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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 310 336
Rank change year-on-year +26 +26 +4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 116 40 66
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 0.74% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 23 44
10th Percentile £400 £408 £384
25th Percentile £463 £538 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.64% +10.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £595 £738 £657
90th Percentile £653 £758 £805
England median daily rate £518 £611 £550
% change year-on-year -15.29% +11.07% -12.00%

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 7,577 5,400 6,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.29% 42.42% 37.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,221 3,746 4,944
10th Percentile £350 £356 £327
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.07% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 53 75
10th Percentile £18.84 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.31 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%
75th Percentile £53.35 £53.75 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £61.50
England median hourly rate £46.00 £26.48 £20.87
% change year-on-year +73.75% +26.86% -29.25%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 26 £505 -38.41% 1
Central London -8 9 £575 -0.86%
West London -26 1 - - 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 20 (17.24%) Confluence
2 9 (7.76%) nginx
3 4 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 116 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (68.10%) Amazon S3
3 73 (62.93%) Amazon EC2
4 65 (56.03%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (56.03%) Serverless
5 51 (43.97%) Amazon EKS
6 46 (39.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (31.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (30.17%) Route 53
9 24 (20.69%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (18.10%) Azure
11 20 (17.24%) GitHub
12 19 (16.38%) GCP
13 16 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (12.93%) AWS KMS
15 13 (11.21%) AWS Control Tower
16 12 (10.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 12 (10.34%) Power Platform
17 10 (8.62%) Amazon MSK
18 9 (7.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (24.14%) Firewall
2 25 (21.55%) VPN
3 23 (19.83%) DNS
4 17 (14.66%) TCP/IP
5 11 (9.48%) Network Security
6 10 (8.62%) OpenVPN
7 7 (6.03%) BGP
7 7 (6.03%) OSPF
8 5 (4.31%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.45%) SD-WAN
9 4 (3.45%) WAN
10 3 (2.59%) NGFW
10 3 (2.59%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (2.59%) Wireless
11 2 (1.72%) Kerberos
11 2 (1.72%) LAN
12 1 (0.86%) DHCP
12 1 (0.86%) SNMP
12 1 (0.86%) SSL
12 1 (0.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (37.07%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.34%) Power BI
3 10 (8.62%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (7.76%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (7.76%) MySQL
5 8 (6.90%) Tableau
6 7 (6.03%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (4.31%) DocumentDB
7 5 (4.31%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.45%) Redis
9 3 (2.59%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.72%) Big Data
10 2 (1.72%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.72%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 40 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 37 (31.90%) GitLab
3 19 (16.38%) JIRA
4 16 (13.79%) Git
5 12 (10.34%) Bitbucket
6 8 (6.90%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.45%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.45%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.45%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.59%) Snyk
9 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.86%) JUnit
10 1 (0.86%) Maven
10 1 (0.86%) MLflow
General
1 40 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 34 (29.31%) Public Sector
3 24 (20.69%) Finance
4 15 (12.93%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Banking
8 3 (2.59%) Military
9 2 (1.72%) Games
9 2 (1.72%) Law
9 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Police
10 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (37.07%) Architect
2 26 (22.41%) AWS Architect
3 20 (17.24%) Cloud Architect
4 16 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.48%) Lead
7 9 (7.76%) Analyst
7 9 (7.76%) Senior
8 8 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (6.90%) Technical Architect
9 7 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (6.03%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 7 (6.03%) Technical Manager
10 6 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (5.17%) Security Architect
10 6 (5.17%) Security Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Site Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.07%) OpenID
2 12 (10.34%) Kafka
3 9 (7.76%) LDAP
4 7 (6.03%) AWS CDK
5 6 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (5.17%) REST
6 5 (4.31%) OAuth
6 5 (4.31%) OAuth2
6 5 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (4.31%) Spring
6 5 (4.31%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.45%) gRPC
7 4 (3.45%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.45%) JPA
7 4 (3.45%) RESTful
7 4 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (2.59%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.59%) JSON
9 2 (1.72%) Node.js
9 2 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.45%) Replication
7 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.72%) PKI
7 2 (1.72%) SCADA
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.79%) Linux
2 4 (3.45%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.86%) VMS
3 1 (0.86%) Windows
3 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (53.45%) CI/CD
2 55 (47.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (45.69%) DevOps
4 29 (25.00%) Migration
5 28 (24.14%) Containerisation
5 28 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (20.69%) Agile
6 24 (20.69%) Observability
7 22 (18.97%) Roadmaps
8 20 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (14.66%) Cloud Security
9 17 (14.66%) Incident Response
9 17 (14.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (13.79%) Cost Management
10 16 (13.79%) Decision-Making
11 15 (12.93%) Microservices
11 15 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (11.21%) Cost Optimisation
12 13 (11.21%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (42.24%) Python
2 21 (18.10%) Bash
3 20 (17.24%) Java
4 16 (13.79%) SQL
5 9 (7.76%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.17%) Go
7 5 (4.31%) Perl
8 4 (3.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.59%) Groovy
9 3 (2.59%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.72%) Cypher
10 2 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (49.14%) Security Cleared
2 54 (46.55%) SC Cleared
3 29 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 12 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (4.31%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.72%) CISSP
7 1 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.86%) CCNP
7 1 (0.86%) CCSP
7 1 (0.86%) CEH
7 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.86%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.86%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.86%) PMP
7 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) NIST
2 7 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.03%) PCI DSS
2 7 (6.03%) PMO
3 5 (4.31%) QA
3 5 (4.31%) SLA
4 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.45%) GDPR
5 3 (2.59%) NCSC
6 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.86%) GRC
System Software
1 48 (41.38%) Docker
2 10 (8.62%) Squid
3 6 (5.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.86%) HDFS
5 1 (0.86%) NLBS
5 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (66.38%) Terraform
2 45 (38.79%) Kubernetes
3 30 (25.86%) Prometheus
4 23 (19.83%) Grafana
5 22 (18.97%) Ansible
6 11 (9.48%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (7.76%) FortiGate
8 7 (6.03%) Consul
9 4 (3.45%) Karpenter
9 4 (3.45%) Kibana
9 4 (3.45%) Puppet
10 3 (2.59%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (2.59%) Salt
11 1 (0.86%) Argo
11 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.86%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.86%) Opsview
11 1 (0.86%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 9 (7.76%) Dynatrace
1 9 (7.76%) Red Hat
1 9 (7.76%) Splunk
2 8 (6.90%) Fortinet
2 8 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.03%) Atlassian
3 7 (6.03%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.31%) AVEVA
4 5 (4.31%) Zscaler
5 4 (3.45%) Qualys
5 4 (3.45%) Tenable
6 3 (2.59%) Citrix
6 3 (2.59%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.59%) Databricks
6 3 (2.59%) Google
6 3 (2.59%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.59%) SAP
7 2 (1.72%) Arista
7 2 (1.72%) CloudEndure
7 2 (1.72%) Solace