Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 447 432
Rank change year-on-year +73 -15 +43
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 225 101 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.28% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 0.78% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 54 138
10th Percentile £368 £490 £470
25th Percentile £450 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £611 £577
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% +5.94% -11.31%
75th Percentile £625 £715 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £685 £550
% change year-on-year -30.66% +24.55% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,871 12,911 15,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.05% 35.88% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,439 8,540 11,385
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £417 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 184 295
10th Percentile £15.23 £17.66 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.15 £30.00 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +18.20% +12.80%
75th Percentile £51.67 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £27.24 £21.05
% change year-on-year -16.15% +29.39% +9.18%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 December 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
England +46 162 £550 -10.42% 92
UK excluding London +12 103 £475 -30.66% 92
London +25 76 £600 +6.19% 12
Work from Home +36 66 £578 -1.20% 90
West Midlands +6 35 £475 - 8
Midlands -8 35 £475 - 15
North of England -34 28 £550 -24.14% 17
Scotland - 28 £418 - 5
Yorkshire -28 16 £525 -27.59% 8
South East +5 11 £600 - 21
North East +1 6 £575 -23.33% 1
North West -22 6 £518 +15.00% 8
South West -15 3 £675 -1.46% 17
East of England -12 1 £600 - 13

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 32 (14.22%) Confluence
2 12 (5.33%) nginx
3 9 (4.00%) Apache
4 8 (3.56%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.78%) SAS
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (4.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 224 (99.56%) AWS
2 150 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 142 (63.11%) Amazon EC2
4 117 (52.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 92 (40.89%) Serverless
6 91 (40.44%) AWS Lambda
7 87 (38.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (28.44%) GitHub
9 61 (27.11%) Amazon ECS
10 59 (26.22%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (20.44%) Amazon ELB
12 42 (18.67%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (18.22%) AWS KMS
13 41 (18.22%) Azure
14 36 (16.00%) Route 53
15 22 (9.78%) Entra ID
16 21 (9.33%) Datadog
17 19 (8.44%) AWS CloudTrail
17 19 (8.44%) AWS Direct Connect
18 18 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 76 (33.78%) Firewall
2 74 (32.89%) DNS
3 47 (20.89%) VPN
4 25 (11.11%) SSL
4 25 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 22 (9.78%) Network Security
6 21 (9.33%) SMTP
7 20 (8.89%) FTP
7 20 (8.89%) HTTP
7 20 (8.89%) SSH
8 11 (4.89%) DHCP
8 11 (4.89%) IMAP
8 11 (4.89%) OpenLDAP
8 11 (4.89%) WAN
9 8 (3.56%) SD-WAN
9 8 (3.56%) Wireless
10 7 (3.11%) LAN
11 6 (2.67%) BGP
11 6 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.67%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (42.22%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (9.78%) MongoDB
4 19 (8.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 18 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (6.67%) DynamoDB
7 11 (4.89%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.44%) MySQL
9 8 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (3.56%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.22%) Redis
11 5 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.22%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.78%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.78%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.33%) Metadata
13 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.89%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (48.89%) Jenkins
2 89 (39.56%) GitLab
3 78 (34.67%) Git
4 39 (17.33%) JIRA
5 21 (9.33%) Vagrant
6 10 (4.44%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.67%) MLflow
9 4 (1.78%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.33%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.44%) Maven
11 1 (0.44%) Metasploit
General
1 65 (28.89%) Public Sector
2 41 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.33%) Finance
4 14 (6.22%) Banking
5 12 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.78%) Military
9 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.89%) Legal
9 2 (0.89%) Publishing
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Police
10 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (36.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 61 (27.11%) AWS Engineer
3 49 (21.78%) Architect
4 47 (20.89%) Senior
5 41 (18.22%) AWS DevOps
6 37 (16.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 32 (14.22%) AWS Architect
8 31 (13.78%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (11.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (9.33%) Lead
