Virtual Private Cloud Contracts

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 465 452
Rank change year-on-year +28 -13 +125
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 82 135 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.31% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 0.96% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 94 200
10th Percentile £415 £405 £413
25th Percentile £525 £452 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -10.57% +11.82%
75th Percentile £731 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £593 £588
% change year-on-year -9.28% +0.85% +16.34%

All Cloud 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 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 13 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +9 65 £614 +11.68% 81
London +10 40 £616 +12.05% 58
Work from Home +23 34 £581 +0.96% 44
UK excluding London +27 23 £538 -9.28% 28
North of England +8 12 £725 +26.09% 7
Yorkshire +15 6 £725 +56.76% 2
Scotland +11 4 £469 - 2
East of England +33 3 £525 -4.55% 1
North West -12 3 £425 -35.85% 5
North East - 3 £750 -
South East +37 2 £580 +2.16% 9
Midlands +20 2 £475 -26.92% 4
West Midlands +12 2 £475 -26.92% 3

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (15.85%) nginx
2 12 (14.63%) Traefik
3 3 (3.66%) Confluence
3 3 (3.66%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.44%) IIS
5 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.22%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 80 (97.56%) AWS
2 49 (59.76%) Amazon EC2
3 45 (54.88%) Amazon S3
4 43 (52.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (42.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 32 (39.02%) Serverless
7 30 (36.59%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (26.83%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (19.51%) Entra ID
10 15 (18.29%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (18.29%) AWS Fargate
11 14 (17.07%) Route 53
12 12 (14.63%) GitHub
13 11 (13.41%) AWS CodePipeline
14 7 (8.54%) Azure
14 7 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (8.54%) IaaS
14 7 (8.54%) PaaS
15 6 (7.32%) AWS KMS
16 5 (6.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 27 (32.93%) DNS
2 19 (23.17%) VPN
3 18 (21.95%) Firewall
4 14 (17.07%) TCP/IP
5 6 (7.32%) Network Security
6 5 (6.10%) SSL
7 3 (3.66%) WAN
8 2 (2.44%) BGP
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (2.44%) DHCP
8 2 (2.44%) EIGRP
8 2 (2.44%) IPsec
8 2 (2.44%) OSPF
8 2 (2.44%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.44%) Wireless
8 2 (2.44%) X.509
9 1 (1.22%) NAS
9 1 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (34.15%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (18.29%) MongoDB
3 9 (10.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.66%) SAP HANA
7 2 (2.44%) DocumentDB
7 2 (2.44%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.44%) MySQL
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.22%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 34 (41.46%) GitLab
2 32 (39.02%) Jenkins
3 17 (20.73%) Git
4 9 (10.98%) JIRA
5 5 (6.10%) Artifactory
6 4 (4.88%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.22%) Snyk
9 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.22%) Spinnaker
9 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.22%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.32%) Finance
4 5 (6.10%) Military
5 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (41.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (30.49%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (30.49%) Senior
3 18 (21.95%) AWS DevOps
3 18 (21.95%) Senior DevOps
4 15 (18.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 13 (15.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Architect
7 6 (7.32%) AWS Architect
7 6 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Security Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.88%) Risk Manager
10 3 (3.66%) Lead
10 3 (3.66%) Network Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Analyst
11 2 (2.44%) AWS Specialist
11 2 (2.44%) Data Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Developer
11 2 (2.44%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.73%) Kafka
2 14 (17.07%) cloud-init
2 14 (17.07%) Keycloak
3 7 (8.54%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.88%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.44%) Node.js
5 2 (2.44%) REST
6 1 (1.22%) Akka
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (1.22%) boto
6 1 (1.22%) CSS
6 1 (1.22%) HTML
6 1 (1.22%) JSON
6 1 (1.22%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.22%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (1.22%) SOAP
6 1 (1.22%) Swagger
6 1 (1.22%) Web Services
6 1 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) PKI
2 9 (10.98%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.44%) Clustering
5 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Replication
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (37.80%) Linux
2 20 (24.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (20.73%) CentOS
4 16 (19.51%) Unix
5 14 (17.07%) Windows
6 4 (4.88%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.44%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (70.73%) CI/CD
2 54 (65.85%) DevOps
3 50 (60.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (37.80%) Cloud Security
5 27 (32.93%) Continuous Integration
6 22 (26.83%) Containerisation
7 18 (21.95%) Observability
8 16 (19.51%) Deployment Automation
8 16 (19.51%) Secrets Management
9 15 (18.29%) Microservices
9 15 (18.29%) Task Automation
10 14 (17.07%) Agile
10 14 (17.07%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 14 (17.07%) Identity Management
10 14 (17.07%) Static Application Security Testing
11 12 (14.63%) Mobile Device Management
12 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (9.76%) Configuration Management
13 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure Management
14 7 (8.54%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 52 (63.41%) Python
2 41 (50.00%) Bash
3 17 (20.73%) PowerShell
4 16 (19.51%) Go
5 4 (4.88%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.66%) Java
7 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.44%) SQL
8 1 (1.22%) Bicep
8 1 (1.22%) Ruby
8 1 (1.22%) Scala
8 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (47.56%) SC Cleared
3 34 (41.46%) AWS Certification
4 12 (14.63%) Degree
5 7 (8.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (7.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (2.44%) CCNP
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.22%) VCAP
9 1 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.29%) NCSC
2 10 (12.20%) GDPR
3 8 (9.76%) SOC 2
4 7 (8.54%) NIST
5 5 (6.10%) HIPAA
5 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.44%) FIPS 140-2
6 2 (2.44%) NIST 800
6 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.44%) SLA
7 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 27 (32.93%) Docker
2 8 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (75.61%) Terraform
2 42 (51.22%) Kubernetes
3 30 (36.59%) Prometheus
4 28 (34.15%) Ansible
5 25 (30.49%) Grafana
6 18 (21.95%) Consul
7 16 (19.51%) Packer
7 16 (19.51%) ZABBIX
8 15 (18.29%) linkerd
8 15 (18.29%) Rancher
9 14 (17.07%) Istio
9 14 (17.07%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (15.85%) HAProxy
10 13 (15.85%) Progress Chef
11 12 (14.63%) Puppet
12 6 (7.32%) Argo
13 4 (4.88%) logstash
14 2 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (2.44%) Nagios
15 1 (1.22%) Cilium
Vendors
1 18 (21.95%) Splunk
2 14 (17.07%) Okta
3 12 (14.63%) Apple
3 12 (14.63%) ESET
4 5 (6.10%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.88%) Google
5 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.88%) Tenable
6 3 (3.66%) Qualys
6 3 (3.66%) SAP
6 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.66%) VMware
7 2 (2.44%) Cisco
7 2 (2.44%) Dell
7 2 (2.44%) F5
7 2 (2.44%) HP
7 2 (2.44%) IBM
7 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.22%) Red Hat