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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 375 472
Rank change year-on-year -75 +97 -20
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 248 193 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.58% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.51% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 139 53
10th Percentile £400 £400 £475
25th Percentile £446 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.65% -2.34%
75th Percentile £583 £625 £675
90th Percentile £672 £713 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -2.63% -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 19,195 12,780 13,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.41% 34.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,755 8,545 8,658
10th Percentile £325 £309 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
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 652 294 182
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.14 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.87 £22.83
Median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.18 £65.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.93
% change year-on-year +55.68% -43.21% +50.73%

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 16 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 16 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 -80 202 £500 -6.54% 19
London -21 131 £525 -12.50% 13
Work from Home -57 81 £500 -11.74% 11
UK excluding London -95 80 £463 -2.63% 7
North of England -65 23 £447 -17.60% 2
Midlands -60 22 £477 +0.42% 1
West Midlands -60 19 £482 +1.53% 1
South East -52 11 £638 - 4
Scotland -32 10 £402 -19.60%
Yorkshire -36 10 £432 -17.76% 2
North West -42 9 £447 -13.62%
Northern Ireland - 6 £496 -
South West -34 4 £425 -37.04%
North East -38 4 £425 -26.09%
East of England -28 3 £345 -31.00%
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 29 (11.69%) Confluence
2 13 (5.24%) Apache
3 12 (4.84%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.23%) nginx
5 7 (2.82%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.40%) Appian
8 1 (0.40%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 245 (98.79%) AWS
2 128 (51.61%) Amazon S3
3 127 (51.21%) Amazon EC2
4 125 (50.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 107 (43.15%) Amazon EKS
6 102 (41.13%) Serverless
7 98 (39.52%) AWS Lambda
8 87 (35.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 58 (23.39%) Amazon ECS
10 55 (22.18%) Azure
10 55 (22.18%) GitHub
11 40 (16.13%) AWS CloudTrail
12 39 (15.73%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (15.32%) GCP
14 37 (14.92%) Route 53
15 36 (14.52%) AWS KMS
16 24 (9.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 17 (6.85%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (6.85%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (6.05%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 40 (16.13%) Firewall
2 27 (10.89%) DNS
3 20 (8.06%) TCP/IP
4 19 (7.66%) Network Security
5 17 (6.85%) VPN
6 15 (6.05%) WAN
7 8 (3.23%) BGP
7 8 (3.23%) LAN
7 8 (3.23%) SSL
8 7 (2.82%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.42%) SSH
10 5 (2.02%) MPLS
10 5 (2.02%) OSPF
11 4 (1.61%) BIG-IP
11 4 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.61%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (1.61%) HTTP
11 4 (1.61%) Internet
11 4 (1.61%) IPsec
11 4 (1.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (36.69%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (13.31%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.45%) MySQL
5 12 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (4.84%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.44%) Data Lake
7 10 (4.03%) DynamoDB
7 10 (4.03%) Redis
8 9 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.42%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.02%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (1.61%) Big Data
11 4 (1.61%) Metadata
12 3 (1.21%) Flink
13 2 (0.81%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 73 (29.44%) GitLab
2 64 (25.81%) Jenkins
3 47 (18.95%) Git
4 27 (10.89%) JIRA
5 12 (4.84%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (3.23%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.61%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.81%) Maven
9 2 (0.81%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.81%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.40%) Postman
10 1 (0.40%) Terragrunt
General
1 88 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.79%) Public Sector
3 28 (11.29%) Finance
4 11 (4.44%) Banking
5 7 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.42%) Military
7 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.02%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.61%) Law
9 2 (0.81%) Billing
9 2 (0.81%) Legal
9 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.40%) Police
10 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (27.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (25.40%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (22.98%) Architect
4 39 (15.73%) AWS DevOps
5 33 (13.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (11.69%) AWS Architect
7 27 (10.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (10.08%) Senior
9 18 (7.26%) Technical Architect
