Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
South East > Oxfordshire

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.76% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £431 - -
90th Percentile £458 - -
South East median daily rate £404 - £530
% change year-on-year - - -1.40%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 61 27 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 35.88% 30.00% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 17 52
10th Percentile £225 £250 £135
25th Percentile £263 £306 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £514
90th Percentile £675 £700 £645
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £24.91
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.36%
75th Percentile - - £32.32
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.50% +19.17% +35.38%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in Oxfordshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Oxford - 3 £375 -
Virtual Private Cloud
South East

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto