Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 326 342
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +136
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 39 65 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.36% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.73% 0.96% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 124
10th Percentile £409 £382 £430
25th Percentile £538 £469 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.05% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £658 £675
90th Percentile £755 £808 £700
England median daily rate £614 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +11.68% -12.00% +13.64%

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 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in London

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 1 May 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 +3 6 £625 -19.35% 2
South London +1 5 £820 +117.51% 2
West London +12 2 - -
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.82%) nginx
1 5 (12.82%) Traefik
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (64.10%) Amazon EC2
3 22 (56.41%) Amazon S3
4 21 (53.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (51.28%) Serverless
6 19 (48.72%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (23.08%) Route 53
9 8 (20.51%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (15.38%) Entra ID
11 5 (12.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (10.26%) AWS KMS
12 4 (10.26%) IaaS
12 4 (10.26%) PaaS
13 3 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
13 3 (7.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
14 2 (5.13%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.21%) DNS
1 11 (28.21%) Firewall
1 11 (28.21%) VPN
2 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.69%) SSL
4 2 (5.13%) Network Security
5 1 (2.56%) HTTP
5 1 (2.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.56%) NAS
5 1 (2.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.56%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) DocumentDB
4 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (41.03%) GitLab
2 12 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 10 (25.64%) Git
4 2 (5.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (5.13%) JIRA
5 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Military
3 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (38.46%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (30.77%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (25.64%) Senior
5 9 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (17.95%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) Architect
7 5 (12.82%) Security Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) AWS Architect
9 3 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
10 2 (5.13%) AWS Specialist
10 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) DevOps Specialist
10 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 2 (5.13%) Risk Manager
11 1 (2.56%) Cloud Administrator
11 1 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 1 (2.56%) Data Engineer
11 1 (2.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) Kafka
2 5 (12.82%) cloud-init
2 5 (12.82%) Keycloak
3 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.13%) AWS CDK
4 2 (5.13%) Node.js
5 1 (2.56%) Akka
5 1 (2.56%) JSON
5 1 (2.56%) Play Framework
5 1 (2.56%) REST
5 1 (2.56%) SOAP
5 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.82%) PKI
2 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Unix
3 6 (15.38%) CentOS
3 6 (15.38%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 29 (74.36%) DevOps
3 23 (58.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (41.03%) Cloud Security
5 13 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 12 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (30.77%) Task Automation
7 10 (25.64%) Microservices
8 7 (17.95%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (17.95%) Observability
9 6 (15.38%) High Availability
10 5 (12.82%) Agile
10 5 (12.82%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 5 (12.82%) Identity Management
10 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (12.82%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (12.82%) Secrets Management
10 5 (12.82%) Static Application Security Testing
11 4 (10.26%) Configuration Management
11 4 (10.26%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (71.79%) Python
2 20 (51.28%) Bash
3 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.82%) Go
5 3 (7.69%) Java
5 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.56%) Ruby
6 1 (2.56%) Scala
6 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (51.28%) AWS Certification
2 19 (48.72%) SC Cleared
2 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (15.38%) Degree
5 5 (12.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.56%) VCAP
7 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) GDPR
1 6 (15.38%) NCSC
2 5 (12.82%) NIST
3 4 (10.26%) SOC 2
4 3 (7.69%) HIPAA
4 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (71.79%) Terraform
2 19 (48.72%) Kubernetes
3 15 (38.46%) Prometheus
4 12 (30.77%) Grafana
5 10 (25.64%) Ansible
6 8 (20.51%) Puppet
7 6 (15.38%) Packer
7 6 (15.38%) Progress Chef
7 6 (15.38%) Rancher
8 5 (12.82%) Consul
8 5 (12.82%) HAProxy
8 5 (12.82%) Istio
8 5 (12.82%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (12.82%) linkerd
8 5 (12.82%) ZABBIX
9 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (2.56%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (2.56%) Argo
9 1 (2.56%) Cilium
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Splunk
2 5 (12.82%) Apple
2 5 (12.82%) ESET
2 5 (12.82%) Okta
3 4 (10.26%) Tenable
4 3 (7.69%) Qualys
5 1 (2.56%) Black Duck
5 1 (2.56%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.56%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.56%) Confluent
5 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.56%) MKS
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) VMware