Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 337 367
Rank change year-on-year +31 +30 +60
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 68 43 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 0.87% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 33 45
10th Percentile £403 £409 £488
25th Percentile £463 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £536 £675 £600
90th Percentile £616 £685 £628
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -3.03%

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 4,861 4,930 6,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.41% 27.46% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,254 3,266 4,917
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £378 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £572 £598 £600
90th Percentile £644 £664 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 145 240
10th Percentile £14.97 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £17.44
Median hourly rate £19.64 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +5.56% +41.18%
75th Percentile £37.13 £64.73 £62.03
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.10% -14.29% +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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Private Cloud

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 12 September 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 12 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
West Midlands +14 34 £475 -26.92% 1
Midlands +12 34 £475 -26.92% 1
North of England -13 13 £543 +21.23% 5
Scotland - 12 £500 - 3
Yorkshire -7 7 £500 +11.11% 2
East of England +4 6 £513 -6.82%
North West -14 4 £543 +21.23% 3
South West +10 3 £675 +3.85% 6
South East +13 2 £580 -2.52% 6
North East - 2 £600 -
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 25 (36.76%) Confluence
2 14 (20.59%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 67 (98.53%) AWS
2 52 (76.47%) Amazon EC2
2 52 (76.47%) Amazon S3
3 47 (69.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 35 (51.47%) AWS KMS
5 32 (47.06%) Amazon ELB
6 22 (32.35%) Azure
7 16 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (20.59%) Route 53
8 14 (20.59%) Serverless
9 13 (19.12%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (17.65%) Amazon Glacier
10 12 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (16.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (16.18%) AWS CloudTrail
11 11 (16.18%) AWS Direct Connect
12 9 (13.24%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (13.24%) GitHub
13 8 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 38 (55.88%) DNS
1 38 (55.88%) Firewall
2 24 (35.29%) SMTP
3 22 (32.35%) FTP
3 22 (32.35%) HTTP
3 22 (32.35%) SSH
4 14 (20.59%) VPN
5 12 (17.65%) IMAP
5 12 (17.65%) OpenLDAP
5 12 (17.65%) TCP/IP
6 11 (16.18%) SSL
7 8 (11.76%) Network Security
8 7 (10.29%) DHCP
9 5 (7.35%) WAN
10 3 (4.41%) BGP
10 3 (4.41%) OSPF
10 3 (4.41%) SD-WAN
10 3 (4.41%) VLAN
11 2 (2.94%) X.509
12 1 (1.47%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (51.47%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (19.12%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.88%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.94%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.47%) Big Data
7 1 (1.47%) Metadata
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (60.29%) Jenkins
2 39 (57.35%) Git
3 25 (36.76%) JIRA
4 24 (35.29%) Vagrant
5 11 (16.18%) GitLab
6 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.47%) Snyk
7 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.18%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Military
5 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (48.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (38.24%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (30.88%) AWS DevOps
3 21 (30.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 21 (30.88%) Platform Engineer
4 20 (29.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 14 (20.59%) Senior
6 13 (19.12%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 10 (14.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (10.29%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (8.82%) Administrator
9 6 (8.82%) Network Engineer
9 6 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (7.35%) Architect
11 4 (5.88%) Site Engineer
11 4 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 3 (4.41%) AWS Developer
12 3 (4.41%) Developer
12 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (4.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.65%) LDAP
2 3 (4.41%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.94%) JSON
4 1 (1.47%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Camel
4 1 (1.47%) J2EE
4 1 (1.47%) Kafka
4 1 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.47%) REST
4 1 (1.47%) RESTful
4 1 (1.47%) SOAP
4 1 (1.47%) Spring
4 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (33.82%) Replication
2 5 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.41%) PKI
5 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 35 (51.47%) Linux
2 30 (44.12%) Windows
3 24 (35.29%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (35.29%) VMS
4 11 (16.18%) Ubuntu
5 7 (10.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (7.35%) Unix
7 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
8 2 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.47%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (70.59%) DevOps
2 39 (57.35%) CI/CD
3 30 (44.12%) Cloud Security
3 30 (44.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (42.65%) Configuration Management
5 27 (39.71%) Platform Engineering
6 25 (36.76%) Change Management
7 24 (35.29%) Patch Management
8 14 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (16.18%) High Availability
9 11 (16.18%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (14.71%) Incident Response
11 9 (13.24%) DevSecOps
12 8 (11.76%) Agile
12 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
12 8 (11.76%) Network Load Balancing
13 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (8.82%) Containerisation
14 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (8.82%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 45 (66.18%) Python
2 31 (45.59%) PowerShell
3 24 (35.29%) Groovy
4 16 (23.53%) Bash
4 16 (23.53%) Perl
4 16 (23.53%) SQL
5 13 (19.12%) Java
6 5 (7.35%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.94%) Go
8 1 (1.47%) Bicep
8 1 (1.47%) Korn
8 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (51.47%) Security Cleared
2 32 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 19 (27.94%) AWS Certification
4 13 (19.12%) Degree
5 11 (16.18%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.47%) CCNP
8 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.35%) GDPR
2 5 (7.35%) NIST
3 4 (5.88%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.94%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (2.94%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (63.24%) Docker
2 22 (32.35%) DFS Replication
3 20 (29.41%) Active Directory
4 12 (17.65%) Dovecot
4 12 (17.65%) Postfix
4 12 (17.65%) Squid
5 3 (4.41%) KVM
6 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (85.29%) Terraform
2 32 (47.06%) Prometheus
3 31 (45.59%) Grafana
4 20 (29.41%) Ansible
5 12 (17.65%) Nessus
6 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
7 10 (14.71%) Proxmox
8 4 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (4.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (4.41%) HAProxy
9 3 (4.41%) Nagios
10 2 (2.94%) Fluentd
10 2 (2.94%) Kustomize
10 2 (2.94%) linkerd
10 2 (2.94%) Puppet
11 1 (1.47%) Argo
11 1 (1.47%) PowerCLI
11 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (35.29%) ServiceNow
2 12 (17.65%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (13.24%) Palo Alto
4 8 (11.76%) CheckPoint
4 8 (11.76%) F5
5 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
6 5 (7.35%) Dynatrace
6 5 (7.35%) Oracle
6 5 (7.35%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.41%) AppDynamics
7 3 (4.41%) Commvault
7 3 (4.41%) Splunk
8 2 (2.94%) Cisco
8 2 (2.94%) ForgeRock
8 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.94%) Huawei
8 2 (2.94%) VMware
8 2 (2.94%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.47%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.47%) UiPath