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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 436 449
Rank change year-on-year +23 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 218 83 137
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 0.76% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 55 95
10th Percentile £394 £415 £402
25th Percentile £425 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £581 £535
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +8.60% -14.40%
75th Percentile £576 £713 £658
90th Percentile £638 £750 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.10% -4.55% -6.38%
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 17,065 10,955 13,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 37.56% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,557 7,575 9,899
10th Percentile £321 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +2.53% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 248 345
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.78% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £48.19 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £73.75 £62.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +118.08% +21.31% -29.24%

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 9 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 9 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 +1 179 £518 -14.81% 44
London +3 113 £522 -14.11% 18
UK excluding London -42 82 £456 -13.10% 32
Work from Home +2 65 £500 -13.87% 23
West Midlands -38 21 £494 +3.95% 3
Midlands -41 21 £494 +3.95% 3
Scotland +17 20 £418 -10.93% 3
North of England -52 20 £568 -21.72% 8
North West -26 12 £568 +33.53% 5
South East -58 9 £450 -22.41% 14
North East -12 7 £575 - 3
East of England -34 7 £530 +0.95%
South West - 5 £475 - 3
Yorkshire -57 1 £463 -36.21%

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 (17.89%) Confluence
2 11 (5.05%) nginx
3 9 (4.13%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.75%) Apache
4 6 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.75%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.92%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 218 (100.00%) AWS
2 133 (61.01%) Amazon S3
3 123 (56.42%) Amazon EC2
4 110 (50.46%) Serverless
5 106 (48.62%) AWS Lambda
6 92 (42.20%) Amazon EKS
7 84 (38.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 81 (37.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (23.39%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (21.56%) Azure
11 46 (21.10%) GitHub
12 43 (19.72%) Route 53
13 36 (16.51%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (14.68%) AWS KMS
15 31 (14.22%) GCP
16 21 (9.63%) AWS CodePipeline
16 21 (9.63%) AWS Control Tower
17 20 (9.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 19 (8.72%) Amazon ELB
19 17 (7.80%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 53 (24.31%) Firewall
2 41 (18.81%) VPN
3 32 (14.68%) DNS
4 22 (10.09%) TCP/IP
5 18 (8.26%) Network Security
6 15 (6.88%) BGP
7 13 (5.96%) OSPF
8 11 (5.05%) OpenVPN
9 8 (3.67%) WAN
10 7 (3.21%) SSL
11 5 (2.29%) LAN
11 5 (2.29%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.29%) Wireless
12 4 (1.83%) NGFW
12 4 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.83%) VLAN
13 3 (1.38%) Cisco Nexus
14 2 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 2 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (29.82%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.72%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (7.34%) DynamoDB
4 16 (7.34%) Power BI
5 13 (5.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.05%) MySQL
8 9 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.13%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.67%) Tableau
10 7 (3.21%) DocumentDB
10 7 (3.21%) Redis
11 6 (2.75%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.75%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.29%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.29%) Apache Hive
12 5 (2.29%) Big Data
12 5 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 76 (34.86%) GitLab
2 64 (29.36%) Jenkins
3 38 (17.43%) JIRA
4 30 (13.76%) Git
5 22 (10.09%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.96%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.21%) Artifactory
7 7 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.75%) MLflow
9 4 (1.83%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.38%) Snyk
11 2 (0.92%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.92%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.46%) AppScan
12 1 (0.46%) JUnit
12 1 (0.46%) sqlmap
General
1 62 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 61 (27.98%) Public Sector
3 41 (18.81%) Finance
4 18 (8.26%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.75%) Banking
8 5 (2.29%) Military
9 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.38%) Police
10 2 (0.92%) Games
10 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.92%) Law
10 2 (0.92%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.46%) Billing
11 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (28.44%) Architect
2 49 (22.48%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (16.51%) AWS Architect
4 31 (14.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (12.39%) Cloud Architect
6 25 (11.47%) Senior
7 24 (11.01%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (9.17%) Lead
