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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 320 324
Rank change year-on-year +45 +4 +26
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 104 40 66
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 0.71% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 22 51
10th Percentile £390 £508 £377
25th Percentile £463 £534 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +5.65% -11.54%
75th Percentile £640 £738 £738
90th Percentile £723 £759 £938
England median daily rate £525 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -15.38%

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 6,747 5,644 6,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.20% 41.57% 37.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,624 3,770 5,111
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 49 78
10th Percentile £18.17 £22.07 £17.55
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £33.25 £31.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +3.28% -10.29%
75th Percentile £53.35 £55.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.23
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.73% -11.10%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 +4 20 £519 -25.12% 5
Central London -4 9 £525 -5.62% 2
West London - 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 19 (18.27%) Confluence
2 11 (10.58%) nginx
3 2 (1.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.92%) SAS
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (67.31%) Amazon S3
3 60 (57.69%) Amazon EC2
4 47 (45.19%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (45.19%) Serverless
5 45 (43.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 45 (43.27%) Amazon EKS
6 35 (33.65%) Route 53
7 34 (32.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (24.04%) GitHub
10 20 (19.23%) Azure
11 18 (17.31%) GCP
11 18 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (16.35%) Amazon ELB
13 16 (15.38%) AWS KMS
14 12 (11.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (9.62%) AWS Control Tower
16 9 (8.65%) AWS CloudTrail
17 8 (7.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (27.88%) Firewall
2 28 (26.92%) DNS
3 24 (23.08%) VPN
4 16 (15.38%) TCP/IP
5 13 (12.50%) Network Security
6 7 (6.73%) OpenVPN
7 6 (5.77%) SSL
7 6 (5.77%) WAN
7 6 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (4.81%) BGP
8 5 (4.81%) OSPF
8 5 (4.81%) Wireless
9 4 (3.85%) FTP
9 4 (3.85%) HTTP
9 4 (3.85%) IMAP
9 4 (3.85%) LAN
9 4 (3.85%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (3.85%) SD-WAN
9 4 (3.85%) SMTP
9 4 (3.85%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (40.38%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (12.50%) MySQL
4 8 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.77%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.81%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.81%) DocumentDB
6 5 (4.81%) Power BI
6 5 (4.81%) Redis
7 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.85%) Tableau
8 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.92%) Big Data
9 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.92%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (40.38%) Jenkins
2 34 (32.69%) GitLab
3 21 (20.19%) JIRA
4 19 (18.27%) Git
5 11 (10.58%) Bitbucket
6 6 (5.77%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.85%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.85%) Terragrunt
7 4 (3.85%) Vagrant
8 2 (1.92%) Snyk
8 2 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.96%) JUnit
9 1 (0.96%) Maven
9 1 (0.96%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.96%) MLflow
General
1 35 (33.65%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.23%) Finance
2 20 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (8.65%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.81%) Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Military
9 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (33.65%) Architect
2 25 (24.04%) AWS Architect
3 21 (20.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (19.23%) Cloud Architect
5 16 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (14.42%) Senior
7 10 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.65%) Lead
9 8 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (5.77%) Security Architect
10 6 (5.77%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.77%) Technical Delivery Manager
10 6 (5.77%) Technical Manager
11 5 (4.81%) Analyst
11 5 (4.81%) Network Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.50%) Kafka
2 12 (11.54%) OpenID
3 11 (10.58%) LDAP
4 6 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (5.77%) REST
5 5 (4.81%) AWS CDK
5 5 (4.81%) OAuth
5 5 (4.81%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.81%) Spring
5 5 (4.81%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.85%) gRPC
6 4 (3.85%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.85%) JPA
6 4 (3.85%) JSON
6 4 (3.85%) Node.js
6 4 (3.85%) RESTful
6 4 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.88%) 802.1X
8 2 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.73%) Replication
4 6 (5.77%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.92%) Life Science
7 2 (1.92%) PKI
7 2 (1.92%) SCADA
8 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.27%) Linux
2 7 (6.73%) Windows
3 5 (4.81%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (4.81%) Ubuntu
3 5 (4.81%) VMS
4 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.96%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (58.65%) CI/CD
2 56 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (51.92%) DevOps
4 24 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 23 (22.12%) Observability
6 22 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (20.19%) Incident Response
8 20 (19.23%) Migration
9 19 (18.27%) Cloud Security
10 18 (17.31%) Agile
11 16 (15.38%) High Availability
11 16 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (14.42%) Roadmaps
13 14 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (13.46%) Cost Optimisation
14 13 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
15 12 (11.54%) Cost Management
15 12 (11.54%) DevSecOps
15 12 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (44.23%) Python
2 22 (21.15%) Bash
3 16 (15.38%) SQL
4 13 (12.50%) Java
5 10 (9.62%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.77%) Go
7 4 (3.85%) Groovy
8 2 (1.92%) Cypher
8 2 (1.92%) Perl
8 2 (1.92%) Ruby
8 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.96%) PHP
9 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (45.19%) Security Cleared
2 46 (44.23%) SC Cleared
3 28 (26.92%) AWS Certification
4 11 (10.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (4.81%) Degree
6 4 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.92%) CCNA
8 2 (1.92%) CISSP
8 2 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.96%) CCNP
9 1 (0.96%) CCSP
9 1 (0.96%) CEH
9 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.96%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.96%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) NIST
2 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.73%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.85%) GDPR
3 4 (3.85%) QA
4 3 (2.88%) NCSC
4 3 (2.88%) PMO
5 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.92%) SLA
6 1 (0.96%) GRC
System Software
1 46 (44.23%) Docker
2 12 (11.54%) Squid
3 4 (3.85%) DFS Replication
3 4 (3.85%) Dovecot
3 4 (3.85%) Postfix
4 3 (2.88%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.96%) HDFS
6 1 (0.96%) NLBS
6 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (73.08%) Terraform
2 39 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 26 (25.00%) Ansible
4 22 (21.15%) Prometheus
5 17 (16.35%) Grafana
6 10 (9.62%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (8.65%) FortiGate
8 6 (5.77%) Consul
8 6 (5.77%) Kibana
9 5 (4.81%) Karpenter
9 5 (4.81%) Nessus
10 4 (3.85%) Proxmox
11 3 (2.88%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (2.88%) Puppet
12 2 (1.92%) Argo
12 2 (1.92%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.96%) Opsview
13 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (10.58%) Palo Alto
2 9 (8.65%) Dynatrace
2 9 (8.65%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.73%) Atlassian
3 7 (6.73%) CheckPoint
3 7 (6.73%) Fortinet
3 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
3 7 (6.73%) Splunk
4 6 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.81%) AVEVA
5 5 (4.81%) F5
6 4 (3.85%) Cisco
6 4 (3.85%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (3.85%) Tenable
7 3 (2.88%) Citrix
7 3 (2.88%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.88%) Databricks
7 3 (2.88%) Google
7 3 (2.88%) Qualys
7 3 (2.88%) SAP