Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in Manchester

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 77 95
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 3 19 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.32% 1.25% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 3.41% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £631 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -35.85% +1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £594 £716 £656
90th Percentile £688 £738 £681
North West median daily rate £425 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -35.85% +1.92% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in Manchester

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in Manchester

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (66.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Nutanix
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) cloud-init
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) ZABBIX
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) Consul
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Istio
3 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) linkerd
3 1 (33.33%) Packer
3 1 (33.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Okta
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk