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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 431 434
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 +33
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 216 78 137
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 0.71% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 50 98
10th Percentile £400 £413 £404
25th Percentile £444 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +7.48% -10.83%
75th Percentile £588 £668 £658
90th Percentile £639 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% -6.38%
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 17,053 10,966 13,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.50% 37.55% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,507 7,533 9,862
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £703 £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 508 249 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.36 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +32.20% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.81 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -31.49%

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 19 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 19 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 +18 183 £519 -10.60% 38
London +15 116 £525 -13.58% 18
UK excluding London -46 77 £463 -7.50% 27
Work from Home -11 61 £505 -9.82% 22
West Midlands -36 23 £488 +2.63% 1
Midlands -42 23 £488 +2.63% 1
North of England -54 19 £563 -2.17% 8
Scotland +4 12 £440 -6.13% 3
North West -30 12 £568 +33.53% 5
South East -54 9 £450 -22.41% 10
East of England -24 7 £530 +0.95% 1
North East -16 6 £519 -
South West - 5 £475 - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 - 1
Yorkshire -53 1 £463 -36.21% 3

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 40 (18.52%) Confluence
2 11 (5.09%) nginx
3 7 (3.24%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.85%) Apache
6 2 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.93%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 215 (99.54%) AWS
2 125 (57.87%) Amazon S3
3 122 (56.48%) Amazon EC2
4 98 (45.37%) Serverless
5 95 (43.98%) Amazon EKS
6 94 (43.52%) AWS Lambda
7 87 (40.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 74 (34.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (22.22%) Azure
10 45 (20.83%) Amazon ECS
10 45 (20.83%) GitHub
11 41 (18.98%) Route 53
12 36 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (13.89%) GCP
14 28 (12.96%) AWS KMS
15 22 (10.19%) AWS CodePipeline
15 22 (10.19%) AWS Control Tower
16 18 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
16 18 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 18 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 54 (25.00%) Firewall
2 40 (18.52%) VPN
3 32 (14.81%) DNS
4 25 (11.57%) TCP/IP
5 18 (8.33%) Network Security
6 15 (6.94%) BGP
7 13 (6.02%) OSPF
8 11 (5.09%) OpenVPN
9 10 (4.63%) WAN
10 7 (3.24%) LAN
10 7 (3.24%) SSL
11 5 (2.31%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.31%) Wireless
12 4 (1.85%) NGFW
12 4 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.85%) VLAN
13 3 (1.39%) Cisco Nexus
14 2 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 2 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (26.85%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (7.41%) Power BI
4 15 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (6.48%) DynamoDB
6 13 (6.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (5.09%) MySQL
7 11 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.17%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.70%) Tableau
10 7 (3.24%) DocumentDB
10 7 (3.24%) Redis
11 5 (2.31%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.31%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.31%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.85%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.85%) Big Data
12 4 (1.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 70 (32.41%) GitLab
2 59 (27.31%) Jenkins
3 37 (17.13%) JIRA
4 32 (14.81%) Git
5 21 (9.72%) Bitbucket
6 13 (6.02%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.63%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.85%) MLflow
9 4 (1.85%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.39%) Snyk
11 2 (0.93%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.93%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.46%) AppScan
12 1 (0.46%) JUnit
12 1 (0.46%) sqlmap
General
1 62 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 61 (28.24%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.81%) Finance
4 18 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.31%) Military
8 4 (1.85%) Banking
9 3 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.39%) Police
10 2 (0.93%) Games
10 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.93%) Law
10 2 (0.93%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.46%) Billing
11 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (27.31%) Architect
2 49 (22.69%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (14.81%) AWS Architect
4 30 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.96%) Cloud Architect
6 25 (11.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (11.11%) Senior
8 23 (10.65%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (8.80%) Lead
