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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 11 0 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.63% - 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% - 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 12
10th Percentile £449 - £485
25th Percentile £472 - £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £510
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.90%
75th Percentile £541 - £548
90th Percentile £553 - £550
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £600
% change year-on-year -2.60% -10.17% -

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 605 663 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.81% 34.97% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 438 681
10th Percentile £315 £200 £254
25th Percentile £420 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £541
90th Percentile £600 £613 £603
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 9
10th Percentile £16.21 £15.52 £16.81
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £21.22 £18.69 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.55% -67.50% +72.93%
75th Percentile £25.06 £23.89 £63.00
90th Percentile £27.05 £24.18 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.13% -32.00% +59.09%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Edinburgh - 8 £500 - 8
Glasgow - 2 £550 - 2
Aberdeen - 1 £438 - 2
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 2 (18.18%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon S3
3 6 (54.55%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (36.36%) Azure
5 4 (36.36%) GitHub
5 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
6 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (27.27%) Serverless
7 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
7 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) BGP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) IPsec
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) OSPF
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) InfluxDB
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Site Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Camel
2 1 (9.09%) J2EE
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (45.45%) Unix
4 3 (27.27%) Windows
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) Network Load Balancing
5 4 (36.36%) Observability
5 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (27.27%) Kanban
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) SIEM
7 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (18.18%) FinOps
7 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
7 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Secrets Management
8 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
8 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Bash
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Perl
4 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
5 2 (18.18%) Go
5 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 1 (9.09%) Bicep
6 1 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) KVM
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 6 (54.55%) Ansible
3 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
4 5 (45.45%) Grafana
5 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (27.27%) HAProxy
7 2 (18.18%) Fluentd
7 2 (18.18%) linkerd
7 2 (18.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
3 3 (27.27%) Commvault
4 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
4 2 (18.18%) ForgeRock
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) F5
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 1 (9.09%) Ping Identity