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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 314 349
Rank change year-on-year -20 +35 -46
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 118 60 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.44% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 1.03% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 39 30
10th Percentile £406 £510 £475
25th Percentile £456 £516 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.52% -10.33%
75th Percentile £588 £702 £647
90th Percentile £652 £738 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £570
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.89% -5.00%
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 8,356 5,848 6,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.12% 43.31% 41.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,712 3,977 4,689
10th Percentile £360 £342 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -3.82% -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 97 94 50
10th Percentile £18.44 £23.00 £21.80
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £31.00 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +2.33% -31.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £67.03
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
% change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%

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 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 10 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 -3 19 £530 -14.52% 3
Central London -24 3 £544 -19.48% 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 (16.10%) Confluence
2 8 (6.78%) nginx
3 7 (5.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.54%) Apache
5 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (53.39%) Amazon EC2
3 61 (51.69%) Amazon S3
4 55 (46.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 47 (39.83%) Serverless
6 44 (37.29%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (32.20%) Amazon EKS
8 30 (25.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (22.03%) AWS KMS
10 25 (21.19%) Azure
11 21 (17.80%) AWS CloudTrail
12 20 (16.95%) GitHub
13 16 (13.56%) GCP
13 16 (13.56%) Route 53
14 15 (12.71%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (11.02%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (10.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 11 (9.32%) Datadog
18 10 (8.47%) Entra ID
19 9 (7.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (21.19%) Firewall
2 14 (11.86%) TCP/IP
3 13 (11.02%) Network Security
4 11 (9.32%) DNS
5 8 (6.78%) VPN
6 7 (5.93%) WAN
7 6 (5.08%) SSH
8 5 (4.24%) OpenVPN
8 5 (4.24%) SSL
9 4 (3.39%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (2.54%) LAN
10 3 (2.54%) Wireless
11 2 (1.69%) FTP
11 2 (1.69%) HTTP
11 2 (1.69%) IMAP
11 2 (1.69%) Internet
11 2 (1.69%) Kerberos
11 2 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (1.69%) SAN
11 2 (1.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (33.90%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (16.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (8.47%) MongoDB
5 9 (7.63%) MySQL
6 8 (6.78%) Redis
6 8 (6.78%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.39%) Power BI
8 3 (2.54%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.54%) Tableau
9 2 (1.69%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.69%) Flink
9 2 (1.69%) Metadata
10 1 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.85%) Stardog
10 1 (0.85%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 32 (27.12%) Git
2 29 (24.58%) GitLab
3 23 (19.49%) Jenkins
4 16 (13.56%) JIRA
5 8 (6.78%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.69%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.85%) Maven
7 1 (0.85%) Spinnaker
General
1 49 (41.53%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.97%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.32%) Finance
4 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.24%) Banking
4 5 (4.24%) Law
4 5 (4.24%) Military
5 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.54%) Police
6 2 (1.69%) Games
6 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Legal
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Publishing
7 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (25.42%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (23.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (22.03%) Architect
4 16 (13.56%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (12.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (11.86%) AWS Architect
6 14 (11.86%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (11.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (11.02%) DBA
7 13 (11.02%) Senior
8 10 (8.47%) Administrator
9 8 (6.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) Lead
11 6 (5.08%) Network Engineer
11 6 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.08%) Technical Architect
12 5 (4.24%) Security Engineer
13 4 (3.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 4 (3.39%) Network Architect
13 4 (3.39%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (73.73%) Terraform
2 7 (5.93%) boto
3 6 (5.08%) SAML
4 4 (3.39%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.39%) OpenID
4 4 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (3.39%) OpenTofu
5 3 (2.54%) Kafka
5 3 (2.54%) LDAP
5 3 (2.54%) OAuth
5 3 (2.54%) REST
5 3 (2.54%) YAML
6 2 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.69%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.69%) Flask
6 2 (1.69%) JDBC
6 2 (1.69%) JMX
6 2 (1.69%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.85%) React
7 1 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.95%) Replication
2 18 (15.25%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.63%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (6.78%) Security Posture
5 7 (5.93%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.39%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.54%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.54%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.54%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.69%) PKI
9 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.03%) Linux
2 12 (10.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (8.47%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (5.93%) Windows
5 4 (3.39%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.85%) VMS
7 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (64.41%) CI/CD
2 73 (61.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 68 (57.63%) DevOps
4 29 (24.58%) Platform Engineering
5 26 (22.03%) Agile
5 26 (22.03%) Cloud Security
6 24 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (20.34%) Observability
6 24 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (18.64%) Containerisation
7 22 (18.64%) High Availability
7 22 (18.64%) Secrets Management
8 20 (16.95%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (16.95%) Root Cause Analysis
9 18 (15.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (14.41%) Migration
10 17 (14.41%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (12.71%) Data Modelling
12 14 (11.86%) SIEM
13 13 (11.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 50 (42.37%) Python
2 30 (25.42%) Bash
3 21 (17.80%) SQL
4 18 (15.25%) PowerShell
5 17 (14.41%) Java
6 10 (8.47%) Groovy
7 7 (5.93%) Perl
8 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.69%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) C
10 1 (0.85%) Cypher
10 1 (0.85%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) R
10 1 (0.85%) SHACL
10 1 (0.85%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 61 (51.69%) Security Cleared
2 58 (49.15%) SC Cleared
3 34 (28.81%) AWS Certification
4 19 (16.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.32%) Azure Certification
6 8 (6.78%) Degree
7 5 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.85%) CISSP
10 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.85%) PMP
10 1 (0.85%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.93%) GDPR
3 6 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.54%) PMO
4 3 (2.54%) QA
5 2 (1.69%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.69%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.69%) SLA
6 1 (0.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (32.20%) Docker
2 11 (9.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.63%) Squid
4 2 (1.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.69%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.69%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.69%) Postfix
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (31.36%) Kubernetes
2 34 (28.81%) Grafana
3 30 (25.42%) Prometheus
4 27 (22.88%) Ansible
5 7 (5.93%) Puppet
6 6 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.39%) Argo
7 4 (3.39%) Packer
7 4 (3.39%) Salt
7 4 (3.39%) Suricata
8 3 (2.54%) SELinux
8 3 (2.54%) systemd
9 2 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.69%) Istio
9 2 (1.69%) Nessus
9 2 (1.69%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.85%) Cilium
10 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (14.41%) ServiceNow
2 10 (8.47%) Red Hat
3 9 (7.63%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.24%) Cisco
4 5 (4.24%) Splunk
5 4 (3.39%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.54%) Aruba
6 3 (2.54%) Databricks
6 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.54%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.54%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.54%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.69%) Confluent
7 2 (1.69%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.69%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.69%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.85%) Avid
8 1 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.85%) Sonatype