Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in the North East

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 43 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +28
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.20% 0.98% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 2.73% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £705 - -
England median daily rate £575 £611 £578
% change year-on-year -5.85% +5.67% -11.08%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 159 110 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 38.31% 35.95% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 66 51
10th Percentile £260 £333 £163
25th Percentile £385 £410 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £405
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +23.46% -29.57%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £525
90th Percentile £610 £638 £620
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £41.10 - £17.08
25th Percentile £47.88 - £19.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +122.34% -41.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £27.12
90th Percentile £60.00 - £38.56
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the North East

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the North East over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the North East

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -9 5 £575 -23.33% 1
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Network Migration Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) OWASP
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Blue Prism
2 1 (20.00%) UiPath