Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.71% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £540 - -
25th Percentile £554 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 - -
75th Percentile £602 - -
90th Percentile £613 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £579 - £448

All Cloud Computing Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 113 65 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 40.21% 36.52% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 62 31
10th Percentile £350 £349 £311
25th Percentile £417 £358 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £393 £445
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -11.69% -19.09%
75th Percentile £638 £492 £489
90th Percentile £692 £535 £630
Cheshire median daily rate £483 £406 £450
% change year-on-year +18.97% -9.78% -6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.87 £12.82 £17.72
% change year-on-year +31.55% -27.65% -21.14%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat