Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the Midlands

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Virtual Private Cloud skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 - 197
Rank change year-on-year - - -45
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 6 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.22% - 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% - 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £480 - £400
25th Percentile £625 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.03%
75th Percentile £675 - £513
90th Percentile - - £564
England median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

Virtual Private Cloud is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 682 1,229 1,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.98% 35.37% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 870 1,249
10th Percentile £200 £222 £205
25th Percentile £333 £388 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +3.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 34
10th Percentile - £15.15 £13.92
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £15.29
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +3.91% +13.68%
75th Percentile £27.00 £24.00 £20.88
90th Percentile £48.17 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £27.83 £20.70
% change year-on-year -25.37% +34.44% -5.91%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the Midlands

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
West Midlands - 6 £650 - 5
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) CloudFront
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth2
1 5 (83.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Application Security
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
1 5 (83.33%) Data Security
1 5 (83.33%) Defensive Programming
1 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
1 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (83.33%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
1 5 (83.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google