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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 437 470
Rank change year-on-year +17 +33 -9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 247 125 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.02% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 91 77
10th Percentile £401 £413 £385
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £559 £617 £645
90th Percentile £618 £707 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £475 £593
% change year-on-year +1.47% -19.83% -1.25%
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 18,607 12,201 13,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.35% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,276 8,161 9,644
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 614 313 316
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.40 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.37 £18.87 £20.29
% change year-on-year +98.04% -6.98% -24.87%

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 July 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 23 July 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 -6 202 £513 -2.38% 52
London +6 115 £518 -6.76% 31
UK excluding London -34 102 £482 +1.47% 29
Work from Home -23 81 £500 -9.09% 31
Midlands -40 32 £488 +2.63% 1
West Midlands -47 30 £488 +2.63% 1
North of England -51 27 £500 - 13
North West -30 18 £475 -5.00% 9
Scotland +3 14 £449 -10.20% 3
South East -61 10 £533 -8.19% 4
East of England -23 8 £490 -4.39% 1
Yorkshire -46 5 £500 - 2
South West - 5 £475 - 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 -
North East -36 4 £625 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £466 -
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

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 38 (15.38%) Confluence
2 11 (4.45%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.05%) nginx
4 5 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.62%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 244 (98.79%) AWS
2 140 (56.68%) Amazon EC2
3 134 (54.25%) Amazon S3
4 116 (46.96%) Serverless
5 110 (44.53%) AWS Lambda
6 107 (43.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 97 (39.27%) Amazon EKS
8 69 (27.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 59 (23.89%) Azure
10 52 (21.05%) GitHub
11 47 (19.03%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (14.57%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (12.96%) GCP
14 31 (12.55%) Route 53
15 29 (11.74%) AWS CloudTrail
16 26 (10.53%) AWS KMS
17 21 (8.50%) Snowflake
18 20 (8.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
19 18 (7.29%) AWS CodePipeline
19 18 (7.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 57 (23.08%) Firewall
2 33 (13.36%) VPN
3 28 (11.34%) TCP/IP
4 21 (8.50%) DNS
5 20 (8.10%) Network Security
6 16 (6.48%) WAN
7 15 (6.07%) BGP
8 12 (4.86%) OSPF
9 10 (4.05%) LAN
9 10 (4.05%) OpenVPN
10 8 (3.24%) SSL
11 7 (2.83%) VLAN
12 6 (2.43%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.43%) IPsec
12 6 (2.43%) MPLS
12 6 (2.43%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.02%) BIG-IP
13 5 (2.02%) NetScaler
14 4 (1.62%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (29.55%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (6.88%) Power BI
5 15 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (4.45%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.24%) Tableau
9 5 (2.02%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (2.02%) MySQL
10 4 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.21%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.21%) Big Data
11 3 (1.21%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.21%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.81%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.81%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 68 (27.53%) GitLab
2 66 (26.72%) Jenkins
3 45 (18.22%) Git
4 33 (13.36%) JIRA
5 16 (6.48%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.86%) Artifactory
7 10 (4.05%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.81%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.81%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.40%) AppScan
10 1 (0.40%) Snyk
10 1 (0.40%) sqlmap
General
1 66 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.91%) Public Sector
3 30 (12.15%) Finance
4 13 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (3.64%) Banking
6 8 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.62%) Law
9 4 (1.62%) Legal
9 4 (1.62%) Military
9 4 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.21%) Police
11 2 (0.81%) Games
11 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Billing
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 68 (27.53%) AWS Engineer
2 61 (24.70%) Architect
3 45 (18.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (14.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (13.77%) AWS DevOps
6 28 (11.34%) AWS Architect
7 25 (10.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 22 (8.91%) Security Engineer
8 22 (8.91%) Technical Architect
9 19 (7.69%) Senior
10 16 (6.48%) Network Engineer
