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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 445 475
Rank change year-on-year +35 +30 -12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 239 88 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 0.78% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 59 85
10th Percentile £400 £413 £402
25th Percentile £451 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £559 £617 £645
90th Percentile £621 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £599
% change year-on-year +0.21% -20.67% -0.21%
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 17,839 11,244 14,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.88% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 7,595 9,937
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £631
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 280 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.94 £19.95
% change year-on-year +98.05% -5.09% -26.38%

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 17 June 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 16 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 17 June 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 +15 203 £513 -2.38% 85
London +21 125 £519 -5.72% 21
UK excluding London -41 86 £476 +0.21% 89
Work from Home -10 73 £505 -8.18% 82
North of England -45 28 £475 +11.76% 18
West Midlands -36 25 £494 +3.95% 6
Midlands -39 25 £494 +3.95% 9
North West -22 18 £475 +11.76% 10
Scotland -9 8 £445 -11.10% 12
East of England -25 8 £490 -4.39% 10
South East -53 7 £445 -23.23% 21
North East -29 5 £413 - 2
Yorkshire -53 5 £500 - 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 4
South West - 4 £500 - 11
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 39 (16.32%) Confluence
2 11 (4.60%) nginx
3 6 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.26%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 236 (98.74%) AWS
2 132 (55.23%) Amazon EC2
3 131 (54.81%) Amazon S3
4 117 (48.95%) Serverless
5 111 (46.44%) AWS Lambda
6 108 (45.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 108 (45.19%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (27.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 54 (22.59%) Azure
9 48 (20.08%) GitHub
9 48 (20.08%) Route 53
10 47 (19.67%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (13.81%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (13.39%) GCP
13 25 (10.46%) AWS CloudTrail
14 22 (9.21%) AWS KMS
15 19 (7.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 19 (7.95%) AWS CodePipeline
16 17 (7.11%) AWS Control Tower
16 17 (7.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 61 (25.52%) Firewall
2 34 (14.23%) VPN
3 28 (11.72%) DNS
3 28 (11.72%) TCP/IP
4 21 (8.79%) Network Security
5 14 (5.86%) BGP
6 12 (5.02%) OSPF
7 11 (4.60%) OpenVPN
7 11 (4.60%) WAN
8 9 (3.77%) SSL
9 7 (2.93%) Wireless
10 5 (2.09%) LAN
11 4 (1.67%) NGFW
11 4 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (1.67%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (1.26%) VLAN
13 2 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 2 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (29.71%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (8.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (7.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (7.11%) Power BI
6 15 (6.28%) DynamoDB
7 12 (5.02%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (4.18%) MySQL
9 9 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.35%) Tableau
11 6 (2.51%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.51%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.09%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.67%) Redis
14 3 (1.26%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.26%) Big Data
14 3 (1.26%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.84%) Data Vault
15 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.84%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 71 (29.71%) GitLab
2 68 (28.45%) Jenkins
3 37 (15.48%) JIRA
4 36 (15.06%) Git
5 21 (8.79%) Bitbucket
6 14 (5.86%) SonarQube
7 12 (5.02%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.84%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.84%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.84%) Snyk
10 1 (0.42%) AppScan
10 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.42%) JUnit
10 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
General
1 70 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 61 (25.52%) Public Sector
3 30 (12.55%) Finance
4 20 (8.37%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.51%) Military
8 5 (2.09%) Banking
9 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.67%) Law
9 4 (1.67%) Legal
10 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Police
11 2 (0.84%) Games
11 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (25.52%) Architect
2 60 (25.10%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (17.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (14.64%) AWS Architect
5 32 (13.39%) AWS DevOps
5 32 (13.39%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (9.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 22 (9.21%) Technical Architect
8 20 (8.37%) Security Engineer
8 20 (8.37%) Senior
9 16 (6.69%) Network Engineer
10 15 (6.28%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (5.44%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (5.02%) Lead
12 12 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.60%) Scrum Master
13 11 (4.60%) Site Engineer
13 11 (4.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.60%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.72%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.11%) OpenID
3 14 (5.86%) Kafka
4 11 (4.60%) LDAP
4 11 (4.60%) RESTful
5 9 (3.77%) OAuth
5 9 (3.77%) OAuth2
6 8 (3.35%) GraphQL
6 8 (3.35%) REST
7 7 (2.93%) Apollo GraphQL
7 7 (2.93%) SAML
8 6 (2.51%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.67%) gRPC
9 4 (1.67%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.67%) JPA
9 4 (1.67%) Spring
9 4 (1.67%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.67%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.26%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.10%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.53%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.28%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.86%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.09%) Replication
10 4 (1.67%) NHS
11 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.26%) SCADA
12 2 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
13 1 (0.42%) CMDB
13 1 (0.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.41%) Linux
2 21 (8.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (7.95%) Windows
4 5 (2.09%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.26%) Unix
6 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.42%) CentOS
7 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.42%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (64.85%) CI/CD
2 127 (53.14%) DevOps
3 123 (51.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (27.20%) Containerisation
5 59 (24.69%) Agile
6 57 (23.85%) Observability
7 52 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (20.50%) Roadmaps
9 47 (19.67%) Cloud Security
10 44 (18.41%) Platform Engineering
11 40 (16.74%) Migration
12 33 (13.81%) Microservices
13 30 (12.55%) Infrastructure Automation
14 28 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (11.30%) Test Automation
16 26 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 25 (10.46%) Cost Optimisation
17 25 (10.46%) SIEM
18 24 (10.04%) Decision-Making
18 24 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (40.17%) Python
2 59 (24.69%) Bash
3 33 (13.81%) Java
4 31 (12.97%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.37%) SQL
6 8 (3.35%) Go
6 8 (3.35%) Groovy
6 8 (3.35%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.35%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.93%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.67%) Perl
9 3 (1.26%) Bicep
10 2 (0.84%) Cypher
10 2 (0.84%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) Lisp
11 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 116 (48.54%) Security Cleared
2 107 (44.77%) SC Cleared
3 45 (18.83%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.21%) Azure Certification
5 16 (6.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.86%) Degree
7 11 (4.60%) CISSP
7 11 (4.60%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (3.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (3.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.09%) CCNP
11 5 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.84%) PMP
14 1 (0.42%) CEH
14 1 (0.42%) GIAC
14 1 (0.42%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.42%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.60%) SLA
2 10 (4.18%) NIST
3 9 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.77%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.35%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.93%) PMO
5 7 (2.93%) QA
6 6 (2.51%) GDPR
7 2 (0.84%) NCSC
8 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.42%) COBIT
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 80 (33.47%) Docker
2 18 (7.53%) Squid
3 13 (5.44%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.09%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.26%) vSphere
7 2 (0.84%) HDFS
8 1 (0.42%) Firmware
8 1 (0.42%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 159 (66.53%) Terraform
2 99 (41.42%) Kubernetes
3 59 (24.69%) Grafana
3 59 (24.69%) Prometheus
4 38 (15.90%) Ansible
5 13 (5.44%) Progress Chef
6 12 (5.02%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.18%) Puppet
8 9 (3.77%) FortiGate
9 8 (3.35%) Consul
10 5 (2.09%) Packer
10 5 (2.09%) Salt
11 4 (1.67%) Argo
11 4 (1.67%) Istio
11 4 (1.67%) linkerd
11 4 (1.67%) Suricata
12 3 (1.26%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.84%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.42%) Opsview
Vendors
1 23 (9.62%) Red Hat
2 18 (7.53%) Google
3 16 (6.69%) Dynatrace
3 16 (6.69%) Splunk
4 15 (6.28%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.60%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.18%) Cisco
7 9 (3.77%) Tenable
7 9 (3.77%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.35%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.93%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.93%) Databricks
9 7 (2.93%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.51%) AVEVA
11 5 (2.09%) VMware
12 4 (1.67%) Aruba
12 4 (1.67%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.67%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.67%) Trend Micro
13 3 (1.26%) Ping Identity