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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 442 445
Rank change year-on-year +33 +3 +20
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 234 84 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 0.77% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 55 92
10th Percentile £400 £413 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £571 £632 £645
90th Percentile £635 £715 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £584
% change year-on-year -7.50% -14.35% -0.64%
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 17,360 10,953 13,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.59% 37.85% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 7,460 9,928
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -3.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £619 £634
90th Percentile £706 £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 553 260 348
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.88 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% +29.92% -43.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.22 £41.19
90th Percentile £81.20 £71.38 £69.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £19.97 £17.80
% change year-on-year +85.28% +12.19% -36.04%

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 2 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 2 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 +14 199 £515 -6.36% 41
London +14 121 £525 -7.49% 21
UK excluding London -35 85 £463 -7.50% 29
Work from Home +2 72 £511 -7.05% 28
North of England -57 26 £463 - 6
Midlands -36 25 £488 +2.63% 2
West Midlands -39 25 £488 +2.63% 2
North West -25 17 £495 +16.53% 3
Scotland +1 9 £440 -12.00% 3
South East -52 9 £491 -15.30% 9
East of England -32 8 £490 -4.39% 1
North East -22 5 £413 -
South West - 5 £475 - 6
Yorkshire -60 4 £491 -19.80% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 - 2
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 38 (16.24%) Confluence
2 11 (4.70%) nginx
3 6 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 231 (98.72%) AWS
2 132 (56.41%) Amazon EC2
3 130 (55.56%) Amazon S3
4 115 (49.15%) Serverless
5 109 (46.58%) AWS Lambda
6 106 (45.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 105 (44.87%) Amazon EKS
8 70 (29.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 56 (23.93%) Azure
10 51 (21.79%) Route 53
11 49 (20.94%) GitHub
12 46 (19.66%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (16.24%) GCP
14 36 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (11.54%) AWS CloudTrail
16 25 (10.68%) AWS KMS
17 22 (9.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 19 (8.12%) AWS CodePipeline
19 18 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
19 18 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 64 (27.35%) Firewall
2 38 (16.24%) VPN
3 34 (14.53%) DNS
4 26 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 21 (8.97%) Network Security
6 15 (6.41%) BGP
7 13 (5.56%) OSPF
8 12 (5.13%) WAN
9 11 (4.70%) OpenVPN
10 7 (2.99%) LAN
10 7 (2.99%) SSL
11 6 (2.56%) Wireless
12 5 (2.14%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.71%) NGFW
13 4 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (1.71%) VLAN
14 3 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
15 2 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 2 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (30.34%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (8.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.84%) Power BI
5 13 (5.56%) DynamoDB
6 12 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (4.27%) MySQL
8 9 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.42%) Tableau
10 6 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (2.56%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.14%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.71%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.71%) Big Data
12 4 (1.71%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.71%) Redis
13 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.85%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 69 (29.49%) GitLab
1 69 (29.49%) Jenkins
2 36 (15.38%) JIRA
3 35 (14.96%) Git
4 21 (8.97%) Bitbucket
5 14 (5.98%) SonarQube
6 12 (5.13%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.71%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.28%) Snyk
10 2 (0.85%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.85%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.43%) AppScan
11 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.43%) JUnit
11 1 (0.43%) sqlmap
General
1 65 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.64%) Public Sector
3 32 (13.68%) Finance
4 20 (8.55%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.14%) Banking
7 5 (2.14%) Military
8 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.28%) Law
8 3 (1.28%) Legal
8 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Police
9 2 (0.85%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Billing
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (29.06%) Architect
2 55 (23.50%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (17.95%) AWS Architect
