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 citing Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 29 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	319	306	334
Rank change year-on-year	-13	+28	-29
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud	137	65	45
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.67%	0.48%	0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.63%	1.08%	0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted	83	46	26
10^th Percentile	£413	£444	£503
25^th Percentile	£453	£513	£525
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£535	£600	£550
Median % change year-on-year	-10.83%	+9.09%	-5.98%
75^th Percentile	£600	£697	£627
90^th Percentile	£719	£725	£850
England median daily rate	£500	£536	£575
% change year-on-year	-6.76%	-6.74%	-0.62%
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 citing cloud computing skills in London.

	6 months to 29 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	8,426	6,004	6,497
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	41.38%	44.00%	41.23%
Number of daily rates quoted	5,848	4,066	4,425
10^th Percentile	£363	£345	£350
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£525	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+4.76%	-4.55%	-
75^th Percentile	£650	£650	£675
90^th Percentile	£750	£763	£788
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£530
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-5.66%	-0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted	97	109	37
10^th Percentile	£18.93	£18.75	£21.60
25^th Percentile	£22.50	£24.00	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£34.23	£26.30	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	+30.15%	-24.86%	-9.68%
75^th Percentile	£61.25	£46.75	£53.75
90^th Percentile	£78.75	£79.00	£70.10
England median hourly rate	£33.99	£25.15	£36.00
% change year-on-year	+35.15%	-30.14%	+30.91%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 29 October 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.

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 29 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
South London	-5	15	£550	-11.29%
Central London	-33	2	£546	-15.02%	1
East London	-	2	£600	-	1
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Virtual Private Cloud Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 29 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Virtual Private Cloud also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	100.0%	137
2	Terraform	80.3%	110
3	Infrastructure as Code	72.3%	99
4	CI/CD	70.1%	96
5	DevOps	59.9%	82
6	Amazon EC2	51.8%	71
7	Amazon CloudWatch	48.9%	67
8	Amazon S3	47.4%	65
9	Security Cleared	46.7%	64
10	SC Cleared	45.3%	62
11	Amazon EKS	39.4%	54
11	Python	39.4%	54
13	Kubernetes	36.5%	50
14	AWS CloudFormation	35.0%	48
15	Amazon RDS	34.3%	47
15	Serverless	34.3%	47
17	AWS Lambda	32.1%	44
18	Docker	30.7%	42
19	AWS Certification	27.0%	37
19	GitLab	27.0%	37
19	Observability	27.0%	37
22	Bash	25.5%	35
22	Containerisation	25.5%	35
22	Platform Engineering	25.5%	35
25	Cloud Security	24.8%	34
25	Grafana	24.8%	34
27	Git	23.4%	32
27	Stakeholder Management	23.4%	32
29	Secrets Management	22.6%	31
30	Agile	21.9%	30

Virtual Private Cloud Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	100.0%	137
2	Amazon EC2	51.8%	71
3	Amazon CloudWatch	48.9%	67
4	Amazon S3	47.4%	65
5	Amazon EKS	39.4%	54
6	AWS CloudFormation	35.0%	48
7	Serverless	34.3%	47
8	AWS Lambda	32.1%	44
9	Azure	20.4%	28
9	GCP	20.4%	28
11	GitHub	19.7%	27
12	AWS KMS	18.2%	25
13	AWS CloudTrail	16.1%	22
14	Amazon ECS	15.3%	21
14	Route 53	15.3%	21
16	GitHub Actions	14.6%	20
17	Amazon GuardDuty	9.5%	13
17	Datadog	9.5%	13
19	AWS Direct Connect	5.8%	8
20	Amazon ECR	5.1%	7