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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 405 464
Rank change year-on-year -28 +59 -29
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 246 147 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.45% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.20% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 105 70
10th Percentile £407 £448 £412
25th Percentile £456 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £554
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -5.19% -7.71%
75th Percentile £576 £625 £653
90th Percentile £638 £710 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £595
% change year-on-year +1.68% -20.17% -0.83%
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 18,857 12,243 13,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.15% 37.15% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,454 8,169 9,129
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 319 263
10th Percentile £15.75 £15.23 £14.18
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +15.80% -26.73%
75th Percentile £69.50 £47.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £82.26 £67.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -14.95%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -30 205 £513 -2.38% 121
London -4 120 £534 -9.53% 77
UK excluding London -63 95 £483 +1.68% 58
Work from Home -22 87 £520 -6.35% 56
Midlands -42 29 £477 +0.42% 6
North of England -48 27 £500 -6.54% 20
West Midlands -44 26 £482 +1.53% 6
North West -36 17 £506 -5.37% 10
Scotland -15 11 £475 -5.00% 8
East of England -16 9 £450 -12.20% 6
South East -61 9 £669 +15.30% 6
North East -41 5 £544 -9.38% 4
Yorkshire -41 5 £500 - 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 6
South West -48 4 £450 -33.33% 6
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 33 (13.41%) Confluence
2 13 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.66%) nginx
4 6 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.44%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.63%) Apache
6 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 243 (98.78%) AWS
2 126 (51.22%) Amazon S3
3 124 (50.41%) Amazon EC2
4 111 (45.12%) Serverless
5 108 (43.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 105 (42.68%) AWS Lambda
7 94 (38.21%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (29.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 61 (24.80%) Azure
10 52 (21.14%) GitHub
11 44 (17.89%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (14.63%) AWS CloudTrail
12 36 (14.63%) GCP
12 36 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (12.20%) AWS KMS
14 28 (11.38%) Route 53
15 24 (9.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 19 (7.72%) Datadog
17 18 (7.32%) Snowflake
18 16 (6.50%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 53 (21.54%) Firewall
2 31 (12.60%) VPN
3 25 (10.16%) TCP/IP
4 21 (8.54%) DNS
4 21 (8.54%) Network Security
5 16 (6.50%) WAN
6 13 (5.28%) BGP
7 11 (4.47%) OSPF
8 10 (4.07%) LAN
8 10 (4.07%) SSL
9 8 (3.25%) OpenVPN
10 7 (2.85%) VLAN
11 6 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 6 (2.44%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.03%) BIG-IP
12 5 (2.03%) MPLS
12 5 (2.03%) NetScaler
12 5 (2.03%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (30.89%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (11.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 25 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (7.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (5.69%) Power BI
6 13 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (5.28%) MySQL
7 11 (4.47%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.07%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.25%) Redis
9 8 (3.25%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.44%) Tableau
11 5 (2.03%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.63%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.22%) Apache Hive
13 3 (1.22%) Big Data
13 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 68 (27.64%) GitLab
2 64 (26.02%) Jenkins
3 39 (15.85%) Git
4 26 (10.57%) JIRA
5 13 (5.28%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.88%) Artifactory
7 10 (4.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (3.66%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.41%) Snyk
9 1 (0.41%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.41%) sqlmap
General
1 75 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 72 (29.27%) Public Sector
3 26 (10.57%) Finance
4 12 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.25%) Banking
6 5 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.03%) Law
7 4 (1.63%) Military
7 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.22%) Police
9 2 (0.81%) Games
9 2 (0.81%) Legal
9 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.41%) Billing
10 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (26.42%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (25.20%) Architect
3 47 (19.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (14.63%) AWS DevOps
5 35 (14.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (10.98%) AWS Architect
6 27 (10.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 26 (10.57%) Senior
8 22 (8.94%) Technical Architect
9 20 (8.13%) Security Engineer
