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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 324 340
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 -19
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 118 47 50
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 0.81% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 32 33
10th Percentile £428 £418 £420
25th Percentile £475 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +3.26% -10.42%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £645
90th Percentile £672 £725 £838
England median daily rate £513 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -2.38% -5.83% -7.08%
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 8,308 5,829 6,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.50% 42.87% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,679 3,994 4,860
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 83 53
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.60 £20.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -44.39%
75th Percentile £55.56 £45.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £67.11 £65.30
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% +14.32% -33.33%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +1 24 £475 -28.27%
Central London -19 4 £575 -16.36% 5
East London - 2 £600 - 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 22 (18.64%) Confluence
2 9 (7.63%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.78%) nginx
4 4 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.69%) Apache
5 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (64.41%) Amazon EC2
3 71 (60.17%) Amazon S3
4 60 (50.85%) Serverless
5 58 (49.15%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (43.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 44 (37.29%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (20.34%) Azure
9 20 (16.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (15.25%) GitHub
11 15 (12.71%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (12.71%) AWS CloudTrail
11 15 (12.71%) AWS KMS
12 14 (11.86%) GCP
12 14 (11.86%) Route 53
13 13 (11.02%) Datadog
14 12 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (10.17%) Power Platform
14 12 (10.17%) Snowflake
15 10 (8.47%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (23.73%) Firewall
2 20 (16.95%) TCP/IP
3 17 (14.41%) VPN
4 15 (12.71%) Network Security
5 10 (8.47%) DNS
6 9 (7.63%) OpenVPN
7 7 (5.93%) WAN
8 4 (3.39%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (3.39%) SSH
8 4 (3.39%) SSL
9 3 (2.54%) BGP
9 3 (2.54%) LAN
9 3 (2.54%) Wireless
10 2 (1.69%) OSPF
11 1 (0.85%) Calico
11 1 (0.85%) DHCP
11 1 (0.85%) Internet
11 1 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (30.51%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.17%) Power BI
3 8 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (6.78%) Tableau
4 6 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.24%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.54%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.85%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.85%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.85%) Stardog
9 1 (0.85%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 35 (29.66%) GitLab
2 32 (27.12%) Git
3 27 (22.88%) Jenkins
4 17 (14.41%) JIRA
5 10 (8.47%) Artifactory
6 6 (5.08%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.54%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.85%) Snyk
8 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 37 (31.36%) Public Sector
3 16 (13.56%) Finance
4 8 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.24%) Banking
6 5 (4.24%) Law
6 5 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Military
8 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.54%) Police
9 2 (1.69%) Games
9 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Legal
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (27.12%) Architect
2 30 (25.42%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (17.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (13.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (11.86%) AWS Architect
6 12 (10.17%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (8.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 10 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Analyst
8 9 (7.63%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (6.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (6.78%) Delivery Manager
9 8 (6.78%) Network Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Senior
9 8 (6.78%) Technical Architect
10 7 (5.93%) Technical Delivery Manager
10 7 (5.93%) Technical Manager
11 6 (5.08%) Lead
11 6 (5.08%) Security Engineer
12 5 (4.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.08%) AWS CDK
1 6 (5.08%) OpenID
2 5 (4.24%) boto
2 5 (4.24%) SAML
3 4 (3.39%) LDAP
4 2 (1.69%) Kafka
4 2 (1.69%) OAuth
4 2 (1.69%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.85%) .NET
5 1 (0.85%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.85%) React
5 1 (0.85%) REST
5 1 (0.85%) RESTful
5 1 (0.85%) SWRL
5 1 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.78%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.93%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (5.93%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.24%) Replication
5 4 (3.39%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.54%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.54%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.85%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.10%) Linux
2 10 (8.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.08%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (4.24%) Windows
5 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (57.63%) CI/CD
2 61 (51.69%) DevOps
3 58 (49.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (24.58%) Agile
4 29 (24.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (23.73%) Migration
6 24 (20.34%) Containerisation
7 23 (19.49%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (16.10%) Cloud Security
8 19 (16.10%) Observability
9 18 (15.25%) Roadmaps
10 16 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (12.71%) Cost Management
11 15 (12.71%) Decision-Making
11 15 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (12.71%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (9.32%) AI
13 11 (9.32%) ETL
13 11 (9.32%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (44.92%) Python
2 30 (25.42%) Bash
3 17 (14.41%) Java
4 14 (11.86%) PowerShell
5 13 (11.02%) SQL
6 6 (5.08%) Groovy
7 5 (4.24%) Perl
8 4 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.54%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) C
10 1 (0.85%) Cypher
10 1 (0.85%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.85%) SHACL
10 1 (0.85%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (59.32%) Security Cleared
2 66 (55.93%) SC Cleared
3 19 (16.10%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.63%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.93%) Degree
7 3 (2.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) CCNP
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.85%) CISSP
8 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.85%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) PMO
2 5 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.24%) SLA
3 4 (3.39%) GDPR
4 2 (1.69%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.85%) NCSC
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 35 (29.66%) Docker
2 10 (8.47%) Squid
3 9 (7.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 77 (65.25%) Terraform
2 40 (33.90%) Kubernetes
3 33 (27.97%) Grafana
4 30 (25.42%) Prometheus
5 27 (22.88%) Ansible
6 9 (7.63%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (6.78%) Puppet
8 5 (4.24%) Salt
9 4 (3.39%) FortiGate
9 4 (3.39%) Packer
9 4 (3.39%) Suricata
10 3 (2.54%) Argo
10 3 (2.54%) SELinux
11 2 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.69%) Consul
11 2 (1.69%) Istio
12 1 (0.85%) Cilium
12 1 (0.85%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.85%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 17 (14.41%) ServiceNow
2 12 (10.17%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.08%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.24%) Cisco
5 5 (4.24%) Splunk
6 4 (3.39%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.39%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.39%) Zscaler
7 3 (2.54%) Aruba
7 3 (2.54%) Databricks
7 3 (2.54%) Google
7 3 (2.54%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.54%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.69%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.85%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.85%) Citrix
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) Qualys