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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 433 472
Rank change year-on-year +11 +39 -18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 250 120 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.37% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 0.99% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 87 82
10th Percentile £400 £413 £389
25th Percentile £450 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £559 £629 £645
90th Percentile £617 £714 £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 18,639 12,146 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.42% 37.53% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,383 8,129 10,044
10th Percentile £329 £313 £305
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 313 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +35.09% +25.75% -36.93%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £48.11
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -20.69%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +10 208 £513 -2.38% 32
London +13 124 £518 -8.72% 18
UK excluding London -60 98 £483 +1.68% 26
Work from Home -18 77 £500 -9.09% 24
Midlands -42 28 £488 +2.63% 1
West Midlands -53 28 £488 +2.63% 1
North of England -60 28 £475 +2.70% 9
North West -27 18 £475 +11.76% 6
Scotland -7 13 £450 -10.10% 3
South East -51 11 £533 -8.19% 7
East of England -30 8 £490 -4.39%
North East -34 5 £413 - 2
Yorkshire -45 5 £500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 1
South West - 4 £500 - 4
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

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 (15.60%) Confluence
2 11 (4.40%) nginx
3 7 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 247 (98.80%) AWS
2 144 (57.60%) Amazon EC2
3 141 (56.40%) Amazon S3
4 119 (47.60%) Serverless
5 113 (45.20%) AWS Lambda
6 111 (44.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 105 (42.00%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (26.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 58 (23.20%) Azure
10 47 (18.80%) GitHub
11 46 (18.40%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (16.80%) Route 53
13 33 (13.20%) GCP
14 32 (12.80%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (12.00%) AWS CloudTrail
16 26 (10.40%) AWS KMS
17 22 (8.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 21 (8.40%) AWS CodePipeline
19 18 (7.20%) Snowflake
20 17 (6.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 65 (26.00%) Firewall
2 40 (16.00%) VPN
3 29 (11.60%) TCP/IP
4 28 (11.20%) DNS
5 22 (8.80%) Network Security
6 18 (7.20%) WAN
7 17 (6.80%) BGP
8 14 (5.60%) OSPF
9 11 (4.40%) OpenVPN
10 10 (4.00%) LAN
11 8 (3.20%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.20%) SSL
12 7 (2.80%) VLAN
13 6 (2.40%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (2.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (2.40%) IPsec
13 6 (2.40%) MPLS
14 5 (2.00%) BIG-IP
15 4 (1.60%) Cisco ASA
15 4 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (29.60%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (6.80%) Power BI
5 15 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.20%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (4.40%) DynamoDB
8 9 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.20%) Tableau
10 6 (2.40%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (2.40%) MySQL
11 3 (1.20%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.20%) Big Data
11 3 (1.20%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.80%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 70 (28.00%) GitLab
1 70 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 39 (15.60%) Git
3 38 (15.20%) JIRA
4 21 (8.40%) Bitbucket
5 14 (5.60%) SonarQube
6 13 (5.20%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.80%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.80%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.80%) Snyk
9 1 (0.40%) AppScan
9 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.40%) sqlmap
General
1 73 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.60%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.40%) Finance
4 19 (7.60%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.80%) Banking
6 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.00%) Military
7 5 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.60%) Law
8 4 (1.60%) Legal
8 4 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Police
10 2 (0.80%) Games
10 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 66 (26.40%) Architect
2 63 (25.20%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (14.40%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (13.20%) AWS Architect
5 33 (13.20%) AWS DevOps
6 26 (10.40%) Technical Architect
7 24 (9.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (9.20%) Security Engineer
9 19 (7.60%) Senior
10 16 (6.40%) Network Engineer
11 14 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (5.20%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (4.40%) Lead
13 11 (4.40%) Network Architect
13 11 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.40%) Scrum Master
13 11 (4.40%) Site Engineer
13 11 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.40%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.20%) AWS CDK
2 12 (4.80%) OpenID
3 11 (4.40%) Kafka
3 11 (4.40%) LDAP
4 8 (3.20%) GraphQL
5 7 (2.80%) Apollo GraphQL
5 7 (2.80%) RESTful
6 6 (2.40%) REST
6 6 (2.40%) SAML
7 4 (1.60%) OAuth
7 4 (1.60%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.20%) React
9 2 (0.80%) SOAP
10 1 (0.40%) boto
10 1 (0.40%) JSON
10 1 (0.40%) Middleware
10 1 (0.40%) Web Services
10 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (24.80%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.40%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.40%) Security Posture
4 15 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.20%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.40%) Replication
9 5 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.00%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.60%) NHS
11 3 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.20%) SCADA
12 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.20%) Linux
2 25 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (9.60%) Windows
4 6 (2.40%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.20%) Unix
5 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.80%) AIX
6 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (65.20%) CI/CD
2 131 (52.40%) DevOps
3 130 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (27.20%) Containerisation
5 66 (26.40%) Agile
6 55 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 54 (21.60%) Observability
8 52 (20.80%) Cloud Security
9 48 (19.20%) Roadmaps
10 45 (18.00%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (16.40%) Migration
12 31 (12.40%) Infrastructure Automation
12 31 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (12.00%) Microservices
14 28 (11.20%) Decision-Making
15 27 (10.80%) Test Automation
16 26 (10.40%) DevSecOps
17 24 (9.60%) Change Management
17 24 (9.60%) Scrum
17 24 (9.60%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 102 (40.80%) Python
2 61 (24.40%) Bash
3 31 (12.40%) PowerShell
4 30 (12.00%) Java
5 16 (6.40%) SQL
6 9 (3.60%) Groovy
7 8 (3.20%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.20%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.80%) Go
8 7 (2.80%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.00%) Perl
10 3 (1.20%) Bicep
11 2 (0.80%) Cypher
11 2 (0.80%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.40%) Lisp
12 1 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.40%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 121 (48.40%) Security Cleared
2 108 (43.20%) SC Cleared
3 50 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 24 (9.60%) Azure Certification
5 21 (8.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (7.20%) Degree
7 11 (4.40%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (4.00%) CISSP
9 9 (3.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (3.20%) CCNP
10 8 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.60%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.20%) CCIE
12 3 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.40%) SLA
2 9 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.80%) PMO
4 6 (2.40%) GDPR
4 6 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.40%) NCSC
4 6 (2.40%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.60%) NIST
6 3 (1.20%) QA
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) COBIT
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 81 (32.40%) Docker
2 17 (6.80%) Squid
3 14 (5.60%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.60%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.20%) vSphere
8 2 (0.80%) HDFS
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 167 (66.80%) Terraform
2 98 (39.20%) Kubernetes
3 62 (24.80%) Grafana
3 62 (24.80%) Prometheus
4 43 (17.20%) Ansible
5 13 (5.20%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.80%) Puppet
6 12 (4.80%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.60%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.20%) Consul
9 7 (2.80%) Packer
10 6 (2.40%) Salt
11 4 (1.60%) Argo
11 4 (1.60%) Istio
11 4 (1.60%) linkerd
11 4 (1.60%) Suricata
12 3 (1.20%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.80%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 24 (9.60%) Red Hat
2 20 (8.00%) Google
3 17 (6.80%) ServiceNow
4 16 (6.40%) Cisco
4 16 (6.40%) Dynatrace
4 16 (6.40%) Splunk
5 15 (6.00%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.40%) VMware
7 9 (3.60%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.60%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.20%) Tenable
9 7 (2.80%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.80%) Databricks
9 7 (2.80%) F5
9 7 (2.80%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.40%) AVEVA
11 5 (2.00%) Fortinet
11 5 (2.00%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.60%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.60%) Trend Micro