10 19 (7.72%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (6.10%) Network Engineer
12 13 (5.28%) Lead
12 13 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.88%) DBA
14 11 (4.47%) Scrum Master
15 10 (4.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 9 (3.66%) Network Architect
16 9 (3.66%) Site Engineer
16 9 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.54%) AWS CDK
2 11 (4.47%) Kafka
3 8 (3.25%) GraphQL
3 8 (3.25%) RESTful
3 8 (3.25%) SAML
4 7 (2.85%) Apollo GraphQL
4 7 (2.85%) REST
5 6 (2.44%) boto
5 6 (2.44%) OpenID
6 5 (2.03%) LDAP
7 4 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.22%) React
9 2 (0.81%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.81%) cloud-init
9 2 (0.81%) OAuth
9 2 (0.81%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.81%) PySpark
9 2 (0.81%) SOAP
10 1 (0.41%) SWRL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.14%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.72%) Security Posture
3 17 (6.91%) Replication
4 15 (6.10%) Data Centre
5 14 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (5.69%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.25%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.44%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.03%) NHS
11 4 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.63%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.22%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.22%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.81%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.95%) Linux
2 27 (10.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (8.94%) Windows
4 7 (2.85%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (2.85%) Unix
5 4 (1.63%) AIX
6 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.41%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (65.04%) CI/CD
2 133 (54.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 131 (53.25%) DevOps
4 65 (26.42%) Containerisation
5 58 (23.58%) Agile
6 51 (20.73%) Cloud Security
7 49 (19.92%) Observability
7 49 (19.92%) Platform Engineering
8 45 (18.29%) Roadmaps
9 43 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (16.67%) Migration
11 35 (14.23%) Microservices
12 31 (12.60%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (11.79%) High Availability
15 28 (11.38%) Secrets Management
16 26 (10.57%) SIEM
17 25 (10.16%) DevSecOps
17 25 (10.16%) Disaster Recovery
18 24 (9.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 102 (41.46%) Python
2 61 (24.80%) Bash
3 37 (15.04%) Java
4 34 (13.82%) PowerShell
5 28 (11.38%) SQL
6 11 (4.47%) Groovy
7 10 (4.07%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.66%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.25%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.85%) Go
11 6 (2.44%) Perl
12 2 (0.81%) Bicep
12 2 (0.81%) Ruby
13 1 (0.41%) C
13 1 (0.41%) Cypher
13 1 (0.41%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.41%) R
13 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.41%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 119 (48.37%) Security Cleared
2 107 (43.50%) SC Cleared
3 59 (23.98%) AWS Certification
4 31 (12.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (10.57%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.72%) Degree
7 12 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.47%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (3.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (3.66%) CISSP
10 8 (3.25%) CCNP
10 8 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.63%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.22%) CCIE
13 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.66%) GDPR
4 7 (2.85%) NCSC
5 6 (2.44%) SLA
6 5 (2.03%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.63%) PMO
8 3 (1.22%) QA
9 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.81%) NIST
10 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (34.15%) Docker
2 15 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.07%) Squid
4 9 (3.66%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.22%) vSphere
7 2 (0.81%) HDFS
8 1 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 167 (67.89%) Terraform
2 98 (39.84%) Kubernetes
3 61 (24.80%) Grafana
4 54 (21.95%) Prometheus
5 43 (17.48%) Ansible
6 12 (4.88%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.47%) Puppet
7 11 (4.47%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (3.25%) Packer
9 6 (2.44%) Argo
10 5 (2.03%) Istio
10 5 (2.03%) Salt
11 4 (1.63%) Suricata
12 3 (1.22%) Consul
12 3 (1.22%) linkerd
12 3 (1.22%) SELinux
12 3 (1.22%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.81%) Sysdig
13 2 (0.81%) systemd
13 2 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (8.94%) Red Hat
2 21 (8.54%) Google
3 18 (7.32%) Cisco
3 18 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 13 (5.28%) Splunk
4 13 (5.28%) VMware
5 10 (4.07%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.07%) Zscaler
6 9 (3.66%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.85%) F5
7 7 (2.85%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.44%) Databricks
8 6 (2.44%) Tenable
9 5 (2.03%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.63%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.63%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.63%) Oracle
10 4 (1.63%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.22%) Veeam