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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 302 344
Rank change year-on-year -22 +42 -46
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 121 59 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.44% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.01% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 39 26
10th Percentile £408 £495 £481
25th Percentile £456 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.52% -10.33%
75th Percentile £586 £702 £645
90th Percentile £650 £738 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £561
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.46% -6.46%
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 8,334 5,843 6,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.93% 43.35% 40.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 3,979 4,600
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 96 44
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.75 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.12 £24.06
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.04 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -5.72% -18.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.33
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.58 £34.47
% change year-on-year +32.90% -25.79% +4.44%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -6 16 £550 -11.29% 2
Central London -34 2 £492 -27.11% 7
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 19 (15.70%) Confluence
2 7 (5.79%) nginx
3 6 (4.96%) Apache
3 6 (4.96%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.13%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.83%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (52.07%) Amazon EC2
3 61 (50.41%) Amazon S3
4 59 (48.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 42 (34.71%) Amazon EKS
5 42 (34.71%) Serverless
6 39 (32.23%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (30.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (21.49%) AWS KMS
9 25 (20.66%) Azure
10 21 (17.36%) AWS CloudTrail
10 21 (17.36%) GitHub
11 20 (16.53%) GCP
12 16 (13.22%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (11.57%) Route 53
14 12 (9.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 12 (9.92%) Datadog
15 9 (7.44%) Entra ID
15 9 (7.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (19.83%) Firewall
2 12 (9.92%) Network Security
2 12 (9.92%) TCP/IP
3 9 (7.44%) DNS
4 7 (5.79%) WAN
5 6 (4.96%) SSH
5 6 (4.96%) VPN
6 5 (4.13%) SSL
7 4 (3.31%) OpenVPN
7 4 (3.31%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (2.48%) LAN
8 3 (2.48%) Wireless
9 2 (1.65%) FTP
9 2 (1.65%) HTTP
9 2 (1.65%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.65%) IMAP
9 2 (1.65%) Internet
9 2 (1.65%) Kerberos
9 2 (1.65%) SAN
9 2 (1.65%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (29.75%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (16.53%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (15.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (8.26%) MongoDB
5 9 (7.44%) MySQL
5 9 (7.44%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.61%) Redis
7 4 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.31%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.48%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.48%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.65%) Flink
9 2 (1.65%) Metadata
10 1 (0.83%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.83%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (28.10%) GitLab
2 32 (26.45%) Git
3 25 (20.66%) Jenkins
4 16 (13.22%) JIRA
5 8 (6.61%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.65%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.83%) Maven
7 1 (0.83%) Spinnaker
General
1 52 (42.98%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.45%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.61%) Finance
4 6 (4.96%) Law
4 6 (4.96%) Military
5 5 (4.13%) Banking
5 5 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.48%) Police
7 2 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Games
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Publishing
8 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (25.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (23.97%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (21.49%) Architect
4 18 (14.88%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (12.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (11.57%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (10.74%) AWS Architect
7 13 (10.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (10.74%) DBA
7 13 (10.74%) Senior
8 10 (8.26%) Administrator
9 8 (6.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Lead
11 6 (4.96%) Network Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.96%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.31%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.31%) Network Architect
12 4 (3.31%) Security Engineer
12 4 (3.31%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (79.34%) Terraform
2 6 (4.96%) boto
2 6 (4.96%) SAML
3 4 (3.31%) AWS CDK
3 4 (3.31%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (3.31%) OpenTofu
4 3 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.48%) Kafka
4 3 (2.48%) OAuth
4 3 (2.48%) OpenID
4 3 (2.48%) PySpark
4 3 (2.48%) REST
4 3 (2.48%) YAML
5 2 (1.65%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.65%) Flask
5 2 (1.65%) JDBC
5 2 (1.65%) JMX
5 2 (1.65%) LDAP
5 2 (1.65%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.53%) Replication
2 19 (15.70%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.44%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (6.61%) Security Posture
5 7 (5.79%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.79%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.31%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.48%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.48%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.65%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.65%) PKI
8 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.31%) Linux
2 12 (9.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (8.26%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (6.61%) Windows
5 4 (3.31%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (68.60%) Infrastructure as Code
2 82 (67.77%) CI/CD
3 71 (58.68%) DevOps
4 31 (25.62%) Platform Engineering
5 29 (23.97%) Cloud Security
5 29 (23.97%) Observability
5 29 (23.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (22.31%) Agile
7 25 (20.66%) Containerisation
8 24 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (19.01%) High Availability
9 23 (19.01%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (19.01%) Secrets Management
10 22 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (16.53%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (14.88%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (14.05%) Migration
14 14 (11.57%) SIEM
15 12 (9.92%) AI
15 12 (9.92%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 54 (44.63%) Python
2 31 (25.62%) Bash
3 18 (14.88%) PowerShell
3 18 (14.88%) SQL
4 17 (14.05%) Java
5 10 (8.26%) Groovy
6 7 (5.79%) Perl
7 3 (2.48%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.65%) Bicep
8 2 (1.65%) Go
8 2 (1.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.83%) C
9 1 (0.83%) Cypher
9 1 (0.83%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.83%) R
9 1 (0.83%) SHACL
9 1 (0.83%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 60 (49.59%) Security Cleared
2 58 (47.93%) SC Cleared
3 36 (29.75%) AWS Certification
4 21 (17.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.09%) Azure Certification
6 10 (8.26%) Degree
7 5 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.48%) CISSP
8 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.65%) CISM
10 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.83%) PMP
10 1 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (7.44%) GDPR
3 6 (4.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.48%) NCSC
4 3 (2.48%) NIST
4 3 (2.48%) QA
5 2 (1.65%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.65%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.65%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (31.40%) Docker
2 10 (8.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.61%) Squid
4 2 (1.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.65%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.65%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.65%) Postfix
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (33.06%) Kubernetes
2 36 (29.75%) Grafana
3 32 (26.45%) Prometheus
4 28 (23.14%) Ansible
5 9 (7.44%) Puppet
6 4 (3.31%) Argo
6 4 (3.31%) Packer
6 4 (3.31%) Salt
6 4 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.31%) Suricata
7 3 (2.48%) SELinux
7 3 (2.48%) systemd
8 2 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.65%) Istio
8 2 (1.65%) Nessus
8 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.65%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.83%) Cilium
9 1 (0.83%) CloudForms
9 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (14.05%) ServiceNow
2 10 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.44%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.13%) Cisco
4 5 (4.13%) Splunk
5 4 (3.31%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.48%) Aruba
6 3 (2.48%) Databricks
6 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.48%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.48%) Google
6 3 (2.48%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.48%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.65%) Confluent
7 2 (1.65%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.65%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.65%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.83%) Avid
8 1 (0.83%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.83%) Teradici