Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 338 332
Rank change year-on-year +29 -6 +138
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 46 55 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 0.79% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 39 143
10th Percentile £413 £374 £413
25th Percentile £513 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -10.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £675
England median daily rate £525 £536 £600
% change year-on-year -2.10% -10.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £50.00
75th Percentile £39.69 - £52.50
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
England median hourly rate £38.75 - £50.00

All Cloud 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 5,566 7,001 10,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.85% 39.75% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,774 5,148 7,376
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 63 74
10th Percentile £22.70 £18.22 £19.25
25th Percentile £25.08 £22.04 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -53.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in London

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 2 July 2025. 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
Central London +9 10 £675 -12.90% 14
South London -6 5 £662 +75.66% 4
West London +7 2 - - 4
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (67.39%) Amazon EC2
3 27 (58.70%) Amazon S3
4 25 (54.35%) Serverless
5 24 (52.17%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (45.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (23.91%) Route 53
8 10 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (19.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (15.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 7 (15.22%) AWS CloudTrail
11 6 (13.04%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (13.04%) GitHub
12 5 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (8.70%) AWS KMS
14 3 (6.52%) Azure
14 3 (6.52%) Datadog
14 3 (6.52%) IaaS
14 3 (6.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) VPN
2 14 (30.43%) Firewall
3 9 (19.57%) DNS
4 3 (6.52%) SSL
5 2 (4.35%) BGP
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (4.35%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (4.35%) IOS XR
5 2 (4.35%) Junos
5 2 (4.35%) LAN
5 2 (4.35%) MPLS
5 2 (4.35%) Multicast
5 2 (4.35%) Network Security
5 2 (4.35%) NX-OS
5 2 (4.35%) OSPF
5 2 (4.35%) VXLAN
5 2 (4.35%) WAN
6 1 (2.17%) NAS
6 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.17%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) DocumentDB
4 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.17%) MySQL
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) Git
2 13 (28.26%) Jenkins
3 11 (23.91%) GitLab
4 6 (13.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (4.35%) JIRA
7 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Police
4 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (28.26%) AWS DevOps
3 9 (19.57%) Architect
3 9 (19.57%) AWS Architect
3 9 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) AWS Specialist
5 6 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior
7 4 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (8.70%) DevOps Specialist
8 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (6.52%) Site Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Solution Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Implementation Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Risk Manager
9 2 (4.35%) Security Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.52%) AWS CDK
2 3 (6.52%) Node.js
3 2 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (2.17%) Akka
4 1 (2.17%) JSON
4 1 (2.17%) Kafka
4 1 (2.17%) Middleware
4 1 (2.17%) Play Framework
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceStack
4 1 (2.17%) SOAP
4 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.52%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Windows
3 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Unix
4 1 (2.17%) CentOS
4 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) DevOps
2 28 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 21 (45.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (30.43%) Cloud Security
5 12 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 11 (23.91%) High Availability
7 9 (19.57%) Microservices
7 9 (19.57%) Task Automation
8 8 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (10.87%) Load Balancing
12 4 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
12 4 (8.70%) Configuration Management
12 4 (8.70%) Continuous Deployment
12 4 (8.70%) Mentoring
12 4 (8.70%) Observability
12 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 4 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (69.57%) Python
2 14 (30.43%) Bash
3 7 (15.22%) Shell Script
4 5 (10.87%) Java
4 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.52%) CodeQL
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Ruby
6 1 (2.17%) Scala
6 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) AWS Certification
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
3 9 (19.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (6.52%) Degree
6 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.17%) VCAP
6 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) NIST
2 5 (10.87%) GDPR
3 4 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.70%) SOC 2
4 3 (6.52%) HIPAA
4 3 (6.52%) QA
5 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Firmware
3 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (67.39%) Terraform
2 16 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 13 (28.26%) Ansible
4 9 (19.57%) Puppet
5 7 (15.22%) Progress Chef
6 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
7 5 (10.87%) Grafana
8 1 (2.17%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (2.17%) Argo
8 1 (2.17%) Cilium
8 1 (2.17%) Packer
8 1 (2.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Tenable
2 3 (6.52%) Qualys
3 2 (4.35%) Arista
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (2.17%) Black Duck
4 1 (2.17%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.17%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) VMware