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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 421 423
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 178 64 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 0.71% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 45 85
10th Percentile £400 £413 £409
25th Percentile £456 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £614 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.75% +11.68% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £675
90th Percentile £635 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -14.41% +7.27% -10.57%

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 14,317 9,065 11,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.46% 37.24% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,856 6,343 8,545
10th Percentile £316 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 194 321
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £46.00 £25.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +80.39% +22.77% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £40.50 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.38 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 May 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 May 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 +20 113 £519 -15.86% 14
North of England -56 22 £548 -24.48% 7
West Midlands -45 19 £494 +3.95%
Midlands -59 19 £494 +3.95%
North West -33 11 £568 +33.53% 4
South East -49 9 £450 -22.41% 10
North East -15 7 £575 -23.33% 3
East of England -23 7 £530 +0.95% 2
Yorkshire -54 4 £499 -31.21%
South West - 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 35 (19.66%) Confluence
2 9 (5.06%) nginx
3 5 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 178 (100.00%) AWS
2 110 (61.80%) Amazon S3
3 102 (57.30%) Amazon EC2
4 89 (50.00%) Serverless
5 86 (48.31%) AWS Lambda
6 74 (41.57%) Amazon EKS
7 71 (39.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 56 (31.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 42 (23.60%) GitHub
9 42 (23.60%) Route 53
10 40 (22.47%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (21.91%) Azure
12 31 (17.42%) GCP
12 31 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (13.48%) AWS KMS
14 20 (11.24%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 20 (11.24%) AWS Control Tower
15 16 (8.99%) AWS CloudTrail
15 16 (8.99%) AWS CodePipeline
16 15 (8.43%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 50 (28.09%) Firewall
2 37 (20.79%) VPN
3 29 (16.29%) DNS
4 20 (11.24%) TCP/IP
5 16 (8.99%) Network Security
6 14 (7.87%) BGP
7 13 (7.30%) OSPF
8 11 (6.18%) OpenVPN
9 8 (4.49%) WAN
10 6 (3.37%) SSL
11 5 (2.81%) LAN
11 5 (2.81%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.81%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.81%) Wireless
12 4 (2.25%) NGFW
12 4 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (2.25%) VLAN
13 3 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (1.69%) Kerberos
14 2 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (34.27%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.43%) Power BI
3 12 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (6.18%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (5.06%) DynamoDB
5 9 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.06%) MySQL
6 8 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.49%) Tableau
7 7 (3.93%) DocumentDB
8 6 (3.37%) Redis
9 5 (2.81%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.25%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.25%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.69%) Big Data
11 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.69%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 60 (33.71%) Jenkins
2 54 (30.34%) GitLab
3 33 (18.54%) JIRA
4 24 (13.48%) Git
5 18 (10.11%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.62%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.37%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.25%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.69%) Snyk
11 2 (1.12%) Burp Suite
11 2 (1.12%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.12%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.56%) AppScan
12 1 (0.56%) JUnit
12 1 (0.56%) MLflow
12 1 (0.56%) sqlmap
General
1 56 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 55 (30.90%) Public Sector
3 32 (17.98%) Finance
4 17 (9.55%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.25%) Banking
7 4 (2.25%) Military
8 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Police
9 2 (1.12%) Games
9 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.12%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (30.34%) Architect
2 32 (17.98%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (16.29%) AWS Architect
4 25 (14.04%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (10.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (9.55%) Lead
8 16 (8.99%) Senior
9 15 (8.43%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (7.30%) Network Engineer
10 13 (7.30%) Security Engineer
11 12 (6.74%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.18%) Technical Manager
13 10 (5.62%) Technical Delivery Manager
14 9 (5.06%) Analyst
14 9 (5.06%) Technical Architect
15 8 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 8 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 7 (3.93%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.99%) AWS CDK
2 15 (8.43%) Kafka
2 15 (8.43%) OpenID
3 9 (5.06%) LDAP
4 8 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.49%) REST
5 7 (3.93%) OAuth
5 7 (3.93%) OAuth2
5 7 (3.93%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.37%) RESTful
6 6 (3.37%) Spring
6 6 (3.37%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.81%) JSON
8 4 (2.25%) gRPC
8 4 (2.25%) Hibernate
8 4 (2.25%) JPA
8 4 (2.25%) Node.js
8 4 (2.25%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.69%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.55%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (5.62%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.81%) Replication
7 4 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.69%) SCADA
8 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) NHS
9 2 (1.12%) PKI
10 1 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.98%) Linux
2 9 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (5.06%) Windows
3 7 (3.93%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.12%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (54.49%) CI/CD
2 87 (48.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 83 (46.63%) DevOps
4 49 (27.53%) Containerisation
5 42 (23.60%) Agile
6 39 (21.91%) Migration
7 38 (21.35%) Observability
8 35 (19.66%) Roadmaps
9 33 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (17.98%) Cloud Security
11 30 (16.85%) Platform Engineering
12 28 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (12.92%) Microservices
14 22 (12.36%) Incident Response
15 21 (11.80%) Cost Optimisation
15 21 (11.80%) Decision-Making
16 19 (10.67%) Cost Management
16 19 (10.67%) DevSecOps
16 19 (10.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 18 (10.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.76%) Python
2 30 (16.85%) Bash
3 26 (14.61%) Java
4 18 (10.11%) SQL
5 16 (8.99%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.37%) Go
6 6 (3.37%) Kotlin
6 6 (3.37%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.81%) Groovy
8 4 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.25%) Perl
9 3 (1.69%) Ruby
10 2 (1.12%) Bicep
10 2 (1.12%) Cypher
10 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.56%) Lisp
11 1 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 93 (52.25%) Security Cleared
2 85 (47.75%) SC Cleared
3 42 (23.60%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (6.74%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.93%) SAFe Agilist
7 6 (3.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.37%) CCNP
8 4 (2.25%) CISSP
9 3 (1.69%) Degree
10 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.12%) PMP
11 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.56%) CCNA
11 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (7.30%) NIST
1 13 (7.30%) PCI DSS
2 7 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.93%) GDPR
2 7 (3.93%) NCSC
2 7 (3.93%) PMO
3 6 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.37%) QA
4 5 (2.81%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.56%) COBIT
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 72 (40.45%) Docker
2 11 (6.18%) Squid
3 10 (5.62%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.12%) HDFS
5 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.12%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.56%) Firmware
6 1 (0.56%) NLBS
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 120 (67.42%) Terraform
2 63 (35.39%) Kubernetes
3 36 (20.22%) Prometheus
4 32 (17.98%) Grafana
5 30 (16.85%) Ansible
6 12 (6.74%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (5.62%) FortiGate
8 8 (4.49%) Consul
9 5 (2.81%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.81%) Puppet
10 4 (2.25%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.25%) Kibana
10 4 (2.25%) Packer
10 4 (2.25%) Salt
11 3 (1.69%) Istio
11 3 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.12%) Argo
12 2 (1.12%) linkerd
12 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.12%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 16 (8.99%) Splunk
2 13 (7.30%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.74%) Google
3 12 (6.74%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.74%) ServiceNow
4 11 (6.18%) Dynatrace
5 10 (5.62%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.49%) Cisco
6 8 (4.49%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.93%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.93%) Citrix
8 6 (3.37%) AVEVA
8 6 (3.37%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.37%) CloudEndure
9 5 (2.81%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.81%) Tenable
10 4 (2.25%) Cloudera
10 4 (2.25%) F5
10 4 (2.25%) Qualys
11 3 (1.69%) Oracle