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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 423 454
Rank change year-on-year -3 +31 -10
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 254 144 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.18% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 103 71
10th Percentile £407 £415 £409
25th Percentile £454 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £572 £625 £651
90th Percentile £631 £703 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £593
% change year-on-year +1.68% -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 18,758 12,229 13,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.14% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,385 8,188 9,134
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £423 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 620 313 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.17 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.76 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% +11.76% -29.03%
75th Percentile £69.77 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -12 213 £513 -2.38% 74
London -10 126 £529 -10.38% 44
UK excluding London -50 98 £483 +1.68% 35
Work from Home -20 89 £513 -7.24% 30
Midlands -45 32 £481 +1.26% 3
West Midlands -49 29 £488 +2.63% 3
North of England -57 27 £500 -6.54% 16
North West -24 17 £506 -5.37% 9
Scotland -11 11 £450 -10.00% 3
East of England -17 9 £450 -12.20% 2
South East -67 9 £669 +15.30% 5
North East -40 5 £544 -9.38% 2
Yorkshire -43 5 £500 - 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 1
South West -33 4 £450 - 5
East Midlands - 3 £450 -
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 39 (15.35%) Confluence
2 12 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.54%) nginx
4 6 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.57%) Apache
7 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 251 (98.82%) AWS
2 137 (53.94%) Amazon S3
3 135 (53.15%) Amazon EC2
4 116 (45.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 115 (45.28%) Serverless
6 109 (42.91%) AWS Lambda
7 94 (37.01%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (28.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 61 (24.02%) Azure
10 53 (20.87%) GitHub
11 45 (17.72%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (13.39%) AWS CloudTrail
13 34 (13.39%) AWS KMS
13 34 (13.39%) GCP
14 26 (10.24%) Route 53
15 23 (9.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 19 (7.48%) Datadog
16 19 (7.48%) Snowflake
17 18 (7.09%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 54 (21.26%) Firewall
2 31 (12.20%) VPN
3 26 (10.24%) TCP/IP
4 22 (8.66%) DNS
5 21 (8.27%) Network Security
6 16 (6.30%) WAN
7 14 (5.51%) BGP
8 11 (4.33%) OSPF
9 10 (3.94%) LAN
9 10 (3.94%) SSL
10 8 (3.15%) OpenVPN
11 7 (2.76%) VLAN
12 6 (2.36%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.36%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.97%) BIG-IP
13 5 (1.97%) IPsec
13 5 (1.97%) MPLS
13 5 (1.97%) NetScaler
13 5 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (33.07%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (10.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 23 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (7.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (6.69%) Power BI
6 13 (5.12%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (4.33%) DynamoDB
7 11 (4.33%) MySQL
8 8 (3.15%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.15%) Tableau
9 6 (2.36%) Redis
9 6 (2.36%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.97%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.57%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.18%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.18%) Big Data
12 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 69 (27.17%) GitLab
2 66 (25.98%) Jenkins
3 47 (18.50%) Git
4 33 (12.99%) JIRA
5 15 (5.91%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.72%) Artifactory
7 10 (3.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (3.54%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.39%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.39%) Snyk
9 1 (0.39%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.39%) sqlmap
General
1 80 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 75 (29.53%) Public Sector
3 30 (11.81%) Finance
4 11 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.15%) Banking
7 7 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.97%) Law
8 5 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.57%) Military
9 4 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.18%) Police
11 2 (0.79%) Games
11 2 (0.79%) Legal
11 2 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (26.38%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (23.23%) Architect
3 46 (18.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (14.96%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (14.17%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (10.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 26 (10.24%) AWS Architect
8 25 (9.84%) Senior
9 22 (8.66%) Security Engineer
10 21 (8.27%) Technical Architect
11 18 (7.09%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (6.30%) Network Engineer