10 21 (9.33%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 19 (8.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 18 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (5.78%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (5.33%) AWS Solution Architect
15 12 (5.33%) Cloud Architect
16 11 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 9 (4.00%) Network Engineer
17 9 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.33%) Kafka
2 20 (8.89%) Node.js
3 15 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.89%) AWS CDK
4 11 (4.89%) LDAP
5 8 (3.56%) PySpark
6 7 (3.11%) cloud-init
6 7 (3.11%) Keycloak
7 6 (2.67%) JSON
7 6 (2.67%) REST
7 6 (2.67%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.22%) RESTful
8 5 (2.22%) Spring
9 3 (1.33%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.33%) SignalR
10 2 (0.89%) Middleware
10 2 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 2 (0.89%) React
10 2 (0.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.78%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.44%) Replication
3 14 (6.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.44%) NHS
6 8 (3.56%) PKI
6 8 (3.56%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.67%) IVR
7 6 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.22%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.78%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.33%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.89%) Clustering
11 2 (0.89%) Life Science
12 1 (0.44%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 71 (31.56%) Linux
2 32 (14.22%) Windows
3 24 (10.67%) Amazon Linux
4 21 (9.33%) VMS
5 12 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.33%) Ubuntu
5 12 (5.33%) Unix
6 8 (3.56%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.11%) CentOS
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.44%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (63.56%) DevOps
2 141 (62.67%) CI/CD
3 136 (60.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (26.22%) Containerisation
5 48 (21.33%) High Availability
6 45 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 44 (19.56%) Cloud Security
7 44 (19.56%) Infrastructure Automation
8 39 (17.33%) Migration
9 37 (16.44%) Configuration Management
9 37 (16.44%) Cost Optimisation
10 36 (16.00%) Observability
11 33 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
12 32 (14.22%) Mentoring
13 30 (13.33%) Agile
14 26 (11.56%) Patch Management
14 26 (11.56%) Roadmaps
15 24 (10.67%) DevSecOps
15 24 (10.67%) Microservices
16 23 (10.22%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (60.44%) Python
2 66 (29.33%) Bash
3 43 (19.11%) PowerShell
4 29 (12.89%) Java
5 22 (9.78%) Perl
5 22 (9.78%) SQL
6 21 (9.33%) Groovy
7 13 (5.78%) Go
8 9 (4.00%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.56%) Ruby
10 6 (2.67%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.22%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.44%) Bicep
12 1 (0.44%) Korn
12 1 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (43.56%) Security Cleared
2 86 (38.22%) SC Cleared
3 65 (28.89%) AWS Certification
4 23 (10.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (8.00%) Degree
6 15 (6.67%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.67%) CCNP
10 5 (2.22%) CCSP
11 4 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.78%) CISSP
12 3 (1.33%) CCIE
12 3 (1.33%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.89%) CCNA
13 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.89%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.11%) GDPR
2 23 (10.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.56%) PCI DSS
4 16 (7.11%) NCSC
5 11 (4.89%) NIST
6 7 (3.11%) HIPAA
7 5 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.78%) QA
9 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.33%) PMO
9 3 (1.33%) SLA
10 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.44%) JSP 440
System Software
1 110 (48.89%) Docker
2 20 (8.89%) DFS Replication
3 16 (7.11%) Active Directory
4 11 (4.89%) Dovecot
4 11 (4.89%) Postfix
4 11 (4.89%) Squid
5 7 (3.11%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (2.22%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.33%) KVM
9 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 173 (76.89%) Terraform
2 69 (30.67%) Kubernetes
3 61 (27.11%) Prometheus
4 60 (26.67%) Grafana
5 57 (25.33%) Ansible
6 12 (5.33%) Nessus
7 11 (4.89%) Packer
8 10 (4.44%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.00%) Puppet
10 8 (3.56%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (3.11%) Argo
12 6 (2.67%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.78%) NetBackup
13 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
15 2 (0.89%) Fluentd
15 2 (0.89%) Karpenter
15 2 (0.89%) Kibana
15 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (14.22%) Palo Alto
2 28 (12.44%) F5
3 26 (11.56%) ServiceNow
4 23 (10.22%) CheckPoint
5 16 (7.11%) Splunk
6 15 (6.67%) Cisco
7 12 (5.33%) Oracle
8 11 (4.89%) Databricks
8 11 (4.89%) Dynatrace
8 11 (4.89%) Jaspersoft
9 10 (4.44%) Microsoft
10 9 (4.00%) CloudEndure
11 8 (3.56%) Okta
12 7 (3.11%) Commvault
12 7 (3.11%) VMware
13 6 (2.67%) Citrix
13 6 (2.67%) Fortinet
13 6 (2.67%) Meraki
14 5 (2.22%) Avaya
14 5 (2.22%) Genesys