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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 446 464
Rank change year-on-year +44 +18 +3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 247 91 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.80% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 61 83
10th Percentile £400 £413 £390
25th Percentile £451 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £560 £620 £625
90th Percentile £622 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £475 £593
% change year-on-year +0.42% -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 18,016 11,318 14,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.77% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,031 7,621 9,986
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 281 364
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.68 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
% change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -21.62%

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 June 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 16 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 June 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 +15 210 £513 -2.38% 30
London +16 129 £519 -5.72% 14
UK excluding London -42 91 £477 +0.42% 26
Work from Home +1 78 £505 -8.18% 18
North of England -52 28 £475 +11.76% 7
Midlands -32 27 £488 +2.63% 3
West Midlands -38 27 £488 +2.63% 3
North West -25 18 £475 +11.76% 4
Scotland -11 9 £449 -10.20% 2
South East -54 9 £533 -8.19% 9
East of England -25 8 £490 -4.39%
North East -32 5 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -49 5 £500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 1
South West - 4 £500 - 4
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 38 (15.38%) Confluence
2 11 (4.45%) nginx
3 7 (2.83%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.21%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 244 (98.79%) AWS
2 136 (55.06%) Amazon EC2
2 136 (55.06%) Amazon S3
3 121 (48.99%) Serverless
4 115 (46.56%) AWS Lambda
5 110 (44.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 108 (43.72%) Amazon EKS
7 69 (27.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (22.67%) Azure
9 48 (19.43%) Amazon ECS
9 48 (19.43%) Route 53
10 47 (19.03%) GitHub
11 32 (12.96%) GCP
11 32 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
13 23 (9.31%) AWS KMS
14 20 (8.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 19 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
16 18 (7.29%) Snowflake
17 17 (6.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 65 (26.32%) Firewall
2 39 (15.79%) VPN
3 30 (12.15%) DNS
4 29 (11.74%) TCP/IP
5 23 (9.31%) Network Security
6 17 (6.88%) BGP
6 17 (6.88%) WAN
7 14 (5.67%) OSPF
8 11 (4.45%) OpenVPN
9 9 (3.64%) LAN
10 8 (3.24%) SSL
11 7 (2.83%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.43%) Wireless
13 5 (2.02%) NGFW
13 5 (2.02%) VLAN
14 4 (1.62%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 4 (1.62%) IPsec
14 4 (1.62%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (29.55%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (8.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (8.10%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.88%) Power BI
6 15 (6.07%) DynamoDB
7 13 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (4.05%) MySQL
9 9 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.24%) Tableau
11 6 (2.43%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.43%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.02%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.62%) Redis
14 3 (1.21%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.21%) Big Data
14 3 (1.21%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.21%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.21%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 72 (29.15%) GitLab
2 69 (27.94%) Jenkins
3 37 (14.98%) Git
3 37 (14.98%) JIRA
4 21 (8.50%) Bitbucket
5 14 (5.67%) SonarQube
6 13 (5.26%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.81%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.81%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.81%) Snyk
9 1 (0.40%) AppScan
9 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.40%) sqlmap
General
1 70 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.29%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.55%) Finance
4 20 (8.10%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.83%) Banking
6 7 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.02%) Military
8 4 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.62%) Law
8 4 (1.62%) Legal
9 3 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Police
10 2 (0.81%) Games
10 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (27.53%) Architect
2 60 (24.29%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (17.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (14.98%) AWS Architect
5 33 (13.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (12.96%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (9.72%) Technical Architect
8 23 (9.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 20 (8.10%) Security Engineer
10 19 (7.69%) Senior
