Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 72 55
Rank change year-on-year -29 -17 -1
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.26% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 0.98% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £373 - £515
25th Percentile £383 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £401 £538 £613
90th Percentile £401 - £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 415 204 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.18% 31.58% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 152 92
10th Percentile £358 £304 £400
25th Percentile £447 £374 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £485 £523
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -7.18% -11.89%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £603
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - £21.90
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -90.50% +852.38% -6.71%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Sheffield -30 3 £400 - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
Yorkshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Kong
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Looker
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Prime Brokerage
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (33.33%) JWT
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Artefact Management
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks