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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 304 332
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 +7
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 116 40 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.32% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 0.76% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 25 41
10th Percentile £431 £409 £377
25th Percentile £478 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £535
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +13.55% -14.40%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £645
90th Percentile £658 £745 £788
England median daily rate £518 £580 £543
% change year-on-year -10.78% +6.81% -13.12%
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 7,498 5,244 6,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.45% 42.42% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,174 3,623 4,969
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +12 29 £505 -38.41%
Central London -8 7 £595 -8.46% 5
West London -28 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 22 (18.97%) 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 78 (67.24%) Amazon S3
3 75 (64.66%) Amazon EC2
4 64 (55.17%) AWS Lambda
4 64 (55.17%) Serverless
5 53 (45.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 53 (45.69%) Amazon EKS
6 32 (27.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (26.72%) Route 53
8 22 (18.97%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (18.97%) Azure
9 17 (14.66%) GitHub
10 16 (13.79%) GCP
11 15 (12.93%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (12.07%) AWS KMS
13 12 (10.34%) AWS Control Tower
13 12 (10.34%) Power Platform
14 10 (8.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 8 (6.90%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (6.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 32 (27.59%) Firewall
2 24 (20.69%) DNS
3 23 (19.83%) VPN
4 21 (18.10%) TCP/IP
5 13 (11.21%) 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%) LAN
12 1 (0.86%) DHCP
12 1 (0.86%) Internet
12 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.86%) SNMP
12 1 (0.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (33.62%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.34%) Power BI
3 9 (7.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (7.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (7.76%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.90%) Tableau
5 7 (6.03%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (5.17%) MySQL
7 5 (4.31%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (3.45%) DocumentDB
8 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.45%) Redis
9 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.72%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 39 (33.62%) GitLab
2 34 (29.31%) Jenkins
3 21 (18.10%) Git
4 19 (16.38%) JIRA
5 11 (9.48%) Bitbucket
6 8 (6.90%) Artifactory
6 8 (6.90%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.45%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.59%) Snyk
9 2 (1.72%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.86%) JUnit
10 1 (0.86%) MLflow
10 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 36 (31.03%) Public Sector
3 22 (18.97%) Finance
4 15 (12.93%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Military
8 3 (2.59%) Police
9 2 (1.72%) Banking
9 2 (1.72%) Games
9 2 (1.72%) Law
9 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (34.48%) Architect
2 23 (19.83%) AWS Architect
3 22 (18.97%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (17.24%) Cloud Architect
5 12 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (10.34%) Lead
6 10 (8.62%) Senior
7 9 (7.76%) Analyst
8 8 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (6.90%) Technical Architect
9 7 (6.03%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (6.03%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 7 (6.03%) Technical Manager
10 6 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
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 10 (8.62%) Kafka
3 9 (7.76%) LDAP
4 7 (6.03%) AWS CDK
5 5 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.31%) OAuth
5 5 (4.31%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (4.31%) REST
6 4 (3.45%) gRPC
6 4 (3.45%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.45%) JPA
6 4 (3.45%) RESTful
6 4 (3.45%) Spring
6 4 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.59%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.86%) boto
8 1 (0.86%) React
8 1 (0.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.45%) 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%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.79%) Linux
2 5 (4.31%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.72%) Windows
4 1 (0.86%) VMS
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (55.17%) CI/CD
2 56 (48.28%) DevOps
3 54 (46.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (24.14%) Migration
5 26 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (20.69%) Agile
6 24 (20.69%) Containerisation
7 23 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (19.83%) Observability
8 22 (18.97%) Roadmaps
9 17 (14.66%) Cloud Security
9 17 (14.66%) Decision-Making
10 16 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (12.93%) Cost Management
11 15 (12.93%) Incident Response
11 15 (12.93%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (12.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (12.07%) Microservices
12 14 (12.07%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.10%) Python
2 23 (19.83%) Bash
3 18 (15.52%) Java
4 16 (13.79%) SQL
5 9 (7.76%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.45%) Go
6 4 (3.45%) Groovy
6 4 (3.45%) Perl
6 4 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.59%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.72%) Cypher
9 1 (0.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 64 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 60 (51.72%) SC Cleared
3 26 (22.41%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.03%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.86%) CCNP
7 1 (0.86%) CEH
7 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.86%) CISSP
7 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.86%) Degree
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%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) NIST
2 7 (6.03%) PMO
3 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.31%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.31%) QA
3 5 (4.31%) SLA
4 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.59%) NCSC
6 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.72%) GDPR
7 1 (0.86%) GRC
System Software
1 42 (36.21%) Docker
2 15 (12.93%) Squid
3 7 (6.03%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.86%) HDFS
5 1 (0.86%) NLBS
5 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (67.24%) Terraform
2 42 (36.21%) Kubernetes
3 30 (25.86%) Grafana
4 29 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 18 (15.52%) 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
9 4 (3.45%) Suricata
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%) Microsoft
1 9 (7.76%) Red Hat
2 8 (6.90%) Fortinet
2 8 (6.90%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.03%) Atlassian
3 7 (6.03%) Splunk
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%) 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%) Globalscape
7 2 (1.72%) Solace