10 16 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (6.48%) Network Engineer
12 13 (6.02%) Security Engineer
13 12 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (5.09%) Site Engineer
14 11 (5.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (5.09%) Technical Manager
15 10 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.63%) Scrum Master
15 10 (4.63%) Technical Architect
15 10 (4.63%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.87%) Kafka
3 15 (6.94%) OpenID
4 11 (5.09%) LDAP
5 9 (4.17%) REST
6 7 (3.24%) OAuth
6 7 (3.24%) OAuth2
6 7 (3.24%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.24%) RESTful
6 7 (3.24%) Spring
6 7 (3.24%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.78%) Node.js
8 4 (1.85%) gRPC
8 4 (1.85%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.85%) JPA
8 4 (1.85%) PySpark
8 4 (1.85%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.39%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.39%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.31%) Replication
8 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.85%) PKI
8 4 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.39%) SCADA
10 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.46%) Chip and PIN
11 1 (0.46%) EMV
11 1 (0.46%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.74%) Linux
2 10 (4.63%) Windows
3 9 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.31%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.39%) Unix
6 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.46%) VMS
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (58.80%) CI/CD
2 105 (48.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 98 (45.37%) DevOps
4 57 (26.39%) Containerisation
5 50 (23.15%) Observability
6 45 (20.83%) Agile
7 43 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (19.91%) Migration
8 39 (18.06%) Roadmaps
9 37 (17.13%) Cloud Security
10 36 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
11 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (12.04%) Test Automation
13 24 (11.11%) Microservices
14 23 (10.65%) Cost Optimisation
14 23 (10.65%) Decision-Making
14 23 (10.65%) Incident Response
14 23 (10.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 22 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (9.72%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 87 (40.28%) Python
2 43 (19.91%) Bash
3 26 (12.04%) Java
4 24 (11.11%) SQL
5 20 (9.26%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.17%) Go
7 8 (3.70%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.24%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.78%) Groovy
9 6 (2.78%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.31%) Perl
11 3 (1.39%) Bicep
11 3 (1.39%) Ruby
11 3 (1.39%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.93%) Cypher
13 1 (0.46%) Lisp
13 1 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 112 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 101 (46.76%) SC Cleared
3 45 (20.83%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.94%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.63%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.78%) CCNP
8 6 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.85%) CISSP
10 4 (1.85%) Degree
11 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.93%) PMP
12 1 (0.46%) CEH
12 1 (0.46%) GIAC
12 1 (0.46%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.02%) NIST
2 11 (5.09%) SLA
3 10 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.63%) PCI DSS
4 9 (4.17%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.70%) NCSC
6 7 (3.24%) PMO
7 6 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.78%) QA
8 4 (1.85%) GDPR
9 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.46%) COBIT
9 1 (0.46%) GRC
9 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.46%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 73 (33.80%) Docker
2 16 (7.41%) Squid
3 13 (6.02%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.39%) HDFS
6 3 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.39%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.46%) Firmware
7 1 (0.46%) NLBS
7 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 143 (66.20%) Terraform
2 74 (34.26%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.69%) Grafana
4 47 (21.76%) Prometheus
5 32 (14.81%) Ansible
6 12 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.63%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.70%) Consul
9 6 (2.78%) Suricata
10 5 (2.31%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.31%) Puppet
11 4 (1.85%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.85%) Kibana
11 4 (1.85%) linkerd
11 4 (1.85%) Salt
12 3 (1.39%) Argo
12 3 (1.39%) Istio
13 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.93%) Packer
13 2 (0.93%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 16 (7.41%) Splunk
2 14 (6.48%) Dynatrace
3 13 (6.02%) Red Hat
3 13 (6.02%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.56%) Google
4 12 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 11 (5.09%) Databricks
6 10 (4.63%) Cisco
6 10 (4.63%) Fortinet
6 10 (4.63%) Zscaler
7 9 (4.17%) Tenable
8 8 (3.70%) Citrix
9 7 (3.24%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.78%) AVEVA
10 6 (2.78%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.78%) CloudEndure
11 5 (2.31%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.85%) F5
12 4 (1.85%) Oracle
12 4 (1.85%) SAP