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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 325 312
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 +63
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 75 49 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.31% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 0.76% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 26 89
10th Percentile £395 £513 £460
25th Percentile £469 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £561 £579
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -2.99% -14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £627 £675
90th Percentile £725 £744 £855
England median daily rate £550 £608 £579
% change year-on-year -9.47% +5.00% -10.99%

All Cloud 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 6,310 6,434 7,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.93% 40.92% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,286 4,388 5,431
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £424 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.06%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 38 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +23.77%
75th Percentile £46.38 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.63
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.81% +28.00% +11.11%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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
Central London +9 12 £588 +11.75%
South London -5 12 £620 +15.03% 2
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 14 (18.67%) Confluence
2 10 (13.33%) nginx
3 4 (5.33%) SAS
4 3 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.67%) Apache
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (70.67%) Amazon S3
3 50 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
4 35 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 23 (30.67%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (30.67%) Serverless
6 21 (28.00%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (28.00%) Amazon ELB
6 21 (28.00%) Route 53
7 20 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (26.67%) Azure
8 19 (25.33%) GitHub
9 18 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (20.00%) AWS KMS
11 10 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (10.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 8 (10.67%) Datadog
12 8 (10.67%) GCP
13 7 (9.33%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 26 (34.67%) Firewall
2 24 (32.00%) DNS
3 18 (24.00%) VPN
4 11 (14.67%) Network Security
5 10 (13.33%) FTP
5 10 (13.33%) HTTP
5 10 (13.33%) IMAP
5 10 (13.33%) OpenLDAP
5 10 (13.33%) SMTP
5 10 (13.33%) SSH
5 10 (13.33%) SSL
5 10 (13.33%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.00%) WAN
7 2 (2.67%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.67%) LAN
7 2 (2.67%) Wireless
8 1 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.33%) tcpdump
8 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (42.67%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (22.67%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (10.67%) MySQL
5 5 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.33%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.67%) Big Data
7 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.33%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.33%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.33%) Redis
8 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (52.00%) Jenkins
2 25 (33.33%) Git
3 23 (30.67%) GitLab
4 16 (21.33%) JIRA
5 10 (13.33%) Vagrant
6 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.00%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.33%) Maven
8 1 (1.33%) Metasploit
8 1 (1.33%) MLflow
General
1 25 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.00%) Finance
3 15 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Banking
6 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Military
8 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.33%) Police
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (28.00%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (22.67%) Architect
3 17 (22.67%) Senior
4 16 (21.33%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (20.00%) AWS Architect
6 14 (18.67%) AWS DevOps
7 12 (16.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 11 (14.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 11 (14.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (10.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 8 (10.67%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (10.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (9.33%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (8.00%) AWS Security Architect
11 6 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (8.00%) Security Architect
12 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (6.67%) Lead
13 4 (5.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) LDAP
2 8 (10.67%) Kafka
3 4 (5.33%) JSON
3 4 (5.33%) Node.js
4 3 (4.00%) REST
5 2 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.67%) YAML
6 1 (1.33%) .NET
6 1 (1.33%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.33%) Jinja
6 1 (1.33%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.33%) Memcached
6 1 (1.33%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.33%) PySpark
6 1 (1.33%) React
6 1 (1.33%) SOAP
6 1 (1.33%) Spring
6 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.33%) Replication
3 8 (10.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (8.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.67%) Life Science
6 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.00%) Linux
2 16 (21.33%) Windows
3 11 (14.67%) Ubuntu
4 10 (13.33%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (13.33%) VMS
5 5 (6.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.33%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 50 (66.67%) DevOps
3 41 (54.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (28.00%) High Availability
5 20 (26.67%) Configuration Management
6 19 (25.33%) Cloud Security
7 18 (24.00%) Containerisation
8 17 (22.67%) Incident Response
9 15 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (17.33%) Infrastructure Automation
11 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
11 12 (16.00%) Observability
11 12 (16.00%) Patch Management
11 12 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (14.67%) Change Management
12 11 (14.67%) Migration
13 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (12.00%) DevSecOps
13 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (10.67%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 49 (65.33%) Python
2 21 (28.00%) Bash
3 16 (21.33%) PowerShell
4 14 (18.67%) SQL
5 10 (13.33%) Groovy
6 7 (9.33%) Java
7 3 (4.00%) Go
8 2 (2.67%) Perl
8 2 (2.67%) Ruby
9 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.33%) PHP
9 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (42.67%) SC Cleared
3 27 (36.00%) AWS Certification
4 11 (14.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (14.67%) Degree
5 10 (13.33%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.67%) CCNA
7 2 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.33%) CCNP
8 1 (1.33%) CCSP
8 1 (1.33%) CISSP
8 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) GDPR
1 5 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.67%) NCSC
2 2 (2.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 43 (57.33%) Docker
2 10 (13.33%) DFS Replication
2 10 (13.33%) Dovecot
2 10 (13.33%) Postfix
2 10 (13.33%) Squid
3 2 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.33%) HDFS
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (81.33%) Terraform
2 23 (30.67%) Ansible
3 20 (26.67%) Kubernetes
4 15 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 13 (17.33%) Grafana
6 11 (14.67%) Nessus
7 10 (13.33%) Proxmox
8 6 (8.00%) Puppet
9 4 (5.33%) NetBackup
10 3 (4.00%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (2.67%) FortiGate
11 2 (2.67%) Kibana
11 2 (2.67%) Progress Chef
11 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (1.33%) Argo
12 1 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (1.33%) Karpenter
12 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Palo Alto
2 11 (14.67%) ServiceNow
3 10 (13.33%) CheckPoint
3 10 (13.33%) F5
3 10 (13.33%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (5.33%) Commvault
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.33%) SnapLogic
4 4 (5.33%) Splunk
5 3 (4.00%) Cisco
5 3 (4.00%) Cloudera
6 2 (2.67%) Citrix
6 2 (2.67%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.67%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.67%) Google
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle
6 2 (2.67%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.33%) Databricks
7 1 (1.33%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.33%) Okta