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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 446 449
Rank change year-on-year +35 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 222 84 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 0.76% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 55 93
10th Percentile £381 £415 £405
25th Percentile £425 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +7.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £576 £731 £675
90th Percentile £635 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £538 £593
% change year-on-year -15.12% -9.28% +0.85%
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 16,972 11,012 14,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.81% 37.60% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,516 7,643 9,977
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.47% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 250 343
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.43 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +55.64% +30.78% -40.09%
75th Percentile £67.75 £46.30 £33.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.15%

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 3 May 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 14 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 3 May 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 -2 178 £518 -15.75% 42
London +8 113 £519 -15.86% 21
UK excluding London -38 85 £456 -15.12% 27
Work from Home +2 65 £500 -13.87% 30
Scotland +15 25 £411 -12.27% 3
North of England -53 20 £563 -22.41% 8
West Midlands -43 19 £494 +3.95%
Midlands -54 19 £494 +3.95%
North West -29 11 £568 +33.53% 5
South East -51 9 £450 -22.41% 13
North East -15 7 £575 -23.33% 3
East of England -33 7 £530 +0.95% 1
South West - 5 £475 - 2
Yorkshire -54 2 £490 -32.41%

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 37 (16.67%) Confluence
2 11 (4.95%) nginx
3 9 (4.05%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.70%) Apache
4 6 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.90%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 222 (100.00%) AWS
2 132 (59.46%) Amazon S3
3 123 (55.41%) Amazon EC2
4 114 (51.35%) Serverless
5 110 (49.55%) AWS Lambda
6 93 (41.89%) Amazon EKS
7 87 (39.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 85 (38.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (23.42%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (22.07%) GitHub
11 47 (21.17%) Route 53
12 46 (20.72%) Azure
13 36 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (14.86%) GCP
15 30 (13.51%) AWS KMS
16 22 (9.91%) AWS Control Tower
17 20 (9.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 19 (8.56%) AWS CodePipeline
19 18 (8.11%) Amazon ELB
19 18 (8.11%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 53 (23.87%) Firewall
2 42 (18.92%) VPN
3 32 (14.41%) DNS
4 21 (9.46%) TCP/IP
5 17 (7.66%) Network Security
6 15 (6.76%) BGP
7 13 (5.86%) OSPF
8 11 (4.95%) OpenVPN
9 8 (3.60%) WAN
10 7 (3.15%) SSL
11 5 (2.25%) LAN
11 5 (2.25%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.25%) Wireless
12 4 (1.80%) NGFW
12 4 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.80%) VLAN
13 3 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (1.35%) Kerberos
14 2 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (30.63%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (9.91%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (9.46%) DynamoDB
4 18 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (7.21%) Power BI
6 13 (5.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (5.41%) MySQL
8 9 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.05%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.60%) DocumentDB
9 8 (3.60%) Tableau
10 7 (3.15%) Data Lake
10 7 (3.15%) Redis
11 6 (2.70%) Big Data
11 6 (2.70%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.70%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.25%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.25%) Apache Hive
12 5 (2.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 74 (33.33%) GitLab
2 66 (29.73%) Jenkins
3 37 (16.67%) JIRA
4 28 (12.61%) Git
5 21 (9.46%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.86%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.70%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.70%) MLflow
9 4 (1.80%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.35%) Snyk
11 2 (0.90%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.90%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.45%) AppScan
12 1 (0.45%) JUnit
12 1 (0.45%) sqlmap
General
1 63 (28.38%) Public Sector
2 60 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 45 (20.27%) Finance
4 18 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.60%) Banking
7 7 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.80%) Military
9 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Police
10 2 (0.90%) Games
10 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.90%) Law
10 2 (0.90%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.45%) Billing
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (29.73%) Architect
2 48 (21.62%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (17.12%) AWS Architect
4 32 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (12.16%) Cloud Architect
