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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 305 319
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 +36
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 84 51 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.36% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 0.89% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 26 65
10th Percentile £399 £513 £505
25th Percentile £467 £529 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £579
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.48% -14.29%
75th Percentile £651 £711 £738
90th Percentile £725 £755 £933
England median daily rate £575 £611 £578
% change year-on-year -5.85% +5.67% -11.08%

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 6,248 5,761 6,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 41.02% 37.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,270 3,871 5,068
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 44 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.56 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £23.80 £20.69
Median hourly rate £26.40 £30.80 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -12.80% +36.64%
75th Percentile £55.44 £46.90 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.63 £71.25
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -

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 11 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 11 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
Central London 0 11 £575 +9.21% 6
South London -10 11 £513 -5.09%
West London - 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 14 (16.67%) Confluence
2 9 (10.71%) nginx
3 4 (4.76%) SAS
4 2 (2.38%) Apache
4 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.19%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (67.86%) Amazon S3
3 49 (58.33%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (46.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 29 (34.52%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (33.33%) Serverless
7 26 (30.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (30.95%) Azure
7 26 (30.95%) GitHub
7 26 (30.95%) Route 53
8 24 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (27.38%) Amazon ELB
10 17 (20.24%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (19.05%) AWS KMS
12 15 (17.86%) GCP
13 9 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (9.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (9.52%) Datadog
15 7 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 29 (34.52%) DNS
1 29 (34.52%) Firewall
2 20 (23.81%) VPN
3 13 (15.48%) TCP/IP
4 12 (14.29%) Network Security
5 11 (13.10%) SSL
6 9 (10.71%) FTP
6 9 (10.71%) HTTP
6 9 (10.71%) IMAP
6 9 (10.71%) OpenLDAP
6 9 (10.71%) SMTP
6 9 (10.71%) SSH
7 6 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (5.95%) WAN
8 5 (5.95%) Wireless
9 4 (4.76%) LAN
10 3 (3.57%) BGP
10 3 (3.57%) NGFW
10 3 (3.57%) OSPF
10 3 (3.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (14.29%) MySQL
5 7 (8.33%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (5.95%) DocumentDB
6 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.95%) Redis
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.38%) Big Data
9 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.19%) Impala
10 1 (1.19%) Neo4j
10 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (53.57%) Jenkins
2 32 (38.10%) GitLab
3 24 (28.57%) Git
4 16 (19.05%) JIRA
5 9 (10.71%) Vagrant
6 4 (4.76%) Terragrunt
7 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.57%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.19%) JUnit
9 1 (1.19%) Maven
9 1 (1.19%) Metasploit
9 1 (1.19%) MLflow
9 1 (1.19%) Snyk
General
1 24 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 17 (20.24%) Finance
4 9 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Banking
6 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Military
8 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (27.38%) Architect
3 18 (21.43%) AWS Architect
3 18 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (21.43%) Senior
4 16 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (17.86%) Cloud Architect
6 12 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (13.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (11.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 10 (11.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (10.71%) Lead
10 8 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Network Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Security Architect
13 4 (4.76%) Java Architect
13 4 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) Kafka
2 9 (10.71%) LDAP
3 6 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (7.14%) REST
4 5 (5.95%) OAuth
4 5 (5.95%) OAuth2
4 5 (5.95%) OpenID
4 5 (5.95%) Spring
4 5 (5.95%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.76%) gRPC
5 4 (4.76%) Hibernate
5 4 (4.76%) JPA
5 4 (4.76%) JSON
5 4 (4.76%) Node.js
5 4 (4.76%) RESTful
5 4 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (3.57%) 802.1X
7 2 (2.38%) YAML
8 1 (1.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 12 (14.29%) Replication
3 10 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.38%) Life Science
6 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.38%) PKI
7 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (27.38%) Linux
2 15 (17.86%) Windows
3 10 (11.90%) Ubuntu
4 9 (10.71%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (10.71%) VMS
5 5 (5.95%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.19%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 50 (59.52%) DevOps
2 50 (59.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (26.19%) Incident Response
3 22 (26.19%) Observability
4 20 (23.81%) Cloud Security
4 20 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
5 19 (22.62%) Configuration Management
5 19 (22.62%) Containerisation
6 18 (21.43%) High Availability
7 15 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (15.48%) Cost Optimisation
8 13 (15.48%) Migration
9 11 (13.10%) Mentoring
9 11 (13.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (11.90%) Change Management
10 10 (11.90%) DevSecOps
10 10 (11.90%) FinOps
10 10 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (11.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 50 (59.52%) Python
2 24 (28.57%) Bash
3 17 (20.24%) PowerShell
3 17 (20.24%) SQL
4 12 (14.29%) Java
5 9 (10.71%) Groovy
6 4 (4.76%) Go
7 2 (2.38%) Perl
7 2 (2.38%) Ruby
8 1 (1.19%) Cypher
8 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.19%) PHP
8 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 35 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 28 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 10 (11.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (11.90%) Degree
5 9 (10.71%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.38%) CCNA
7 2 (2.38%) CISSP
7 2 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.19%) CCNP
8 1 (1.19%) CCSP
8 1 (1.19%) CEH
8 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.19%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.19%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (8.33%) NIST
1 7 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.95%) GDPR
3 4 (4.76%) QA
4 3 (3.57%) NCSC
5 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 51 (60.71%) Docker
2 10 (11.90%) Squid
3 9 (10.71%) DFS Replication
3 9 (10.71%) Dovecot
3 9 (10.71%) Postfix
4 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.19%) HDFS
6 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (84.52%) Terraform
2 30 (35.71%) Ansible
3 29 (34.52%) Kubernetes
4 16 (19.05%) Prometheus
5 15 (17.86%) Grafana
6 10 (11.90%) Nessus
7 9 (10.71%) Proxmox
8 6 (7.14%) Kibana
8 6 (7.14%) Puppet
9 5 (5.95%) Karpenter
10 4 (4.76%) NetBackup
11 3 (3.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (2.38%) Argo
12 2 (2.38%) FortiGate
12 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
13 1 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (19.05%) Palo Alto
2 12 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 10 (11.90%) F5
3 10 (11.90%) ServiceNow
4 9 (10.71%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (8.33%) Fortinet
6 6 (7.14%) Splunk
7 5 (5.95%) Cisco
7 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
8 4 (4.76%) Commvault
8 4 (4.76%) SnapLogic
9 3 (3.57%) Citrix
9 3 (3.57%) Cloudera
9 3 (3.57%) Google
9 3 (3.57%) Tenable
9 3 (3.57%) Zscaler
10 2 (2.38%) CloudEndure
10 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
10 2 (2.38%) Oracle
10 2 (2.38%) Qualys