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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 151 181
Rank change year-on-year -27 +30 +33
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 9 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.68% 1.15% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 12
10th Percentile - £384 £513
25th Percentile £500 £409 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £449 £625
Median % change year-on-year +19.22% -28.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £483 £650
90th Percentile £580 £486 £673
England median daily rate £525 £545 £600
% change year-on-year -3.67% -9.17% -3.23%

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 1,317 1,309 1,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.27% 31.54% 35.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 889 1,403
10th Percentile £281 £279 £275
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 47 59
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £12.82 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -40.96% +24.89%
75th Percentile £47.12 £30.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £57.72
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £34.80
% change year-on-year +11.78% -35.34% +61.84%

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
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 6 August 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
North West -11 3 £535 +19.55% 3
Yorkshire -12 3 £500 +8.11% 2
North East - 3 £600 - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 3 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
1 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
2 3 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security
3 2 (22.22%) SSL
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Database Security
5 2 (22.22%) FinOps
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Observability
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) RBAC
5 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
5 2 (22.22%) SIEM
5 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) Korn
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 2 (22.22%) Kustomize
3 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 2 (22.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk