Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 306 321
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 +29
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 97 52 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 0.90% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 28 59
10th Percentile £386 £515 £485
25th Percentile £464 £535 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £579
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.62% -14.29%
75th Percentile £648 £663 £790
90th Percentile £714 £753 £939
England median daily rate £550 £614 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +6.78% -11.54%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,463 5,746 6,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.31% 41.30% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,447 3,829 5,120
10th Percentile £350 £353 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 70
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.70
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.30 £29.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -8.32% +25.75%
75th Percentile £56.13 £47.72 £53.69
90th Percentile £77.71 £64.38 £62.63
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +1.86%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in London over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 25 January 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
South London -4 14 £519 -3.97% 2
Central London +1 11 £575 +6.98% 6
West London - 1 - - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 18 (18.56%) Confluence
2 13 (13.40%) nginx
3 4 (4.12%) SAS
4 2 (2.06%) Apache
4 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) AWS
2 68 (70.10%) Amazon S3
3 58 (59.79%) Amazon EC2
4 44 (45.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 40 (41.24%) Amazon EKS
6 38 (39.18%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (39.18%) Serverless
7 36 (37.11%) Route 53
8 32 (32.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (27.84%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (26.80%) GitHub
11 25 (25.77%) Azure
12 22 (22.68%) Amazon ELB
13 17 (17.53%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (16.49%) GCP
15 15 (15.46%) AWS KMS
16 11 (11.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 9 (9.28%) AWS Control Tower
18 8 (8.25%) Amazon MSK
18 8 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (36.08%) DNS
1 35 (36.08%) Firewall
2 27 (27.84%) VPN
3 18 (18.56%) TCP/IP
4 14 (14.43%) Network Security
5 11 (11.34%) SSL
6 8 (8.25%) FTP
6 8 (8.25%) HTTP
6 8 (8.25%) IMAP
6 8 (8.25%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (8.25%) SMTP
6 8 (8.25%) SSH
7 7 (7.22%) WAN
8 6 (6.19%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (5.15%) BGP
9 5 (5.15%) OpenVPN
9 5 (5.15%) OSPF
9 5 (5.15%) SD-WAN
9 5 (5.15%) Wireless
10 4 (4.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (40.21%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (19.59%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (17.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (13.40%) MySQL
5 7 (7.22%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.19%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.15%) DocumentDB
7 5 (5.15%) Redis
8 4 (4.12%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (2.06%) Big Data
10 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.03%) Impala
11 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (49.48%) Jenkins
2 33 (34.02%) GitLab
3 23 (23.71%) Git
4 20 (20.62%) JIRA
5 8 (8.25%) Bitbucket
5 8 (8.25%) Vagrant
6 5 (5.15%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.12%) CircleCI
7 4 (4.12%) Terragrunt
8 2 (2.06%) Snyk
8 2 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.03%) JUnit
9 1 (1.03%) Maven
9 1 (1.03%) Metasploit
9 1 (1.03%) MLflow
General
1 32 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.56%) Finance
2 18 (18.56%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.25%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Banking
6 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Military
8 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (30.93%) Architect
2 25 (25.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (23.71%) AWS Architect
4 19 (19.59%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (19.59%) Cloud Architect
4 19 (19.59%) Senior
5 15 (15.46%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (11.34%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (10.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) Lead
9 8 (8.25%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (8.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Network Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Security Architect
11 5 (5.15%) Technical Architect
12 4 (4.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.43%) Kafka
2 13 (13.40%) LDAP
3 10 (10.31%) OpenID
4 6 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (6.19%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (6.19%) REST
5 5 (5.15%) OAuth
5 5 (5.15%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.15%) Spring
5 5 (5.15%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.12%) gRPC
6 4 (4.12%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.12%) JPA
6 4 (4.12%) JSON
6 4 (4.12%) Node.js
6 4 (4.12%) RESTful
6 4 (4.12%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (3.09%) 802.1X
7 3 (3.09%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.34%) Replication
3 10 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (10.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.19%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.06%) Life Science
6 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.06%) PKI
6 2 (2.06%) SCADA
7 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.71%) Linux
2 14 (14.43%) Windows
3 9 (9.28%) Ubuntu
3 9 (9.28%) VMS
4 8 (8.25%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (5.15%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.03%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (63.92%) CI/CD
2 57 (58.76%) DevOps
2 57 (58.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (23.71%) Containerisation
3 23 (23.71%) Incident Response
3 23 (23.71%) Observability
4 21 (21.65%) Cloud Security
5 20 (20.62%) High Availability
6 19 (19.59%) Performance Tuning
7 18 (18.56%) Configuration Management
7 18 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (14.43%) Mentoring
8 14 (14.43%) Migration
8 14 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (13.40%) Cost Optimisation
10 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (12.37%) Roadmaps
10 12 (12.37%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (11.34%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (54.64%) Python
2 26 (26.80%) Bash
3 16 (16.49%) PowerShell
3 16 (16.49%) SQL
4 13 (13.40%) Java
5 8 (8.25%) Groovy
6 5 (5.15%) Go
7 2 (2.06%) Perl
7 2 (2.06%) Ruby
8 1 (1.03%) Cypher
8 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.03%) PHP
8 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (42.27%) Security Cleared
2 40 (41.24%) SC Cleared
3 33 (34.02%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (9.28%) Degree
6 8 (8.25%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.06%) CCNA
9 2 (2.06%) CISSP
9 2 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.03%) CCSP
10 1 (1.03%) CEH
10 1 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.03%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.03%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) NIST
2 7 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.22%) PCI DSS
3 5 (5.15%) GDPR
4 4 (4.12%) QA
5 3 (3.09%) NCSC
6 2 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
System Software
1 54 (55.67%) Docker
2 14 (14.43%) Squid
3 8 (8.25%) DFS Replication
3 8 (8.25%) Dovecot
3 8 (8.25%) Postfix
4 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.03%) HDFS
6 1 (1.03%) NLBS
6 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (84.54%) Terraform
2 35 (36.08%) Kubernetes
3 31 (31.96%) Ansible
4 24 (24.74%) Prometheus
5 19 (19.59%) Grafana
6 9 (9.28%) Nessus
7 8 (8.25%) Proxmox
7 8 (8.25%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (7.22%) FortiGate
9 6 (6.19%) Kibana
9 6 (6.19%) Puppet
10 5 (5.15%) Consul
10 5 (5.15%) Karpenter
11 4 (4.12%) NetBackup
12 3 (3.09%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (2.06%) Argo
13 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
14 1 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (1.03%) Opsview
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) Palo Alto
2 12 (12.37%) CheckPoint
3 10 (10.31%) F5
4 9 (9.28%) ServiceNow
5 8 (8.25%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (7.22%) Dynatrace
6 7 (7.22%) Fortinet
6 7 (7.22%) Splunk
7 6 (6.19%) Atlassian
7 6 (6.19%) Microsoft
8 5 (5.15%) AVEVA
8 5 (5.15%) Cisco
8 5 (5.15%) Red Hat
9 4 (4.12%) Commvault
9 4 (4.12%) SnapLogic
9 4 (4.12%) Tenable
10 3 (3.09%) Citrix
10 3 (3.09%) Google
10 3 (3.09%) Qualys
10 3 (3.09%) Zscaler