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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 401 458
Rank change year-on-year -34 +57 -24
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 240 152 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.46% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.25% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 110 65
10th Percentile £406 £450 £410
25th Percentile £453 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £656
90th Percentile £638 £707 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £475 £595
% change year-on-year +0.42% -20.17% -0.83%
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 18,732 12,180 13,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.92% 37.21% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,400 8,119 9,044
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
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 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 319 229
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.46 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.06 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +72.23% -14.23% -18.52%

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 25 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 25 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 -29 198 £513 -2.38% 72
London -7 122 £539 -8.73% 48
UK excluding London -68 86 £477 +0.42% 39
Work from Home -30 84 £530 -4.50% 39
Midlands -61 28 £477 +0.42% 3
West Midlands -47 25 £477 +0.42% 3
North of England -55 19 £463 -13.55% 14
Scotland -11 11 £475 -5.00% 5
North West -31 10 £453 -15.33% 7
East of England -18 9 £450 -12.20% 4
South East -59 9 £669 +15.30% 4
North East -37 5 £544 -9.38% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 5
Yorkshire -37 4 £510 +2.00% 3
South West -41 4 £450 -33.33% 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 35 (14.58%) Confluence
2 13 (5.42%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.17%) nginx
4 7 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.92%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.08%) Apache
6 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 237 (98.75%) AWS
2 126 (52.50%) Amazon S3
3 122 (50.83%) Amazon EC2
4 110 (45.83%) Serverless
5 109 (45.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 103 (42.92%) AWS Lambda
7 91 (37.92%) Amazon EKS
8 73 (30.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 58 (24.17%) Azure
10 53 (22.08%) GitHub
11 43 (17.92%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (14.58%) AWS CloudTrail
14 34 (14.17%) AWS KMS
15 31 (12.92%) Route 53
16 30 (12.50%) GCP
17 23 (9.58%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 18 (7.50%) Datadog
18 18 (7.50%) Snowflake
19 16 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 48 (20.00%) Firewall
2 29 (12.08%) VPN
3 23 (9.58%) TCP/IP
4 22 (9.17%) DNS
5 20 (8.33%) Network Security
6 16 (6.67%) WAN
7 12 (5.00%) BGP
8 10 (4.17%) LAN
8 10 (4.17%) OSPF
8 10 (4.17%) SSL
9 7 (2.92%) OpenVPN
9 7 (2.92%) VLAN
10 6 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (2.50%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.50%) SSH
11 5 (2.08%) BIG-IP
11 5 (2.08%) MPLS
11 5 (2.08%) NetScaler
12 4 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (31.67%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (12.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 28 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (7.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (5.42%) DynamoDB
5 13 (5.42%) MySQL
6 12 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (5.00%) Power BI
7 10 (4.17%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.33%) Redis
8 8 (3.33%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.67%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.67%) Tableau
11 3 (1.25%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.25%) Big Data
11 3 (1.25%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 66 (27.50%) GitLab
2 65 (27.08%) Jenkins
3 42 (17.50%) Git
4 28 (11.67%) JIRA
5 11 (4.58%) Artifactory
5 11 (4.58%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (3.33%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.83%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.42%) Maven
9 1 (0.42%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.42%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
General
1 76 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 72 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 23 (9.58%) Finance
4 10 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.33%) Banking
6 6 (2.50%) Military
7 5 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.08%) Law
8 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.25%) Police
10 2 (0.83%) Games
10 2 (0.83%) Legal
10 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (27.08%) AWS Engineer
2 64 (26.67%) Architect
3 51 (21.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (16.25%) AWS DevOps
5 30 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (12.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (11.67%) AWS Architect
8 26 (10.83%) Senior
9 22 (9.17%) Technical Architect
10 20 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (6.25%) Security Engineer
12 14 (5.83%) Network Engineer
13 13 (5.42%) DBA
13 13 (5.42%) Lead
