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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 386 468
Rank change year-on-year -76 +82 -9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 229 163 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 1.35% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 116 70
10th Percentile £403 £436 £412
25th Percentile £450 £463 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £566
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.28% -5.63%
75th Percentile £559 £632 £675
90th Percentile £638 £713 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +0.21% -20.83% -
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 18,744 12,058 12,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 37.32% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,461 8,019 8,883
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 308 214
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £19.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £29.16 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.56% -2.80% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.06 £59.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.62 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.27 £28.00
% change year-on-year +68.66% -31.18% +3.70%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -43 189 £500 -4.76% 146
London -30 118 £525 -12.50% 104
Work from Home -35 82 £500 -9.91% 69
UK excluding London -80 80 £476 +0.21% 65
Midlands -54 26 £477 +0.42% 7
West Midlands -56 23 £477 +0.42% 7
North of England -69 18 £458 -15.62% 22
Scotland -23 9 £479 -4.20% 9
North West -41 9 £450 -17.05% 10
South East -64 9 £669 +15.30% 9
East of England -16 8 £450 -12.20% 6
Yorkshire -41 6 £500 - 8
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 5
South West -44 4 £450 -33.33% 7
North East -36 3 £438 -27.08% 4
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 31 (13.54%) Confluence
2 10 (4.37%) nginx
3 9 (3.93%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.49%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.18%) Apache
6 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 226 (98.69%) AWS
2 122 (53.28%) Amazon S3
3 117 (51.09%) Amazon EC2
4 107 (46.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 107 (46.72%) Serverless
5 100 (43.67%) AWS Lambda
6 90 (39.30%) Amazon EKS
7 73 (31.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 54 (23.58%) GitHub
9 50 (21.83%) Azure
10 44 (19.21%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (16.59%) AWS CloudTrail
12 36 (15.72%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (15.28%) AWS KMS
14 32 (13.97%) Route 53
15 27 (11.79%) GCP
16 26 (11.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 15 (6.55%) AWS CodePipeline
18 14 (6.11%) Amazon ECR
18 14 (6.11%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 44 (19.21%) Firewall
2 22 (9.61%) DNS
3 20 (8.73%) TCP/IP
4 18 (7.86%) VPN
5 16 (6.99%) Network Security
6 15 (6.55%) WAN
7 10 (4.37%) LAN
8 9 (3.93%) SSL
9 7 (3.06%) BGP
10 6 (2.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (2.62%) OSPF
10 6 (2.62%) SSH
10 6 (2.62%) VLAN
11 5 (2.18%) BIG-IP
11 5 (2.18%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (2.18%) MPLS
11 5 (2.18%) OpenVPN
11 5 (2.18%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.75%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (1.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (33.19%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (13.54%) Amazon Aurora
3 29 (12.66%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (6.55%) MySQL
6 13 (5.68%) DynamoDB
7 12 (5.24%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (4.80%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.49%) Redis
9 8 (3.49%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.62%) Power BI
11 4 (1.75%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.75%) Apache Hive
11 4 (1.75%) Big Data
11 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.75%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.75%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.75%) Tableau
12 3 (1.31%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 63 (27.51%) GitLab
2 57 (24.89%) Jenkins
3 41 (17.90%) Git
4 28 (12.23%) JIRA
5 11 (4.80%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.93%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (3.06%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.87%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.87%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.44%) Maven
9 1 (0.44%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.44%) sqlmap
General
1 77 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.07%) Public Sector
3 22 (9.61%) Finance
4 8 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.49%) Banking
5 7 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.62%) Military
7 5 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.18%) Law
8 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.31%) Police
10 2 (0.87%) Games
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Publishing
11 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (27.95%) AWS Engineer
2 56 (24.45%) Architect
3 54 (23.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (16.16%) AWS DevOps
5 30 (13.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (12.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (12.23%) AWS Architect
8 24 (10.48%) Senior
9 21 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (8.73%) Technical Architect
