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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 318 310
Rank change year-on-year +31 -8 +65
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 82 51 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 0.34% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 0.82% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 28 76
10th Percentile £400 £515 £456
25th Percentile £469 £526 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £578
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.38% -14.37%
75th Percentile £653 £691 £700
90th Percentile £725 £753 £881
England median daily rate £550 £643 £575
% change year-on-year -14.40% +11.74% -11.54%

All Cloud 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 6,290 6,197 7,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.03% 41.13% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,300 4,194 5,330
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 43 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -13.85% +19.89%
75th Percentile £47.50 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -11.67% +29.09% +3.29%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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
Central London +12 14 £600 +14.12% 4
South London -1 13 £585 +8.33%
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 14 (17.07%) Confluence
2 10 (12.20%) nginx
3 4 (4.88%) SAS
4 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.44%) Apache
6 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.22%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (69.51%) Amazon S3
3 53 (64.63%) Amazon EC2
4 37 (45.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 27 (32.93%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (32.93%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (32.93%) Serverless
6 25 (30.49%) Azure
7 24 (29.27%) Amazon ELB
8 23 (28.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (28.05%) GitHub
9 22 (26.83%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (26.83%) Route 53
10 17 (20.73%) AWS KMS
11 14 (17.07%) GCP
11 14 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (12.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 10 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (10.98%) AWS CloudTrail
14 8 (9.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (34.15%) DNS
1 28 (34.15%) Firewall
2 20 (24.39%) VPN
3 11 (13.41%) Network Security
4 10 (12.20%) FTP
4 10 (12.20%) HTTP
4 10 (12.20%) IMAP
4 10 (12.20%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (12.20%) SMTP
4 10 (12.20%) SSH
4 10 (12.20%) SSL
4 10 (12.20%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.88%) WAN
6 3 (3.66%) LAN
7 2 (2.44%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.44%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.44%) Wireless
8 1 (1.22%) SNMP
8 1 (1.22%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (41.46%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (20.73%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (18.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (9.76%) MySQL
5 6 (7.32%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (6.10%) Data Lake
6 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.88%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.44%) Big Data
8 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.22%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.22%) CouchDB
9 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.22%) Redis
9 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (52.44%) Jenkins
2 29 (35.37%) GitLab
3 26 (31.71%) Git
4 16 (19.51%) JIRA
5 10 (12.20%) Vagrant
6 4 (4.88%) Terragrunt
7 3 (3.66%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.66%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.22%) Maven
9 1 (1.22%) Metasploit
9 1 (1.22%) MLflow
9 1 (1.22%) Snyk
General
1 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.17%) Finance
3 16 (19.51%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.20%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.10%) Banking
6 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Military
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (32.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (28.05%) Architect
3 20 (24.39%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (23.17%) AWS Architect
5 17 (20.73%) Senior
6 16 (19.51%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (18.29%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (15.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (15.85%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (13.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 11 (13.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (9.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (9.76%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (9.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (7.32%) AWS Security Architect
11 6 (7.32%) Lead
11 6 (7.32%) Security Architect
12 5 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (4.88%) Lead Architect
13 4 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) LDAP
2 9 (10.98%) Kafka
3 6 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.88%) JSON
4 4 (4.88%) Node.js
5 2 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.44%) REST
5 2 (2.44%) YAML
6 1 (1.22%) .NET
6 1 (1.22%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.22%) Jinja
6 1 (1.22%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.22%) Memcached
6 1 (1.22%) PySpark
6 1 (1.22%) React
6 1 (1.22%) SOAP
6 1 (1.22%) Spring
6 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.85%) Replication
3 9 (10.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.44%) Life Science
7 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.22%) PKI
8 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.83%) Linux
2 16 (19.51%) Windows
3 11 (13.41%) Ubuntu
4 10 (12.20%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (12.20%) VMS
5 5 (6.10%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.22%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (67.07%) CI/CD
2 50 (60.98%) DevOps
3 47 (57.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (28.05%) Cloud Security
5 21 (25.61%) Incident Response
6 20 (24.39%) Configuration Management
6 20 (24.39%) Containerisation
7 18 (21.95%) High Availability
8 17 (20.73%) Observability
9 15 (18.29%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (15.85%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (14.63%) Infrastructure Automation
11 12 (14.63%) Migration
11 12 (14.63%) Patch Management
12 11 (13.41%) Change Management
13 10 (12.20%) DevSecOps
14 9 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (10.98%) FinOps
14 9 (10.98%) Mentoring
14 9 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (60.98%) Python
2 24 (29.27%) Bash
3 17 (20.73%) PowerShell
4 14 (17.07%) SQL
5 10 (12.20%) Groovy
6 8 (9.76%) Java
7 3 (3.66%) Go
8 2 (2.44%) Perl
8 2 (2.44%) Ruby
9 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.22%) PHP
9 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 35 (42.68%) SC Cleared
3 31 (37.80%) AWS Certification
4 11 (13.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (13.41%) Degree
5 10 (12.20%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.44%) CCNA
7 2 (2.44%) CISSP
7 2 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.22%) CCNP
8 1 (1.22%) CCSP
8 1 (1.22%) CEH
8 1 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) GDPR
1 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.10%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.88%) NIST
3 3 (3.66%) NCSC
4 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.44%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (59.76%) Docker
2 10 (12.20%) DFS Replication
2 10 (12.20%) Dovecot
2 10 (12.20%) Postfix
2 10 (12.20%) Squid
3 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.22%) HDFS
4 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (81.71%) Terraform
2 29 (35.37%) Ansible
3 26 (31.71%) Kubernetes
4 16 (19.51%) Prometheus
5 15 (18.29%) Grafana
6 11 (13.41%) Nessus
7 10 (12.20%) Proxmox
8 6 (7.32%) Kibana
8 6 (7.32%) Puppet
9 5 (6.10%) Karpenter
10 4 (4.88%) NetBackup
11 3 (3.66%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (2.44%) Argo
12 2 (2.44%) FortiGate
12 2 (2.44%) Progress Chef
12 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Palo Alto
2 11 (13.41%) CheckPoint
2 11 (13.41%) ServiceNow
3 10 (12.20%) F5
3 10 (12.20%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.10%) Splunk
5 4 (4.88%) Cisco
5 4 (4.88%) Commvault
5 4 (4.88%) SnapLogic
6 3 (3.66%) Citrix
6 3 (3.66%) Cloudera
6 3 (3.66%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.66%) Google
6 3 (3.66%) Tenable
6 3 (3.66%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.44%) CloudEndure
7 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.44%) Oracle
7 2 (2.44%) Qualys