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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 330 306
Rank change year-on-year +17 -24 +87
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 66 46 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.30% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 0.72% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 26 98
10th Percentile £398 £497 £425
25th Percentile £500 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.94% -14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £627 £650
90th Percentile £725 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £593 £579
% change year-on-year -11.39% +2.41% -10.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Cloud 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 6,060 6,371 7,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.19% 41.02% 38.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,102 4,326 5,773
10th Percentile £350 £350 £343
25th Percentile £425 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 37 68
10th Percentile £18.31 £21.60 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.15 £35.00 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% -8.79% +26.34%
75th Percentile £46.19 £55.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £85.47
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 12 £620 +15.03%
Central London +8 10 £621 +18.00% 23
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 12 (18.18%) Confluence
2 10 (15.15%) nginx
3 3 (4.55%) SAS
4 2 (3.03%) Apache
4 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.52%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (74.24%) Amazon EC2
2 49 (74.24%) Amazon S3
3 32 (48.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (34.85%) Amazon ELB
5 21 (31.82%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (31.82%) Serverless
6 20 (30.30%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (27.27%) Azure
7 18 (27.27%) GitHub
7 18 (27.27%) Route 53
8 17 (25.76%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (25.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (15.15%) AWS KMS
9 10 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (13.64%) AWS CloudTrail
10 9 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (10.61%) Datadog
12 6 (9.09%) GCP
13 4 (6.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (40.91%) Firewall
2 25 (37.88%) DNS
3 18 (27.27%) VPN
4 10 (15.15%) FTP
4 10 (15.15%) HTTP
4 10 (15.15%) IMAP
4 10 (15.15%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (15.15%) SMTP
4 10 (15.15%) SSH
4 10 (15.15%) SSL
4 10 (15.15%) TCP/IP
5 8 (12.12%) Network Security
6 3 (4.55%) WAN
7 2 (3.03%) LAN
7 2 (3.03%) Wireless
8 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.52%) SMS
8 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (42.42%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (21.21%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (10.61%) MySQL
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (6.06%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.52%) Big Data
8 1 (1.52%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.52%) Redis
8 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (60.61%) Jenkins
2 29 (43.94%) Git
3 17 (25.76%) GitLab
4 15 (22.73%) JIRA
5 10 (15.15%) Vagrant
6 6 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.03%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.52%) Maven
9 1 (1.52%) Metasploit
General
1 22 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.18%) Finance
4 10 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Military
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Police
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (37.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (25.76%) Senior
4 15 (22.73%) AWS DevOps
4 15 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 11 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (15.15%) Architect
8 9 (13.64%) AWS Architect
9 8 (12.12%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 8 (12.12%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (12.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (7.58%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (6.06%) AWS Specialist
12 4 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 3 (4.55%) AWS Security Architect
13 3 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) LDAP
2 7 (10.61%) Kafka
3 5 (7.58%) Node.js
4 3 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.55%) JSON
4 3 (4.55%) REST
5 2 (3.03%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.52%) .NET
6 1 (1.52%) Jinja
6 1 (1.52%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.52%) Memcached
6 1 (1.52%) Middleware
6 1 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.52%) React
6 1 (1.52%) ServiceStack
6 1 (1.52%) SOAP
6 1 (1.52%) Spring
6 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.52%) Swagger
6 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 13 (19.70%) Replication
3 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.03%) Life Science
6 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (28.79%) Linux
2 15 (22.73%) Windows
3 11 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 10 (15.15%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (15.15%) VMS
5 4 (6.06%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.52%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (75.76%) DevOps
2 43 (65.15%) CI/CD
3 34 (51.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (30.30%) High Availability
5 18 (27.27%) Configuration Management
6 16 (24.24%) Cloud Security
7 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
7 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure Automation
7 14 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (19.70%) Mentoring
9 12 (18.18%) Patch Management
9 12 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (16.67%) Change Management
10 11 (16.67%) Incident Response
11 10 (15.15%) DevSecOps
11 10 (15.15%) Observability
12 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 6 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
13 6 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (71.21%) Python
2 18 (27.27%) Bash
3 15 (22.73%) PowerShell
4 13 (19.70%) SQL
5 11 (16.67%) Groovy
6 6 (9.09%) Java
7 4 (6.06%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.55%) CodeQL
9 2 (3.03%) Go
9 2 (3.03%) Perl
9 2 (3.03%) Ruby
10 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.52%) PHP
10 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (43.94%) SC Cleared
1 29 (43.94%) Security Cleared
2 22 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 11 (16.67%) Degree
4 10 (15.15%) Azure Certification
5 6 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.03%) CCNA
6 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.52%) CCNP
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) GDPR
2 2 (3.03%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.03%) NIST
2 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (57.58%) Docker
2 10 (15.15%) DFS Replication
2 10 (15.15%) Dovecot
2 10 (15.15%) Postfix
2 10 (15.15%) Squid
3 2 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (80.30%) Terraform
2 21 (31.82%) Ansible
3 18 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 14 (21.21%) Prometheus
5 13 (19.70%) Grafana
6 11 (16.67%) Nessus
7 10 (15.15%) Proxmox
8 6 (9.09%) Puppet
9 3 (4.55%) NetBackup
9 3 (4.55%) Progress Chef
10 2 (3.03%) FortiGate
10 2 (3.03%) Kibana
10 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.52%) Argo
11 1 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (1.52%) Karpenter
11 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Palo Alto
2 11 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 10 (15.15%) CheckPoint
3 10 (15.15%) F5
3 10 (15.15%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (4.55%) Cisco
4 3 (4.55%) Commvault
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.55%) SnapLogic
4 3 (4.55%) Splunk
5 2 (3.03%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.03%) Google
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle
5 2 (3.03%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.52%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.52%) Okta
6 1 (1.52%) Ubiquiti