Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 78 90
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 1 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.080% 0.48% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 1.22% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 £413 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £438 £663
Median % change year-on-year +54.29% -33.96% +1.92%
75th Percentile £713 £544 £716
90th Percentile - £668 £738
North West median daily rate £368 £438 £663
% change year-on-year -15.89% -33.96% +1.92%

All Cloud Computing 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 527 409 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 42.36% 39.48% 38.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 297 493
10th Percentile £313 £325 £295
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £627 £678 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 16
10th Percentile £17.13 - £16.99
25th Percentile £23.00 - £18.87
Median hourly rate £62.50 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.52% +11.54% -60.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £72.81
90th Percentile £85.00 - £80.63
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +76.53% +15.14% -58.00%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Manchester

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto