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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 441 454
Rank change year-on-year +26 +13 +22
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 234 82 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 0.76% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 54 93
10th Percentile £400 £413 £405
25th Percentile £449 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £576 £635 £645
90th Percentile £639 £718 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% -13.04% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Computing 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 17,432 10,854 13,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.64% 37.75% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 7,409 9,915
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 250 348
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.15 £71.38 £67.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 29 May 2026.

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 15 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 29 May 2026. 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 +9 200 £518 -5.91% 25
London +9 122 £525 -7.49% 13
UK excluding London -43 83 £469 -6.25% 19
Work from Home +10 71 £513 -6.82% 15
Midlands -37 25 £488 +2.63% 1
West Midlands -39 25 £488 +2.63% 1
North of England -55 24 £520 +12.43% 6
North West -20 15 £548 +28.82% 3
South East -43 10 £533 -8.19% 7
Scotland -1 9 £440 -12.00%
East of England -26 8 £490 -4.39%
North East -23 5 £413 -
South West - 5 £475 - 3
Yorkshire -53 4 £491 -19.80% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 - 2

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 38 (16.24%) Confluence
2 11 (4.70%) nginx
3 6 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 231 (98.72%) AWS
2 129 (55.13%) Amazon EC2
3 127 (54.27%) Amazon S3
4 110 (47.01%) Serverless
5 105 (44.87%) AWS Lambda
6 102 (43.59%) Amazon EKS
7 101 (43.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 73 (31.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (22.65%) Azure
10 50 (21.37%) Route 53
11 49 (20.94%) GitHub
12 42 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (15.38%) GCP
14 35 (14.96%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (13.25%) AWS CloudTrail
16 30 (12.82%) AWS KMS
17 27 (11.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 22 (9.40%) AWS Control Tower
19 19 (8.12%) AWS CodePipeline
20 18 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 62 (26.50%) Firewall
2 39 (16.67%) VPN
3 34 (14.53%) DNS
4 26 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 20 (8.55%) Network Security
6 15 (6.41%) BGP
7 13 (5.56%) OSPF
8 12 (5.13%) WAN
9 11 (4.70%) OpenVPN
10 8 (3.42%) SSL
11 7 (2.99%) LAN
12 6 (2.56%) Wireless
13 5 (2.14%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.71%) NGFW
14 4 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.71%) VLAN
15 3 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
16 2 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 2 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (28.63%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (8.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.84%) Power BI
5 13 (5.56%) DynamoDB
6 12 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (4.70%) MySQL
8 9 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.42%) Tableau
10 7 (2.99%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.56%) DocumentDB
12 5 (2.14%) Redis
13 4 (1.71%) Apache Hive
13 4 (1.71%) Big Data
13 4 (1.71%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.71%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.85%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 69 (29.49%) GitLab
1 69 (29.49%) Jenkins
2 36 (15.38%) JIRA
3 35 (14.96%) Git
4 21 (8.97%) Bitbucket
5 14 (5.98%) SonarQube
6 12 (5.13%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.71%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.28%) Snyk
10 2 (0.85%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.85%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.43%) AppScan
11 1 (0.43%) JUnit
11 1 (0.43%) sqlmap
General
1 64 (27.35%) Public Sector
1 64 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.53%) Finance
3 20 (8.55%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.14%) Military
7 4 (1.71%) Banking
8 3 (1.28%) Legal
8 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Police
9 2 (0.85%) Games
9 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.85%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Billing
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (30.34%) Architect
2 55 (23.50%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (18.38%) AWS Architect
4 32 (13.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (12.39%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (11.97%) Cloud Architect
7 24 (10.26%) AWS DevOps
8 22 (9.40%) Technical Architect
9 21 (8.97%) Senior
10 19 (8.12%) Security Engineer
11 17 (7.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (6.84%) Network Engineer
13 15 (6.41%) Lead
14 12 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (5.13%) Site Engineer
14 12 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (4.70%) Technical Manager
16 10 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (4.27%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 16 (6.84%) OpenID
3 15 (6.41%) Kafka
4 12 (5.13%) RESTful
5 11 (4.70%) LDAP
6 9 (3.85%) REST
7 8 (3.42%) GraphQL
7 8 (3.42%) OAuth
7 8 (3.42%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.99%) Apollo GraphQL
8 7 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.14%) Spring
9 5 (2.14%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.71%) gRPC
10 4 (1.71%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.71%) JPA
10 4 (1.71%) SAML
10 4 (1.71%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.37%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.26%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.27%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.14%) Replication
10 4 (1.71%) PKI
11 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.28%) NHS
11 3 (1.28%) SCADA
12 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 42 (17.95%) Linux
2 17 (7.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (6.41%) Windows
4 5 (2.14%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.28%) Unix
6 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) CentOS
7 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (60.68%) CI/CD
2 110 (47.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (46.58%) DevOps
4 56 (23.93%) Observability
5 54 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 53 (22.65%) Agile
7 51 (21.79%) Roadmaps
8 47 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (19.23%) Migration
10 43 (18.38%) Cloud Security
11 40 (17.09%) Platform Engineering
12 31 (13.25%) Microservices
13 27 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (11.11%) Test Automation
15 25 (10.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 24 (10.26%) Cost Optimisation
17 23 (9.83%) Decision-Making
17 23 (9.83%) Incident Response
17 23 (9.83%) Infrastructure Automation
17 23 (9.83%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 91 (38.89%) Python
2 53 (22.65%) Bash
3 28 (11.97%) Java
3 28 (11.97%) PowerShell
4 20 (8.55%) SQL
5 8 (3.42%) Groovy
5 8 (3.42%) Shell Script
5 8 (3.42%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.99%) Go
6 7 (2.99%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.14%) Perl
8 3 (1.28%) Bicep
8 3 (1.28%) Ruby
9 2 (0.85%) Cypher
9 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) Lisp
10 1 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 119 (50.85%) Security Cleared
2 109 (46.58%) SC Cleared
3 50 (21.37%) AWS Certification
4 21 (8.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (8.12%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.27%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (3.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (3.42%) CISSP
7 8 (3.42%) Degree
8 6 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.56%) CCNP
8 6 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.85%) PMP
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.43%) GIAC
11 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) NIST
2 11 (4.70%) SLA
3 10 (4.27%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.42%) NCSC
6 7 (2.99%) PMO
6 7 (2.99%) QA
7 6 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (2.14%) GDPR
9 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.43%) COBIT
9 1 (0.43%) GRC
9 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.43%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 75 (32.05%) Docker
2 18 (7.69%) Squid
3 16 (6.84%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.14%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.28%) HDFS
7 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.28%) vSphere
8 1 (0.43%) Firmware
8 1 (0.43%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 153 (65.38%) Terraform
2 88 (37.61%) Kubernetes
3 58 (24.79%) Grafana
4 55 (23.50%) Prometheus
5 38 (16.24%) Ansible
6 12 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.27%) FortiGate
7 10 (4.27%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.85%) Puppet
9 8 (3.42%) Consul
10 6 (2.56%) Suricata
11 5 (2.14%) Salt
12 4 (1.71%) Argo
12 4 (1.71%) Istio
12 4 (1.71%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.71%) Kibana
12 4 (1.71%) linkerd
12 4 (1.71%) Packer
13 3 (1.28%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.85%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 19 (8.12%) Red Hat
2 18 (7.69%) Splunk
3 16 (6.84%) Google
4 14 (5.98%) Dynatrace
4 14 (5.98%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.13%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.70%) Cisco
7 10 (4.27%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.27%) Tenable
7 10 (4.27%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.42%) Citrix
9 7 (2.99%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.99%) Databricks
10 6 (2.56%) AVEVA
10 6 (2.56%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.56%) CloudEndure
10 6 (2.56%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.14%) VMware
12 4 (1.71%) F5
12 4 (1.71%) Trend Micro