerisation
7 47 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
8 46 (24.47%) Cloud Security
9 38 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (17.55%) Secrets Management
11 32 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (14.89%) High Availability
13 27 (14.36%) Roadmaps
14 25 (13.30%) Migration
15 24 (12.77%) Root Cause Analysis
16 23 (12.23%) Infrastructure Automation
16 23 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
17 22 (11.70%) Disaster Recovery
17 22 (11.70%) Performance Tuning
18 21 (11.17%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 81 (43.09%) Python
2 47 (25.00%) Bash
3 27 (14.36%) Java
4 26 (13.83%) PowerShell
5 25 (13.30%) SQL
6 13 (6.91%) Groovy
7 8 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.72%) Perl
9 6 (3.19%) Go
9 6 (3.19%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.60%) Bicep
11 2 (1.06%) C#
11 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.53%) C
12 1 (0.53%) Cypher
12 1 (0.53%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.53%) R
12 1 (0.53%) SHACL
12 1 (0.53%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 88 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 80 (42.55%) SC Cleared
3 50 (26.60%) AWS Certification
4 26 (13.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (11.70%) Degree
6 19 (10.11%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.79%) CISSP
8 8 (4.26%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (3.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.13%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.13%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.60%) CCNP
12 3 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (1.06%) CCIE
13 2 (1.06%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.32%) GDPR
3 9 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.79%) NCSC
4 6 (3.19%) QA
5 3 (1.60%) NIST
6 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.06%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (35.11%) Docker
2 13 (6.91%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.79%) Squid
4 8 (4.26%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.60%) vSphere
7 2 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (1.06%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.06%) Dovecot
7 2 (1.06%) Postfix
7 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 67 (35.64%) Kubernetes
2 47 (25.00%) Grafana
3 41 (21.81%) Prometheus
4 39 (20.74%) Ansible
5 12 (6.38%) Puppet
6 9 (4.79%) Packer
6 9 (4.79%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.72%) Argo
7 7 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.66%) Istio
9 4 (2.13%) Salt
9 4 (2.13%) Suricata
10 3 (1.60%) Consul
10 3 (1.60%) SELinux
10 3 (1.60%) systemd
10 3 (1.60%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.60%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.06%) linkerd
11 2 (1.06%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 17 (9.04%) ServiceNow
2 16 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.51%) Red Hat
3 15 (7.98%) Cisco
4 13 (6.91%) VMware
5 12 (6.38%) Google
6 11 (5.85%) Splunk
7 8 (4.26%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.72%) Dynatrace
9 6 (3.19%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.66%) F5
11 4 (2.13%) Databricks
11 4 (2.13%) PagerDuty
12 3 (1.60%) Aruba
12 3 (1.60%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.60%) Ping Identity
12 3 (1.60%) Tenable
12 3 (1.60%) Trend Micro
12 3 (1.60%) Veeam
13 2 (1.06%) CheckPoint