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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 310 339
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 -26
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 128 40 55
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 0.74% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 26 39
10th Percentile £424 £409 £374
25th Percentile £475 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £587 £684 £623
90th Percentile £656 £713 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -10.83%
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 8,027 5,431 6,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.98% 43.01% 39.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,527 3,689 5,117
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 71 70
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +20.82% -48.32%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £67.50 £55.25
England median hourly rate £43.09 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +71.34% +14.32% -31.89%

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 25 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 25 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 +7 27 £500 -
Central London -16 3 £585 -10.00%
East London - 2 £600 - 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 (17.19%) Confluence
2 9 (7.03%) nginx
3 5 (3.91%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (61.72%) Amazon S3
3 77 (60.16%) Amazon EC2
4 71 (55.47%) Serverless
5 69 (53.91%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (46.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 57 (44.53%) Amazon EKS
8 30 (23.44%) Route 53
9 29 (22.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (17.19%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (17.19%) Azure
11 16 (12.50%) GitHub
12 13 (10.16%) AWS KMS
13 12 (9.38%) AWS CloudTrail
13 12 (9.38%) GCP
13 12 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (9.38%) Power Platform
13 12 (9.38%) Snowflake
14 11 (8.59%) Datadog
15 10 (7.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 36 (28.13%) Firewall
2 25 (19.53%) VPN
3 22 (17.19%) TCP/IP
4 21 (16.41%) DNS
5 18 (14.06%) Network Security
6 10 (7.81%) OpenVPN
6 10 (7.81%) WAN
7 6 (4.69%) BGP
8 5 (3.91%) OSPF
9 4 (3.13%) LAN
9 4 (3.13%) SSL
9 4 (3.13%) Wireless
10 3 (2.34%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (2.34%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.78%) DHCP
12 1 (0.78%) Internet
12 1 (0.78%) NGFW
12 1 (0.78%) VLAN
12 1 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.38%) Power BI
3 9 (7.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (7.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (7.03%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.25%) Tableau
5 7 (5.47%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.91%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (3.91%) MySQL
7 4 (3.13%) DocumentDB
7 4 (3.13%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.13%) Redis
8 3 (2.34%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.78%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.78%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 39 (30.47%) GitLab
2 33 (25.78%) Jenkins
3 27 (21.09%) Git
4 21 (16.41%) JIRA
5 11 (8.59%) Bitbucket
6 10 (7.81%) Artifactory
7 8 (6.25%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.56%) Snyk
9 1 (0.78%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 34 (26.56%) Public Sector
3 17 (13.28%) Finance
4 15 (11.72%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.91%) Banking
6 5 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.13%) Law
7 4 (3.13%) Military
8 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.34%) Police
9 2 (1.56%) Games
9 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Legal
10 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (32.03%) Architect
2 28 (21.88%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (16.41%) AWS Architect
4 20 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (10.16%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
7 12 (9.38%) Technical Architect
8 10 (7.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) Analyst
9 9 (7.03%) Network Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) Senior
9 9 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (5.47%) Lead
11 7 (5.47%) Network Architect
11 7 (5.47%) Technical Delivery Manager
11 7 (5.47%) Technical Manager
12 6 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.72%) OpenID
2 9 (7.03%) LDAP
3 8 (6.25%) AWS CDK
3 8 (6.25%) Kafka
4 6 (4.69%) OAuth
4 6 (4.69%) OAuth2
5 5 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (3.91%) REST
5 5 (3.91%) RESTful
5 5 (3.91%) SAML
6 4 (3.13%) gRPC
6 4 (3.13%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.13%) JPA
6 4 (3.13%) Spring
6 4 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) .NET
7 1 (0.78%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.81%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.13%) Replication
3 4 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.56%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.56%) SCADA
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.72%) Linux
2 5 (3.91%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (3.91%) Windows
3 3 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (58.59%) CI/CD
2 69 (53.91%) DevOps
3 67 (52.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (22.66%) Agile
5 28 (21.88%) Migration
6 27 (21.09%) Containerisation
6 27 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (19.53%) Roadmaps
8 24 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (16.41%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (15.63%) Decision-Making
10 20 (15.63%) Observability
11 19 (14.84%) Cloud Security
12 16 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (11.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (10.94%) Cost Management
14 14 (10.94%) Microservices
15 13 (10.16%) Secrets Management
16 12 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 54 (42.19%) Python
2 28 (21.88%) Bash
3 17 (13.28%) Java
4 16 (12.50%) SQL
5 11 (8.59%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.91%) Groovy
7 4 (3.13%) Perl
7 4 (3.13%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.34%) Cypher
8 3 (2.34%) Go
8 3 (2.34%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.78%) Bicep
9 1 (0.78%) C
9 1 (0.78%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.78%) SHACL
9 1 (0.78%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (51.56%) Security Cleared
2 62 (48.44%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.41%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.47%) Degree
6 5 (3.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) CCNP
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.78%) CISSP
8 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.78%) PMP
8 1 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) NIST
1 7 (5.47%) PMO
2 5 (3.91%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.91%) QA
2 5 (3.91%) SLA
3 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) GRC
5 1 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (31.25%) Docker
2 15 (11.72%) Squid
3 8 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.78%) NLBS
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (67.19%) Terraform
2 47 (36.72%) Kubernetes
3 36 (28.13%) Prometheus
4 35 (27.34%) Grafana
5 22 (17.19%) Ansible
6 10 (7.81%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (7.03%) FortiGate
8 8 (6.25%) Puppet
9 7 (5.47%) Consul
10 5 (3.91%) Salt
11 4 (3.13%) Suricata
12 3 (2.34%) Packer
13 2 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.78%) Argo
14 1 (0.78%) Cilium
14 1 (0.78%) CloudForms
14 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.78%) Opsview
14 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.78%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 13 (10.16%) Red Hat
2 11 (8.59%) Dynatrace
3 10 (7.81%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.47%) Atlassian
4 7 (5.47%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.69%) Cisco
5 6 (4.69%) Fortinet
5 6 (4.69%) Splunk
6 5 (3.91%) AVEVA
6 5 (3.91%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.13%) Aruba
7 4 (3.13%) Zscaler
8 3 (2.34%) Google
8 3 (2.34%) PagerDuty
8 3 (2.34%) Ping Identity
8 3 (2.34%) SAP
9 2 (1.56%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.56%) Qualys
9 2 (1.56%) Solace
9 2 (1.56%) SolarWinds