Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Virtual Private Cloud skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 360 423
Rank change year-on-year +18 +63 -47
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 49 101 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.42% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 1.26% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 72 72
10th Percentile £409 £474 £400
25th Percentile £458 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £594 £497
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +19.35% +4.74%
75th Percentile £694 £641 £638
90th Percentile - £673 £670
UK median daily rate £550 £605 £543
% change year-on-year -9.09% +11.52% +8.50%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Private Cloud is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,468 8,036 9,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.31% 33.24% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,861 5,955 7,234
10th Percentile £213 £240 £206
25th Percentile £375 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 239 293
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.80 £13.15
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.52 £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.72 £24.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% +28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £59.95 £75.00 £54.85
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +26 32 £575 -8.00% 2
North West +11 26 £663 +1.92% 2
South East -14 8 £568 -5.38% 3
Midlands +31 6 £650 +4.00% 4
Yorkshire +25 6 £463 -2.63%
West Midlands - 6 £650 - 4
East of England +11 2 £550 -12.00%
Scotland +8 2 - - 1
South West +18 1 - - 1
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 4 (8.16%) nginx
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (75.51%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (59.18%) Amazon S3
4 24 (48.98%) Route 53
5 14 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (28.57%) Serverless
6 12 (24.49%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (22.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (22.45%) Azure
8 10 (20.41%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (20.41%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (18.37%) CloudFront
10 6 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (12.24%) Entra ID
10 6 (12.24%) GCP
11 5 (10.20%) AWS Direct Connect
11 5 (10.20%) GitHub
12 4 (8.16%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (8.16%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (8.16%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.49%) DNS
2 9 (18.37%) VPN
3 8 (16.33%) Network Security
4 5 (10.20%) Firewall
4 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
5 3 (6.12%) DHCP
5 3 (6.12%) VLAN
6 2 (4.08%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (4.08%) SSL
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.04%) LAN
7 1 (2.04%) WAN
7 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (16.33%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (12.24%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.08%) MySQL
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.04%) Parquet
6 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (44.90%) GitLab
2 13 (26.53%) Git
3 10 (20.41%) Jenkins
4 8 (16.33%) webpack
5 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.08%) JIRA
General
1 10 (20.41%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Retail
3 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Electronics
4 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.12%) Marketing
4 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.08%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (18.37%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (18.37%) Lead
3 7 (14.29%) Architect
3 7 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Security Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Network Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Technical Leader
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Architect
7 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Lead Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Lead Cloud Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) Node.js
2 8 (16.33%) Express.js
2 8 (16.33%) React
2 8 (16.33%) Redux
3 5 (10.20%) OAuth
3 5 (10.20%) OAuth2
3 5 (10.20%) SAML
4 2 (4.08%) cloud-init
4 2 (4.08%) Django
4 2 (4.08%) HornetQ
4 2 (4.08%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (4.08%) LDAP
4 2 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.08%) VCL
5 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.04%) JSON
5 1 (2.04%) REST
5 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Clustering
4 2 (4.08%) PKI
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Life Science
5 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Linux
2 9 (18.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (14.29%) CentOS
3 7 (14.29%) Windows
4 3 (6.12%) Debian
5 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (55.10%) DevOps
2 23 (46.94%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.61%) Containerisation
4 10 (20.41%) Agile
5 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Management
6 8 (16.33%) API Development
6 8 (16.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 8 (16.33%) Cloud Security
6 8 (16.33%) Customer Engagement
6 8 (16.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 8 (16.33%) ETL
6 8 (16.33%) Front End Development
6 8 (16.33%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (16.33%) QA Automation
6 8 (16.33%) Test Automation
7 6 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (12.24%) Kanban
8 5 (10.20%) Task Automation
8 5 (10.20%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.78%) Python
2 10 (20.41%) Bash
3 2 (4.08%) Go
3 2 (4.08%) Ruby
3 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 21 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.49%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.04%) CCNA
4 1 (2.04%) CCNP
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) NCSC
3 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) Docker
2 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.12%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (4.08%) Varnish
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (48.98%) Kubernetes
2 20 (40.82%) Terraform
3 10 (20.41%) Ansible
4 6 (12.24%) Packer
4 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
4 6 (12.24%) Puppet
5 4 (8.16%) HAProxy
5 4 (8.16%) Rancher
6 3 (6.12%) Grafana
7 2 (4.08%) Consul
7 2 (4.08%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (4.08%) Graphite
7 2 (4.08%) Istio
7 2 (4.08%) linkerd
7 2 (4.08%) Podman
7 2 (4.08%) ZABBIX
8 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (8.16%) Cisco
1 4 (8.16%) Google
1 4 (8.16%) Palo Alto
1 4 (8.16%) VMware
2 3 (6.12%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.12%) SAP
2 3 (6.12%) Splunk
3 2 (4.08%) PagerDuty
3 2 (4.08%) Sage
4 1 (2.04%) Fortinet