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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 312 343
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 +19
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 120 39 61
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 0.75% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 25 42
10th Percentile £456 £409 £379
25th Percentile £500 £513 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +7.48% -14.40%
75th Percentile £599 £700 £640
90th Percentile £657 £745 £846
England median daily rate £519 £560 £538
% change year-on-year -7.40% +4.19% -14.00%
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 7,722 5,168 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.20% 42.77% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,343 3,538 5,006
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 54 67
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.71 £17.16
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +11.67% -50.48%
75th Percentile £54.81 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +11 29 £505 -38.41%
Central London -18 6 £610 -6.15% 4
East London - 2 £600 - 2
West London -31 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 (18.33%) Confluence
2 9 (7.50%) nginx
3 5 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (63.33%) Amazon S3
3 73 (60.83%) Amazon EC2
4 63 (52.50%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (52.50%) Serverless
5 53 (44.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 52 (43.33%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (28.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (25.00%) Route 53
9 24 (20.00%) Azure
10 18 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (15.00%) GitHub
11 16 (13.33%) GCP
12 15 (12.50%) AWS KMS
13 14 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (10.83%) AWS Control Tower
15 12 (10.00%) Power Platform
16 11 (9.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 11 (9.17%) AWS CloudTrail
17 9 (7.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (28.33%) Firewall
2 25 (20.83%) DNS
3 23 (19.17%) VPN
4 22 (18.33%) TCP/IP
5 13 (10.83%) Network Security
6 10 (8.33%) OpenVPN
7 7 (5.83%) BGP
7 7 (5.83%) OSPF
7 7 (5.83%) WAN
8 5 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.33%) LAN
9 4 (3.33%) SD-WAN
9 4 (3.33%) Wireless
10 3 (2.50%) NGFW
10 3 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (2.50%) SSL
11 1 (0.83%) DHCP
11 1 (0.83%) SNMP
11 1 (0.83%) VLAN
11 1 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.17%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.00%) Power BI
3 9 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.67%) Tableau
5 7 (5.83%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (5.00%) MySQL
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (3.33%) DocumentDB
7 4 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.33%) Redis
8 3 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.67%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (30.00%) GitLab
2 33 (27.50%) Jenkins
3 22 (18.33%) Git
4 19 (15.83%) JIRA
5 11 (9.17%) Bitbucket
6 8 (6.67%) Artifactory
6 8 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.33%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.50%) Snyk
9 2 (1.67%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.83%) JUnit
10 1 (0.83%) MLflow
10 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 36 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 19 (15.83%) Finance
4 15 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Military
8 3 (2.50%) Police
9 2 (1.67%) Banking
9 2 (1.67%) Games
9 2 (1.67%) Law
9 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (35.83%) Architect
2 24 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 23 (19.17%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (17.50%) Cloud Architect
5 12 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.17%) Lead
6 11 (9.17%) Senior
7 9 (7.50%) Analyst
7 9 (7.50%) Technical Architect
8 8 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (5.83%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.83%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Site Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.83%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 7 (5.83%) Technical Manager
10 6 (5.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.67%) OpenID
2 10 (8.33%) Kafka
3 9 (7.50%) LDAP
4 8 (6.67%) AWS CDK
5 5 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.17%) OAuth
5 5 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (4.17%) REST
5 5 (4.17%) RESTful
6 4 (3.33%) gRPC
6 4 (3.33%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.33%) JPA
6 4 (3.33%) Spring
6 4 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.33%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.50%) 802.1X
8 2 (1.67%) SAML
9 1 (0.83%) .NET
9 1 (0.83%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.33%) Replication
6 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.67%) PKI
7 2 (1.67%) SCADA
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.67%) Linux
2 5 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (2.50%) Windows
4 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.83%) VMS
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (54.17%) CI/CD
2 54 (45.00%) DevOps
3 53 (44.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (25.00%) Migration
5 25 (20.83%) Agile
5 25 (20.83%) Roadmaps
6 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (17.50%) Containerisation
9 20 (16.67%) Observability
10 18 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (14.17%) Cloud Security
11 17 (14.17%) Decision-Making
12 14 (11.67%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (10.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (10.00%) Incident Response
14 12 (10.00%) Microservices
14 12 (10.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.83%) Python
2 22 (18.33%) Bash
3 17 (14.17%) SQL
4 15 (12.50%) Java
5 10 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.17%) Groovy
7 4 (3.33%) Go
7 4 (3.33%) Perl
7 4 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.50%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.67%) Cypher
10 1 (0.83%) Bicep
10 1 (0.83%) C
10 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 61 (50.83%) SC Cleared
3 23 (19.17%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.83%) CCNP
7 1 (0.83%) CEH
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.83%) Degree
7 1 (0.83%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.83%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.83%) PMP
7 1 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) NIST
2 7 (5.83%) PMO
3 5 (4.17%) QA
3 5 (4.17%) SLA
4 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.33%) NCSC
4 4 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
System Software
1 39 (32.50%) Docker
2 16 (13.33%) Squid
3 8 (6.67%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.83%) NLBS
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (65.00%) Terraform
2 42 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 33 (27.50%) Grafana
4 32 (26.67%) Prometheus
5 20 (16.67%) Ansible
6 11 (9.17%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (7.50%) FortiGate
8 7 (5.83%) Consul
9 5 (4.17%) Puppet
10 4 (3.33%) Karpenter
10 4 (3.33%) Kibana
10 4 (3.33%) Suricata
11 3 (2.50%) Salt
12 1 (0.83%) Argo
12 1 (0.83%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.83%) Opsview
12 1 (0.83%) Packer
12 1 (0.83%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (9.17%) Dynatrace
2 10 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 8 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 8 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.67%) Splunk
4 7 (5.83%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.17%) AVEVA
5 5 (4.17%) Cisco
5 5 (4.17%) Zscaler
6 4 (3.33%) Citrix
6 4 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.33%) Qualys
6 4 (3.33%) Tenable
7 3 (2.50%) Aruba
7 3 (2.50%) Databricks
7 3 (2.50%) Google
7 3 (2.50%) SAP
8 2 (1.67%) Arista
8 2 (1.67%) CloudEndure