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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 334 316
Rank change year-on-year +3 -18 +147
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 53 61 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.37% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 0.92% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 40 139
10th Percentile £433 £446 £445
25th Percentile £513 £509 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -10.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £694 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £794 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -3.23%
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 5,883 6,626 9,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.87% 40.73% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,035 4,837 7,133
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 49 66
10th Percentile £22.75 £20.40 £16.62
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £22.94
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -49.77% +29.52%
75th Percentile £47.31 £42.50 £74.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £66.20 £88.28
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% -31.82% +53.49%

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 August 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 August 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 +2 10 £675 +19.47% 3
South London -6 6 £662 +24.95%
West London 0 2 - - 1
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 3 (5.66%) Confluence
1 3 (5.66%) nginx
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.89%) JBoss
3 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (71.70%) Amazon EC2
3 34 (64.15%) Amazon S3
4 25 (47.17%) Serverless
5 24 (45.28%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (41.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (32.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (26.42%) Amazon ELB
8 14 (26.42%) Route 53
9 11 (20.75%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (16.98%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (15.09%) GitHub
12 7 (13.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 7 (13.21%) AWS CloudTrail
12 7 (13.21%) AWS KMS
12 7 (13.21%) Azure
13 4 (7.55%) AWS CodePipeline
14 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (41.51%) Firewall
2 20 (37.74%) VPN
3 18 (33.96%) DNS
4 8 (15.09%) SSL
5 5 (9.43%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.55%) HTTP
6 4 (7.55%) Network Security
7 3 (5.66%) FTP
7 3 (5.66%) IMAP
7 3 (5.66%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (5.66%) SMTP
7 3 (5.66%) SSH
8 2 (3.77%) BGP
8 2 (3.77%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (3.77%) Junos
8 2 (3.77%) LAN
8 2 (3.77%) MPLS
8 2 (3.77%) Multicast
8 2 (3.77%) OSPF
8 2 (3.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.08%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.89%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (1.89%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (39.62%) Jenkins
2 20 (37.74%) Git
3 11 (20.75%) GitLab
4 6 (11.32%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (7.55%) JIRA
6 3 (5.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (5.66%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (16.98%) Finance
1 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Military
5 1 (1.89%) Police
5 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (37.74%) AWS Engineer
2 15 (28.30%) AWS DevOps
3 11 (20.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) Architect
4 10 (18.87%) AWS Architect
5 9 (16.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 9 (16.98%) Senior
6 6 (11.32%) AWS Specialist
6 6 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (9.43%) Security Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) DevOps Specialist
8 4 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 3 (5.66%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.66%) AWS CDK
2 3 (5.66%) LDAP
2 3 (5.66%) Node.js
3 2 (3.77%) Kafka
3 2 (3.77%) REST
4 1 (1.89%) Akka
4 1 (1.89%) JSON
4 1 (1.89%) Middleware
4 1 (1.89%) Play Framework
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceStack
4 1 (1.89%) SOAP
4 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.19%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.66%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Replication
4 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.77%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.42%) Linux
2 9 (16.98%) Windows
3 3 (5.66%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.66%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.66%) Unix
3 3 (5.66%) VMS
4 1 (1.89%) CentOS
4 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (73.58%) DevOps
2 33 (62.26%) CI/CD
3 24 (45.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (28.30%) Cloud Security
4 15 (28.30%) High Availability
5 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
6 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (15.09%) Configuration Management
7 8 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (13.21%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (13.21%) Microservices
8 7 (13.21%) Task Automation
9 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
9 6 (11.32%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (9.43%) DevSecOps
10 5 (9.43%) Incident Response
10 5 (9.43%) Observability
10 5 (9.43%) Patch Management
10 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 39 (73.58%) Python
2 17 (32.08%) Bash
3 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
4 7 (13.21%) Shell Script
5 5 (9.43%) Java
6 4 (7.55%) Groovy
7 3 (5.66%) CodeQL
7 3 (5.66%) SQL
8 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.89%) Ruby
8 1 (1.89%) Scala
8 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (35.85%) AWS Certification
1 19 (35.85%) SC Cleared
1 19 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (9.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Degree
5 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.89%) VCAP
6 1 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) NIST
2 5 (9.43%) GDPR
3 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.66%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.66%) QA
4 3 (5.66%) SOC 2
5 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (37.74%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) DFS Replication
2 3 (5.66%) Dovecot
2 3 (5.66%) Postfix
2 3 (5.66%) Squid
3 2 (3.77%) Firmware
4 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (75.47%) Terraform
2 17 (32.08%) Ansible
3 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
4 11 (20.75%) Puppet
5 8 (15.09%) Progress Chef
5 8 (15.09%) Prometheus
6 7 (13.21%) Grafana
7 3 (5.66%) Nessus
7 3 (5.66%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.89%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (1.89%) Argo
8 1 (1.89%) Cilium
8 1 (1.89%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.89%) Packer
8 1 (1.89%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) CheckPoint
1 5 (9.43%) F5
1 5 (9.43%) Palo Alto
2 4 (7.55%) Tenable
3 3 (5.66%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (5.66%) Qualys
3 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.77%) Arista
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) Black Duck
5 1 (1.89%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.89%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.89%) Commvault
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.89%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.89%) Splunk
5 1 (1.89%) VMware
5 1 (1.89%) Zscaler