Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.99% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 £575 £535
% change year-on-year -10.87% +7.48% -10.83%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 51 39 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 25.12% 22.81% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 29
10th Percentile £390 £201 £513
25th Percentile £402 £325 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -21.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £556 £530 £650
90th Percentile £656 £575 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £23.52 - -
25th Percentile £24.31 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £26.11 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% - -
75th Percentile £27.42 - -
90th Percentile £27.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.43 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.35% +28.33% -38.94%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
County Antrim - 2 £446 - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform