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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 313 337
Rank change year-on-year -15 +24 -27
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 116 56 55
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.42% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 0.97% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 37 32
10th Percentile £424 £490 £476
25th Percentile £475 £513 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +11.52% -10.33%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £614
90th Percentile £660 £725 £844
England median daily rate £516 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.67% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
England median hourly rate - £38.75 -

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 8,337 5,789 6,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 43.10% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,706 3,960 4,768
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 48
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £21.55
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +4.63% -49.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £39.69 £39.25
90th Percentile £77.29 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.86%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +5 18 £519 -16.33% 3
Central London -17 4 £575 -14.81% 1
East London - 2 £600 -
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 (15.52%) Confluence
2 9 (7.76%) SharePoint
3 7 (6.03%) nginx
4 4 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.59%) Apache
6 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 116 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (55.17%) Amazon EC2
3 60 (51.72%) Amazon S3
4 51 (43.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 49 (42.24%) Serverless
6 47 (40.52%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (34.48%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (23.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (21.55%) Azure
10 22 (18.97%) AWS KMS
11 19 (16.38%) AWS CloudTrail
12 17 (14.66%) GCP
12 17 (14.66%) GitHub
13 14 (12.07%) Datadog
14 13 (11.21%) Route 53
15 12 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (10.34%) Snowflake
16 11 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (8.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 10 (8.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (22.41%) Firewall
2 17 (14.66%) TCP/IP
3 15 (12.93%) Network Security
4 14 (12.07%) VPN
5 9 (7.76%) DNS
6 7 (6.03%) OpenVPN
6 7 (6.03%) WAN
7 5 (4.31%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (4.31%) SSL
8 4 (3.45%) SSH
9 3 (2.59%) BGP
9 3 (2.59%) LAN
9 3 (2.59%) Wireless
10 2 (1.72%) OSPF
11 1 (0.86%) DHCP
11 1 (0.86%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.86%) Internet
11 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.86%) SAN
11 1 (0.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (32.76%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (13.79%) Amazon Aurora
2 16 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.76%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.90%) MySQL
4 8 (6.90%) Redis
4 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (5.17%) Power BI
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (2.59%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.59%) Tableau
8 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.86%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.86%) Metadata
9 1 (0.86%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.86%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 33 (28.45%) GitLab
2 29 (25.00%) Git
3 26 (22.41%) Jenkins
4 13 (11.21%) JIRA
5 10 (8.62%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.86%) Maven
General
1 43 (37.07%) Social Skills
2 36 (31.03%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.48%) Finance
4 6 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.31%) Banking
5 5 (4.31%) Law
6 4 (3.45%) Military
7 3 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.59%) Police
8 2 (1.72%) Games
9 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Legal
9 1 (0.86%) Publishing
9 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (24.14%) Architect
1 28 (24.14%) AWS Engineer
2 23 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (11.21%) AWS Architect
4 13 (11.21%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (11.21%) Senior
5 12 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (10.34%) DBA
6 10 (8.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Administrator
8 8 (6.90%) Network Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Lead
9 7 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (6.03%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.17%) Site Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Security Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (72.41%) Terraform
2 6 (5.17%) SAML
3 5 (4.31%) boto
4 4 (3.45%) OpenID
4 4 (3.45%) OpenTofu
5 3 (2.59%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.59%) LDAP
5 3 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.72%) Kafka
6 2 (1.72%) OAuth
6 2 (1.72%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.72%) REST
7 1 (0.86%) Apollo GraphQL
7 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.86%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.86%) React
7 1 (0.86%) SWRL
7 1 (0.86%) Vue
7 1 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.79%) Replication
2 14 (12.07%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (6.03%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.59%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.59%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.97%) Linux
2 11 (9.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.03%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (4.31%) Windows
5 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (62.93%) CI/CD
2 66 (56.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (52.59%) DevOps
4 24 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (19.83%) Migration
5 23 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (18.97%) Containerisation
7 21 (18.10%) Cloud Security
7 21 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (17.24%) Agile
8 20 (17.24%) Observability
8 20 (17.24%) Secrets Management
9 19 (16.38%) High Availability
10 17 (14.66%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (14.66%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (14.66%) Root Cause Analysis
11 16 (13.79%) Data Modelling
12 15 (12.93%) Roadmaps
12 15 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (43.97%) Python
2 30 (25.86%) Bash
3 18 (15.52%) Java
4 17 (14.66%) SQL
5 16 (13.79%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.03%) Groovy
7 6 (5.17%) Perl
8 3 (2.59%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.86%) Bicep
10 1 (0.86%) C
10 1 (0.86%) Cypher
10 1 (0.86%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.86%) R
10 1 (0.86%) SHACL
10 1 (0.86%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 60 (51.72%) SC Cleared
3 30 (25.86%) AWS Certification
4 17 (14.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (8.62%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.03%) Degree
7 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.86%) CCNP
9 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.86%) CISSP
9 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.86%) PMP
9 1 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.31%) GDPR
2 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.45%) SLA
4 3 (2.59%) PMO
5 2 (1.72%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.86%) NCSC
6 1 (0.86%) QA
6 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (30.17%) Docker
2 11 (9.48%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.90%) Squid
4 1 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 39 (33.62%) Kubernetes
2 33 (28.45%) Grafana
3 30 (25.86%) Prometheus
4 27 (23.28%) Ansible
5 8 (6.90%) Puppet
6 7 (6.03%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.31%) Salt
8 4 (3.45%) Packer
8 4 (3.45%) Suricata
9 3 (2.59%) Argo
9 3 (2.59%) SELinux
10 2 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.72%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.72%) Istio
10 2 (1.72%) systemd
11 1 (0.86%) Cilium
11 1 (0.86%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.86%) Consul
11 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.86%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 14 (12.07%) ServiceNow
2 11 (9.48%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.62%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.31%) Cisco
4 5 (4.31%) Splunk
5 4 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.45%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.45%) Zscaler
6 3 (2.59%) Aruba
6 3 (2.59%) Databricks
6 3 (2.59%) Google
6 3 (2.59%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.59%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.72%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.86%) Citrix
8 1 (0.86%) IBM
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle
8 1 (0.86%) Trend Micro