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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 427 479
Rank change year-on-year +5 +52 -27
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 250 123 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.00% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 89 78
10th Percentile £402 £411 £385
25th Percentile £450 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £559 £620 £640
90th Percentile £617 £710 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £593
% change year-on-year +2.16% -19.83% -1.25%
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 18,597 12,273 13,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.23% 37.42% 33.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,300 8,220 9,785
10th Percentile £328 £313 £310
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -4.62% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 611 315 329
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.31 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.89
% change year-on-year +98.73% -9.65% -21.19%

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 20 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 20 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 +10 206 £513 -2.38% 42
London +9 121 £519 -6.57% 22
UK excluding London -53 100 £485 +2.16% 27
Work from Home -7 83 £500 -9.09% 25
Midlands -30 30 £488 +2.63% 1
West Midlands -48 30 £488 +2.63% 1
North of England -55 27 £500 - 12
North West -33 18 £475 -2.56% 8
Scotland -9 14 £449 -10.20% 1
South East -62 10 £533 -8.19% 6
East of England -13 8 £490 -4.39%
Yorkshire -49 5 £500 - 2
South West - 5 £475 - 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 -
North East -34 4 £625 - 2
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 43 (17.20%) Confluence
2 15 (6.00%) nginx
3 11 (4.40%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.60%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Apache
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
2 146 (58.40%) Amazon EC2
3 138 (55.20%) Amazon S3
4 119 (47.60%) Serverless
5 113 (45.20%) AWS Lambda
6 107 (42.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 101 (40.40%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (26.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 59 (23.60%) Azure
10 52 (20.80%) GitHub
11 46 (18.40%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (14.40%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (14.40%) Route 53
13 32 (12.80%) GCP
14 29 (11.60%) AWS CloudTrail
15 26 (10.40%) AWS KMS
16 20 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (7.60%) Snowflake
18 18 (7.20%) AWS CodePipeline
18 18 (7.20%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 62 (24.80%) Firewall
2 38 (15.20%) VPN
3 33 (13.20%) TCP/IP
4 26 (10.40%) DNS
5 20 (8.00%) Network Security
6 16 (6.40%) WAN
7 15 (6.00%) BGP
7 15 (6.00%) OpenVPN
8 12 (4.80%) OSPF
9 10 (4.00%) LAN
10 8 (3.20%) SSL
11 7 (2.80%) VLAN
12 6 (2.40%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.40%) IPsec
12 6 (2.40%) MPLS
12 6 (2.40%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.00%) BIG-IP
13 5 (2.00%) NetScaler
14 4 (1.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (29.60%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.20%) Amazon Aurora
2 18 (7.20%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (6.80%) Power BI
4 15 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.40%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (4.40%) DynamoDB
6 9 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.20%) Tableau
8 5 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (2.00%) MySQL
9 3 (1.20%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.20%) Big Data
9 3 (1.20%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.80%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 68 (27.20%) GitLab
2 66 (26.40%) Jenkins
3 43 (17.20%) Git
4 38 (15.20%) JIRA
5 21 (8.40%) Bitbucket
6 15 (6.00%) SonarQube
7 12 (4.80%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.80%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.80%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.40%) AppScan
10 1 (0.40%) Snyk
10 1 (0.40%) sqlmap
General
1 71 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.60%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.40%) Finance
4 18 (7.20%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.80%) Banking
6 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
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%) Military
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%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (27.20%) AWS Engineer
2 66 (26.40%) Architect
3 44 (17.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (14.40%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (13.60%) AWS DevOps
6 31 (12.40%) AWS Architect
7 26 (10.40%) Technical Architect
8 25 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 22 (8.80%) Security Engineer
10 19 (7.60%) Senior
11 16 (6.40%) Network Engineer
11 16 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (5.20%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.40%) Lead
14 11 (4.40%) Scrum Master
14 11 (4.40%) Technical Manager
15 10 (4.00%) Site Engineer
15 10 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.40%) 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%) boto
6 6 (2.40%) REST
6 6 (2.40%) SAML
7 4 (1.60%) OAuth
7 4 (1.60%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.60%) React
8 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.80%) PySpark
9 2 (0.80%) SOAP
10 1 (0.40%) Middleware
10 1 (0.40%) Web Services
10 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.20%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.80%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.80%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.40%) Replication
8 5 (2.00%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.60%) NHS
10 3 (1.20%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.20%) Linux
2 27 (10.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (10.40%) Windows
4 6 (2.40%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.60%) AIX
5 4 (1.60%) Unix
6 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.40%) CentOS
8 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 135 (54.00%) DevOps
3 128 (51.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (27.60%) Agile
5 66 (26.40%) Containerisation
6 56 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 54 (21.60%) Observability
8 51 (20.40%) Cloud Security
9 48 (19.20%) Platform Engineering
9 48 (19.20%) Roadmaps
10 41 (16.40%) Migration
11 31 (12.40%) Microservices
12 30 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 28 (11.20%) Decision-Making
14 27 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (10.80%) Test Automation
15 26 (10.40%) DevSecOps
16 24 (9.60%) Change Management
16 24 (9.60%) Scrum
17 23 (9.20%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 101 (40.40%) Python
2 61 (24.40%) Bash
3 33 (13.20%) Java
4 32 (12.80%) PowerShell
5 17 (6.80%) SQL
6 9 (3.60%) Groovy
7 8 (3.20%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.20%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.80%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.40%) Go
10 5 (2.00%) Perl
11 3 (1.20%) Bicep
12 2 (0.80%) Cypher
12 2 (0.80%) Ruby
13 1 (0.40%) C
13 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.40%) Lisp
13 1 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.40%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 124 (49.60%) Security Cleared
2 111 (44.40%) SC Cleared
3 47 (18.80%) AWS Certification
4 24 (9.60%) Azure Certification
5 20 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (7.20%) Degree
7 11 (4.40%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (4.00%) CISSP
9 9 (3.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (3.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
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 10 (4.00%) 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 3 (1.20%) NIST
5 3 (1.20%) QA
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (32.00%) Docker
2 17 (6.80%) Squid
3 13 (5.20%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.60%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.20%) vSphere
7 2 (0.80%) HDFS
8 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 168 (67.20%) Terraform
2 99 (39.60%) Kubernetes
3 63 (25.20%) Grafana
4 59 (23.60%) Prometheus
5 45 (18.00%) Ansible
6 16 (6.40%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (5.20%) Progress Chef
8 11 (4.40%) Puppet
9 9 (3.60%) FortiGate
10 8 (3.20%) Consul
11 7 (2.80%) Packer
12 5 (2.00%) Salt
13 4 (1.60%) Argo
13 4 (1.60%) Istio
13 4 (1.60%) linkerd
13 4 (1.60%) Suricata
14 3 (1.20%) SELinux
14 3 (1.20%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.80%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 28 (11.20%) Red Hat
2 22 (8.80%) ServiceNow
3 20 (8.00%) Google
4 18 (7.20%) Cisco
4 18 (7.20%) Microsoft
5 16 (6.40%) Dynatrace
6 15 (6.00%) Splunk
7 13 (5.20%) VMware
8 9 (3.60%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.60%) Zscaler
9 7 (2.80%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.80%) F5
9 7 (2.80%) SolarWinds
9 7 (2.80%) Tenable
10 6 (2.40%) Databricks
11 5 (2.00%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.60%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.60%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.60%) Oracle
12 4 (1.60%) Trend Micro