Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in South London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 31 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 13 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 5.68% 4.00% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.57% 11.54% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £494 £589 £361
25th Percentile £512 £625 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £693 £375
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% +84.67% -46.43%
75th Percentile £550 £768 £382
90th Percentile - £808 £385
London median daily rate £525 £608 £575
% change year-on-year -13.58% +5.65% -14.81%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 123 78 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 53.71% 34.67% 51.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 59 119
10th Percentile £299 £335 £231
25th Percentile £463 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.37% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £604 £690 £653
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.55 - £19.25
Median hourly rate £58.94 £34.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.34% +65.85% -8.89%
75th Percentile £63.32 - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £29.69 £31.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year -5.28% +2.77% -5.43%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in South London

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Croydon +3 13 £519 -25.12% 2
Virtual Private Cloud
London

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (92.31%) Confluence
2 11 (84.62%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (92.31%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (92.31%) Amazon S3
3 11 (84.62%) Route 53
4 7 (53.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (53.85%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (53.85%) Amazon ELB
4 7 (53.85%) AWS KMS
4 7 (53.85%) Azure
4 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (38.46%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) DNS
1 11 (84.62%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) FTP
2 7 (53.85%) HTTP
2 7 (53.85%) IMAP
2 7 (53.85%) OpenLDAP
2 7 (53.85%) SMTP
2 7 (53.85%) SSH
3 4 (30.77%) OpenVPN
3 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 4 (30.77%) VPN
4 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (53.85%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) JIRA
2 8 (61.54%) Git
2 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
3 7 (53.85%) Vagrant
4 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
4 4 (30.77%) SonarQube
5 2 (15.38%) GitLab
6 1 (7.69%) JUnit
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
3 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 4 (30.77%) Architect
5 4 (30.77%) Technical Architect
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (7.69%) Senior
7 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) LDAP
2 5 (38.46%) OpenID
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Ubuntu
2 7 (53.85%) VMS
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) Change Management
3 7 (53.85%) Cloud Security
3 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
3 7 (53.85%) Patch Management
3 7 (53.85%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.69%) OWASP
6 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
6 1 (7.69%) Refactoring
6 1 (7.69%) SIEM
6 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
3 7 (53.85%) Groovy
3 7 (53.85%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) AWS Certification
2 7 (53.85%) Azure Certification
2 7 (53.85%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Squid
2 9 (69.23%) Docker
3 7 (53.85%) DFS Replication
3 7 (53.85%) Dovecot
3 7 (53.85%) Postfix
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Grafana
1 13 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 13 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (53.85%) Nessus
2 7 (53.85%) Proxmox
3 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
4 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (30.77%) Consul
5 4 (30.77%) FortiGate
6 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Jaspersoft
1 7 (53.85%) ServiceNow
2 4 (30.77%) Atlassian
2 4 (30.77%) Dynatrace
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat