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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 306 343
Rank change year-on-year -22 +37 -41
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 127 63 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.08% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 43 25
10th Percentile £410 £464 £498
25th Percentile £454 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £585 £694 £613
90th Percentile £665 £723 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.83% -7.08%
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 8,270 5,849 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.92% 43.67% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,710 3,957 4,544
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 97 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.01 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.40 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -11.61% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.25 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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 8 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.

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 8 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London -3 17 £550 -11.29%
Central London -28 2 £492 -25.31% 8
East London - 2 £600 -
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 18 (14.17%) Confluence
2 7 (5.51%) nginx
3 6 (4.72%) Apache
4 5 (3.94%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 127 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (52.76%) Amazon EC2
3 64 (50.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 64 (50.39%) Amazon S3
4 48 (37.80%) Amazon EKS
5 42 (33.07%) Serverless
6 41 (32.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 39 (30.71%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (22.05%) AWS KMS
8 28 (22.05%) Azure
9 23 (18.11%) GCP
9 23 (18.11%) GitHub
10 21 (16.54%) AWS CloudTrail
11 19 (14.96%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (12.60%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (12.60%) Route 53
13 12 (9.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 11 (8.66%) Datadog
15 9 (7.09%) Entra ID
16 8 (6.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.90%) Firewall
2 14 (11.02%) Network Security
3 12 (9.45%) TCP/IP
4 10 (7.87%) DNS
5 8 (6.30%) WAN
6 6 (4.72%) SSH
6 6 (4.72%) VPN
7 5 (3.94%) SSL
8 4 (3.15%) OpenVPN
8 4 (3.15%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (2.36%) Internet
9 3 (2.36%) LAN
9 3 (2.36%) Wireless
10 2 (1.57%) BGP
10 2 (1.57%) FTP
10 2 (1.57%) HTTP
10 2 (1.57%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.57%) Kerberos
10 2 (1.57%) SAN
10 2 (1.57%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (34.65%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (18.90%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (16.54%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (10.24%) MongoDB
5 12 (9.45%) MySQL
6 10 (7.87%) SQL Server
7 9 (7.09%) Redis
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.36%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.36%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.36%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.57%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.57%) Flink
10 2 (1.57%) Metadata
11 1 (0.79%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.79%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 37 (29.13%) Git
1 37 (29.13%) GitLab
2 28 (22.05%) Jenkins
3 16 (12.60%) JIRA
4 8 (6.30%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.57%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.79%) Maven
6 1 (0.79%) Spinnaker
General
1 56 (44.09%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.20%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.66%) Finance
4 6 (4.72%) Law
4 6 (4.72%) Military
5 5 (3.94%) Banking
5 5 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.36%) Police
7 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Legal
8 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Publishing
8 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (28.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (23.62%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (21.26%) Architect
4 17 (13.39%) Platform Engineer
5 16 (12.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (11.81%) AWS Architect
6 15 (11.81%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (11.81%) DBA
6 15 (11.81%) Senior
7 14 (11.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (9.45%) Administrator
9 8 (6.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (5.51%) Network Engineer
11 6 (4.72%) Lead
12 5 (3.94%) Senior DBA
12 5 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Technical Architect
13 4 (3.15%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (81.10%) Terraform
2 7 (5.51%) SAML
3 6 (4.72%) boto
3 6 (4.72%) Kafka
4 4 (3.15%) OAuth
4 4 (3.15%) OpenID
4 4 (3.15%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (3.15%) OpenTofu
5 3 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.36%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.36%) PySpark
5 3 (2.36%) REST
5 3 (2.36%) YAML
6 2 (1.57%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.57%) Flask
6 2 (1.57%) JDBC
6 2 (1.57%) JMX
6 2 (1.57%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.57%) LDAP
6 2 (1.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.90%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.32%) Replication
3 9 (7.09%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.09%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (6.30%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.30%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.15%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.15%) PKI
7 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.36%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.36%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.57%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (23.62%) Linux
2 14 (11.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (7.87%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (7.09%) Windows
5 6 (4.72%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (70.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 89 (70.08%) CI/CD
3 77 (60.63%) DevOps
4 34 (26.77%) Observability
5 32 (25.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (24.41%) Cloud Security
6 31 (24.41%) Platform Engineering
7 30 (23.62%) Agile
7 30 (23.62%) Containerisation
8 28 (22.05%) Secrets Management
9 27 (21.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (21.26%) Root Cause Analysis
10 26 (20.47%) High Availability
11 23 (18.11%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (17.32%) Performance Tuning
13 21 (16.54%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (14.17%) Migration
15 15 (11.81%) Deployment Automation
16 14 (11.02%) Microservices
16 14 (11.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 57 (44.88%) Python
2 35 (27.56%) Bash
3 20 (15.75%) PowerShell
4 19 (14.96%) SQL
5 17 (13.39%) Java
6 10 (7.87%) Groovy
7 7 (5.51%) Perl
8 3 (2.36%) Go
8 3 (2.36%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.57%) Bicep
9 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) Cypher
10 1 (0.79%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.79%) R
10 1 (0.79%) SHACL
10 1 (0.79%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 63 (49.61%) Security Cleared
2 61 (48.03%) SC Cleared
3 37 (29.13%) AWS Certification
4 23 (18.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (7.87%) Azure Certification
5 10 (7.87%) Degree
6 6 (4.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.36%) CISSP
8 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.57%) CISM
10 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.79%) PMP
10 1 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (7.09%) GDPR
3 7 (5.51%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.36%) NCSC
4 3 (2.36%) NIST
4 3 (2.36%) QA
5 2 (1.57%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.57%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.57%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (33.86%) Docker
2 10 (7.87%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.30%) Squid
4 2 (1.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.57%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.57%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.57%) Postfix
5 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (36.22%) Kubernetes
2 39 (30.71%) Grafana
3 35 (27.56%) Prometheus
4 30 (23.62%) Ansible
5 12 (9.45%) Puppet
6 4 (3.15%) Argo
6 4 (3.15%) Packer
6 4 (3.15%) Salt
6 4 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.15%) Suricata
7 3 (2.36%) Istio
7 3 (2.36%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.36%) SELinux
7 3 (2.36%) systemd
8 2 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.57%) Nessus
8 2 (1.57%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.79%) Cilium
9 1 (0.79%) CloudForms
9 1 (0.79%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 17 (13.39%) ServiceNow
2 12 (9.45%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.09%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.94%) Cisco
4 5 (3.94%) Google
4 5 (3.94%) Splunk
5 4 (3.15%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.36%) Aruba
6 3 (2.36%) Databricks
6 3 (2.36%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.36%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.36%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.36%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.57%) Confluent
7 2 (1.57%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.57%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.79%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.79%) Zscaler