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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 304 340
Rank change year-on-year -29 +36 -40
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 122 58 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.43% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.00% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 37 29
10th Percentile £408 £513 £475
25th Percentile £456 £519 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +14.31% -10.33%
75th Percentile £586 £704 £656
90th Percentile £650 £738 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £561
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.46% -6.46%
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 8,355 5,820 6,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.07% 43.33% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,722 3,960 4,663
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 48
10th Percentile £18.02 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £31.25 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +0.67% -23.01%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 17 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 17 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 -2 18 £535 -13.71% 2
Central London -34 2 £492 -27.11% 7
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 19 (15.57%) Confluence
2 8 (6.56%) nginx
3 7 (5.74%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.92%) Apache
5 5 (4.10%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (54.10%) Amazon EC2
3 63 (51.64%) Amazon S3
4 61 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 46 (37.70%) Serverless
6 43 (35.25%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (33.61%) Amazon EKS
8 34 (27.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (21.31%) AWS KMS
10 25 (20.49%) Azure
11 21 (17.21%) AWS CloudTrail
12 20 (16.39%) GitHub
13 17 (13.93%) GCP
14 16 (13.11%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (13.11%) Route 53
15 13 (10.66%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (9.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 12 (9.84%) Datadog
17 10 (8.20%) Entra ID
18 9 (7.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.49%) Firewall
2 14 (11.48%) TCP/IP
3 12 (9.84%) DNS
3 12 (9.84%) Network Security
4 8 (6.56%) VPN
5 7 (5.74%) WAN
6 6 (4.92%) SSH
7 5 (4.10%) OpenVPN
7 5 (4.10%) SSL
8 4 (3.28%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (2.46%) LAN
9 3 (2.46%) Wireless
10 2 (1.64%) FTP
10 2 (1.64%) HTTP
10 2 (1.64%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.64%) IMAP
10 2 (1.64%) Internet
10 2 (1.64%) Kerberos
10 2 (1.64%) SAN
10 2 (1.64%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (31.15%) 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 4 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.46%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.46%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (2.46%) Power BI
9 2 (1.64%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.64%) Flink
9 2 (1.64%) Metadata
9 2 (1.64%) Tableau
10 1 (0.82%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 34 (27.87%) GitLab
2 32 (26.23%) Git
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 52 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 34 (27.87%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.20%) Finance
4 6 (4.92%) Law
4 6 (4.92%) Military
5 5 (4.10%) Banking
6 4 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Police
8 2 (1.64%) Games
9 1 (0.82%) Legal
9 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Publishing
9 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (25.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (23.77%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (22.95%) Architect
4 16 (13.11%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (12.30%) AWS Architect
5 15 (12.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (10.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (10.66%) DBA
7 13 (10.66%) Senior
8 10 (8.20%) Administrator
9 8 (6.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Lead
11 6 (4.92%) Network Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.92%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Network Architect
12 4 (3.28%) Security Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (76.23%) Terraform
2 6 (4.92%) boto
2 6 (4.92%) SAML
3 4 (3.28%) AWS CDK
3 4 (3.28%) OpenID
3 4 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (3.28%) OpenTofu
4 3 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.46%) Kafka
4 3 (2.46%) LDAP
4 3 (2.46%) OAuth
4 3 (2.46%) PySpark
4 3 (2.46%) REST
4 3 (2.46%) YAML
5 2 (1.64%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.64%) Flask
5 2 (1.64%) JDBC
5 2 (1.64%) JMX
5 2 (1.64%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.82%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.39%) Replication
2 19 (15.57%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.38%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (6.56%) Security Posture
5 7 (5.74%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.28%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.28%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.46%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.46%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.64%) PKI
8 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.82%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.31%) 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 80 (65.57%) CI/CD
2 79 (64.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (59.02%) DevOps
4 29 (23.77%) Agile
4 29 (23.77%) Platform Engineering
5 28 (22.95%) Observability
5 28 (22.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (21.31%) Cloud Security
7 25 (20.49%) Containerisation
7 25 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (18.85%) High Availability
8 23 (18.85%) Root Cause Analysis
8 23 (18.85%) Secrets Management
9 20 (16.39%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (16.39%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (15.57%) Migration
11 18 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (11.48%) Data Modelling
12 14 (11.48%) SIEM
13 13 (10.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (42.62%) Python
2 30 (24.59%) Bash
3 20 (16.39%) SQL
4 18 (14.75%) PowerShell
5 17 (13.93%) Java
6 10 (8.20%) Groovy
7 7 (5.74%) Perl
8 3 (2.46%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.64%) Bicep
9 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.82%) C
10 1 (0.82%) Cypher
10 1 (0.82%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.82%) R
10 1 (0.82%) SHACL
10 1 (0.82%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 64 (52.46%) Security Cleared
2 62 (50.82%) SC Cleared
3 34 (27.87%) AWS Certification
4 19 (15.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.02%) Azure Certification
6 8 (6.56%) Degree
7 5 (4.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.82%) CISSP
9 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.82%) PMP
9 1 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (7.38%) GDPR
3 6 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.46%) NCSC
4 3 (2.46%) QA
5 2 (1.64%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.64%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.64%) PMO
5 2 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.64%) SLA
6 1 (0.82%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (31.15%) Docker
2 11 (9.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.38%) Squid
4 2 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.64%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.64%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.64%) Postfix
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (32.79%) Kubernetes
2 37 (30.33%) Grafana
3 33 (27.05%) Prometheus
4 28 (22.95%) Ansible
5 8 (6.56%) 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
8 3 (2.46%) systemd
9 2 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.64%) Istio
9 2 (1.64%) Nessus
9 2 (1.64%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.64%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.82%) Cilium
10 1 (0.82%) CloudForms
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%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.28%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.46%) Aruba
6 3 (2.46%) Databricks
6 3 (2.46%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.46%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.46%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.64%) Confluent
7 2 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.64%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.64%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.82%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.82%) Teradici