10 16 (6.45%) DBA
10 16 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (5.65%) Security Engineer
12 13 (5.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (5.24%) Lead
12 13 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
12 13 (5.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.84%) Administrator
14 9 (3.63%) Data Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (74.19%) Terraform
2 19 (7.66%) Kafka
3 16 (6.45%) AWS CDK
4 11 (4.44%) SAML
5 10 (4.03%) RESTful
6 9 (3.63%) GraphQL
7 8 (3.23%) OpenID
7 8 (3.23%) PySpark
7 8 (3.23%) REST
8 7 (2.82%) Apollo GraphQL
8 7 (2.82%) boto
8 7 (2.82%) OAuth
9 5 (2.02%) .NET
9 5 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.02%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.02%) React
10 4 (1.61%) LDAP
10 4 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (1.61%) OpenTofu
11 3 (1.21%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.68%) Replication
3 17 (6.85%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (5.24%) Data Centre
5 13 (5.24%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (4.03%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.63%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.63%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.02%) NHS
10 5 (2.02%) PKI
10 5 (2.02%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.21%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.37%) Linux
2 25 (10.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (9.27%) Windows
4 10 (4.03%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.82%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.42%) Unix
7 4 (1.61%) AIX
7 4 (1.61%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.81%) CentOS
10 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (72.18%) CI/CD
2 166 (66.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 153 (61.69%) DevOps
4 72 (29.03%) Containerisation
5 62 (25.00%) Agile
6 61 (24.60%) Observability
7 54 (21.77%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (20.97%) Cloud Security
9 49 (19.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (19.35%) Secrets Management
11 46 (18.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (16.53%) High Availability
13 38 (15.32%) Microservices
14 35 (14.11%) Migration
15 33 (13.31%) Infrastructure Automation
16 32 (12.90%) AI
16 32 (12.90%) Roadmaps
17 31 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
18 29 (11.69%) Disaster Recovery
19 28 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 103 (41.53%) Python
2 60 (24.19%) Bash
3 31 (12.50%) Java
3 31 (12.50%) SQL
4 30 (12.10%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.24%) Groovy
6 11 (4.44%) Go
7 10 (4.03%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.23%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.82%) Perl
10 4 (1.61%) C#
11 3 (1.21%) Bicep
12 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.40%) C
13 1 (0.40%) Cypher
13 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.40%) R
13 1 (0.40%) SHACL
13 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (43.95%) Security Cleared
2 100 (40.32%) SC Cleared
3 63 (25.40%) AWS Certification
4 36 (14.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 23 (9.27%) Degree
6 18 (7.26%) Azure Certification
7 15 (6.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (4.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.63%) CISSP
10 8 (3.23%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.21%) CCNP
14 3 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.81%) CISM
15 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.84%) GDPR
4 10 (4.03%) NCSC
5 5 (2.02%) QA
6 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.21%) NIST
7 3 (1.21%) SLA
8 2 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (34.68%) Docker
2 11 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.63%) Squid
4 7 (2.82%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.21%) vSphere
7 2 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.81%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.81%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.81%) Postfix
7 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 102 (41.13%) Kubernetes
2 64 (25.81%) Grafana
3 57 (22.98%) Prometheus
4 48 (19.35%) Ansible
5 13 (5.24%) Puppet
6 12 (4.84%) Argo
7 10 (4.03%) Progress Chef
8 9 (3.63%) Packer
8 9 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.82%) Istio
10 4 (1.61%) Suricata
11 3 (1.21%) Consul
11 3 (1.21%) SELinux
11 3 (1.21%) systemd
11 3 (1.21%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.21%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.81%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.81%) linkerd
12 2 (0.81%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.81%) Salt
Vendors
1 22 (8.87%) ServiceNow
2 18 (7.26%) Google
3 17 (6.85%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 14 (5.65%) Cisco
6 13 (5.24%) Splunk
7 12 (4.84%) VMware
8 9 (3.63%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.82%) Databricks
9 7 (2.82%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.42%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.61%) F5
11 4 (1.61%) PagerDuty
12 3 (1.21%) Aruba
12 3 (1.21%) Oracle
12 3 (1.21%) Ping Identity
12 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.21%) Trend Micro
12 3 (1.21%) Veeam
12 3 (1.21%) Zscaler