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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 316 326
Rank change year-on-year +27 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 104 42 68
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 0.75% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 23 51
10th Percentile £391 £426 £377
25th Percentile £456 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +5.65% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £738
90th Percentile £721 £758 £938
England median daily rate £525 £640 £569
% change year-on-year -17.97% +12.53% -9.00%

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 6,807 5,612 6,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.73% 41.56% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,669 3,779 5,073
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
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 97 52 79
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.75 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +7.38% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.16 £56.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.13 £62.75
England median hourly rate £38.54 £27.63 £21.50
% change year-on-year +39.49% +28.51% -14.00%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +2 22 £519 -25.12% 6
Central London -1 8 £475 -14.61% 2
West London -22 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 (17.31%) Confluence
2 10 (9.62%) nginx
3 2 (1.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (67.31%) Amazon S3
3 61 (58.65%) Amazon EC2
4 50 (48.08%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (48.08%) Serverless
5 47 (45.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 46 (44.23%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (34.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 34 (32.69%) Route 53
9 27 (25.96%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (23.08%) GitHub
11 18 (17.31%) Azure
11 18 (17.31%) GCP
11 18 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
13 15 (14.42%) AWS KMS
14 13 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (9.62%) AWS CloudTrail
15 10 (9.62%) AWS Control Tower
16 9 (8.65%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 28 (26.92%) Firewall
2 27 (25.96%) DNS
3 24 (23.08%) VPN
4 16 (15.38%) TCP/IP
5 12 (11.54%) Network Security
6 7 (6.73%) OpenVPN
7 6 (5.77%) SSL
7 6 (5.77%) WAN
7 6 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (4.81%) BGP
8 5 (4.81%) OSPF
8 5 (4.81%) Wireless
9 4 (3.85%) LAN
9 4 (3.85%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.88%) FTP
10 3 (2.88%) HTTP
10 3 (2.88%) IMAP
10 3 (2.88%) NGFW
10 3 (2.88%) SMTP
10 3 (2.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (41.35%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (12.50%) MySQL
4 12 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (6.73%) Power BI
7 6 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (5.77%) DynamoDB
7 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.77%) Tableau
8 5 (4.81%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (4.81%) DocumentDB
8 5 (4.81%) Redis
9 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.92%) Big Data
11 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.92%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (40.38%) Jenkins
2 34 (32.69%) GitLab
3 20 (19.23%) JIRA
4 18 (17.31%) Git
5 12 (11.54%) Bitbucket
6 6 (5.77%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.85%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.85%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.88%) Snyk
8 3 (2.88%) Vagrant
9 2 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.96%) JUnit
10 1 (0.96%) Maven
10 1 (0.96%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.96%) MLflow
General
1 35 (33.65%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Public Sector
3 20 (19.23%) Finance
4 10 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.85%) Banking
8 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Military
8 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (32.69%) Architect
2 24 (23.08%) AWS Architect
3 20 (19.23%) Cloud Architect
4 19 (18.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (14.42%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (13.46%) Senior
7 9 (8.65%) Lead
8 8 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Analyst
9 7 (6.73%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (6.73%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 7 (6.73%) Technical Manager
10 6 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (5.77%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Network Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Security Architect
11 5 (4.81%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.50%) Kafka
2 12 (11.54%) OpenID
3 10 (9.62%) LDAP
4 6 (5.77%) AWS CDK
4 6 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (5.77%) REST
5 5 (4.81%) OAuth
5 5 (4.81%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.81%) Spring
5 5 (4.81%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.85%) gRPC
6 4 (3.85%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.85%) JPA
6 4 (3.85%) JSON
6 4 (3.85%) Node.js
6 4 (3.85%) RESTful
6 4 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.88%) 802.1X
8 2 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.77%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.77%) Replication
4 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.92%) Life Science
5 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.92%) PKI
5 2 (1.92%) SCADA
6 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.35%) Linux
2 5 (4.81%) Windows
3 4 (3.85%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
3 4 (3.85%) VMS
4 1 (0.96%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (58.65%) CI/CD
2 56 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (50.96%) DevOps
4 25 (24.04%) Containerisation
5 23 (22.12%) Observability
5 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (21.15%) Incident Response
7 21 (20.19%) Migration
8 20 (19.23%) Agile
9 18 (17.31%) Cloud Security
10 16 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (15.38%) High Availability
11 15 (14.42%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (14.42%) Roadmaps
12 14 (13.46%) Cost Management
12 14 (13.46%) Cost Optimisation
13 13 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (11.54%) Decision-Making
14 12 (11.54%) DevSecOps
14 12 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (43.27%) Python
2 23 (22.12%) Bash
3 17 (16.35%) SQL
4 14 (13.46%) Java
5 8 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.77%) Go
7 3 (2.88%) Groovy
7 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.92%) Cypher
8 2 (1.92%) Perl
8 2 (1.92%) Ruby
9 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.96%) PHP
9 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 47 (45.19%) SC Cleared
3 28 (26.92%) AWS Certification
4 11 (10.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.85%) Degree
7 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.92%) CCNA
8 2 (1.92%) CISSP
8 2 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.96%) CCNP
9 1 (0.96%) CCSP
9 1 (0.96%) CEH
9 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.96%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.96%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) NIST
2 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.73%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.85%) GDPR
3 4 (3.85%) PMO
3 4 (3.85%) QA
4 3 (2.88%) NCSC
5 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.92%) SLA
6 1 (0.96%) GRC
System Software
1 46 (44.23%) Docker
2 11 (10.58%) Squid
3 3 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.88%) DFS Replication
3 3 (2.88%) Dovecot
3 3 (2.88%) Postfix
4 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.96%) HDFS
5 1 (0.96%) NLBS
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (72.12%) Terraform
2 38 (36.54%) Kubernetes
3 26 (25.00%) Ansible
4 21 (20.19%) Prometheus
5 16 (15.38%) Grafana
6 10 (9.62%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (8.65%) FortiGate
8 6 (5.77%) Consul
8 6 (5.77%) Kibana
9 5 (4.81%) Karpenter
10 4 (3.85%) Nessus
11 3 (2.88%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (2.88%) Proxmox
12 2 (1.92%) Argo
12 2 (1.92%) Puppet
13 1 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.96%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.96%) Opsview
13 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (10.58%) Palo Alto
2 9 (8.65%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.73%) Atlassian
4 7 (6.73%) CheckPoint
4 7 (6.73%) Fortinet
4 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.73%) Splunk
5 6 (5.77%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.81%) AVEVA
6 5 (4.81%) F5
6 5 (4.81%) Tenable
7 4 (3.85%) Cisco
7 4 (3.85%) Qualys
8 3 (2.88%) Citrix
8 3 (2.88%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.88%) Databricks
8 3 (2.88%) Google
8 3 (2.88%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (2.88%) SAP