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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 432 472
Rank change year-on-year +51 +40 -11
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 237 86 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 0.77% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 53 94
10th Percentile £364 £414 £405
25th Percentile £422 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.11% +7.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £689
90th Percentile £650 £750 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -26.15% +8.33% -

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 16,264 11,239 14,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.16% 38.03% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,097 7,822 10,239
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £488
% change year-on-year -0.84% -1.74% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 209 359
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £19.97 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.62% +26.19% -18.48%
75th Percentile £61.44 £41.97 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.10 £62.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +77.85% +35.44% -20.04%

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 23 March 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 14 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 23 March 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 +9 193 £525 -13.58% 39
London +24 113 £525 -13.37% 19
UK excluding London -18 94 £480 -26.15% 22
Work from Home -1 59 £530 -9.09% 22
North of England -51 29 £550 -24.14% 4
Scotland +30 25 £402 -8.11%
West Midlands -37 21 £505 +6.32% 2
Midlands -42 21 £505 +6.32% 2
South East -47 14 £404 -30.34% 8
Yorkshire -59 12 £525 -27.59% 1
North West -18 11 £558 +31.18% 3
North East -11 6 £600 -20.00%
East of England -24 4 £565 - 3
South West -21 2 £419 - 5

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 32 (13.50%) Confluence
2 9 (3.80%) nginx
3 7 (2.95%) Apache
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 237 (100.00%) AWS
2 142 (59.92%) Amazon S3
3 133 (56.12%) Amazon EC2
4 120 (50.63%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (50.63%) Serverless
5 97 (40.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 94 (39.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 93 (39.24%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (25.32%) Amazon ECS
9 57 (24.05%) GitHub
10 50 (21.10%) Azure
11 48 (20.25%) Route 53
12 43 (18.14%) GCP
13 41 (17.30%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (10.97%) AWS KMS
15 21 (8.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 21 (8.86%) AWS Control Tower
16 20 (8.44%) Datadog
17 19 (8.02%) Amazon ELB
17 19 (8.02%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 65 (27.43%) Firewall
2 52 (21.94%) VPN
3 39 (16.46%) DNS
4 22 (9.28%) TCP/IP
5 20 (8.44%) Network Security
6 18 (7.59%) BGP
7 16 (6.75%) OSPF
8 12 (5.06%) WAN
9 11 (4.64%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.80%) LAN
10 9 (3.80%) SD-WAN
10 9 (3.80%) Wireless
11 8 (3.38%) SSL
12 6 (2.53%) VLAN
12 6 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (2.11%) EIGRP
13 5 (2.11%) MPLS
13 5 (2.11%) VXLAN
14 4 (1.69%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (35.44%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (7.17%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (7.17%) DynamoDB
3 16 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.33%) Power BI
5 13 (5.49%) MongoDB
6 12 (5.06%) MySQL
7 11 (4.64%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (3.80%) Redis
10 8 (3.38%) DocumentDB
10 8 (3.38%) Tableau
11 7 (2.95%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.53%) Delta Lake
13 5 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 84 (35.44%) Jenkins
2 81 (34.18%) GitLab
3 38 (16.03%) Git
4 37 (15.61%) JIRA
5 23 (9.70%) Bitbucket
6 11 (4.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (3.80%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.53%) MLflow
8 6 (2.53%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.69%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.69%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.27%) Snyk
11 2 (0.84%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.84%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.42%) AppScan
12 1 (0.42%) JUnit
12 1 (0.42%) Maven
12 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
General
1 61 (25.74%) Public Sector
2 60 (25.32%) Social Skills
3 47 (19.83%) Finance
4 18 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.49%) Banking
7 8 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (29.96%) Architect
2 45 (18.99%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (16.46%) AWS Architect
4 38 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (12.66%) Senior
6 27 (11.39%) Cloud Architect
7 22 (9.28%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (9.28%) Lead
8 18 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (7.17%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (6.33%) Network Engineer
