Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 66 98
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 +2
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.12% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.57% 0.57% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £351 - £580
25th Percentile £352 £540 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 £580 £595
Median % change year-on-year -38.97% -2.52% +16.10%
75th Percentile £356 £620 £608
90th Percentile £357 - £609
South East median daily rate £450 £580 £568
% change year-on-year -22.41% +2.16% -5.38%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 352 174 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.82% 23.93% 17.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 130 171
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £426 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £648 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £662 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 8
10th Percentile £12.29 £17.20 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £19.24 -
Median hourly rate £38.25 £55.00 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year -30.45% +210.91% -23.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £72.50 £24.88
90th Percentile - £74.25 £35.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +66.67% +22.77% -3.27%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Fleet - 2 £354 -
Virtual Private Cloud
South East

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Chip and PIN
2 1 (50.00%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 2 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) linkerd
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk