Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.40% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £338 - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £404 - £530
% change year-on-year - - -7.83%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 820 599 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.38% 35.80% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 401 565
10th Percentile £270 £274 £207
25th Percentile £400 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 35
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.35 £16.25
25th Percentile £40.22 £26.94 £19.87
Median hourly rate £81.00 £45.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.01% -21.98% +98.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £61.74
90th Percentile £100.00 £76.68 £76.67
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.50% +19.17% +35.38%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the Thames Valley

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Berkshire - 6 £600 -
Oxfordshire - 3 £375 - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
South East

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Control Tower
3 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
3 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Cloud Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Django
1 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
1 1 (11.11%) Flask
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Runbook
2 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (44.44%) FinOps
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) RBAC
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Threat Detection
2 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) AWS Certification
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) CCNA
4 1 (11.11%) CCNP
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NCSC
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Argo
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Citrix
1 4 (44.44%) CloudEndure
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto