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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 435 454
Rank change year-on-year +43 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 237 83 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 0.75% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 52 93
10th Percentile £368 £413 £405
25th Percentile £425 £534 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £597 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +8.59% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £694
90th Percentile £650 £750 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -24.62% +8.33% -

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 16,302 11,104 14,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.07% 38.21% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,118 7,791 10,229
10th Percentile £313 £313 £291
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £490
% change year-on-year -0.89% -2.19% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 212 355
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.79 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.47 £25.98 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.93% +23.69% -18.64%
75th Percentile £64.00 £41.50 £40.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.88 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £23.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +92.47% +32.62% -19.45%

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 26 March 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 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 26 March 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 +16 193 £525 -13.58% 38
London +28 115 £525 -13.58% 18
UK excluding London -28 93 £490 -24.62% 23
Work from Home -8 62 £525 -9.95% 24
North of England -51 27 £550 -24.14% 5
Scotland +32 25 £402 -8.11%
Midlands -42 21 £505 +6.32% 2
West Midlands -42 21 £505 +6.32% 2
South East -43 13 £404 -30.34% 9
Yorkshire -49 12 £525 -27.59% 1
North West -32 9 £568 +33.53% 3
North East -9 6 £600 -20.00% 1
East of England -24 5 £565 - 3
South West - 3 £450 - 4

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 (13.50%) Confluence
2 9 (3.80%) nginx
3 7 (2.95%) Apache
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 237 (100.00%) AWS
2 144 (60.76%) Amazon S3
3 134 (56.54%) Amazon EC2
4 120 (50.63%) Serverless
5 119 (50.21%) AWS Lambda
6 96 (40.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 96 (40.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 92 (38.82%) Amazon EKS
8 57 (24.05%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (23.63%) GitHub
10 51 (21.52%) Azure
11 49 (20.68%) Route 53
12 43 (18.14%) GCP
13 41 (17.30%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (10.97%) AWS KMS
15 22 (9.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 21 (8.86%) AWS Control Tower
17 20 (8.44%) AWS CloudTrail
17 20 (8.44%) Datadog
18 19 (8.02%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (27.00%) Firewall
2 53 (22.36%) VPN
3 40 (16.88%) DNS
4 23 (9.70%) TCP/IP
5 20 (8.44%) Network Security
6 19 (8.02%) BGP
7 17 (7.17%) OSPF
8 12 (5.06%) WAN
9 11 (4.64%) OpenVPN
10 10 (4.22%) Wireless
11 9 (3.80%) LAN
11 9 (3.80%) SD-WAN
12 8 (3.38%) SSL
12 8 (3.38%) VLAN
13 6 (2.53%) EIGRP
13 6 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (2.11%) DHCP
14 5 (2.11%) MPLS
14 5 (2.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (34.18%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (7.17%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (7.17%) DynamoDB
2 17 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.33%) Power BI
4 13 (5.49%) MySQL
5 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.64%) Data Lake
7 10 (4.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.80%) Redis
9 8 (3.38%) DocumentDB
9 8 (3.38%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.38%) Tableau
10 6 (2.53%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 81 (34.18%) Jenkins
2 78 (32.91%) GitLab
3 35 (14.77%) Git
3 35 (14.77%) JIRA
4 21 (8.86%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.80%) SonarQube
5 9 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.53%) MLflow
7 5 (2.11%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.69%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.27%) Snyk
10 2 (0.84%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.84%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.42%) AppScan
11 1 (0.42%) JUnit
11 1 (0.42%) Maven
11 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
General
1 62 (26.16%) Public Sector
2 61 (25.74%) Social Skills
3 47 (19.83%) Finance
4 18 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.64%) Banking
7 8 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (30.38%) Architect
2 44 (18.57%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (16.46%) AWS Architect
4 37 (15.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (13.08%) Senior
6 27 (11.39%) Cloud Architect
7 21 (8.86%) Lead
8 20 (8.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (8.02%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (6.75%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (6.33%) Network Engineer
12 14 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.91%) Security Engineer
13 12 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (4.64%) Site Engineer
14 11 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (4.64%) Technical Manager
15 10 (4.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.70%) AWS CDK
2 22 (9.28%) Kafka
3 18 (7.59%) Node.js
4 15 (6.33%) OpenID
5 13 (5.49%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (4.64%) REST
7 9 (3.80%) LDAP
7 9 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.80%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.38%) OAuth
8 8 (3.38%) OAuth2
8 8 (3.38%) PySpark
8 8 (3.38%) RESTful
8 8 (3.38%) Spring
9 6 (2.53%) JSON
10 4 (1.69%) gRPC
10 4 (1.69%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.69%) JPA
10 4 (1.69%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.99%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.28%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.22%) NHS
5 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.53%) IVR
7 5 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.11%) PKI
8 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.69%) Replication
9 3 (1.27%) SCADA
9 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Life Science
10 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.14%) Linux
2 10 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (4.22%) Windows
3 4 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.42%) CentOS
5 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (59.49%) CI/CD
2 127 (53.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 108 (45.57%) DevOps
4 63 (26.58%) Containerisation
5 59 (24.89%) Observability
6 56 (23.63%) Migration
7 51 (21.52%) Roadmaps
8 42 (17.72%) Incident Response
9 40 (16.88%) Cost Optimisation
10 39 (16.46%) Agile
11 38 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (15.61%) Cloud Security
13 35 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (13.92%) Microservices
15 29 (12.24%) High Availability
15 29 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
16 27 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
17 26 (10.97%) Mentoring
18 24 (10.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 109 (45.99%) Python
2 47 (19.83%) Bash
3 31 (13.08%) Java
4 21 (8.86%) SQL
5 20 (8.44%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.80%) Go
7 8 (3.38%) Ruby
8 7 (2.95%) Perl
9 6 (2.53%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.53%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.53%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.84%) Bicep
11 2 (0.84%) Cypher
12 1 (0.42%) Lisp
12 1 (0.42%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 102 (43.04%) Security Cleared
2 89 (37.55%) SC Cleared
3 65 (27.43%) AWS Certification
4 28 (11.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.91%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.80%) CCNP
8 8 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.38%) CISSP
8 8 (3.38%) Degree
9 7 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.11%) CCSP
11 4 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.69%) CCIE
11 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.27%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.84%) CCNA
13 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (9.70%) GDPR
3 22 (9.28%) PCI DSS
4 19 (8.02%) NIST
5 12 (5.06%) SLA
6 11 (4.64%) Data Quality
7 10 (4.22%) PMO
8 9 (3.80%) NCSC
9 6 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (2.11%) QA
11 3 (1.27%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.42%) COBIT
12 1 (0.42%) GRC
12 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
System Software
1 89 (37.55%) Docker
2 10 (4.22%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.22%) Squid
3 6 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.11%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.84%) HDFS
6 1 (0.42%) Firmware
6 1 (0.42%) NLBS
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 160 (67.51%) Terraform
2 82 (34.60%) Kubernetes
3 45 (18.99%) Ansible
3 45 (18.99%) Prometheus
4 38 (16.03%) Grafana
5 13 (5.49%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (4.64%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.95%) Argo
7 7 (2.95%) Consul
8 6 (2.53%) Karpenter
8 6 (2.53%) Kibana
9 5 (2.11%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.69%) Packer
11 3 (1.27%) Istio
11 3 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.27%) Puppet
12 2 (0.84%) linkerd
12 2 (0.84%) Salt
12 2 (0.84%) Suricata
Vendors
1 19 (8.02%) Splunk
2 18 (7.59%) Databricks
3 17 (7.17%) Cisco
4 15 (6.33%) Google
5 13 (5.49%) Fortinet
5 13 (5.49%) Palo Alto
5 13 (5.49%) Red Hat
5 13 (5.49%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.06%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.06%) Microsoft
7 10 (4.22%) CloudEndure
7 10 (4.22%) F5
8 9 (3.80%) Zscaler
9 8 (3.38%) Atlassian
9 8 (3.38%) CheckPoint
10 7 (2.95%) Citrix
11 6 (2.53%) AVEVA
11 6 (2.53%) Oracle
12 5 (2.11%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.11%) VMware