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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 309 326
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 +15
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 110 42 71
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.32% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 0.76% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 22 50
10th Percentile £400 £416 £376
25th Percentile £463 £534 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £606 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +5.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £630 £713 £738
90th Percentile £713 £749 £938
England median daily rate £525 £608 £569
% change year-on-year -13.58% +6.81% -9.00%

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 7,062 5,508 6,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.86% 37.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,845 3,753 4,940
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
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 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 45 76
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -11.44%
75th Percentile £52.16 £55.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.25 £63.13
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.25 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.79% +27.52% -14.52%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +1 22 £513 -25.99% 4
Central London -5 9 £525 -9.09% 4
West London -23 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 17 (15.45%) Confluence
2 9 (8.18%) nginx
3 4 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.91%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 110 (100.00%) AWS
2 74 (67.27%) Amazon S3
3 65 (59.09%) Amazon EC2
4 56 (50.91%) AWS Lambda
4 56 (50.91%) Serverless
5 50 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
6 48 (43.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 36 (32.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (30.00%) Route 53
9 25 (22.73%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (21.82%) GitHub
11 21 (19.09%) GCP
12 18 (16.36%) Azure
12 18 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (12.73%) Amazon ELB
14 13 (11.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 13 (11.82%) AWS KMS
15 11 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
15 11 (10.00%) Datadog
16 10 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 29 (26.36%) Firewall
2 27 (24.55%) VPN
3 26 (23.64%) DNS
4 18 (16.36%) TCP/IP
5 13 (11.82%) Network Security
6 8 (7.27%) OpenVPN
7 6 (5.45%) BGP
7 6 (5.45%) OSPF
7 6 (5.45%) SSL
7 6 (5.45%) WAN
7 6 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (4.55%) Wireless
9 4 (3.64%) LAN
9 4 (3.64%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.73%) NGFW
11 2 (1.82%) Kerberos
11 2 (1.82%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.91%) IMAP
12 1 (0.91%) SNMP
12 1 (0.91%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (37.27%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (11.82%) MySQL
3 12 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (8.18%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (7.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (7.27%) Power BI
7 6 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (5.45%) DynamoDB
7 6 (5.45%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.45%) Tableau
8 5 (4.55%) DocumentDB
8 5 (4.55%) Redis
9 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.73%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.82%) Big Data
11 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.82%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 43 (39.09%) Jenkins
2 39 (35.45%) GitLab
3 19 (17.27%) JIRA
4 18 (16.36%) Git
5 13 (11.82%) Bitbucket
6 7 (6.36%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.64%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.64%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.73%) Snyk
9 2 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.91%) JUnit
10 1 (0.91%) Maven
10 1 (0.91%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.91%) MLflow
10 1 (0.91%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.91%) Public Sector
3 20 (18.18%) Finance
4 12 (10.91%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.64%) Banking
8 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Military
8 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (32.73%) Architect
2 24 (21.82%) AWS Architect
3 20 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
4 19 (17.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (15.45%) Senior
6 16 (14.55%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) Lead
8 8 (7.27%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (7.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Analyst
9 7 (6.36%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (6.36%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 7 (6.36%) Technical Manager
10 6 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Network Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (4.55%) Site Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.82%) Kafka
1 13 (11.82%) OpenID
2 9 (8.18%) LDAP
3 6 (5.45%) AWS CDK
3 6 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.45%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (5.45%) REST
4 5 (4.55%) OAuth
4 5 (4.55%) OAuth2
4 5 (4.55%) Spring
4 5 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.64%) gRPC
5 4 (3.64%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.64%) JPA
5 4 (3.64%) JSON
5 4 (3.64%) Node.js
5 4 (3.64%) RESTful
5 4 (3.64%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (2.73%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.36%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.64%) Replication
6 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.82%) Life Science
7 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.82%) PKI
7 2 (1.82%) SCADA
8 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.64%) Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Windows
3 2 (1.82%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.82%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.82%) VMS
4 1 (0.91%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (58.18%) CI/CD
2 58 (52.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (49.09%) DevOps
4 27 (24.55%) Containerisation
5 26 (23.64%) Observability
6 25 (22.73%) Incident Response
6 25 (22.73%) Migration
6 25 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (17.27%) Agile
8 17 (15.45%) Cloud Security
8 17 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (15.45%) Roadmaps
9 16 (14.55%) High Availability
10 15 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (12.73%) Cost Management
11 14 (12.73%) Cost Optimisation
12 13 (11.82%) Decision-Making
12 13 (11.82%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (10.91%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 49 (44.55%) Python
2 25 (22.73%) Bash
3 15 (13.64%) Java
3 15 (13.64%) SQL
4 6 (5.45%) Go
4 6 (5.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.82%) Cypher
6 2 (1.82%) Perl
6 2 (1.82%) Ruby
7 1 (0.91%) Groovy
7 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.91%) PHP
7 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (46.36%) Security Cleared
2 50 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 26 (23.64%) AWS Certification
4 11 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.82%) CCNA
7 2 (1.82%) CCNP
7 2 (1.82%) CISSP
7 2 (1.82%) Degree
7 2 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.91%) CEH
8 1 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.91%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.91%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) NIST
2 7 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.36%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.55%) SLA
4 4 (3.64%) GDPR
4 4 (3.64%) PMO
4 4 (3.64%) QA
5 3 (2.73%) NCSC
6 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.91%) GRC
System Software
1 49 (44.55%) Docker
2 10 (9.09%) Squid
3 4 (3.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.91%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.91%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.91%) HDFS
5 1 (0.91%) NLBS
5 1 (0.91%) Postfix
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (71.82%) Terraform
2 41 (37.27%) Kubernetes
3 28 (25.45%) Ansible
4 25 (22.73%) Prometheus
5 20 (18.18%) Grafana
6 11 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (9.09%) FortiGate
8 7 (6.36%) Consul
9 6 (5.45%) Kibana
10 5 (4.55%) Karpenter
11 3 (2.73%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (2.73%) Puppet
12 2 (1.82%) Argo
12 2 (1.82%) Nessus
13 1 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.91%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.91%) Opsview
13 1 (0.91%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.91%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 10 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 10 (9.09%) Splunk
3 8 (7.27%) Atlassian
3 8 (7.27%) Fortinet
3 8 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.27%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.36%) CheckPoint
5 6 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.55%) AVEVA
6 5 (4.55%) F5
6 5 (4.55%) Tenable
7 4 (3.64%) Cisco
7 4 (3.64%) Google
7 4 (3.64%) Qualys
8 3 (2.73%) Citrix
8 3 (2.73%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.73%) Databricks
8 3 (2.73%) SAP
8 3 (2.73%) Zscaler