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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 404 466
Rank change year-on-year -36 +62 -17
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 240 153 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.47% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.26% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 111 67
10th Percentile £406 £450 £411
25th Percentile £452 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £660
90th Percentile £638 £707 £715
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 18,730 12,170 13,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.88% 37.16% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,406 8,107 9,047
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 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 321 228
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.86
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +0.50% -20.40%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £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 27 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 27 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 -20 197 £513 -2.38% 22
London -6 122 £537 -8.98% 13
UK excluding London -69 85 £477 +0.42% 15
Work from Home -29 84 £530 -4.50% 7
Midlands -52 28 £477 +0.42% 1
West Midlands -51 25 £477 +0.42% 1
North of England -59 19 £463 -13.55% 7
Scotland -14 11 £475 -5.00% 1
North West -38 10 £453 -15.33% 2
South East -49 9 £669 +15.30% 2
East of England -20 8 £450 -12.20%
North East -39 5 £544 -9.38% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 -
South West -41 4 £450 -33.33% 4
Yorkshire -48 4 £510 +2.00% 3
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
4 109 (45.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 109 (45.42%) Serverless
5 102 (42.50%) AWS Lambda
6 92 (38.33%) Amazon EKS
7 74 (30.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (23.75%) Azure
9 52 (21.67%) GitHub
10 43 (17.92%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (15.00%) AWS CloudTrail
12 35 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (14.17%) AWS KMS
14 30 (12.50%) Route 53
15 29 (12.08%) GCP
16 24 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 18 (7.50%) Datadog
17 18 (7.50%) Snowflake
18 16 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 46 (19.17%) Firewall
2 27 (11.25%) VPN
3 22 (9.17%) DNS
3 22 (9.17%) TCP/IP
4 19 (7.92%) Network Security
5 16 (6.67%) WAN
6 10 (4.17%) BGP
6 10 (4.17%) LAN
6 10 (4.17%) SSL
7 9 (3.75%) OSPF
8 7 (2.92%) OpenVPN
8 7 (2.92%) VLAN
9 6 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (2.50%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.50%) SSH
10 5 (2.08%) BIG-IP
10 5 (2.08%) MPLS
10 5 (2.08%) NetScaler
11 4 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (32.08%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (12.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 29 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (5.83%) MySQL
6 13 (5.42%) DynamoDB
7 12 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.00%) Power BI
8 11 (4.58%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.33%) Redis
9 8 (3.33%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.67%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.67%) Tableau
12 3 (1.25%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.25%) Big Data
12 3 (1.25%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (27.08%) GitLab
2 64 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 41 (17.08%) 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 78 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 71 (29.58%) 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%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (27.50%) AWS Engineer
2 64 (26.67%) Architect
3 50 (20.83%) 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 27 (11.25%) Senior
9 22 (9.17%) Technical Architect
10 20 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (6.25%) Security Engineer
12 13 (5.42%) DBA
12 13 (5.42%) Lead
12 13 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (5.00%) Network Engineer
14 11 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.58%) Scrum Master
15 9 (3.75%) Network Architect
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 11 (4.58%) 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 12 (5.00%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.92%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
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 52 (21.67%) Linux
2 22 (9.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (8.33%) Windows
4 10 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.50%) Unix
6 5 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.67%) AIX
8 3 (1.25%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.42%) CentOS
9 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (64.58%) CI/CD
2 135 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 129 (53.75%) DevOps
4 63 (26.25%) Containerisation
5 56 (23.33%) Agile
6 49 (20.42%) Platform Engineering
7 48 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 48 (20.00%) Observability
8 43 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (17.92%) Roadmaps
9 40 (16.67%) Migration
10 36 (15.00%) Microservices
11 31 (12.92%) Secrets Management
11 31 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (12.50%) High Availability
13 29 (12.08%) Infrastructure Automation
14 25 (10.42%) DevSecOps
14 25 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
15 24 (10.00%) AI
16 22 (9.17%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 97 (40.42%) Python
2 55 (22.92%) 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 59 (24.58%) AWS Certification
4 32 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (10.00%) 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%) CISSP
12 5 (2.08%) CCNP
12 5 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (1.25%) CCIE
14 3 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.08%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.42%) 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 82 (34.17%) 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%) systemd
Vendors
1 20 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 18 (7.50%) Cisco
3 17 (7.08%) Red Hat
4 15 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 14 (5.83%) Splunk
6 13 (5.42%) Google
6 13 (5.42%) VMware
7 11 (4.58%) Zscaler
8 9 (3.75%) Dynatrace
8 9 (3.75%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.92%) F5
9 7 (2.92%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.50%) Databricks
11 5 (2.08%) PagerDuty
11 5 (2.08%) Tenable
12 4 (1.67%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.67%) Oracle
12 4 (1.67%) Trend Micro
13 3 (1.25%) Aruba
13 3 (1.25%) Salesforce