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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 308 322
Rank change year-on-year +26 +14 +18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 111 44 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 0.81% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 24 51
10th Percentile £400 £436 £377
25th Percentile £463 £534 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £565
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +7.52% -13.08%
75th Percentile £623 £728 £738
90th Percentile £685 £746 £938
England median daily rate £525 £611 £564
% change year-on-year -14.04% +8.34% -9.80%

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 7,077 5,444 6,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.83% 42.06% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,860 3,752 4,986
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
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 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 43 78
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%
75th Percentile £51.81 £55.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.88
England median hourly rate £39.75 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% +26.19% -16.00%

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 11 March 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 March 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 21 £513 -37.50% 3
Central London -10 10 £575 -0.43% 1
West London -18 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 (16.22%) Confluence
2 8 (7.21%) nginx
3 4 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.80%) Apache
4 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.90%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.90%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (64.86%) Amazon S3
3 63 (56.76%) Amazon EC2
4 57 (51.35%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (51.35%) Serverless
5 51 (45.95%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (39.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (28.83%) Route 53
9 25 (22.52%) GitHub
10 24 (21.62%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (19.82%) GCP
12 19 (17.12%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (16.22%) Azure
14 12 (10.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 12 (10.81%) AWS KMS
15 11 (9.91%) AWS Control Tower
15 11 (9.91%) Datadog
16 10 (9.01%) Amazon MSK
17 9 (8.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.42%) VPN
2 25 (22.52%) Firewall
3 21 (18.92%) DNS
4 15 (13.51%) TCP/IP
5 11 (9.91%) Network Security
6 9 (8.11%) OpenVPN
7 7 (6.31%) BGP
7 7 (6.31%) OSPF
8 6 (5.41%) WAN
8 6 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (4.50%) Wireless
10 4 (3.60%) LAN
10 4 (3.60%) SD-WAN
11 3 (2.70%) NGFW
12 2 (1.80%) Kerberos
12 2 (1.80%) SSL
13 1 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.90%) SNMP
13 1 (0.90%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (37.84%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (11.71%) MySQL
3 11 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (8.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (8.11%) Power BI
5 8 (7.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (5.41%) DynamoDB
6 6 (5.41%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.41%) Tableau
7 5 (4.50%) DocumentDB
7 5 (4.50%) Redis
8 4 (3.60%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.80%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.80%) Big Data
10 2 (1.80%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.80%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 41 (36.94%) Jenkins
2 37 (33.33%) GitLab
3 18 (16.22%) JIRA
4 14 (12.61%) Git
5 13 (11.71%) Bitbucket
6 8 (7.21%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.60%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.60%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.70%) Snyk
9 2 (1.80%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.90%) JUnit
10 1 (0.90%) Maven
10 1 (0.90%) MLflow
General
1 34 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.42%) Public Sector
3 20 (18.02%) Finance
4 13 (11.71%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Banking
8 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (34.23%) Architect
2 24 (21.62%) AWS Architect
3 20 (18.02%) Cloud Architect
4 17 (15.32%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) Senior
7 10 (9.01%) Lead
8 7 (6.31%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (6.31%) Network Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Technical Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 7 (6.31%) Technical Manager
9 6 (5.41%) Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Security Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Security Architect
10 5 (4.50%) Site Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.61%) Kafka
2 13 (11.71%) OpenID
3 8 (7.21%) LDAP
4 7 (6.31%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (5.41%) AWS CDK
5 6 (5.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (5.41%) REST
6 5 (4.50%) OAuth
6 5 (4.50%) OAuth2
6 5 (4.50%) Spring
6 5 (4.50%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.60%) gRPC
7 4 (3.60%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.60%) JPA
7 4 (3.60%) JSON
7 4 (3.60%) Node.js
7 4 (3.60%) RESTful
7 4 (3.60%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (2.70%) 802.1X
9 2 (1.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.41%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.21%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.70%) Replication
7 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.80%) Life Science
7 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) PKI
7 2 (1.80%) SCADA
8 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.51%) Linux
2 2 (1.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.90%) VMS
3 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (56.76%) CI/CD
2 57 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (46.85%) DevOps
4 29 (26.13%) Containerisation
5 27 (24.32%) Migration
6 26 (23.42%) Observability
7 25 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (18.02%) Agile
8 20 (18.02%) Incident Response
9 19 (17.12%) Roadmaps
10 17 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (15.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 15 (13.51%) Cloud Security
12 14 (12.61%) Cost Management
12 14 (12.61%) Cost Optimisation
12 14 (12.61%) Decision-Making
13 13 (11.71%) Microservices
13 13 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (10.81%) High Availability
14 12 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 46 (41.44%) Python
2 22 (19.82%) Bash
3 16 (14.41%) Java
4 14 (12.61%) SQL
5 6 (5.41%) Go
6 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.60%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.80%) Cypher
8 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.80%) Perl
8 2 (1.80%) Ruby
9 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.90%) PHP
9 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 49 (44.14%) SC Cleared
3 26 (23.42%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.80%) CCNA
7 2 (1.80%) CCNP
7 2 (1.80%) CISSP
7 2 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.90%) CCSP
8 1 (0.90%) CEH
8 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.90%) Degree
8 1 (0.90%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.90%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) NIST
2 7 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.31%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.50%) SLA
4 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.60%) GDPR
4 4 (3.60%) PMO
4 4 (3.60%) QA
5 3 (2.70%) NCSC
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.90%) GRC
System Software
1 47 (42.34%) Docker
2 9 (8.11%) Squid
3 4 (3.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.90%) HDFS
5 1 (0.90%) NLBS
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (69.37%) Terraform
2 44 (39.64%) Kubernetes
3 25 (22.52%) Ansible
3 25 (22.52%) Prometheus
4 19 (17.12%) Grafana
5 11 (9.91%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (9.01%) FortiGate
7 7 (6.31%) Consul
8 6 (5.41%) Kibana
9 5 (4.50%) Karpenter
10 3 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (2.70%) Puppet
11 2 (1.80%) Argo
12 1 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.90%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.90%) Opsview
12 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.90%) Salt
12 1 (0.90%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 10 (9.01%) Dynatrace
1 10 (9.01%) Splunk
2 8 (7.21%) Atlassian
2 8 (7.21%) Fortinet
2 8 (7.21%) Red Hat
3 7 (6.31%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.41%) Palo Alto
5 5 (4.50%) AVEVA
5 5 (4.50%) Google
6 4 (3.60%) Cisco
6 4 (3.60%) Qualys
6 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.60%) Tenable
6 4 (3.60%) Zscaler
7 3 (2.70%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.70%) Citrix
7 3 (2.70%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.70%) Databricks
7 3 (2.70%) SAP
8 2 (1.80%) Aruba