10 16 (7.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (6.42%) Network Engineer
12 13 (5.96%) Security Engineer
13 12 (5.50%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (5.05%) Site Engineer
14 11 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (5.05%) Technical Manager
15 10 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.59%) Technical Architect
15 10 (4.59%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.47%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.80%) Kafka
3 15 (6.88%) OpenID
4 11 (5.05%) LDAP
5 10 (4.59%) Node.js
6 9 (4.13%) REST
7 8 (3.67%) PySpark
8 7 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (3.21%) OAuth
8 7 (3.21%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (3.21%) RESTful
8 7 (3.21%) Spring
8 7 (3.21%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.83%) gRPC
9 4 (1.83%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.83%) JPA
9 4 (1.83%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.38%) React
10 3 (1.38%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.80%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.29%) Replication
7 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.83%) PKI
7 4 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.38%) NHS
8 3 (1.38%) SCADA
9 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) IVR
9 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.89%) Linux
2 10 (4.59%) Windows
3 9 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.29%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.38%) Unix
6 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.46%) VMS
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (59.17%) CI/CD
2 114 (52.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 99 (45.41%) DevOps
4 60 (27.52%) Containerisation
5 53 (24.31%) Observability
6 50 (22.94%) Migration
7 46 (21.10%) Agile
8 43 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (17.43%) Cloud Security
10 37 (16.97%) Roadmaps
11 34 (15.60%) Platform Engineering
12 31 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (13.30%) Incident Response
13 29 (13.30%) Microservices
14 28 (12.84%) Test Automation
15 26 (11.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 24 (11.01%) Cost Optimisation
17 23 (10.55%) Decision-Making
18 21 (9.63%) DevSecOps
18 21 (9.63%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 95 (43.58%) Python
2 42 (19.27%) Bash
3 31 (14.22%) Java
4 24 (11.01%) SQL
5 23 (10.55%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.13%) Go
7 8 (3.67%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.21%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.21%) Perl
9 6 (2.75%) Groovy
9 6 (2.75%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.29%) Ruby
11 3 (1.38%) Bicep
11 3 (1.38%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.92%) Cypher
13 1 (0.46%) Lisp
13 1 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 107 (49.08%) Security Cleared
2 97 (44.50%) SC Cleared
3 55 (25.23%) AWS Certification
4 23 (10.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.88%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (4.13%) SAFe Agilist
7 7 (3.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.75%) CCNP
9 5 (2.29%) CISSP
10 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.83%) Degree
11 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.92%) PMP
12 1 (0.46%) CEH
12 1 (0.46%) GIAC
12 1 (0.46%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (6.88%) PCI DSS
2 13 (5.96%) NIST
3 11 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 11 (5.05%) SLA
4 9 (4.13%) GDPR
5 7 (3.21%) NCSC
5 7 (3.21%) PMO
6 6 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.75%) QA
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.46%) COBIT
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 78 (35.78%) Docker
2 13 (5.96%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.50%) Squid
4 6 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.83%) HDFS
5 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.92%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.46%) Firmware
7 1 (0.46%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 142 (65.14%) Terraform
2 75 (34.40%) Kubernetes
3 45 (20.64%) Prometheus
4 43 (19.72%) Grafana
5 32 (14.68%) Ansible
6 12 (5.50%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.59%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.67%) Consul
9 5 (2.29%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.29%) Puppet
10 4 (1.83%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.83%) Kibana
10 4 (1.83%) linkerd
10 4 (1.83%) Salt
11 3 (1.38%) Argo
11 3 (1.38%) Istio
11 3 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.38%) Suricata
12 2 (0.92%) Packer
12 2 (0.92%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 16 (7.34%) Splunk
2 14 (6.42%) Databricks
2 14 (6.42%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.96%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.96%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.50%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.50%) Google
5 10 (4.59%) Cisco
5 10 (4.59%) Fortinet
5 10 (4.59%) Zscaler
6 9 (4.13%) Tenable
7 7 (3.21%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.21%) Citrix
8 6 (2.75%) AVEVA
8 6 (2.75%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.75%) CloudEndure
9 5 (2.29%) Oracle
9 5 (2.29%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.83%) Qualys
10 4 (1.83%) SAP