Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the North West

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 131 148
Rank change year-on-year +20 +17 -13
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 26 29 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.94% 0.91% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.93% 2.42% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 27
10th Percentile £409 £583 £428
25th Percentile £473 £613 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £694 - £638
90th Percentile £738 £679 £693
England median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 886 1,198 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.07% 37.50% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 887 1,070
10th Percentile £284 £311 £213
25th Percentile £393 £419 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +100.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the North West

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the North West

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the North West

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +11 19 £663 +1.92%
Cheshire - 6 £448 - 2
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (7.69%) nginx
1 2 (7.69%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (80.77%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (57.69%) Amazon S3
4 12 (46.15%) Route 53
5 9 (34.62%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (30.77%) Amazon ECR
6 8 (30.77%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (26.92%) Serverless
8 5 (19.23%) GCP
9 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (11.54%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (11.54%) Azure
10 3 (11.54%) IaaS
10 3 (11.54%) PaaS
11 2 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) DNS
1 5 (19.23%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.54%) DHCP
2 3 (11.54%) VLAN
2 3 (11.54%) VPN
3 2 (7.69%) SSL
4 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) GitLab
2 8 (30.77%) Git
2 8 (30.77%) webpack
3 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Electronics
2 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
2 3 (11.54%) Marketing
2 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Lead
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
3 5 (19.23%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Leader
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Lead Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Network Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) Express.js
1 8 (30.77%) Node.js
1 8 (30.77%) React
1 8 (30.77%) Redux
2 2 (7.69%) cloud-init
2 2 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.69%) Clustering
2 2 (7.69%) PKI
2 2 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) CentOS
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 14 (53.85%) Containerisation
3 13 (50.00%) DevOps
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
4 8 (30.77%) API Development
4 8 (30.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 8 (30.77%) Customer Engagement
4 8 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (30.77%) ETL
4 8 (30.77%) Front End Development
4 8 (30.77%) Full Stack Development
4 8 (30.77%) QA Automation
4 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (15.38%) Kanban
6 4 (15.38%) Refactoring
6 4 (15.38%) Scrum
6 4 (15.38%) Software Deployment
6 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) Go
3 2 (7.69%) Ruby
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) SC Cleared
1 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 10 (38.46%) Terraform
3 6 (23.08%) Ansible
4 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (11.54%) Grafana
6 2 (7.69%) Consul
6 2 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (7.69%) Graphite
6 2 (7.69%) HAProxy
6 2 (7.69%) Istio
6 2 (7.69%) linkerd
6 2 (7.69%) Packer
6 2 (7.69%) Podman
6 2 (7.69%) Puppet
6 2 (7.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Google
1 3 (11.54%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) PagerDuty
2 2 (7.69%) Sage
2 2 (7.69%) Splunk
2 2 (7.69%) VMware