13 13 (5.12%) Lead
13 13 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (4.72%) Delivery Manager
15 11 (4.33%) Scrum Master
16 10 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 10 (3.94%) DBA
16 10 (3.94%) Technical Delivery Manager
16 10 (3.94%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.45%) AWS CDK
2 11 (4.33%) Kafka
3 8 (3.15%) GraphQL
3 8 (3.15%) RESTful
3 8 (3.15%) SAML
4 7 (2.76%) Apollo GraphQL
5 6 (2.36%) boto
5 6 (2.36%) OpenID
5 6 (2.36%) REST
6 5 (1.97%) LDAP
7 4 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.18%) React
9 2 (0.79%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.79%) cloud-init
9 2 (0.79%) OAuth
9 2 (0.79%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.79%) PySpark
9 2 (0.79%) SOAP
10 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.87%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.48%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.91%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.91%) Replication
4 14 (5.51%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.15%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.97%) NHS
10 4 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.57%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.18%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.79%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 55 (21.65%) Linux
2 27 (10.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (9.06%) Windows
4 8 (3.15%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.76%) Unix
6 4 (1.57%) AIX
7 3 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (63.78%) CI/CD
2 134 (52.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 132 (51.97%) DevOps
4 68 (26.77%) Agile
5 66 (25.98%) Containerisation
6 53 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (20.47%) Cloud Security
8 50 (19.69%) Observability
8 50 (19.69%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (16.54%) Roadmaps
10 41 (16.14%) Migration
11 32 (12.60%) Microservices
12 31 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (10.24%) High Availability
14 26 (10.24%) Secrets Management
14 26 (10.24%) SIEM
15 25 (9.84%) DevSecOps
16 24 (9.45%) Change Management
16 24 (9.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 102 (40.16%) Python
2 61 (24.02%) Bash
3 36 (14.17%) Java
4 34 (13.39%) PowerShell
5 29 (11.42%) SQL
6 12 (4.72%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.33%) Groovy
8 8 (3.15%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.36%) Go
9 6 (2.36%) Perl
10 2 (0.79%) Bicep
10 2 (0.79%) Ruby
11 1 (0.39%) Cypher
11 1 (0.39%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.39%) R
11 1 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.39%) SHACL
11 1 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 129 (50.79%) Security Cleared
2 117 (46.06%) SC Cleared
3 56 (22.05%) AWS Certification
4 28 (11.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (10.24%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.48%) Degree
7 12 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.33%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (3.94%) CISSP
10 9 (3.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (3.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.15%) CCNP
11 8 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.57%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.18%) CCIE
13 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.54%) GDPR
2 9 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.15%) SLA
4 7 (2.76%) NCSC
4 7 (2.76%) PMO
5 5 (1.97%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.18%) QA
7 2 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.79%) NIST
8 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (33.86%) Docker
2 15 (5.91%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.94%) Squid
4 9 (3.54%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.79%) HDFS
8 1 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 167 (65.75%) Terraform
2 97 (38.19%) Kubernetes
3 60 (23.62%) Grafana
4 54 (21.26%) Prometheus
5 44 (17.32%) Ansible
6 12 (4.72%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.33%) Puppet
8 10 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.15%) Packer
10 6 (2.36%) Argo
11 5 (1.97%) Istio
11 5 (1.97%) Salt
12 4 (1.57%) Suricata
13 3 (1.18%) Consul
13 3 (1.18%) linkerd
13 3 (1.18%) SELinux
13 3 (1.18%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.79%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.79%) systemd
14 2 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (9.84%) ServiceNow
2 22 (8.66%) Red Hat
3 20 (7.87%) Google
4 18 (7.09%) Cisco
4 18 (7.09%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.12%) Splunk
5 13 (5.12%) VMware
6 10 (3.94%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.94%) Zscaler
7 9 (3.54%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.76%) Databricks
8 7 (2.76%) F5
8 7 (2.76%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.36%) Tenable
10 5 (1.97%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.57%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.57%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.57%) Oracle
11 4 (1.57%) Trend Micro
12 3 (1.18%) Veeam