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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 385 468
Rank change year-on-year -63 +83 -20
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 243 178 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.54% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.43% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 127 56
10th Percentile £400 £408 £475
25th Percentile £438 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.89% -1.48%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £675
90th Percentile £650 £709 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -1.47% -20.83% +4.35%
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 18,915 12,482 12,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.61% 38.04% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,538 8,334 8,575
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £409 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 637 293 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -58 196 £500 -4.76% 171
London -30 126 £525 -12.50% 115
UK excluding London -99 82 £468 -1.47% 67
Work from Home -46 81 £500 -9.91% 81
North of England -68 24 £447 -16.45% 17
Midlands -53 22 £477 +0.42% 11
West Midlands -61 19 £482 +1.53% 9
Scotland -26 11 £439 -12.30% 9
North West -42 11 £447 -13.62% 12
South East -50 11 £638 - 11
Yorkshire -37 9 £463 -9.76% 5
Northern Ireland - 6 £496 - 3
South West -34 4 £425 -37.04% 6
North East -37 4 £425 -26.09%
East of England -26 3 £345 -25.41% 6
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 2
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 28 (11.52%) Confluence
2 15 (6.17%) Apache Spark
3 13 (5.35%) Apache
4 9 (3.70%) nginx
5 7 (2.88%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.41%) Appian
8 1 (0.41%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 240 (98.77%) AWS
2 131 (53.91%) Amazon S3
3 125 (51.44%) Amazon EC2
4 121 (49.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 106 (43.62%) Serverless
6 102 (41.98%) Amazon EKS
7 101 (41.56%) AWS Lambda
8 85 (34.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (22.63%) Amazon ECS
10 53 (21.81%) Azure
10 53 (21.81%) GitHub
11 39 (16.05%) AWS KMS
12 38 (15.64%) AWS CloudTrail
13 35 (14.40%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (13.58%) GCP
14 33 (13.58%) Route 53
15 24 (9.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 17 (7.00%) Amazon SQS
17 16 (6.58%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (6.17%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 40 (16.46%) Firewall
2 23 (9.47%) DNS
3 19 (7.82%) TCP/IP
4 18 (7.41%) Network Security
5 16 (6.58%) VPN
6 14 (5.76%) WAN
7 8 (3.29%) LAN
7 8 (3.29%) SSL
8 7 (2.88%) BGP
9 6 (2.47%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.47%) SSH
10 5 (2.06%) MPLS
10 5 (2.06%) OSPF
11 4 (1.65%) BIG-IP
11 4 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.65%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (1.65%) HTTP
11 4 (1.65%) IPsec
11 4 (1.65%) OpenVPN
11 4 (1.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (34.57%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (13.99%) Amazon Aurora
2 34 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (7.82%) MySQL
4 17 (7.00%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (6.58%) MongoDB
6 15 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (6.17%) DynamoDB
7 12 (4.94%) SQL Server
8 10 (4.12%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.12%) Redis
9 7 (2.88%) Big Data
10 6 (2.47%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.06%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.65%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.65%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.65%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.65%) Metadata
13 3 (1.23%) Flink
Development Applications
1 72 (29.63%) GitLab
2 62 (25.51%) Jenkins
3 46 (18.93%) Git
4 26 (10.70%) JIRA
5 9 (3.70%) Artifactory
5 9 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (3.29%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.29%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.82%) Maven
7 2 (0.82%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.82%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.41%) Postman
8 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 86 (35.39%) Social Skills
2 63 (25.93%) Public Sector
3 24 (9.88%) Finance
4 10 (4.12%) Banking
5 8 (3.29%) Military
6 7 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.47%) Law
8 5 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.23%) Police
11 2 (0.82%) Billing
11 2 (0.82%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (25.93%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (25.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 56 (23.05%) Architect
4 38 (15.64%) AWS DevOps
5 32 (13.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (11.93%) AWS Architect
7 28 (11.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (10.29%) Senior
9 24 (9.88%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (7.41%) Technical Architect
11 16 (6.58%) DBA
12 15 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (5.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (5.35%) Lead
13 13 (5.35%) Security Engineer
