Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the Midlands

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 131 159
Rank change year-on-year +14 +28 +30
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 10 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.46% 0.20% 0.031%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 0.83% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 1
10th Percentile £450 £480 -
25th Percentile £459 £625 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +4.00% +26.77%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £638
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £535 £600
% change year-on-year -1.87% -10.83% -

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 663 724 1,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.36% 24.48% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 519 794
10th Percentile £250 £200 £223
25th Percentile £375 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £556 £596 £588
90th Percentile £649 £688 £688
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 19
10th Percentile £15.17 £13.93 £13.23
25th Percentile £17.43 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £19.95 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -0.25% +3.90%
75th Percentile £28.44 £26.50 £26.48
90th Percentile £39.18 £31.36 £38.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +53.81%

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

Virtual Private Cloud
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
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 26 June 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
West Midlands +13 10 £475 -26.92% 11
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) nginx
3 1 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (70.00%) Amazon ELB
3 7 (70.00%) AWS KMS
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (20.00%) Route 53
5 2 (20.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (10.00%) Datadog
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (10.00%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) SMTP
2 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) FTP
2 5 (50.00%) HTTP
2 5 (50.00%) SSH
3 2 (20.00%) IMAP
3 2 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (80.00%) Git
2 8 (80.00%) JIRA
3 7 (70.00%) Vagrant
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (10.00%) Snyk
4 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Amazon Linux
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
1 7 (70.00%) VMS
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 8 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (70.00%) Change Management
3 7 (70.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Patch Management
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) Groovy
2 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) Perl
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) DFS Replication
3 2 (20.00%) Dovecot
3 2 (20.00%) Postfix
3 2 (20.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Grafana
2 7 (70.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Nessus
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat