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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 401 448
Rank change year-on-year -46 +47 +3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 234 154 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.47% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 1.27% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 112 71
10th Percentile £405 £427 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -5.83% -7.08%
75th Percentile £560 £625 £675
90th Percentile £640 £703 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +0.42% -20.83% +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 18,752 12,112 13,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.97% 37.26% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,464 8,065 8,932
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 601 312 222
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.88 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% -3.75% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.81 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.43 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.05% -21.42% -10.44%

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 3 September 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 17 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 3 September 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 -43 194 £500 -4.76% 140
London -4 122 £533 -7.39% 98
Work from Home -15 85 £505 -8.60% 63
UK excluding London -79 81 £477 +0.42% 64
Midlands -52 27 £477 +0.42% 6
West Midlands -55 24 £482 +1.53% 6
North of England -48 18 £458 -14.44% 22
Scotland -25 9 £479 -4.20% 9
North West -39 9 £450 -15.89% 9
South East -58 9 £669 +15.30% 9
East of England -19 8 £450 -12.20% 6
Yorkshire -37 6 £500 - 8
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 5
South West -38 4 £450 -33.33% 7
North East -41 3 £438 -27.08% 5
East Midlands - 3 £450 -
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 34 (14.53%) Confluence
2 12 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.27%) nginx
4 8 (3.42%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.14%) Apache
6 4 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 231 (98.72%) AWS
2 123 (52.56%) Amazon S3
3 118 (50.43%) Amazon EC2
4 108 (46.15%) Serverless
5 107 (45.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 101 (43.16%) AWS Lambda
7 91 (38.89%) Amazon EKS
8 73 (31.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (23.08%) GitHub
10 53 (22.65%) Azure
11 44 (18.80%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (16.24%) AWS CloudTrail
13 36 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (14.96%) AWS KMS
15 32 (13.68%) Route 53
16 28 (11.97%) GCP
17 26 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 15 (6.41%) AWS CodePipeline
19 14 (5.98%) Amazon ECR
19 14 (5.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (19.23%) Firewall
2 22 (9.40%) DNS
2 22 (9.40%) VPN
3 21 (8.97%) TCP/IP
4 17 (7.26%) Network Security
5 15 (6.41%) WAN
6 10 (4.27%) LAN
7 9 (3.85%) SSL
8 8 (3.42%) BGP
9 7 (2.99%) OSPF
10 6 (2.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (2.56%) SSH
10 6 (2.56%) VLAN
11 5 (2.14%) BIG-IP
11 5 (2.14%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (2.14%) MPLS
11 5 (2.14%) OpenVPN
11 5 (2.14%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.71%) HTTP
12 4 (1.71%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (32.48%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (13.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 29 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (6.41%) MySQL
6 13 (5.56%) DynamoDB
7 12 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (4.70%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.42%) Power BI
9 8 (3.42%) Redis
9 8 (3.42%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.71%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.71%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.71%) Big Data
10 4 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.71%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.71%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.71%) Tableau
11 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 64 (27.35%) GitLab
2 58 (24.79%) Jenkins
3 42 (17.95%) Git
4 28 (11.97%) JIRA
5 11 (4.70%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.99%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.85%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.43%) Maven
9 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.43%) sqlmap
General
1 79 (33.76%) Social Skills
2 66 (28.21%) Public Sector
3 22 (9.40%) Finance
4 9 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.42%) Banking
6 6 (2.56%) Military
7 5 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.14%) Law
8 4 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.71%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.28%) Police
10 2 (0.85%) Games
10 2 (0.85%) Legal
10 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Publishing
11 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (27.35%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (25.21%) Architect
3 55 (23.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (15.81%) AWS DevOps
5 30 (12.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (12.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (11.97%) AWS Architect
8 24 (10.26%) Senior
9 22 (9.40%) Technical Architect
