Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in the South West

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 122 155
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 +16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 3 18 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.15% 0.70% 0.061%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.48% 2.60% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 1
10th Percentile - £600 -
25th Percentile £638 £621 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +23.81% -
75th Percentile £713 £685 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £558 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% -7.08% -4.00%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 622 692 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.62% 26.93% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 442 765
10th Percentile £213 £250 £310
25th Percentile £352 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £669
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
England median daily rate £500 £532 £550
% change year-on-year -5.97% -3.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 43 53
10th Percentile £18.13 £25.26 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £33.00 £18.28
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% +1.54%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £78.00
90th Percentile £50.40 - £79.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.88% +2.82% +50.00%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the South West

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Wiltshire +13 2 - - 2
Bristol - 1 £675 - 3
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (33.33%) VMware