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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 319 347
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 -19
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 125 44 55
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.32% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 0.76% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 30 39
10th Percentile £402 £412 £374
25th Percentile £475 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £555 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +3.74% -10.83%
75th Percentile £576 £700 £635
90th Percentile £605 £728 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -10.42%
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 8,210 5,799 6,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.55% 42.76% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,948 5,111
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £67.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +11 28 £500 -24.50%
Central London -22 4 £575 -16.36% 3
East London - 2 £600 - 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 26 (20.80%) Confluence
2 12 (9.60%) nginx
3 8 (6.40%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) AWS
2 82 (65.60%) Amazon EC2
3 77 (61.60%) Amazon S3
4 67 (53.60%) Serverless
5 65 (52.00%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (44.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 52 (41.60%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (19.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (19.20%) Route 53
9 22 (17.60%) Azure
10 18 (14.40%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (12.80%) GitHub
12 14 (11.20%) AWS KMS
13 12 (9.60%) AWS CloudTrail
13 12 (9.60%) Datadog
13 12 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (9.60%) Power Platform
13 12 (9.60%) Snowflake
14 10 (8.00%) AWS Control Tower
14 10 (8.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (28.00%) Firewall
2 24 (19.20%) TCP/IP
2 24 (19.20%) VPN
3 17 (13.60%) DNS
3 17 (13.60%) Network Security
4 13 (10.40%) OpenVPN
5 9 (7.20%) WAN
6 5 (4.00%) BGP
7 4 (3.20%) OSPF
7 4 (3.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (3.20%) SSL
8 3 (2.40%) LAN
8 3 (2.40%) SSH
8 3 (2.40%) Wireless
9 2 (1.60%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.80%) Calico
10 1 (0.80%) DHCP
10 1 (0.80%) Internet
10 1 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.60%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.60%) Power BI
3 9 (7.20%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.40%) Tableau
5 6 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (4.80%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.60%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.80%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.80%) Stardog
8 1 (0.80%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 35 (28.00%) GitLab
2 31 (24.80%) Git
3 30 (24.00%) Jenkins
4 22 (17.60%) JIRA
5 11 (8.80%) Bitbucket
6 10 (8.00%) Artifactory
7 8 (6.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.80%) Snyk
8 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 36 (28.80%) Public Sector
3 17 (13.60%) Finance
4 14 (11.20%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Banking
6 5 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Law
7 4 (3.20%) Military
8 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.40%) Police
9 2 (1.60%) Games
9 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Legal
10 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (28.80%) Architect
2 30 (24.00%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (17.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (13.60%) AWS Architect
4 17 (13.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (9.60%) Technical Architect
6 10 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Analyst
7 9 (7.20%) Senior
7 9 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (6.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (6.40%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (6.40%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (6.40%) Network Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 7 (5.60%) Technical Manager
10 6 (4.80%) Network Architect
10 6 (4.80%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.80%) OpenID
2 9 (7.20%) LDAP
3 8 (6.40%) AWS CDK
4 5 (4.00%) SAML
5 4 (3.20%) boto
6 2 (1.60%) Kafka
6 2 (1.60%) OAuth
6 2 (1.60%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.80%) .NET
7 1 (0.80%) Apollo GraphQL
7 1 (0.80%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.80%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.80%) React
7 1 (0.80%) REST
7 1 (0.80%) RESTful
7 1 (0.80%) SWRL
7 1 (0.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.40%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.80%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.00%) Replication
4 5 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.40%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.40%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.60%) SCADA
8 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.20%) Linux
2 8 (6.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.80%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (4.00%) Windows
5 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (56.80%) CI/CD
2 69 (55.20%) DevOps
3 63 (50.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (24.80%) Agile
5 29 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (21.60%) Containerisation
6 27 (21.60%) Migration
7 23 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (16.80%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (16.80%) Roadmaps
9 20 (16.00%) Decision-Making
10 18 (14.40%) Cloud Security
11 17 (13.60%) Observability
11 17 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (12.80%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (11.20%) Cost Management
14 12 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
15 11 (8.80%) AI
15 11 (8.80%) ETL
15 11 (8.80%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 53 (42.40%) Python
2 27 (21.60%) Bash
3 16 (12.80%) Java
4 13 (10.40%) PowerShell
5 12 (9.60%) SQL
6 6 (4.80%) Groovy
7 5 (4.00%) Perl
8 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.60%) Cypher
11 1 (0.80%) Bicep
11 1 (0.80%) C
11 1 (0.80%) Go
11 1 (0.80%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.80%) SHACL
11 1 (0.80%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 66 (52.80%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.80%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.20%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.60%) Degree
7 5 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.80%) CCNP
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.80%) CISSP
9 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.80%) PMP
9 1 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) PMO
2 5 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.00%) SLA
3 2 (1.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) GRC
4 1 (0.80%) NCSC
4 1 (0.80%) NIST
4 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 37 (29.60%) Docker
2 15 (12.00%) Squid
3 9 (7.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.80%) NLBS
4 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (66.40%) Terraform
2 42 (33.60%) Kubernetes
3 36 (28.80%) Grafana
3 36 (28.80%) Prometheus
4 25 (20.00%) Ansible
5 13 (10.40%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (7.20%) FortiGate
7 8 (6.40%) Puppet
8 7 (5.60%) Consul
9 5 (4.00%) Salt
10 4 (3.20%) Packer
10 4 (3.20%) Suricata
11 3 (2.40%) SELinux
12 2 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.80%) Argo
13 1 (0.80%) Cilium
13 1 (0.80%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.80%) Opsview
13 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.80%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 16 (12.80%) Red Hat
2 15 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.80%) Dynatrace
4 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.60%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.00%) AVEVA
6 5 (4.00%) Cisco
6 5 (4.00%) Splunk
7 4 (3.20%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.20%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.20%) Zscaler
8 3 (2.40%) Aruba
8 3 (2.40%) Google
8 3 (2.40%) PagerDuty
8 3 (2.40%) Ping Identity
8 3 (2.40%) SAP
9 2 (1.60%) Databricks
9 2 (1.60%) Globalscape
9 2 (1.60%) Solace
9 2 (1.60%) SolarWinds