10 16 (6.48%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (4.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.45%) Lead
12 11 (4.45%) Scrum Master
12 11 (4.45%) Technical Manager
13 10 (4.05%) Site Engineer
13 10 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.53%) AWS CDK
2 11 (4.45%) Kafka
3 8 (3.24%) GraphQL
4 7 (2.83%) Apollo GraphQL
4 7 (2.83%) OpenID
4 7 (2.83%) RESTful
5 6 (2.43%) boto
5 6 (2.43%) LDAP
5 6 (2.43%) REST
5 6 (2.43%) SAML
6 4 (1.62%) OAuth
6 4 (1.62%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.62%) React
7 3 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.21%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.81%) PySpark
8 2 (0.81%) SOAP
9 1 (0.40%) Middleware
9 1 (0.40%) Web Services
9 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.48%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.88%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.88%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.24%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.43%) Replication
8 5 (2.02%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.62%) NHS
10 3 (1.21%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.21%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.81%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 55 (22.27%) Linux
2 27 (10.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (10.53%) Windows
4 6 (2.43%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (2.43%) Unix
5 4 (1.62%) AIX
6 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.40%) CentOS
8 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (65.18%) CI/CD
2 131 (53.04%) DevOps
2 131 (53.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 68 (27.53%) Agile
4 67 (27.13%) Containerisation
5 56 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (21.86%) Observability
7 51 (20.65%) Cloud Security
8 48 (19.43%) Platform Engineering
9 43 (17.41%) Roadmaps
10 40 (16.19%) Migration
11 31 (12.55%) Microservices
12 30 (12.15%) Infrastructure Automation
13 27 (10.93%) Test Automation
14 26 (10.53%) DevSecOps
15 24 (9.72%) Change Management
15 24 (9.72%) Scrum
16 23 (9.31%) Cost Optimisation
16 23 (9.31%) Decision-Making
16 23 (9.31%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 103 (41.70%) Python
2 61 (24.70%) Bash
3 33 (13.36%) Java
4 32 (12.96%) PowerShell
5 19 (7.69%) SQL
6 10 (4.05%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.64%) Groovy
8 8 (3.24%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.83%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.43%) Go
11 5 (2.02%) Perl
12 3 (1.21%) Bicep
13 2 (0.81%) Cypher
13 2 (0.81%) Ruby
14 1 (0.40%) C
14 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.40%) Lisp
14 1 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.40%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 120 (48.58%) Security Cleared
2 107 (43.32%) SC Cleared
3 46 (18.62%) AWS Certification
4 24 (9.72%) Azure Certification
5 20 (8.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (8.10%) Degree
6 11 (4.45%) SAFe Agilist
7 10 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.05%) CISSP
8 9 (3.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (3.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.24%) CCNP
9 8 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.62%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.21%) CCIE
11 3 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.45%) SLA
3 7 (2.83%) PMO
4 6 (2.43%) GDPR
4 6 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.43%) NCSC
4 6 (2.43%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.21%) NIST
5 3 (1.21%) QA
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (32.79%) Docker
2 13 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.86%) Squid
4 9 (3.64%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.21%) vSphere
7 2 (0.81%) HDFS
8 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 164 (66.40%) Terraform
2 95 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 58 (23.48%) Grafana
4 54 (21.86%) Prometheus
5 45 (18.22%) Ansible
6 13 (5.26%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.45%) Puppet
7 11 (4.45%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.83%) Packer
9 5 (2.02%) Salt
10 4 (1.62%) Argo
10 4 (1.62%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.62%) Istio
10 4 (1.62%) linkerd
10 4 (1.62%) Suricata
11 3 (1.21%) Consul
11 3 (1.21%) SELinux
11 3 (1.21%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.81%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 23 (9.31%) Red Hat
2 22 (8.91%) ServiceNow
3 20 (8.10%) Google
4 18 (7.29%) Cisco
5 17 (6.88%) Microsoft
6 15 (6.07%) Splunk
7 13 (5.26%) VMware
8 11 (4.45%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.64%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.64%) Zscaler
10 7 (2.83%) F5
10 7 (2.83%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.83%) Tenable
11 6 (2.43%) Databricks
12 5 (2.02%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.62%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.62%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.62%) Oracle
13 4 (1.62%) Trend Micro
14 3 (1.21%) Aruba