10 21 (8.97%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (6.41%) Security Engineer
12 13 (5.56%) DBA
12 13 (5.56%) Lead
12 13 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.70%) Network Engineer
14 11 (4.70%) Scrum Master
15 9 (3.85%) Administrator
15 9 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
15 9 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (68.38%) Terraform
2 19 (8.12%) AWS CDK
3 8 (3.42%) boto
3 8 (3.42%) GraphQL
3 8 (3.42%) Kafka
3 8 (3.42%) RESTful
3 8 (3.42%) SAML
4 7 (2.99%) Apollo GraphQL
5 6 (2.56%) OpenID
5 6 (2.56%) REST
6 5 (2.14%) LDAP
7 4 (1.71%) OpenTofu
8 3 (1.28%) OAuth
8 3 (1.28%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.28%) PySpark
8 3 (1.28%) React
8 3 (1.28%) YAML
9 2 (0.85%) Flask
9 2 (0.85%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (0.85%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.37%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.55%) Replication
3 17 (7.26%) Security Posture
4 15 (6.41%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.27%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.99%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.56%) NHS
9 6 (2.56%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.71%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.28%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.28%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.28%) IVR
12 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.79%) Linux
2 22 (9.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (8.55%) Windows
4 10 (4.27%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.56%) Unix
6 5 (2.14%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.71%) AIX
8 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
9 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (65.38%) CI/CD
2 136 (58.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (57.26%) DevOps
4 65 (27.78%) Containerisation
5 58 (24.79%) Agile
6 53 (22.65%) Platform Engineering
7 49 (20.94%) Cloud Security
8 43 (18.38%) Observability
9 42 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (16.24%) Roadmaps
11 33 (14.10%) Migration
12 32 (13.68%) High Availability
12 32 (13.68%) Microservices
13 31 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
15 29 (12.39%) Secrets Management
16 25 (10.68%) AI
16 25 (10.68%) DevSecOps
17 24 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
18 23 (9.83%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 93 (39.74%) Python
2 55 (23.50%) Bash
3 32 (13.68%) PowerShell
4 30 (12.82%) Java
4 30 (12.82%) SQL
5 14 (5.98%) Groovy
6 9 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 9 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.99%) Go
7 7 (2.99%) Perl
8 5 (2.14%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.85%) Bicep
9 2 (0.85%) Ruby
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) Cypher
10 1 (0.43%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.43%) R
10 1 (0.43%) SHACL
10 1 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 110 (47.01%) Security Cleared
2 100 (42.74%) SC Cleared
3 58 (24.79%) AWS Certification
4 31 (13.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (8.55%) Azure Certification
6 19 (8.12%) Degree
7 13 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.70%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (3.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.99%) CISSP
12 4 (1.71%) CCNP
12 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.28%) CCIE
13 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.98%) Data Quality
1 14 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.27%) GDPR
3 7 (2.99%) NCSC
4 6 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.14%) QA
6 3 (1.28%) PMO
7 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.85%) NIST
8 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (34.62%) Docker
2 15 (6.41%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.70%) Squid
4 9 (3.85%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.28%) vSphere
8 2 (0.85%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.85%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.85%) HDFS
8 2 (0.85%) Postfix
9 1 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 92 (39.32%) Kubernetes
2 60 (25.64%) Grafana
3 54 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 44 (18.80%) Ansible
5 10 (4.27%) Puppet
5 10 (4.27%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (3.42%) Packer
6 8 (3.42%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.99%) Argo
8 4 (1.71%) Istio
8 4 (1.71%) Salt
8 4 (1.71%) Suricata
9 3 (1.28%) linkerd
9 3 (1.28%) SELinux
9 3 (1.28%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.85%) Consul
10 2 (0.85%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.85%) systemd
10 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (8.55%) ServiceNow
2 17 (7.26%) Cisco
2 17 (7.26%) Red Hat
3 14 (5.98%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.56%) Google
4 13 (5.56%) Splunk
4 13 (5.56%) VMware
5 9 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 8 (3.42%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.99%) F5
7 7 (2.99%) Zscaler
8 6 (2.56%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.56%) Tenable
9 5 (2.14%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.71%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.71%) Databricks
10 4 (1.71%) Oracle
10 4 (1.71%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.28%) Aruba
11 3 (1.28%) Salesforce