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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 318 341
Rank change year-on-year -4 +23 -38
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 122 55 50
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.41% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 0.96% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 36 32
10th Percentile £409 £506 £476
25th Percentile £456 £513 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +6.93% -10.38%
75th Percentile £588 £691 £629
90th Percentile £657 £719 £844
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
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 8,279 5,747 6,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.28% 43.34% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,674 3,933 4,706
10th Percentile £360 £341 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 93 52
10th Percentile £19.10 £23.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £23.12 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £30.50 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.23% +0.68% -31.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £44.53
90th Percentile £77.13 £77.40 £65.65
England median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%

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 September 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 September 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 -4 19 £530 -14.52% 3
Central London -23 3 £544 -19.48% 6
East London - 2 £600 -
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 21 (17.21%) Confluence
2 9 (7.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.56%) nginx
4 3 (2.46%) Apache
5 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (53.28%) Amazon EC2
3 62 (50.82%) Amazon S3
4 56 (45.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 48 (39.34%) Serverless
6 45 (36.89%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (31.97%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (25.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (21.31%) AWS KMS
9 26 (21.31%) Azure
10 21 (17.21%) AWS CloudTrail
10 21 (17.21%) GitHub
11 16 (13.11%) GCP
11 16 (13.11%) Route 53
12 15 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (9.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 11 (9.02%) Datadog
16 10 (8.20%) Entra ID
17 9 (7.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.31%) Firewall
2 15 (12.30%) TCP/IP
3 14 (11.48%) Network Security
4 11 (9.02%) VPN
5 10 (8.20%) DNS
6 7 (5.74%) WAN
7 6 (4.92%) SSH
8 5 (4.10%) OpenVPN
8 5 (4.10%) SSL
9 4 (3.28%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (2.46%) LAN
10 3 (2.46%) Wireless
11 2 (1.64%) BGP
11 2 (1.64%) FTP
11 2 (1.64%) HTTP
11 2 (1.64%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.64%) IMAP
11 2 (1.64%) Internet
11 2 (1.64%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (1.64%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (33.61%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (15.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (8.20%) MongoDB
5 9 (7.38%) MySQL
6 8 (6.56%) Redis
6 8 (6.56%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.10%) Power BI
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.46%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.46%) Tableau
10 2 (1.64%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.82%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.82%) Metadata
11 1 (0.82%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (27.05%) Git
2 31 (25.41%) GitLab
3 25 (20.49%) Jenkins
4 16 (13.11%) JIRA
5 8 (6.56%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.64%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.82%) Maven
7 1 (0.82%) Spinnaker
General
1 50 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 36 (29.51%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.02%) Finance
4 5 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.10%) Banking
4 5 (4.10%) Law
4 5 (4.10%) Military
5 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.46%) Police
7 2 (1.64%) Games
7 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Legal
8 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Publishing
8 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (25.41%) AWS Engineer
2 30 (24.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (22.95%) Architect
4 16 (13.11%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (12.30%) AWS DevOps
5 15 (12.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) AWS Architect
6 14 (11.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (10.66%) DBA
7 13 (10.66%) Senior
8 9 (7.38%) Administrator
9 8 (6.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Lead
10 7 (5.74%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Technical Architect
11 6 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.10%) Security Engineer
13 4 (3.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 4 (3.28%) Network Architect
13 4 (3.28%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (72.13%) Terraform
2 7 (5.74%) boto
3 6 (4.92%) SAML
4 4 (3.28%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.28%) OpenID
4 4 (3.28%) OpenTofu
5 3 (2.46%) LDAP
5 3 (2.46%) OAuth
5 3 (2.46%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (2.46%) YAML
6 2 (1.64%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.64%) Flask
6 2 (1.64%) Kafka
6 2 (1.64%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.64%) REST
7 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.82%) AWS SAM
7 1 (0.82%) React
7 1 (0.82%) SWRL
7 1 (0.82%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) Cloud Native
1 19 (15.57%) Replication
2 8 (6.56%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (6.56%) Security Posture
3 7 (5.74%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.28%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.46%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.46%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.64%) PKI
7 1 (0.82%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.49%) Linux
2 12 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (8.20%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (5.74%) Windows
5 4 (3.28%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.82%) VMS
7 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (63.93%) CI/CD
2 75 (61.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (56.56%) DevOps
4 29 (23.77%) Platform Engineering
5 27 (22.13%) Agile
6 26 (21.31%) Cloud Security
7 24 (19.67%) Containerisation
7 24 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (19.67%) Observability
7 24 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (18.03%) Secrets Management
9 21 (17.21%) High Availability
10 20 (16.39%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (16.39%) Root Cause Analysis
11 19 (15.57%) Migration
12 18 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (13.93%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (13.11%) Data Modelling
15 15 (12.30%) Roadmaps
16 14 (11.48%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 52 (42.62%) Python
2 31 (25.41%) Bash
3 20 (16.39%) SQL
4 18 (14.75%) Java
4 18 (14.75%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.20%) Groovy
6 7 (5.74%) Perl
7 3 (2.46%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.64%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.82%) Bicep
9 1 (0.82%) C
9 1 (0.82%) Cypher
9 1 (0.82%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.82%) R
9 1 (0.82%) SHACL
9 1 (0.82%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 65 (53.28%) Security Cleared
2 61 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 35 (28.69%) AWS Certification
4 19 (15.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (9.84%) Azure Certification
6 8 (6.56%) Degree
7 5 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.82%) CISSP
10 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.82%) PMP
10 1 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) Data Quality
1 8 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.92%) GDPR
3 3 (2.46%) PMO
3 3 (2.46%) QA
4 2 (1.64%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.82%) NCSC
5 1 (0.82%) NIST
5 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (31.97%) Docker
2 11 (9.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.38%) Squid
4 2 (1.64%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.64%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.64%) Postfix
5 1 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (31.15%) Kubernetes
2 33 (27.05%) Grafana
3 30 (24.59%) Prometheus
4 28 (22.95%) Ansible
5 7 (5.74%) Puppet
6 6 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.28%) Argo
7 4 (3.28%) Packer
7 4 (3.28%) Salt
7 4 (3.28%) Suricata
8 3 (2.46%) SELinux
9 2 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.64%) Istio
9 2 (1.64%) Nessus
9 2 (1.64%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.64%) systemd
10 1 (0.82%) Cilium
10 1 (0.82%) CloudForms
10 1 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (13.93%) ServiceNow
2 10 (8.20%) Red Hat
3 9 (7.38%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.10%) Cisco
4 5 (4.10%) Splunk
5 4 (3.28%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.28%) Zscaler
6 3 (2.46%) Aruba
6 3 (2.46%) Databricks
6 3 (2.46%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.46%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.46%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.46%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.64%) Google
7 2 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.82%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.82%) Citrix
8 1 (0.82%) IBM
8 1 (0.82%) Trend Micro