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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 309 340
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 -7
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 123 38 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 0.72% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 24 40
10th Percentile £452 £408 £376
25th Percentile £481 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £555 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +4.23% -14.80%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £621
90th Percentile £665 £743 £794
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -9.09%
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 7,856 5,293 6,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.17% 43.23% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,415 3,584 5,081
10th Percentile £351 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 65 69
10th Percentile £20.83 £22.36 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.19 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £58.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%

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 10 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 10 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 28 £503 -38.72%
Central London -15 4 £585 -10.00% 2
East London - 2 £600 - 2
West London -24 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 (18.70%) Confluence
2 9 (7.32%) nginx
3 4 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (61.79%) Amazon S3
3 75 (60.98%) Amazon EC2
4 67 (54.47%) Serverless
5 65 (52.85%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (46.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 57 (46.34%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (25.20%) Route 53
8 29 (23.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (18.70%) Azure
10 21 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (12.20%) GCP
11 15 (12.20%) GitHub
12 13 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (9.76%) Power Platform
14 11 (8.94%) AWS CloudTrail
14 11 (8.94%) AWS Control Tower
14 11 (8.94%) AWS KMS
14 11 (8.94%) Snowflake
15 9 (7.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 34 (27.64%) Firewall
2 22 (17.89%) DNS
2 22 (17.89%) TCP/IP
2 22 (17.89%) VPN
3 16 (13.01%) Network Security
4 10 (8.13%) OpenVPN
5 7 (5.69%) BGP
5 7 (5.69%) OSPF
5 7 (5.69%) WAN
6 5 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (3.25%) LAN
7 4 (3.25%) SD-WAN
7 4 (3.25%) Wireless
8 3 (2.44%) NGFW
8 3 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (2.44%) SSL
9 1 (0.81%) DHCP
9 1 (0.81%) SNMP
9 1 (0.81%) VLAN
9 1 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (32.52%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.76%) Power BI
3 9 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.50%) Tableau
5 7 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.07%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (4.07%) MySQL
7 4 (3.25%) DocumentDB
7 4 (3.25%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.25%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.25%) Redis
8 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.63%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.81%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 38 (30.89%) GitLab
2 31 (25.20%) Jenkins
3 25 (20.33%) Git
4 20 (16.26%) JIRA
5 11 (8.94%) Bitbucket
6 9 (7.32%) Artifactory
7 8 (6.50%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.44%) Snyk
9 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.81%) JUnit
9 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.81%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 36 (29.27%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.63%) Finance
4 15 (12.20%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.07%) Military
6 5 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.25%) Banking
7 4 (3.25%) Law
8 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.44%) Police
9 2 (1.63%) Games
9 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (30.89%) Architect
2 28 (22.76%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (17.07%) AWS Architect
4 19 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.38%) Cloud Architect
5 14 (11.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (8.94%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (8.94%) Technical Architect
7 10 (8.13%) Senior
8 9 (7.32%) Analyst
8 9 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) Lead
9 8 (6.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (6.50%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (5.69%) Security Engineer
10 7 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (5.69%) Technical Delivery Manager
10 7 (5.69%) Technical Manager
11 6 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.01%) OpenID
2 9 (7.32%) Kafka
2 9 (7.32%) LDAP
3 8 (6.50%) AWS CDK
4 7 (5.69%) OAuth
4 7 (5.69%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.07%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (4.07%) REST
5 5 (4.07%) RESTful
6 4 (3.25%) gRPC
6 4 (3.25%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.25%) JPA
6 4 (3.25%) SAML
6 4 (3.25%) Spring
6 4 (3.25%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.25%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.44%) 802.1X
8 2 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.81%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.50%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.25%) Replication
3 4 (3.25%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.63%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.63%) SCADA
6 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.81%) PKI
6 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.20%) Linux
2 5 (4.07%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) VMS
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (58.54%) CI/CD
2 67 (54.47%) DevOps
3 60 (48.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (22.76%) Containerisation
4 28 (22.76%) Migration
5 27 (21.95%) Agile
6 26 (21.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (20.33%) Roadmaps
8 24 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (17.89%) Observability
10 20 (16.26%) Cloud Security
11 19 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (13.82%) Decision-Making
12 17 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (13.01%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (11.38%) Cost Management
15 14 (11.38%) Microservices
15 14 (11.38%) Performance Tuning
15 14 (11.38%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.09%) Python
2 28 (22.76%) Bash
3 18 (14.63%) Java
4 16 (13.01%) SQL
5 13 (10.57%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.07%) Groovy
7 4 (3.25%) Perl
7 4 (3.25%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.44%) Go
8 3 (2.44%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.63%) Cypher
10 1 (0.81%) Bicep
10 1 (0.81%) C
10 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (52.85%) Security Cleared
2 61 (49.59%) SC Cleared
3 23 (18.70%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (6.50%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.25%) Degree
7 2 (1.63%) CISSP
7 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.81%) CCNP
8 1 (0.81%) CEH
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.81%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.81%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.81%) PMP
8 1 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) NIST
2 7 (5.69%) PMO
3 5 (4.07%) QA
3 5 (4.07%) SLA
4 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.25%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.81%) GRC
6 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (33.33%) Docker
2 16 (13.01%) Squid
3 8 (6.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.81%) NLBS
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (67.48%) Terraform
2 47 (38.21%) Kubernetes
3 34 (27.64%) Grafana
3 34 (27.64%) Prometheus
4 19 (15.45%) Ansible
5 11 (8.94%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (7.32%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.69%) Consul
8 5 (4.07%) Puppet
9 4 (3.25%) Salt
9 4 (3.25%) Suricata
10 2 (1.63%) Argo
10 2 (1.63%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.81%) Cilium
11 1 (0.81%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.81%) Kibana
11 1 (0.81%) Opsview
11 1 (0.81%) Packer
11 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.81%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (8.94%) Dynatrace
1 11 (8.94%) Red Hat
2 10 (8.13%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.50%) Fortinet
4 7 (5.69%) Atlassian
4 7 (5.69%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.69%) Splunk
5 5 (4.07%) AVEVA
5 5 (4.07%) Cisco
5 5 (4.07%) Zscaler
6 4 (3.25%) Google
6 4 (3.25%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.25%) Qualys
6 4 (3.25%) Tenable
7 3 (2.44%) Aruba
7 3 (2.44%) SAP
8 2 (1.63%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.63%) Globalscape
8 2 (1.63%) Solace
8 2 (1.63%) SolarWinds