13 13 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.58%) Scrum Master
15 9 (3.75%) Administrator
15 9 (3.75%) Site Engineer
15 9 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (67.50%) Terraform
2 20 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 10 (4.17%) Kafka
4 8 (3.33%) GraphQL
4 8 (3.33%) RESTful
4 8 (3.33%) SAML
5 7 (2.92%) Apollo GraphQL
5 7 (2.92%) boto
6 6 (2.50%) OpenID
6 6 (2.50%) REST
7 5 (2.08%) LDAP
8 4 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.67%) OpenTofu
9 3 (1.25%) OAuth
9 3 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.25%) PySpark
9 3 (1.25%) React
10 2 (0.83%) Node.js
10 2 (0.83%) SOAP
10 2 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.42%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.33%) Replication
3 16 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 15 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (5.42%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.92%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.50%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.08%) NHS
11 4 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.67%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.25%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.25%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.25%) IVR
12 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.25%) Linux
2 21 (8.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (8.33%) Windows
4 10 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.50%) Unix
6 4 (1.67%) AIX
6 4 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.25%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 135 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 130 (54.17%) DevOps
4 64 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 56 (23.33%) Agile
6 49 (20.42%) Platform Engineering
7 48 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 48 (20.00%) Observability
8 44 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (17.92%) Roadmaps
10 40 (16.67%) Migration
11 35 (14.58%) Microservices
12 30 (12.50%) High Availability
12 30 (12.50%) Secrets Management
12 30 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (12.08%) Infrastructure Automation
14 25 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
15 24 (10.00%) AI
16 23 (9.58%) DevSecOps
17 22 (9.17%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 98 (40.83%) Python
2 56 (23.33%) Bash
3 34 (14.17%) Java
4 32 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 30 (12.50%) SQL
6 14 (5.83%) Groovy
7 10 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.75%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.75%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.92%) Go
9 7 (2.92%) Perl
10 2 (0.83%) Bicep
10 2 (0.83%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) Cypher
11 1 (0.42%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) R
11 1 (0.42%) SHACL
11 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 114 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 103 (42.92%) SC Cleared
3 60 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 33 (13.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (10.42%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.92%) Degree
7 12 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.58%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.92%) CCNP
11 7 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.92%) CISSP
12 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.25%) CCIE
13 3 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.08%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.75%) GDPR
4 7 (2.92%) NCSC
5 6 (2.50%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.50%) SLA
6 4 (1.67%) QA
7 3 (1.25%) PMO
8 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.83%) NIST
9 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (34.58%) Docker
2 15 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.58%) Squid
4 9 (3.75%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.25%) vSphere
8 2 (0.83%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.83%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.83%) HDFS
8 2 (0.83%) Postfix
9 1 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 91 (37.92%) Kubernetes
2 62 (25.83%) Grafana
3 55 (22.92%) Prometheus
4 43 (17.92%) Ansible
5 10 (4.17%) Puppet
5 10 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (3.33%) Packer
6 8 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.50%) Argo
8 4 (1.67%) Istio
8 4 (1.67%) Salt
8 4 (1.67%) Suricata
9 3 (1.25%) linkerd
9 3 (1.25%) SELinux
9 3 (1.25%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.83%) Consul
10 2 (0.83%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.83%) Sysdig
10 2 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 18 (7.50%) Cisco
3 17 (7.08%) Red Hat
4 16 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.25%) Google
6 14 (5.83%) Splunk
7 13 (5.42%) VMware
8 11 (4.58%) Zscaler
9 9 (3.75%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.75%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.92%) F5
10 7 (2.92%) SolarWinds
11 6 (2.50%) Databricks
12 5 (2.08%) PagerDuty
12 5 (2.08%) Tenable
13 4 (1.67%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.67%) Oracle
13 4 (1.67%) Trend Micro
14 3 (1.25%) Fortinet
14 3 (1.25%) Salesforce