11 15 (6.55%) Security Engineer
12 13 (5.68%) DBA
12 13 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (5.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (5.24%) Lead
14 11 (4.80%) Scrum Master
15 10 (4.37%) Network Engineer
16 9 (3.93%) Administrator
16 9 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
16 9 (3.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (69.43%) Terraform
2 19 (8.30%) AWS CDK
3 8 (3.49%) boto
3 8 (3.49%) GraphQL
3 8 (3.49%) Kafka
3 8 (3.49%) RESTful
3 8 (3.49%) SAML
4 7 (3.06%) Apollo GraphQL
5 6 (2.62%) OpenID
5 6 (2.62%) REST
6 5 (2.18%) LDAP
7 4 (1.75%) OpenTofu
8 3 (1.31%) OAuth
8 3 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.31%) PySpark
8 3 (1.31%) React
8 3 (1.31%) YAML
9 2 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.87%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.40%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.73%) Replication
3 17 (7.42%) Security Posture
4 15 (6.55%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.93%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.93%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 7 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.06%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.62%) NHS
8 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.31%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.31%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.31%) IVR
11 3 (1.31%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.27%) Linux
2 22 (9.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (8.73%) Windows
4 10 (4.37%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.62%) Unix
6 5 (2.18%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.75%) AIX
8 3 (1.31%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.44%) CentOS
9 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (66.38%) CI/CD
2 135 (58.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 133 (58.08%) DevOps
4 64 (27.95%) Containerisation
5 58 (25.33%) Agile
6 53 (23.14%) Platform Engineering
7 49 (21.40%) Cloud Security
8 43 (18.78%) Observability
9 42 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (15.28%) Roadmaps
11 32 (13.97%) High Availability
12 31 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (13.10%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (13.10%) Migration
14 29 (12.66%) Secrets Management
15 28 (12.23%) Microservices
16 25 (10.92%) AI
16 25 (10.92%) DevSecOps
17 24 (10.48%) Disaster Recovery
18 23 (10.04%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 90 (39.30%) Python
2 54 (23.58%) Bash
3 32 (13.97%) PowerShell
4 30 (13.10%) SQL
5 28 (12.23%) Java
6 14 (6.11%) Groovy
7 9 (3.93%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.93%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.06%) Go
8 7 (3.06%) Perl
9 3 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.87%) Bicep
10 2 (0.87%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) C
11 1 (0.44%) Cypher
11 1 (0.44%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.44%) R
11 1 (0.44%) SHACL
11 1 (0.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 106 (46.29%) Security Cleared
2 97 (42.36%) SC Cleared
3 57 (24.89%) AWS Certification
4 31 (13.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (8.30%) Azure Certification
5 19 (8.30%) Degree
6 13 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.80%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (3.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.06%) CISSP
11 4 (1.75%) CCNP
11 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.31%) CCIE
12 3 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.37%) GDPR
4 7 (3.06%) NCSC
5 6 (2.62%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.18%) QA
7 3 (1.31%) PMO
8 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.87%) NIST
9 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.44%) SLA
9 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (34.93%) Docker
2 15 (6.55%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.80%) Squid
4 9 (3.93%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.31%) vSphere
8 2 (0.87%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.87%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.87%) HDFS
8 2 (0.87%) Postfix
9 1 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 91 (39.74%) Kubernetes
2 60 (26.20%) Grafana
3 54 (23.58%) Prometheus
4 43 (18.78%) Ansible
5 10 (4.37%) Puppet
5 10 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (3.49%) Packer
6 8 (3.49%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.06%) Argo
8 4 (1.75%) Istio
8 4 (1.75%) Salt
8 4 (1.75%) Suricata
9 3 (1.31%) linkerd
9 3 (1.31%) SELinux
9 3 (1.31%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.87%) Consul
10 2 (0.87%) Nessus
10 2 (0.87%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.87%) systemd
10 2 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (8.73%) ServiceNow
2 17 (7.42%) Cisco
2 17 (7.42%) Red Hat
3 14 (6.11%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.68%) Splunk
4 13 (5.68%) VMware
5 12 (5.24%) Google
6 9 (3.93%) Palo Alto
7 8 (3.49%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.06%) F5
9 6 (2.62%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.62%) Tenable
10 5 (2.18%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.75%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.75%) Databricks
11 4 (1.75%) Oracle
11 4 (1.75%) Trend Micro
11 4 (1.75%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.31%) Aruba
12 3 (1.31%) Salesforce