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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 316 319
Rank change year-on-year +21 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 93 40 78
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.29% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 0.70% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 20 61
10th Percentile £384 £524 £400
25th Percentile £463 £556 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +5.65% -14.81%
75th Percentile £644 £738 £738
90th Percentile £715 £760 £938
England median daily rate £550 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -11.54%

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 6,522 5,719 6,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 41.43% 37.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,467 3,791 5,144
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
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 93 47 79
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.88 £31.35 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +2.77% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £76.34 £68.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £33.32 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +21.15% +22.22% -10.00%

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 1 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 1 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 0 13 £519 -25.12% 2
Central London -4 9 £525 -5.62% 6
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 17 (18.28%) Confluence
2 12 (12.90%) nginx
3 3 (3.23%) SAS
4 2 (2.15%) Apache
4 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (65.59%) Amazon S3
3 51 (54.84%) Amazon EC2
4 42 (45.16%) Amazon EKS
5 39 (41.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 38 (40.86%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (40.86%) Serverless
7 35 (37.63%) Route 53
8 33 (35.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 28 (30.11%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (25.81%) GitHub
11 23 (24.73%) Azure
12 16 (17.20%) Amazon ELB
12 16 (17.20%) GCP
12 16 (17.20%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (16.13%) AWS KMS
14 12 (12.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (10.75%) AWS Control Tower
16 9 (9.68%) AWS CloudTrail
17 8 (8.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (31.18%) Firewall
2 28 (30.11%) DNS
3 22 (23.66%) VPN
4 13 (13.98%) Network Security
4 13 (13.98%) TCP/IP
5 7 (7.53%) FTP
5 7 (7.53%) HTTP
5 7 (7.53%) IMAP
5 7 (7.53%) OpenLDAP
5 7 (7.53%) SMTP
5 7 (7.53%) SSH
5 7 (7.53%) WAN
6 6 (6.45%) SSL
6 6 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (5.38%) BGP
7 5 (5.38%) OpenVPN
7 5 (5.38%) OSPF
7 5 (5.38%) SD-WAN
7 5 (5.38%) Wireless
8 4 (4.30%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (40.86%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (17.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (13.98%) MySQL
5 7 (7.53%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (6.45%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.38%) DocumentDB
7 5 (5.38%) Redis
8 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.30%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.15%) Big Data
9 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.15%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.15%) Neo4j
9 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (45.16%) Jenkins
2 31 (33.33%) GitLab
3 19 (20.43%) JIRA
4 17 (18.28%) Git
5 8 (8.60%) Bitbucket
6 7 (7.53%) Vagrant
7 5 (5.38%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.30%) CircleCI
8 4 (4.30%) Terragrunt
9 2 (2.15%) Snyk
9 2 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.08%) JUnit
10 1 (1.08%) Maven
10 1 (1.08%) Metasploit
10 1 (1.08%) MLflow
General
1 30 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.28%) Finance
3 15 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.53%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (7.53%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.38%) Banking
6 4 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Military
9 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 32 (34.41%) Architect
2 24 (25.81%) AWS Architect
3 23 (24.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (21.51%) Cloud Architect
5 18 (19.35%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (16.13%) Senior
7 14 (15.05%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (9.68%) Lead
9 8 (8.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.60%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 8 (8.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (8.60%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (8.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.45%) Security Architect
11 5 (5.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 5 (5.38%) Network Engineer
11 5 (5.38%) Technical Architect
12 4 (4.30%) AWS Security Architect
12 4 (4.30%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.05%) Kafka
2 12 (12.90%) LDAP
3 10 (10.75%) OpenID
4 6 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (6.45%) REST
5 5 (5.38%) OAuth
5 5 (5.38%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.38%) Spring
5 5 (5.38%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.30%) gRPC
6 4 (4.30%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.30%) JPA
6 4 (4.30%) JSON
6 4 (4.30%) Node.js
6 4 (4.30%) RESTful
6 4 (4.30%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (3.23%) 802.1X
7 3 (3.23%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.43%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.75%) Replication
3 9 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.45%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.15%) Life Science
7 2 (2.15%) PKI
7 2 (2.15%) SCADA
8 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.66%) Linux
2 12 (12.90%) Windows
3 8 (8.60%) Ubuntu
3 8 (8.60%) VMS
4 7 (7.53%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.08%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 56 (60.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (55.91%) DevOps
4 23 (24.73%) Containerisation
5 22 (23.66%) Observability
6 21 (22.58%) Cloud Security
6 21 (22.58%) Incident Response
7 19 (20.43%) Performance Tuning
8 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (17.20%) Configuration Management
9 16 (17.20%) High Availability
9 16 (17.20%) Migration
10 14 (15.05%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (13.98%) Cost Optimisation
11 13 (13.98%) Mentoring
12 12 (12.90%) Roadmaps
12 12 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (11.83%) DevSecOps
13 11 (11.83%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (50.54%) Python
2 21 (22.58%) Bash
3 15 (16.13%) SQL
4 14 (15.05%) PowerShell
5 13 (13.98%) Java
6 7 (7.53%) Groovy
7 6 (6.45%) Go
8 2 (2.15%) Cypher
8 2 (2.15%) Perl
8 2 (2.15%) Ruby
9 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.08%) PHP
9 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (39.78%) Security Cleared
2 36 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 32 (34.41%) AWS Certification
4 12 (12.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (8.60%) Degree
6 7 (7.53%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.15%) CCNA
9 2 (2.15%) CISSP
9 2 (2.15%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.08%) CCNP
10 1 (1.08%) CCSP
10 1 (1.08%) CEH
10 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.08%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.08%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) NIST
2 7 (7.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.53%) PCI DSS
3 5 (5.38%) GDPR
4 4 (4.30%) QA
5 3 (3.23%) NCSC
6 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.08%) GRC
7 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
System Software
1 47 (50.54%) Docker
2 13 (13.98%) Squid
3 7 (7.53%) DFS Replication
3 7 (7.53%) Dovecot
3 7 (7.53%) Postfix
4 3 (3.23%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.08%) HDFS
6 1 (1.08%) NLBS
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (81.72%) Terraform
2 35 (37.63%) Kubernetes
3 25 (26.88%) Ansible
4 22 (23.66%) Prometheus
5 17 (18.28%) Grafana
6 8 (8.60%) Nessus
6 8 (8.60%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (7.53%) FortiGate
7 7 (7.53%) Proxmox
8 6 (6.45%) Kibana
9 5 (5.38%) Consul
9 5 (5.38%) Karpenter
10 4 (4.30%) Puppet
11 3 (3.23%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (3.23%) NetBackup
12 2 (2.15%) Argo
13 1 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (1.08%) Opsview
13 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (11.83%) Palo Alto
2 8 (8.60%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.53%) CheckPoint
3 7 (7.53%) Dynatrace
3 7 (7.53%) Fortinet
3 7 (7.53%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (7.53%) Splunk
4 6 (6.45%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.38%) AVEVA
5 5 (5.38%) Cisco
5 5 (5.38%) F5
5 5 (5.38%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.30%) Tenable
7 3 (3.23%) Citrix
7 3 (3.23%) Cloudera
7 3 (3.23%) Commvault
7 3 (3.23%) Databricks
7 3 (3.23%) Qualys
7 3 (3.23%) SnapLogic