4 33 (14.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (13.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (10.26%) AWS DevOps
7 23 (9.83%) Cloud Architect
7 23 (9.83%) Technical Architect
8 21 (8.97%) Security Engineer
8 21 (8.97%) Senior
9 17 (7.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 16 (6.84%) Network Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (5.13%) Lead
11 12 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Site Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (4.70%) Technical Manager
13 10 (4.27%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.26%) OpenID
3 13 (5.56%) Kafka
4 11 (4.70%) LDAP
4 11 (4.70%) RESTful
5 9 (3.85%) OAuth
5 9 (3.85%) OAuth2
6 8 (3.42%) GraphQL
6 8 (3.42%) REST
7 7 (2.99%) Apollo GraphQL
7 7 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.14%) SAML
9 4 (1.71%) gRPC
9 4 (1.71%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.71%) JPA
9 4 (1.71%) Spring
9 4 (1.71%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.71%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.28%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.93%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.26%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 11 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.14%) Replication
8 4 (1.71%) PKI
9 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.28%) NHS
9 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) SCADA
10 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.80%) Linux
2 19 (8.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (7.26%) Windows
4 5 (2.14%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.28%) Unix
6 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) CentOS
7 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (62.82%) CI/CD
2 114 (48.72%) DevOps
2 114 (48.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (25.21%) Observability
4 57 (24.36%) Containerisation
5 55 (23.50%) Agile
6 50 (21.37%) Roadmaps
7 48 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (20.09%) Cloud Security
9 42 (17.95%) Migration
10 41 (17.52%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (14.10%) Microservices
12 27 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
13 26 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
13 26 (11.11%) Test Automation
14 25 (10.68%) SIEM
15 24 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (9.83%) Decision-Making
16 23 (9.83%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 94 (40.17%) Python
2 56 (23.93%) Bash
3 31 (13.25%) Java
3 31 (13.25%) PowerShell
4 20 (8.55%) SQL
5 8 (3.42%) Groovy
5 8 (3.42%) Shell Script
5 8 (3.42%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.99%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.56%) Go
8 5 (2.14%) Perl
9 3 (1.28%) Bicep
9 3 (1.28%) Ruby
10 2 (0.85%) Cypher
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.43%) Lisp
11 1 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 116 (49.57%) Security Cleared
2 107 (45.73%) SC Cleared
3 48 (20.51%) AWS Certification
4 21 (8.97%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (4.70%) Degree
7 10 (4.27%) CISSP
7 10 (4.27%) SAFe Agilist
8 8 (3.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.56%) CCNP
10 6 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.85%) PMP
13 1 (0.43%) CEH
13 1 (0.43%) GIAC
13 1 (0.43%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) NIST
2 11 (4.70%) SLA
3 10 (4.27%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.42%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.99%) PMO
6 7 (2.99%) QA
7 5 (2.14%) GDPR
8 4 (1.71%) NCSC
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.43%) COBIT
10 1 (0.43%) GRC
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 77 (32.91%) Docker
2 18 (7.69%) Squid
3 16 (6.84%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.14%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.28%) HDFS
6 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.28%) vSphere
7 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) Firmware
8 1 (0.43%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 153 (65.38%) Terraform
2 90 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 58 (24.79%) Grafana
4 55 (23.50%) Prometheus
5 38 (16.24%) Ansible
6 12 (5.13%) Progress Chef
6 12 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.27%) FortiGate
8 9 (3.85%) Puppet
9 8 (3.42%) Consul
10 6 (2.56%) Suricata
11 5 (2.14%) Salt
12 4 (1.71%) Argo
12 4 (1.71%) Istio
12 4 (1.71%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.71%) Kibana
12 4 (1.71%) linkerd
12 4 (1.71%) Packer
13 3 (1.28%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.85%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 21 (8.97%) Red Hat
2 18 (7.69%) Google
3 17 (7.26%) Splunk
4 16 (6.84%) Dynatrace
5 15 (6.41%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.13%) Microsoft
7 11 (4.70%) Cisco
8 10 (4.27%) Fortinet
8 10 (4.27%) Tenable
8 10 (4.27%) Zscaler
9 7 (2.99%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.99%) Databricks
10 6 (2.56%) AVEVA
10 6 (2.56%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.56%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.14%) VMware
12 4 (1.71%) F5
12 4 (1.71%) Oracle
12 4 (1.71%) Qualys
12 4 (1.71%) Trend Micro