Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in Scotland

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 126 144
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 +31
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 4 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.090% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.27% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 13
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile £419 - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £531 - £511
90th Percentile £543 - £518
UK median daily rate £590 £550 £615
% change year-on-year +7.27% -10.57% +11.82%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 747 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.59% 33.65% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 509 774
10th Percentile £297 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in Scotland

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in Scotland

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in Scotland

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Glasgow +2 1 £550 - 1
Aberdeen - 1 £438 -
Edinburgh - 1 £500 - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Fintech
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) linkerd
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft