Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 349 365
Rank change year-on-year +36 +16 +60
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 23 50 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.24% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 0.92% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 39 70
10th Percentile £417 £409 £472
25th Percentile £466 £459 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £593 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +0.85% +17.50%
75th Percentile £738 £694 £647
90th Percentile £750 - £675
UK median daily rate £590 £550 £615
% change year-on-year +7.27% -10.57% +11.82%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England -1 12 £725 +26.09% 10
Yorkshire +8 6 £725 +56.76% 2
Scotland +15 4 £469 - 2
East of England +30 3 £525 -4.55% 1
North West -6 3 £425 -35.85% 8
North East - 3 £750 -
South East +40 2 £580 +2.16% 13
Midlands +18 2 £475 -26.92% 4
West Midlands +10 2 £475 -26.92% 3
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (34.78%) nginx
2 7 (30.43%) Traefik
3 2 (8.70%) IIS
4 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (56.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (43.48%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (43.48%) Entra ID
5 9 (39.13%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (39.13%) AWS Fargate
6 8 (34.78%) Amazon S3
7 6 (26.09%) Serverless
8 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (17.39%) Azure
10 3 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (8.70%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (8.70%) AWS KMS
11 2 (8.70%) GitHub
11 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (8.70%) Nutanix
11 2 (8.70%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) DNS
2 9 (39.13%) TCP/IP
3 3 (13.04%) Network Security
3 3 (13.04%) VPN
3 3 (13.04%) WAN
4 2 (8.70%) BGP
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (8.70%) DHCP
4 2 (8.70%) EIGRP
4 2 (8.70%) Firewall
4 2 (8.70%) IPsec
4 2 (8.70%) OSPF
4 2 (8.70%) SD-WAN
4 2 (8.70%) SSL
4 2 (8.70%) Wireless
4 2 (8.70%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) MongoDB
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 9 (39.13%) GitLab
3 3 (13.04%) JIRA
4 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (4.35%) Snyk
5 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Military
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Senior
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Senior DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Developer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) cloud-init
1 9 (39.13%) Kafka
1 9 (39.13%) Keycloak
2 2 (8.70%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.35%) boto
3 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) PKI
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.70%) Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) CentOS
1 11 (47.83%) Linux
2 9 (39.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (39.13%) Unix
3 4 (17.39%) Windows
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 13 (56.52%) DevOps
4 11 (47.83%) Cloud Security
4 11 (47.83%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (43.48%) Secrets Management
6 9 (39.13%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 9 (39.13%) Identity Management
6 9 (39.13%) Observability
6 9 (39.13%) Static Application Security Testing
7 7 (30.43%) Mobile Device Management
8 4 (17.39%) Agile
9 3 (13.04%) Cost Management
9 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (13.04%) ITIL
9 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 2 (8.70%) Key Management
10 2 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
10 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
10 2 (8.70%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Bash
1 10 (43.48%) Go
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) Bicep
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) AWS Certification
2 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
3 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) CCNP
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) NCSC
2 2 (8.70%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) NIST 800
2 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.70%) SLA
2 2 (8.70%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Docker
3 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Terraform
2 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 11 (47.83%) Prometheus
3 11 (47.83%) ZABBIX
4 10 (43.48%) linkerd
5 9 (39.13%) Consul
5 9 (39.13%) Grafana
5 9 (39.13%) Istio
5 9 (39.13%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (39.13%) Packer
5 9 (39.13%) Rancher
6 8 (34.78%) HAProxy
7 5 (21.74%) Ansible
8 2 (8.70%) Nagios
9 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (4.35%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Okta
1 9 (39.13%) Splunk
2 7 (30.43%) Apple
2 7 (30.43%) ESET
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco
4 2 (8.70%) Dell
4 2 (8.70%) F5
4 2 (8.70%) HP
4 2 (8.70%) IBM
4 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.70%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock
5 1 (4.35%) New Relic
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat