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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 353 356
Rank change year-on-year +41 +3 +84
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 33 38 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.18% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 0.69% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 65
10th Percentile £404 £407 £501
25th Percentile £419 £452 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £571 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.85% -4.79% +14.29%
75th Percentile £506 £675 -
90th Percentile £543 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £600
% change year-on-year -0.47% -12.08% -

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 4,451 5,491 7,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.80% 25.99% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,014 3,790 5,431
10th Percentile £250 £225 £240
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £649 £669 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 275 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.68 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.97 £25.73
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% -18.48% +33.64%
75th Percentile £33.33 £43.75 £61.11
90th Percentile £62.75 £70.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +15 11 £475 -26.92% 28
Midlands +11 11 £475 -26.92% 41
Scotland +9 7 £500 - 26
East of England +24 6 £513 -6.82% 33
North of England -7 6 £425 -8.11% 50
South East +51 3 £580 -2.93% 88
North West -2 2 £425 -23.42% 27
Yorkshire -8 2 £500 +8.11% 17
North East - 2 - - 6
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 (24.24%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) nginx
3 2 (6.06%) IIS
4 1 (3.03%) Apache
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 32 (96.97%) AWS
2 23 (69.70%) Amazon S3
3 22 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (54.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (42.42%) AWS KMS
6 12 (36.36%) Serverless
7 11 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (30.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (24.24%) GitHub
10 7 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (21.21%) Amazon ELB
10 7 (21.21%) Azure
10 7 (21.21%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
12 5 (15.15%) Amazon Glacier
13 4 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (12.12%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (12.12%) AWS Direct Connect
13 4 (12.12%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) Firewall
2 10 (30.30%) DNS
3 7 (21.21%) SMTP
3 7 (21.21%) VPN
4 6 (18.18%) Network Security
5 5 (15.15%) FTP
5 5 (15.15%) HTTP
5 5 (15.15%) SSH
5 5 (15.15%) WAN
6 4 (12.12%) BGP
6 4 (12.12%) OSPF
6 4 (12.12%) SSL
7 3 (9.09%) DHCP
7 3 (9.09%) SD-WAN
7 3 (9.09%) VLAN
8 2 (6.06%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (6.06%) EIGRP
8 2 (6.06%) IMAP
8 2 (6.06%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (57.58%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.12%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (48.48%) Jenkins
2 10 (30.30%) Git
3 9 (27.27%) JIRA
4 7 (21.21%) Vagrant
5 4 (12.12%) GitLab
6 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (3.03%) Snyk
7 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 3 (9.09%) Administrator
4 3 (9.09%) Architect
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Network Administrator
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
2 2 (6.06%) JSON
2 2 (6.06%) LDAP
3 1 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Camel
3 1 (3.03%) boto
3 1 (3.03%) J2EE
3 1 (3.03%) Kafka
3 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.03%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
3 1 (3.03%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (3.03%) SOAP
3 1 (3.03%) Spring
3 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Replication
2 3 (9.09%) PKI
3 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.06%) Clustering
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) Linux
2 11 (33.33%) Windows
3 7 (21.21%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (21.21%) VMS
4 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
5 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (6.06%) CentOS
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.03%) SUSE
7 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) DevOps
2 17 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 14 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
5 11 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 11 (33.33%) Configuration Management
6 9 (27.27%) Change Management
7 8 (24.24%) Patch Management
8 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (15.15%) Secrets Management
9 5 (15.15%) SIEM
10 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
10 4 (12.12%) Cost Optimisation
10 4 (12.12%) FinOps
10 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (12.12%) Network Load Balancing
10 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (12.12%) RBAC
11 3 (9.09%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 7 (21.21%) Groovy
4 6 (18.18%) Java
5 5 (15.15%) Perl
5 5 (15.15%) SQL
6 3 (9.09%) Bash
6 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) Bicep
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) AWS Certification
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) CCNP
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
1 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (12.12%) NIST
1 4 (12.12%) SOC 2
2 2 (6.06%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (6.06%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (6.06%) NIST 800
2 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.06%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Docker
2 12 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 5 (15.15%) DFS Replication
4 3 (9.09%) VMware NSX
5 2 (6.06%) Dovecot
5 2 (6.06%) Postfix
5 2 (6.06%) Squid
5 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (75.76%) Terraform
2 12 (36.36%) Prometheus
3 10 (30.30%) Ansible
4 9 (27.27%) Grafana
5 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
6 3 (9.09%) Nagios
7 2 (6.06%) Kustomize
7 2 (6.06%) Nessus
7 2 (6.06%) Puppet
7 2 (6.06%) ZABBIX
8 1 (3.03%) Argo
8 1 (3.03%) HAProxy
8 1 (3.03%) linkerd
8 1 (3.03%) PowerCLI
8 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) ServiceNow
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 3 (9.09%) VMware
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) Dell
4 2 (6.06%) F5
4 2 (6.06%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.06%) HP
4 2 (6.06%) Huawei
4 2 (6.06%) IBM
4 2 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.06%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.03%) ForgeRock
5 1 (3.03%) New Relic
5 1 (3.03%) UiPath