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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 312 327
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 -21
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 119 52 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.38% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 0.89% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 34 35
10th Percentile £426 £504 £480
25th Percentile £456 £513 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +9.67% -10.33%
75th Percentile £588 £697 £645
90th Percentile £657 £725 £825
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
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 8,331 5,817 6,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.39% 42.90% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 3,990 4,779
10th Percentile £363 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -3.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £658 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 89 52
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.90 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £55.63 £43.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.40 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +5 20 £503 -24.12% 1
Central London -29 4 £575 -14.81% 1
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 (15.13%) Confluence
2 9 (7.56%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.88%) nginx
4 4 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.52%) Apache
6 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (56.30%) Amazon EC2
3 63 (52.94%) Amazon S3
4 54 (45.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 53 (44.54%) Serverless
6 51 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (35.29%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (21.01%) Azure
10 21 (17.65%) AWS KMS
11 19 (15.97%) AWS CloudTrail
12 18 (15.13%) GitHub
13 16 (13.45%) GCP
14 14 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (11.76%) Datadog
15 13 (10.92%) Route 53
16 12 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (10.08%) Snowflake
17 10 (8.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 10 (8.40%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.85%) Firewall
2 17 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 15 (12.61%) Network Security
4 14 (11.76%) VPN
5 9 (7.56%) DNS
6 7 (5.88%) OpenVPN
6 7 (5.88%) WAN
7 5 (4.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (4.20%) SSL
8 4 (3.36%) SSH
9 3 (2.52%) BGP
9 3 (2.52%) LAN
9 3 (2.52%) Wireless
10 2 (1.68%) OSPF
11 1 (0.84%) DHCP
11 1 (0.84%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.84%) Internet
11 1 (0.84%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.84%) SAN
11 1 (0.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (33.61%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (12.61%) Amazon Aurora
2 15 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.72%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.72%) Power BI
4 7 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.88%) MySQL
4 7 (5.88%) Redis
4 7 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.04%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.20%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (4.20%) Tableau
7 3 (2.52%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.84%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.84%) Metadata
9 1 (0.84%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.84%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 34 (28.57%) GitLab
2 29 (24.37%) Git
3 27 (22.69%) Jenkins
4 13 (10.92%) JIRA
5 10 (8.40%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.84%) Maven
8 1 (0.84%) Snyk
General
1 43 (36.13%) Social Skills
2 37 (31.09%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.92%) Finance
4 6 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.20%) Banking
5 5 (4.20%) Law
6 4 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.36%) Military
7 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.52%) Police
8 2 (1.68%) Games
9 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Legal
9 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Publishing
9 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (25.21%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (23.53%) Architect
3 22 (18.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (13.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (10.92%) AWS Architect
5 13 (10.92%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (10.92%) Senior
6 12 (10.08%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (9.24%) DBA
8 10 (8.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Administrator
9 8 (6.72%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Lead
10 7 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (5.88%) Technical Architect
11 6 (5.04%) Security Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Site Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (4.20%) Analyst
12 5 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.04%) SAML
2 5 (4.20%) boto
3 4 (3.36%) AWS CDK
3 4 (3.36%) OpenID
4 3 (2.52%) Kafka
4 3 (2.52%) LDAP
4 3 (2.52%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.68%) OAuth
5 2 (1.68%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.68%) REST
6 1 (0.84%) Apollo GraphQL
6 1 (0.84%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.84%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.84%) JDBC
6 1 (0.84%) React
6 1 (0.84%) RESTful
6 1 (0.84%) SWRL
6 1 (0.84%) Vue
6 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.61%) Replication
2 14 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.72%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.72%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (5.88%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.36%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.52%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.52%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.84%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.49%) Linux
2 11 (9.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (4.20%) Windows
5 3 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (63.03%) CI/CD
2 67 (56.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (51.26%) DevOps
4 25 (21.01%) Migration
4 25 (21.01%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (19.33%) Containerisation
5 23 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (19.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (18.49%) Agile
6 22 (18.49%) Cloud Security
7 20 (16.81%) Observability
7 20 (16.81%) Secrets Management
8 18 (15.13%) High Availability
9 16 (13.45%) Data Modelling
9 16 (13.45%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (13.45%) Performance Tuning
9 16 (13.45%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (12.61%) Roadmaps
10 15 (12.61%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (10.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (44.54%) Python
2 31 (26.05%) Bash
3 19 (15.97%) Java
4 18 (15.13%) SQL
5 16 (13.45%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.88%) Groovy
7 6 (5.04%) Perl
8 3 (2.52%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.84%) Bicep
9 1 (0.84%) C
9 1 (0.84%) Cypher
9 1 (0.84%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.84%) R
9 1 (0.84%) SHACL
9 1 (0.84%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (55.46%) Security Cleared
2 62 (52.10%) SC Cleared
3 30 (25.21%) AWS Certification
4 16 (13.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (8.40%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.88%) Degree
7 4 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.84%) CCNP
9 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.84%) CISSP
9 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.84%) PMP
9 1 (0.84%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.20%) GDPR
3 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.36%) PMO
3 4 (3.36%) SLA
4 2 (1.68%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.84%) NCSC
5 1 (0.84%) NIST
5 1 (0.84%) QA
5 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (30.25%) Docker
2 11 (9.24%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.72%) Squid
4 1 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 85 (71.43%) Terraform
2 39 (32.77%) Kubernetes
3 33 (27.73%) Grafana
4 30 (25.21%) Prometheus
5 27 (22.69%) Ansible
6 8 (6.72%) Puppet
7 7 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.20%) Salt
9 4 (3.36%) Packer
9 4 (3.36%) Suricata
10 3 (2.52%) Argo
10 3 (2.52%) SELinux
11 2 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.68%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.68%) Istio
11 2 (1.68%) systemd
12 1 (0.84%) Cilium
12 1 (0.84%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.84%) Consul
12 1 (0.84%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 14 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 11 (9.24%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.40%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.20%) Cisco
4 5 (4.20%) Splunk
5 4 (3.36%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.36%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.36%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.36%) Zscaler
6 3 (2.52%) Aruba
6 3 (2.52%) Databricks
6 3 (2.52%) Google
6 3 (2.52%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.52%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.68%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.84%) IBM
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle
8 1 (0.84%) Qualys
8 1 (0.84%) Trend Micro