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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 305 333
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 +12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 122 38 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 0.73% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 24 41
10th Percentile £456 £408 £377
25th Percentile £495 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +6.07% -14.40%
75th Percentile £591 £691 £625
90th Percentile £661 £746 £813
England median daily rate £515 £550 £547
% change year-on-year -6.36% +0.64% -11.14%
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 7,762 5,179 6,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.32% 42.91% 38.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,367 3,523 5,025
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -1.53% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.39% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 60 70
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.27 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -50.25%
75th Percentile £56.00 £44.69 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.33 £67.50 £58.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.01 £21.37
% change year-on-year +57.97% +17.01% -38.94%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +13 29 £505 -38.41%
Central London -20 5 £595 -8.46% 8
East London - 2 £600 - 2
West London -25 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 23 (18.85%) Confluence
2 9 (7.38%) nginx
3 4 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 78 (63.93%) Amazon S3
3 76 (62.30%) Amazon EC2
4 69 (56.56%) Serverless
5 67 (54.92%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (47.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 54 (44.26%) Amazon EKS
8 32 (26.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (26.23%) Route 53
9 25 (20.49%) Azure
10 20 (16.39%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (14.75%) GitHub
12 17 (13.93%) GCP
13 16 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (10.66%) AWS KMS
15 12 (9.84%) AWS CloudTrail
15 12 (9.84%) AWS Control Tower
15 12 (9.84%) Power Platform
16 9 (7.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 8 (6.56%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 35 (28.69%) Firewall
2 25 (20.49%) DNS
3 23 (18.85%) VPN
4 22 (18.03%) TCP/IP
5 16 (13.11%) Network Security
6 10 (8.20%) OpenVPN
7 7 (5.74%) BGP
7 7 (5.74%) OSPF
7 7 (5.74%) WAN
8 5 (4.10%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.28%) LAN
9 4 (3.28%) SD-WAN
9 4 (3.28%) Wireless
10 3 (2.46%) NGFW
10 3 (2.46%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (2.46%) SSL
11 1 (0.82%) DHCP
11 1 (0.82%) Internet
11 1 (0.82%) VLAN
11 1 (0.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (31.97%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.84%) Power BI
3 10 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (7.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (6.56%) Tableau
6 7 (5.74%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (4.10%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (4.10%) MySQL
8 4 (3.28%) DocumentDB
8 4 (3.28%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.28%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.28%) Redis
9 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.64%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.82%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (30.33%) GitLab
2 34 (27.87%) Jenkins
3 26 (21.31%) Git
4 20 (16.39%) JIRA
5 11 (9.02%) Bitbucket
6 9 (7.38%) Artifactory
7 8 (6.56%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.28%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.46%) Snyk
10 1 (0.82%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.82%) JUnit
10 1 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 36 (29.51%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.75%) Finance
4 15 (12.30%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.28%) Military
8 3 (2.46%) Banking
8 3 (2.46%) Law
8 3 (2.46%) Police
9 2 (1.64%) Games
9 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (35.25%) Architect
2 25 (20.49%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (19.67%) AWS Architect
4 19 (15.57%) Cloud Architect
5 15 (12.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (9.84%) Technical Architect
8 10 (8.20%) Senior
9 9 (7.38%) Analyst
9 9 (7.38%) Lead
10 8 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (6.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (5.74%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (5.74%) Security Engineer
11 7 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (5.74%) Technical Delivery Manager
11 7 (5.74%) Technical Manager
12 6 (4.92%) Network Engineer
12 6 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.92%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.11%) OpenID
2 9 (7.38%) Kafka
2 9 (7.38%) LDAP
3 8 (6.56%) AWS CDK
4 7 (5.74%) OAuth
4 7 (5.74%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.10%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (4.10%) REST
5 5 (4.10%) RESTful
6 4 (3.28%) gRPC
6 4 (3.28%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.28%) JPA
6 4 (3.28%) SAML
6 4 (3.28%) Spring
6 4 (3.28%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.28%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.46%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.82%) Apollo GraphQL
8 1 (0.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.21%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.28%) Replication
6 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.64%) PKI
7 2 (1.64%) SCADA
8 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.30%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.82%) VMS
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (57.38%) CI/CD
2 61 (50.00%) DevOps
3 58 (47.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (23.77%) Migration
5 26 (21.31%) Agile
6 25 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (20.49%) Roadmaps
7 23 (18.85%) Containerisation
7 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.03%) Observability
9 21 (17.21%) Cloud Security
10 18 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (13.93%) Decision-Making
12 16 (13.11%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (10.66%) Cost Management
14 13 (10.66%) Microservices
14 13 (10.66%) Secrets Management
14 13 (10.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.44%) Python
2 28 (22.95%) Bash
3 17 (13.93%) Java
4 16 (13.11%) SQL
5 13 (10.66%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.10%) Groovy
7 4 (3.28%) Perl
7 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.46%) Go
8 3 (2.46%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.64%) Cypher
10 1 (0.82%) Bicep
10 1 (0.82%) C
10 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (54.92%) Security Cleared
2 63 (51.64%) SC Cleared
3 23 (18.85%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.56%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.46%) Degree
7 2 (1.64%) CISSP
8 1 (0.82%) CCNP
8 1 (0.82%) CEH
8 1 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.82%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.82%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.82%) PMP
8 1 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) NIST
2 7 (5.74%) PMO
3 5 (4.10%) QA
3 5 (4.10%) SLA
4 4 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.28%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.64%) GDPR
5 2 (1.64%) NCSC
6 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.82%) GRC
System Software
1 40 (32.79%) Docker
2 16 (13.11%) Squid
3 9 (7.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.82%) NLBS
4 1 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (66.39%) Terraform
2 44 (36.07%) Kubernetes
3 35 (28.69%) Grafana
4 34 (27.87%) Prometheus
5 22 (18.03%) Ansible
6 11 (9.02%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (7.38%) FortiGate
8 7 (5.74%) Consul
9 5 (4.10%) Puppet
10 4 (3.28%) Karpenter
10 4 (3.28%) Kibana
10 4 (3.28%) Salt
10 4 (3.28%) Suricata
11 1 (0.82%) Argo
11 1 (0.82%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.82%) Opsview
11 1 (0.82%) Packer
11 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.82%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (9.02%) Dynatrace
1 11 (9.02%) Red Hat
2 10 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.56%) Fortinet
3 8 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.74%) Atlassian
4 7 (5.74%) Splunk
5 5 (4.10%) AVEVA
5 5 (4.10%) Cisco
5 5 (4.10%) Zscaler
6 4 (3.28%) Google
6 4 (3.28%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.28%) Qualys
6 4 (3.28%) Tenable
7 3 (2.46%) Aruba
7 3 (2.46%) SAP
8 2 (1.64%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.64%) Citrix
8 2 (1.64%) Solace
8 2 (1.64%) SolarWinds