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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 304 340
Rank change year-on-year -15 +36 -30
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 131 63 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.08% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 43 25
10th Percentile £413 £464 £498
25th Percentile £450 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £694 £613
90th Percentile £672 £723 £850
England median daily rate £500 £535 £558
% change year-on-year -6.54% -4.04% -6.14%
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 8,411 5,856 6,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.01% 43.77% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,804 3,979 4,535
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -3.82% -2.22%
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% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 102 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.10 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.79 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.40 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -16.19% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.88 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 15 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 15 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 -6 17 £550 -11.29%
East London - 2 £600 -
Central London -38 1 £492 -25.31% 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 19 (14.50%) Confluence
2 7 (5.34%) nginx
3 6 (4.58%) Apache
4 5 (3.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (52.67%) Amazon EC2
3 66 (50.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 65 (49.62%) Amazon S3
5 51 (38.93%) Amazon EKS
6 43 (32.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (32.06%) Serverless
8 39 (29.77%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (22.14%) Azure
10 28 (21.37%) AWS KMS
11 25 (19.08%) GCP
12 24 (18.32%) GitHub
13 21 (16.03%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (16.03%) AWS CloudTrail
14 18 (13.74%) Route 53
15 17 (12.98%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (9.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 11 (8.40%) Datadog
18 8 (6.11%) AWS Direct Connect
18 8 (6.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.32%) Firewall
2 15 (11.45%) Network Security
3 13 (9.92%) TCP/IP
4 11 (8.40%) DNS
5 9 (6.87%) WAN
6 7 (5.34%) VPN
7 6 (4.58%) SSH
8 5 (3.82%) SSL
9 4 (3.05%) Internet
9 4 (3.05%) OpenVPN
10 3 (2.29%) BGP
10 3 (2.29%) LAN
10 3 (2.29%) Wireless
11 2 (1.53%) FTP
11 2 (1.53%) HTTP
11 2 (1.53%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.53%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (1.53%) Kerberos
11 2 (1.53%) SAN
11 2 (1.53%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (35.88%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (18.32%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (16.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (9.92%) MongoDB
5 12 (9.16%) MySQL
6 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
7 9 (6.87%) Redis
8 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.29%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.29%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.53%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.53%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.53%) Flink
9 2 (1.53%) Metadata
10 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.76%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.76%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 36 (27.48%) GitLab
2 35 (26.72%) Git
3 29 (22.14%) Jenkins
4 17 (12.98%) JIRA
5 7 (5.34%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.53%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.76%) Maven
7 1 (0.76%) Spinnaker
General
1 58 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.90%) Public Sector
3 16 (12.21%) Finance
4 6 (4.58%) Banking
5 5 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.05%) Law
6 4 (3.05%) Military
7 3 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Police
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (27.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (22.90%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (22.14%) Architect
4 18 (13.74%) Platform Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) AWS Architect
6 15 (11.45%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (11.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (11.45%) DBA
7 14 (10.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (10.69%) Senior
8 12 (9.16%) Administrator
9 9 (6.87%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (6.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Network Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Lead
12 5 (3.82%) Security Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Senior DBA
12 5 (3.82%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (80.92%) Terraform
2 7 (5.34%) SAML
3 6 (4.58%) boto
3 6 (4.58%) Kafka
4 4 (3.05%) OAuth
4 4 (3.05%) OpenID
4 4 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (3.05%) OpenTofu
5 3 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.29%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.29%) PySpark
5 3 (2.29%) REST
5 3 (2.29%) YAML
6 2 (1.53%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.53%) Flask
6 2 (1.53%) JDBC
6 2 (1.53%) JMX
6 2 (1.53%) LDAP
6 2 (1.53%) pytest
6 2 (1.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 22 (16.79%) Replication
3 10 (7.63%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (6.87%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.11%) Security Posture
6 7 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (3.05%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.05%) PKI
8 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.29%) Client/Server
9 3 (2.29%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.53%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.90%) Linux
2 14 (10.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (7.63%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (6.87%) Windows
5 6 (4.58%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (70.99%) Infrastructure as Code
2 92 (70.23%) CI/CD
3 80 (61.07%) DevOps
4 36 (27.48%) Observability
5 34 (25.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (24.43%) Agile
6 32 (24.43%) Cloud Security
6 32 (24.43%) Platform Engineering
7 29 (22.14%) Containerisation
7 29 (22.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (22.14%) Secrets Management
8 28 (21.37%) High Availability
9 27 (20.61%) Root Cause Analysis
10 24 (18.32%) Technical Leadership
11 22 (16.79%) Performance Tuning
12 21 (16.03%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (15.27%) Migration
14 17 (12.98%) Deployment Automation
15 15 (11.45%) AI
15 15 (11.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 57 (43.51%) Python
2 34 (25.95%) Bash
3 20 (15.27%) PowerShell
4 19 (14.50%) SQL
5 17 (12.98%) Java
6 10 (7.63%) Groovy
7 7 (5.34%) Perl
8 4 (3.05%) Go
9 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.53%) Bicep
10 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.76%) C
11 1 (0.76%) Cypher
11 1 (0.76%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.76%) R
11 1 (0.76%) SHACL
11 1 (0.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 61 (46.56%) Security Cleared
2 59 (45.04%) SC Cleared
3 38 (29.01%) AWS Certification
4 23 (17.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (8.40%) Degree
6 10 (7.63%) Azure Certification
7 6 (4.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.29%) CISSP
9 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.53%) CISM
10 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.53%) PMP
11 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.87%) GDPR
3 7 (5.34%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.29%) NCSC
4 3 (2.29%) NIST
5 2 (1.53%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.53%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.53%) QA
5 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.53%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (32.82%) Docker
2 8 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.11%) Squid
3 2 (1.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.53%) DFS Replication
3 2 (1.53%) Dovecot
3 2 (1.53%) Postfix
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (34.35%) Kubernetes
2 37 (28.24%) Grafana
3 33 (25.19%) Prometheus
4 29 (22.14%) Ansible
5 10 (7.63%) Puppet
6 5 (3.82%) Argo
7 4 (3.05%) Packer
7 4 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.05%) Suricata
8 3 (2.29%) Istio
8 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.29%) SELinux
8 3 (2.29%) systemd
9 2 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.53%) Nessus
9 2 (1.53%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.53%) Salt
10 1 (0.76%) Cilium
10 1 (0.76%) CloudForms
10 1 (0.76%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 17 (12.98%) ServiceNow
2 10 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.87%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.34%) Google
5 6 (4.58%) Splunk
6 5 (3.82%) Cisco
6 5 (3.82%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.29%) Aruba
7 3 (2.29%) Databricks
7 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.29%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.29%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.53%) Confluent
8 2 (1.53%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (1.53%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.76%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.76%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.76%) IBM
9 1 (0.76%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.76%) VMware