11 14 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.91%) Security Engineer
12 12 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (4.64%) Technical Manager
14 10 (4.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.22%) Site Engineer
14 10 (4.22%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.70%) Kafka
2 22 (9.28%) AWS CDK
3 21 (8.86%) Node.js
4 15 (6.33%) OpenID
5 13 (5.49%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (4.64%) REST
7 9 (3.80%) LDAP
7 9 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.80%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.38%) OAuth
8 8 (3.38%) OAuth2
8 8 (3.38%) PySpark
8 8 (3.38%) RESTful
8 8 (3.38%) Spring
9 6 (2.53%) JSON
10 4 (1.69%) gRPC
10 4 (1.69%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.69%) JPA
10 4 (1.69%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.27%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.28%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.22%) NHS
5 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.53%) IVR
6 6 (2.53%) PKI
7 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.69%) Replication
8 3 (1.27%) SCADA
8 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Life Science
9 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.41%) Linux
2 11 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (4.22%) Windows
4 4 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.27%) Unix
6 2 (0.84%) CentOS
6 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.42%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (59.49%) CI/CD
2 127 (53.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (46.84%) DevOps
4 63 (26.58%) Containerisation
5 60 (25.32%) Observability
6 55 (23.21%) Migration
7 51 (21.52%) Roadmaps
8 43 (18.14%) Incident Response
9 39 (16.46%) Agile
9 39 (16.46%) Cost Optimisation
10 37 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (15.19%) Cloud Security
11 36 (15.19%) Microservices
11 36 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (11.81%) High Availability
12 28 (11.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 27 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (10.97%) Infrastructure Automation
15 24 (10.13%) Data Protection
15 24 (10.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (47.26%) Python
2 47 (19.83%) Bash
3 34 (14.35%) Java
4 20 (8.44%) PowerShell
4 20 (8.44%) SQL
5 10 (4.22%) Go
6 9 (3.80%) Perl
6 9 (3.80%) Ruby
7 7 (2.95%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.53%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.53%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.11%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.84%) Bicep
10 2 (0.84%) Cypher
11 1 (0.42%) Lisp
11 1 (0.42%) PHP
11 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 101 (42.62%) Security Cleared
2 88 (37.13%) SC Cleared
3 68 (28.69%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.91%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.80%) CCNP
8 8 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.38%) CISSP
8 8 (3.38%) Degree
9 7 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.11%) CCSP
11 4 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.69%) CCIE
11 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.27%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.84%) CCNA
13 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (9.28%) GDPR
3 21 (8.86%) PCI DSS
4 20 (8.44%) NIST
5 12 (5.06%) SLA
6 11 (4.64%) Data Quality
7 10 (4.22%) NCSC
8 9 (3.80%) PMO
9 6 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (2.11%) QA
11 3 (1.27%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.42%) COBIT
12 1 (0.42%) GRC
12 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
System Software
1 90 (37.97%) Docker
2 10 (4.22%) Squid
3 8 (3.38%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.95%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (2.11%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.84%) HDFS
8 1 (0.42%) Firmware
8 1 (0.42%) NLBS
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 159 (67.09%) Terraform
2 84 (35.44%) Kubernetes
3 45 (18.99%) Ansible
3 45 (18.99%) Prometheus
4 38 (16.03%) Grafana
5 12 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (4.64%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.95%) Argo
7 7 (2.95%) Consul
8 6 (2.53%) Karpenter
8 6 (2.53%) Kibana
9 5 (2.11%) Packer
9 5 (2.11%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.27%) Istio
10 3 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.27%) Puppet
11 2 (0.84%) linkerd
11 2 (0.84%) Suricata
11 2 (0.84%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 20 (8.44%) Splunk
2 18 (7.59%) Databricks
3 16 (6.75%) Cisco
4 15 (6.33%) Google
5 13 (5.49%) Fortinet
5 13 (5.49%) Red Hat
5 13 (5.49%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.06%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.06%) Microsoft
6 12 (5.06%) Palo Alto
7 10 (4.22%) CloudEndure
8 9 (3.80%) F5
8 9 (3.80%) Zscaler
9 8 (3.38%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.95%) CheckPoint
10 7 (2.95%) Citrix
10 7 (2.95%) Oracle
11 6 (2.53%) AVEVA
12 5 (2.11%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.11%) VMware