14 12 (4.94%) Administrator
14 12 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 9 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 9 (3.70%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (73.25%) Terraform
2 17 (7.00%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.00%) Kafka
3 10 (4.12%) RESTful
4 9 (3.70%) GraphQL
4 9 (3.70%) SAML
5 8 (3.29%) PySpark
5 8 (3.29%) REST
6 7 (2.88%) Apollo GraphQL
6 7 (2.88%) boto
7 6 (2.47%) OpenID
8 5 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.06%) OAuth
9 4 (1.65%) .NET
9 4 (1.65%) LDAP
9 4 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.65%) OpenTofu
9 4 (1.65%) React
10 3 (1.23%) SOAP
10 3 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.81%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.29%) Replication
3 17 (7.00%) Security Posture
4 13 (5.35%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.53%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.12%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.70%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.70%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.29%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (2.47%) NHS
11 5 (2.06%) PKI
11 5 (2.06%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.65%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 55 (22.63%) Linux
2 25 (10.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (9.05%) Windows
4 10 (4.12%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.88%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.47%) Unix
7 4 (1.65%) AIX
7 4 (1.65%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.82%) CentOS
10 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (71.60%) CI/CD
2 158 (65.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 148 (60.91%) DevOps
4 70 (28.81%) Containerisation
5 61 (25.10%) Agile
6 58 (23.87%) Observability
7 51 (20.99%) Platform Engineering
8 50 (20.58%) Cloud Security
9 46 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (16.87%) Secrets Management
12 39 (16.05%) High Availability
13 35 (14.40%) Microservices
14 34 (13.99%) Roadmaps
15 33 (13.58%) Migration
16 32 (13.17%) AI
17 31 (12.76%) Infrastructure Automation
18 30 (12.35%) Root Cause Analysis
19 28 (11.52%) Disaster Recovery
19 28 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.39%) Python
2 59 (24.28%) Bash
3 32 (13.17%) SQL
4 31 (12.76%) Java
5 28 (11.52%) PowerShell
6 13 (5.35%) Groovy
7 11 (4.53%) Go
7 11 (4.53%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.70%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.88%) Perl
10 3 (1.23%) Bicep
10 3 (1.23%) C#
11 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.82%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.41%) C
12 1 (0.41%) Cypher
12 1 (0.41%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.41%) SHACL
12 1 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (44.86%) Security Cleared
2 101 (41.56%) SC Cleared
3 62 (25.51%) AWS Certification
4 35 (14.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (9.05%) Degree
6 18 (7.41%) Azure Certification
7 14 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) CISSP
10 8 (3.29%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (2.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.65%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.23%) CCNP
14 3 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.82%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.94%) GDPR
4 10 (4.12%) NCSC
5 7 (2.88%) QA
6 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.23%) NIST
7 3 (1.23%) SLA
8 2 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (34.16%) Docker
2 13 (5.35%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.70%) Squid
4 7 (2.88%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.23%) vSphere
8 2 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.82%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.82%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.82%) HDFS
8 2 (0.82%) Postfix
9 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 104 (42.80%) Kubernetes
2 70 (28.81%) Grafana
3 63 (25.93%) Prometheus
4 45 (18.52%) Ansible
5 14 (5.76%) Puppet
6 9 (3.70%) Packer
6 9 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 9 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.88%) Argo
8 5 (2.06%) Istio
9 4 (1.65%) Salt
9 4 (1.65%) Suricata
10 3 (1.23%) Consul
10 3 (1.23%) linkerd
10 3 (1.23%) SELinux
10 3 (1.23%) systemd
10 3 (1.23%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.23%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.82%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 22 (9.05%) ServiceNow
2 16 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.58%) Red Hat
3 15 (6.17%) Splunk
4 14 (5.76%) Cisco
4 14 (5.76%) Google
5 12 (4.94%) VMware
6 8 (3.29%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.29%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.88%) Databricks
8 6 (2.47%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.47%) Tenable
9 4 (1.65%) F5
9 4 (1.65%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.23%) Aruba
10 3 (1.23%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.23%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.23%) Trend Micro
10 3 (1.23%) Veeam
10 3 (1.23%) Zscaler