6 23 (10.36%) Senior
7 22 (9.91%) AWS DevOps
8 20 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (9.01%) Lead
9 15 (6.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.31%) Network Engineer
11 13 (5.86%) Security Engineer
12 12 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.95%) Site Engineer
13 11 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (4.95%) Technical Manager
14 10 (4.50%) Technical Architect
14 10 (4.50%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.81%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.66%) Kafka
3 15 (6.76%) Node.js
3 15 (6.76%) OpenID
4 11 (4.95%) LDAP
5 9 (4.05%) REST
6 8 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (3.60%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (3.60%) PySpark
7 7 (3.15%) OAuth
7 7 (3.15%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.15%) RESTful
7 7 (3.15%) Spring
7 7 (3.15%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.25%) JSON
9 4 (1.80%) gRPC
9 4 (1.80%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.80%) JPA
9 4 (1.80%) React
9 4 (1.80%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.66%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.50%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.60%) NHS
6 6 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.70%) IVR
7 5 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.25%) Replication
8 4 (1.80%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.80%) PKI
9 3 (1.35%) SCADA
9 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.45%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.57%) Linux
2 10 (4.50%) Windows
3 9 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.25%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.45%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.45%) VMS
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (59.01%) CI/CD
2 114 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 102 (45.95%) DevOps
4 61 (27.48%) Containerisation
5 53 (23.87%) Migration
5 53 (23.87%) Observability
6 44 (19.82%) Agile
6 44 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (18.47%) Roadmaps
8 40 (18.02%) Cloud Security
9 31 (13.96%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (13.51%) Cost Optimisation
10 30 (13.51%) Test Automation
11 29 (13.06%) Incident Response
11 29 (13.06%) Microservices
12 26 (11.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 22 (9.91%) Decision-Making
14 20 (9.01%) Event-Driven
15 19 (8.56%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (45.50%) Python
2 42 (18.92%) Bash
3 32 (14.41%) Java
4 23 (10.36%) SQL
5 22 (9.91%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.05%) Go
7 7 (3.15%) Kotlin
7 7 (3.15%) Perl
7 7 (3.15%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.70%) Ruby
9 5 (2.25%) Groovy
10 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.90%) Bicep
11 2 (0.90%) Cypher
12 1 (0.45%) Lisp
12 1 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 105 (47.30%) Security Cleared
2 95 (42.79%) SC Cleared
3 56 (25.23%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (5.86%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.15%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.70%) CCNP
9 5 (2.25%) CISSP
10 4 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.35%) Degree
12 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.90%) PMP
13 1 (0.45%) CEH
13 1 (0.45%) GIAC
13 1 (0.45%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.56%) PCI DSS
2 18 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.86%) GDPR
3 13 (5.86%) NIST
4 11 (4.95%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.95%) SLA
5 10 (4.50%) PMO
6 7 (3.15%) NCSC
7 6 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.70%) QA
8 3 (1.35%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.45%) COBIT
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 81 (36.49%) Docker
2 12 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.95%) Squid
4 6 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.80%) HDFS
5 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.45%) Firmware
8 1 (0.45%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 146 (65.77%) Terraform
2 76 (34.23%) Kubernetes
3 44 (19.82%) Prometheus
4 42 (18.92%) Grafana
5 33 (14.86%) Ansible
6 12 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.50%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.60%) Consul
9 5 (2.25%) Karpenter
9 5 (2.25%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.25%) Puppet
10 4 (1.80%) Kibana
10 4 (1.80%) linkerd
10 4 (1.80%) Salt
11 3 (1.35%) Argo
11 3 (1.35%) Istio
11 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.90%) Packer
12 2 (0.90%) Suricata
12 2 (0.90%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 18 (8.11%) Splunk
2 16 (7.21%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.31%) Databricks
4 13 (5.86%) Cisco
4 13 (5.86%) Google
4 13 (5.86%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.86%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.41%) Dynatrace
6 10 (4.50%) Fortinet
6 10 (4.50%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.60%) Tenable
8 7 (3.15%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.15%) Citrix
9 6 (2.70%) AVEVA
9 6 (2.70%) CheckPoint
9 6 (2.70%) CloudEndure
10 5 (2.25%) Avaya
10 5 (2.25%) Genesys
10 5 (2.25%) Oracle
10 5 (2.25%) Palo Alto