11 18 (7.29%) Network Engineer
12 15 (6.07%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
15 12 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (4.45%) Lead
16 11 (4.45%) Scrum Master
16 11 (4.45%) Site Engineer
16 11 (4.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (4.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.34%) AWS CDK
2 16 (6.48%) OpenID
3 14 (5.67%) Kafka
4 11 (4.45%) LDAP
4 11 (4.45%) RESTful
5 8 (3.24%) GraphQL
5 8 (3.24%) OAuth
5 8 (3.24%) OAuth2
5 8 (3.24%) REST
6 7 (2.83%) Apollo GraphQL
6 7 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.43%) SAML
8 4 (1.62%) gRPC
8 4 (1.62%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.62%) JPA
8 4 (1.62%) Spring
8 4 (1.62%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.62%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.21%) React
Miscellaneous
1 63 (25.51%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.07%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.07%) Security Posture
4 10 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.02%) Replication
8 4 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.62%) NHS
9 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.21%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.21%) SCADA
10 2 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.81%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.81%) Linux
2 22 (8.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (8.50%) Windows
4 5 (2.02%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.21%) Unix
5 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) AIX
7 1 (0.40%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (63.56%) CI/CD
2 129 (52.23%) DevOps
3 128 (51.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (25.91%) Containerisation
5 61 (24.70%) Agile
6 56 (22.67%) Observability
7 51 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (20.24%) Roadmaps
9 49 (19.84%) Cloud Security
10 45 (18.22%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (16.60%) Migration
12 34 (13.77%) Microservices
13 31 (12.55%) Infrastructure Automation
14 29 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (10.53%) Decision-Making
15 26 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (10.53%) Test Automation
16 25 (10.12%) Cost Optimisation
17 24 (9.72%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 98 (39.68%) Python
2 59 (23.89%) Bash
3 33 (13.36%) Java
4 29 (11.74%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.10%) SQL
6 8 (3.24%) Go
6 8 (3.24%) Groovy
6 8 (3.24%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.24%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.83%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.62%) Perl
9 3 (1.21%) Bicep
9 3 (1.21%) Cypher
10 2 (0.81%) Ruby
11 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.40%) Lisp
11 1 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.40%) SHACL
11 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 118 (47.77%) Security Cleared
2 107 (43.32%) SC Cleared
3 46 (18.62%) AWS Certification
4 23 (9.31%) Azure Certification
5 18 (7.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (6.48%) Degree
7 11 (4.45%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (4.05%) CISSP
9 9 (3.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (3.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (2.43%) CCNP
12 6 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.81%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.81%) PMP
15 1 (0.40%) GIAC
15 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.45%) SLA
2 10 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.05%) PCI DSS
3 9 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.64%) NIST
4 7 (2.83%) GDPR
4 7 (2.83%) PMO
4 7 (2.83%) QA
5 4 (1.62%) NCSC
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
System Software
1 81 (32.79%) Docker
2 17 (6.88%) Squid
3 13 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.83%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.21%) vSphere
8 2 (0.81%) HDFS
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 164 (66.40%) Terraform
2 100 (40.49%) Kubernetes
3 60 (24.29%) Grafana
3 60 (24.29%) Prometheus
4 40 (16.19%) Ansible
5 13 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.86%) Puppet
7 11 (4.45%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (3.64%) FortiGate
9 8 (3.24%) Consul
10 6 (2.43%) Packer
10 6 (2.43%) Salt
11 4 (1.62%) Argo
11 4 (1.62%) Istio
11 4 (1.62%) linkerd
11 4 (1.62%) Suricata
12 3 (1.21%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.81%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 24 (9.72%) Red Hat
2 18 (7.29%) Google
3 16 (6.48%) Dynatrace
3 16 (6.48%) Splunk
4 15 (6.07%) ServiceNow
5 14 (5.67%) Cisco
6 13 (5.26%) Microsoft
7 9 (3.64%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.64%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.24%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.24%) Tenable
8 8 (3.24%) VMware
9 7 (2.83%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.83%) Databricks
10 6 (2.43%) AVEVA
11 5 (2.02%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.02%) F5
11 5 (2.02%) PagerDuty
11 5 (2.02%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.62%) Trend Micro