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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 337 356
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 +83
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 53 38 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 0.77% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 53
10th Percentile £381 £405 £504
25th Percentile £463 £425 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £528 £664 £613
90th Percentile £580 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -2.04%

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 4,721 4,915 7,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.78% 26.85% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,162 3,369 5,117
10th Percentile £254 £243 £223
25th Percentile £385 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 190 237
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.31 £16.06 £16.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.37 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -14.52% +29.90%
75th Percentile £36.00 £53.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £24.18 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -26.73% +53.49%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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
Midlands +3 23 £475 -26.92% 2
West Midlands +3 23 £475 -26.92% 2
Scotland - 10 £500 - 10
North of England -19 9 £535 +19.55% 11
East of England +14 6 £513 -6.82% 2
South East +22 3 £580 -2.93% 10
North West -14 3 £535 +19.55% 7
Yorkshire -15 3 £500 +9.59% 2
North East - 3 £600 - 2
South West +24 2 £675 +5.06% 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 17 (32.08%) Confluence
2 8 (15.09%) nginx
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 52 (98.11%) AWS
2 39 (73.58%) Amazon S3
3 38 (71.70%) Amazon EC2
4 33 (62.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 27 (50.94%) AWS KMS
6 17 (32.08%) Amazon ELB
7 16 (30.19%) Serverless
8 14 (26.42%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (26.42%) Azure
9 11 (20.75%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (20.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (20.75%) AWS Direct Connect
10 10 (18.87%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (18.87%) Amazon Glacier
10 10 (18.87%) AWS CloudTrail
10 10 (18.87%) GitHub
11 9 (16.98%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (15.09%) Route 53
13 7 (13.21%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (7.55%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (45.28%) DNS
2 22 (41.51%) Firewall
3 16 (30.19%) SMTP
4 14 (26.42%) FTP
4 14 (26.42%) HTTP
4 14 (26.42%) SSH
5 7 (13.21%) DHCP
5 7 (13.21%) VPN
6 6 (11.32%) IMAP
6 6 (11.32%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
7 5 (9.43%) SSL
8 4 (7.55%) Network Security
8 4 (7.55%) WAN
9 3 (5.66%) VLAN
10 2 (3.77%) BGP
10 2 (3.77%) OSPF
10 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
10 2 (3.77%) X.509
11 1 (1.89%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (52.83%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (13.21%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (9.43%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.77%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.89%) Big Data
7 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.89%) Metadata
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (50.94%) Jenkins
2 23 (43.40%) Git
3 18 (33.96%) JIRA
4 16 (30.19%) Vagrant
5 6 (11.32%) GitLab
6 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.89%) Snyk
7 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.89%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (43.40%) Public Sector
2 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Finance
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (41.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (35.85%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (26.42%) AWS DevOps
3 14 (26.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 13 (24.53%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (22.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Senior
7 6 (11.32%) Administrator
7 6 (11.32%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Architect
9 4 (7.55%) Network Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Site Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) AWS Administrator
10 3 (5.66%) AWS Architect
10 3 (5.66%) AWS Developer
10 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Developer
10 3 (5.66%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) LDAP
2 4 (7.55%) AWS CDK
3 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.77%) JSON
5 1 (1.89%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.89%) Apache Camel
5 1 (1.89%) boto
5 1 (1.89%) J2EE
5 1 (1.89%) Kafka
5 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.89%) REST
5 1 (1.89%) RESTful
5 1 (1.89%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (1.89%) SOAP
5 1 (1.89%) Spring
5 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.30%) Replication
2 5 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.66%) PKI
5 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (50.94%) Linux
2 22 (41.51%) Windows
3 16 (30.19%) Amazon Linux
3 16 (30.19%) VMS
4 7 (13.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
5 5 (9.43%) Unix
6 3 (5.66%) Windows Server
7 2 (3.77%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.89%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (62.26%) DevOps
2 29 (54.72%) CI/CD
3 24 (45.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (41.51%) Cloud Security
5 21 (39.62%) Configuration Management
6 19 (35.85%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (32.08%) Change Management
8 16 (30.19%) Patch Management
9 8 (15.09%) Agile
9 8 (15.09%) Network Load Balancing
9 8 (15.09%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (13.21%) Containerisation
10 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (11.32%) Observability
12 5 (9.43%) Cost Optimisation
12 5 (9.43%) DevSecOps
12 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (9.43%) Key Management
12 5 (9.43%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (54.72%) Python
2 22 (41.51%) PowerShell
3 16 (30.19%) Groovy
4 14 (26.42%) Perl
5 11 (20.75%) Java
5 11 (20.75%) SQL
6 9 (16.98%) Bash
7 6 (11.32%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.77%) Go
9 1 (1.89%) Bicep
9 1 (1.89%) Korn
9 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (41.51%) SC Cleared
1 22 (41.51%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.53%) AWS Certification
3 7 (13.21%) Degree
4 5 (9.43%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (9.43%) NIST
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
2 4 (7.55%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.77%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.77%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (3.77%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (54.72%) Docker
2 18 (33.96%) Active Directory
3 14 (26.42%) DFS Replication
4 6 (11.32%) Dovecot
4 6 (11.32%) Postfix
4 6 (11.32%) Squid
5 3 (5.66%) KVM
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (83.02%) Terraform
2 24 (45.28%) Prometheus
3 23 (43.40%) Grafana
4 14 (26.42%) Ansible
5 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
6 6 (11.32%) Nessus
7 4 (7.55%) Proxmox
7 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (5.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (5.66%) HAProxy
8 3 (5.66%) Nagios
9 2 (3.77%) Fluentd
9 2 (3.77%) Kustomize
9 2 (3.77%) linkerd
9 2 (3.77%) Puppet
10 1 (1.89%) Argo
10 1 (1.89%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.89%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) ServiceNow
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.32%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (9.43%) Dynatrace
4 5 (9.43%) Oracle
4 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.66%) AppDynamics
5 3 (5.66%) Commvault
6 2 (3.77%) ForgeRock
6 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.77%) Huawei
6 2 (3.77%) Splunk
6 2 (3.77%) VMware
7 1 (1.89%) Brocade
7 1 (1.89%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco
7 1 (1.89%) F5
7 1 (1.89%) New Relic
7 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.89%) Veeam