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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 306 334
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 -30
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 122 56 55
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.42% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 0.97% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 38 33
10th Percentile £421 £509 £478
25th Percentile £456 £514 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.98% +9.67% -10.33%
75th Percentile £588 £697 £620
90th Percentile £658 £725 £838
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
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 8,295 5,785 6,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.26% 43.22% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,669 3,961 4,763
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 48
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.05 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% +4.55% -43.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £76.06 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.00
% change year-on-year +30.70% -6.07% -15.15%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -2 19 £530 -14.52% 3
Central London -27 4 £575 -14.81% 1
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 21 (17.21%) Confluence
2 9 (7.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.56%) nginx
4 4 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.46%) Apache
6 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (54.92%) Amazon EC2
3 64 (52.46%) Amazon S3
4 57 (46.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 50 (40.98%) Serverless
6 47 (38.52%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (33.61%) Amazon EKS
8 30 (24.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (22.13%) Azure
10 26 (21.31%) AWS KMS
11 20 (16.39%) AWS CloudTrail
12 19 (15.57%) GitHub
13 17 (13.93%) GCP
14 15 (12.30%) Route 53
15 14 (11.48%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (11.48%) Datadog
16 12 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (9.84%) Snowflake
17 11 (9.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 10 (8.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.31%) Firewall
2 15 (12.30%) TCP/IP
3 14 (11.48%) Network Security
4 12 (9.84%) VPN
5 10 (8.20%) DNS
6 7 (5.74%) WAN
7 6 (4.92%) OpenVPN
7 6 (4.92%) SSH
8 5 (4.10%) SSL
9 4 (3.28%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (2.46%) LAN
10 3 (2.46%) Wireless
11 2 (1.64%) BGP
11 2 (1.64%) FTP
11 2 (1.64%) HTTP
11 2 (1.64%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.64%) IMAP
11 2 (1.64%) Internet
11 2 (1.64%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (1.64%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (34.43%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (15.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (8.20%) MongoDB
5 9 (7.38%) MySQL
6 8 (6.56%) Redis
6 8 (6.56%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.92%) Power BI
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.46%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.46%) Tableau
10 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.64%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.82%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.82%) Metadata
11 1 (0.82%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (26.23%) Git
1 32 (26.23%) GitLab
2 29 (23.77%) Jenkins
3 16 (13.11%) JIRA
4 9 (7.38%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.64%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.82%) Maven
6 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 37 (30.33%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.02%) Finance
4 5 (4.10%) Banking
4 5 (4.10%) Law
4 5 (4.10%) Military
5 4 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.46%) Police
7 2 (1.64%) Games
7 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Legal
8 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Publishing
8 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (25.41%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (23.77%) Architect
3 27 (22.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (13.11%) AWS DevOps
5 15 (12.30%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) AWS Architect
6 14 (11.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) Senior
7 13 (10.66%) DBA
8 9 (7.38%) Administrator
9 7 (5.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Lead
9 7 (5.74%) Network Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Technical Architect
10 6 (4.92%) Site Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.10%) Security Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (72.13%) Terraform
2 6 (4.92%) boto
2 6 (4.92%) SAML
3 4 (3.28%) OpenID
3 4 (3.28%) OpenTofu
4 3 (2.46%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.46%) Kafka
4 3 (2.46%) LDAP
4 3 (2.46%) OAuth
4 3 (2.46%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.64%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.64%) REST
5 2 (1.64%) YAML
6 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.82%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.82%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.82%) Jest
6 1 (0.82%) React
6 1 (0.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) Replication
2 17 (13.93%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.56%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (5.74%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.74%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.28%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.46%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.46%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.64%) PKI
8 1 (0.82%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.31%) Linux
2 12 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (8.20%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (5.74%) Windows
5 4 (3.28%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.82%) VMS
7 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (63.93%) CI/CD
2 72 (59.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (54.10%) DevOps
4 26 (21.31%) Platform Engineering
5 25 (20.49%) Agile
5 25 (20.49%) Observability
6 24 (19.67%) Cloud Security
6 24 (19.67%) Secrets Management
6 24 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (18.85%) Containerisation
7 23 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (18.85%) Migration
8 20 (16.39%) High Availability
8 20 (16.39%) Performance Tuning
9 19 (15.57%) Root Cause Analysis
10 18 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (13.11%) Data Modelling
11 16 (13.11%) Roadmaps
11 16 (13.11%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (10.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (42.62%) Python
2 29 (23.77%) Bash
3 20 (16.39%) SQL
4 19 (15.57%) Java
5 18 (14.75%) PowerShell
6 10 (8.20%) Groovy
7 7 (5.74%) Perl
8 3 (2.46%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.46%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.82%) Bicep
10 1 (0.82%) C
10 1 (0.82%) Cypher
10 1 (0.82%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.82%) R
10 1 (0.82%) SHACL
10 1 (0.82%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 65 (53.28%) Security Cleared
2 61 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 35 (28.69%) AWS Certification
4 19 (15.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (10.66%) Azure Certification
6 8 (6.56%) Degree
7 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.82%) CISSP
9 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.82%) PMP
9 1 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.10%) GDPR
4 4 (3.28%) SLA
5 3 (2.46%) PMO
6 2 (1.64%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.64%) QA
7 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.82%) NCSC
7 1 (0.82%) NIST
7 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (32.79%) Docker
2 11 (9.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.38%) Squid
4 2 (1.64%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.64%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.64%) Postfix
5 1 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (31.15%) Kubernetes
2 35 (28.69%) Grafana
3 32 (26.23%) Prometheus
4 27 (22.13%) Ansible
5 7 (5.74%) Puppet
6 6 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.28%) Packer
7 4 (3.28%) Salt
7 4 (3.28%) Suricata
8 3 (2.46%) Argo
8 3 (2.46%) SELinux
9 2 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.64%) Istio
9 2 (1.64%) Nessus
9 2 (1.64%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.64%) systemd
10 1 (0.82%) Cilium
10 1 (0.82%) CloudForms
10 1 (0.82%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (13.93%) ServiceNow
2 10 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.20%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.74%) Splunk
4 5 (4.10%) Cisco
4 5 (4.10%) Zscaler
5 4 (3.28%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.46%) Aruba
6 3 (2.46%) Databricks
6 3 (2.46%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.46%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.46%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.46%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.64%) Google
7 2 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.82%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.82%) Citrix
8 1 (0.82%) IBM
8 1 (0.82%) Oracle