Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 154 153 183
Rank change year-on-year -1 +30 +8
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 12 32 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.67% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 2.27% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 22
10th Percentile £413 £409 £513
25th Percentile £675 £456 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -9.80% +2.00%
75th Percentile £750 £694 £650
90th Percentile - £729 £675
England median daily rate £614 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +11.68% -12.00% +13.64%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire +8 6 £725 +56.76% 2
North West -6 3 £425 -35.85% 7
North East - 3 £750 -
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (58.33%) nginx
1 7 (58.33%) Traefik
2 2 (16.67%) IIS
3 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (91.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (83.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (75.00%) AWS Fargate
4 9 (75.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (16.67%) Nutanix
7 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
7 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) DNS
2 9 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) GitLab
1 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (16.67%) Military
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Senior
1 8 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) cloud-init
1 9 (75.00%) Kafka
1 9 (75.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (8.33%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) CentOS
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Unix
3 3 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 9 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 9 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 9 (75.00%) Observability
2 9 (75.00%) Secrets Management
2 9 (75.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
6 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Bash
1 9 (75.00%) Go
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) NCSC
2 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform
2 11 (91.67%) Prometheus
2 11 (91.67%) ZABBIX
3 9 (75.00%) Consul
3 9 (75.00%) Grafana
3 9 (75.00%) Istio
3 9 (75.00%) Jamf Pro
3 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (75.00%) linkerd
3 9 (75.00%) Packer
3 9 (75.00%) Rancher
4 7 (58.33%) HAProxy
5 2 (16.67%) Ansible
5 2 (16.67%) Nagios
6 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Okta
1 9 (75.00%) Splunk
2 7 (58.33%) Apple
2 7 (58.33%) ESET
3 2 (16.67%) Dell
3 2 (16.67%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) VMware