Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the North West

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 117 111 128
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +11
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 3 26 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.94% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 2.94% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 18
10th Percentile - £409 £583
25th Percentile £413 £473 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -35.85% +1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £594 £694 -
90th Percentile £688 £738 £679
England median daily rate £614 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +11.68% -12.00% +13.64%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Manchester +1 3 £425 -35.85% 5
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 (66.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Nutanix
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) cloud-init
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) ZABBIX
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) Consul
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Istio
3 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) linkerd
3 1 (33.33%) Packer
3 1 (33.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Okta
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk