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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 443 453
Rank change year-on-year +35 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 218 84 139
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 0.76% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 55 97
10th Percentile £400 £415 £403
25th Percentile £425 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +9.77% -14.00%
75th Percentile £576 £731 £675
90th Percentile £638 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -15.12% -4.44% -4.26%
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 16,881 11,015 13,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.78% 37.60% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,436 7,643 9,909
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.74% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 251 343
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.95
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.30 £34.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.15%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -1 174 £518 -15.75% 39
London +17 109 £522 -15.33% 19
UK excluding London -37 85 £456 -15.12% 26
Work from Home +1 65 £500 -13.87% 27
Scotland +13 25 £411 -12.27% 3
North of England -53 20 £563 -22.41% 8
West Midlands -45 19 £494 +3.95%
Midlands -55 19 £494 +3.95%
North West -29 11 £568 +33.53% 5
South East -48 9 £450 -22.41% 12
North East -16 7 £575 -23.33% 3
East of England -32 7 £530 +0.95% 1
South West - 5 £475 - 2
Yorkshire -51 2 £490 -32.41%

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 37 (16.97%) Confluence
2 11 (5.05%) nginx
3 9 (4.13%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.75%) Apache
4 6 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.75%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.92%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 218 (100.00%) AWS
2 129 (59.17%) Amazon S3
3 119 (54.59%) Amazon EC2
4 111 (50.92%) Serverless
5 107 (49.08%) AWS Lambda
6 89 (40.83%) Amazon EKS
7 84 (38.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 84 (38.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (22.94%) Amazon ECS
9 46 (21.10%) GitHub
10 45 (20.64%) Azure
10 45 (20.64%) Route 53
11 34 (15.60%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (14.68%) GCP
13 30 (13.76%) AWS KMS
14 22 (10.09%) AWS Control Tower
15 20 (9.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 19 (8.72%) AWS CodePipeline
17 18 (8.26%) Amazon ELB
18 17 (7.80%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 52 (23.85%) Firewall
2 40 (18.35%) VPN
3 32 (14.68%) DNS
4 21 (9.63%) TCP/IP
5 17 (7.80%) Network Security
6 15 (6.88%) BGP
7 13 (5.96%) OSPF
8 11 (5.05%) OpenVPN
9 8 (3.67%) WAN
10 7 (3.21%) SSL
11 5 (2.29%) LAN
11 5 (2.29%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.29%) Wireless
12 4 (1.83%) NGFW
12 4 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.83%) VLAN
13 3 (1.38%) Cisco Nexus
14 2 (0.92%) IPsec
14 2 (0.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (29.82%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (10.09%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (9.63%) DynamoDB
4 18 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (7.34%) Power BI
6 12 (5.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.05%) MySQL
8 9 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.13%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.67%) Tableau
10 7 (3.21%) DocumentDB
10 7 (3.21%) Redis
11 6 (2.75%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.75%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.29%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.29%) Apache Hive
12 5 (2.29%) Big Data
12 5 (2.29%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 73 (33.49%) GitLab
2 62 (28.44%) Jenkins
3 36 (16.51%) JIRA
4 27 (12.39%) Git
5 20 (9.17%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.96%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.75%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.75%) MLflow
9 4 (1.83%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.38%) Snyk
11 2 (0.92%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.92%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.46%) AppScan
12 1 (0.46%) JUnit
12 1 (0.46%) sqlmap
General
1 63 (28.90%) Public Sector
2 59 (27.06%) Social Skills
3 44 (20.18%) Finance
4 18 (8.26%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.21%) Banking
6 7 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.83%) Military
8 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Police
9 2 (0.92%) Games
9 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.92%) Law
9 2 (0.92%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.46%) Billing
10 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (30.28%) Architect
2 47 (21.56%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (17.43%) AWS Architect
4 30 (13.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (12.39%) Cloud Architect
6 23 (10.55%) Senior
7 22 (10.09%) AWS DevOps
8 20 (9.17%) Lead
9 19 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (6.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (6.42%) Network Engineer
12 13 (5.96%) Security Engineer
13 12 (5.50%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (5.05%) Site Engineer
14 11 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (5.05%) Technical Manager
15 10 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.59%) Technical Architect
15 10 (4.59%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.01%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.80%) Kafka
3 15 (6.88%) OpenID
4 14 (6.42%) Node.js
5 11 (5.05%) LDAP
6 8 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (3.67%) PySpark
6 8 (3.67%) REST
7 7 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (3.21%) OAuth
7 7 (3.21%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.21%) RESTful
7 7 (3.21%) Spring
7 7 (3.21%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.83%) gRPC
8 4 (1.83%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.83%) JPA
8 4 (1.83%) React
8 4 (1.83%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.38%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.18%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.80%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.67%) NHS
6 6 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.75%) IVR
7 5 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.83%) PKI
8 4 (1.83%) Replication
9 3 (1.38%) SCADA
9 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.46%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 38 (17.43%) Linux
2 10 (4.59%) Windows
3 9 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.29%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.38%) Unix
6 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.46%) VMS
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 113 (51.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 98 (44.95%) DevOps
4 58 (26.61%) Containerisation
5 53 (24.31%) Migration
5 53 (24.31%) Observability
6 44 (20.18%) Agile
6 44 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (18.81%) Roadmaps
8 40 (18.35%) Cloud Security
9 31 (14.22%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (13.76%) Test Automation
11 29 (13.30%) Incident Response
12 28 (12.84%) Cost Optimisation
12 28 (12.84%) Microservices
13 26 (11.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (10.09%) Decision-Making
15 20 (9.17%) Event-Driven
16 19 (8.72%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 97 (44.50%) Python
2 41 (18.81%) Bash
3 31 (14.22%) Java
4 23 (10.55%) SQL
5 21 (9.63%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.13%) Go
7 7 (3.21%) Kotlin
7 7 (3.21%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.75%) Perl
9 5 (2.29%) Groovy
9 5 (2.29%) Ruby
10 3 (1.38%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.92%) Bicep
11 2 (0.92%) Cypher
12 1 (0.46%) Lisp
12 1 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 105 (48.17%) Security Cleared
2 95 (43.58%) SC Cleared
3 55 (25.23%) AWS Certification
4 24 (11.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (5.96%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.21%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.75%) CCNP
9 5 (2.29%) CISSP
10 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.38%) Degree
12 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.92%) PMP
13 1 (0.46%) CEH
13 1 (0.46%) GIAC
13 1 (0.46%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.72%) PCI DSS
2 18 (8.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.96%) GDPR
3 13 (5.96%) NIST
4 11 (5.05%) Data Quality
4 11 (5.05%) SLA
5 10 (4.59%) PMO
6 7 (3.21%) NCSC
7 6 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.75%) QA
8 3 (1.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.46%) COBIT
9 1 (0.46%) GRC
9 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.46%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 77 (35.32%) Docker
2 12 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.05%) Squid
4 6 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.83%) HDFS
5 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.92%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.46%) Firmware
7 1 (0.46%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 143 (65.60%) Terraform
2 75 (34.40%) Kubernetes
3 44 (20.18%) Prometheus
4 42 (19.27%) Grafana
5 32 (14.68%) Ansible
6 12 (5.50%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.59%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.67%) Consul
9 5 (2.29%) Karpenter
9 5 (2.29%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.29%) Puppet
10 4 (1.83%) Kibana
10 4 (1.83%) linkerd
10 4 (1.83%) Salt
11 3 (1.38%) Argo
11 3 (1.38%) Istio
11 3 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.92%) Suricata
12 2 (0.92%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 18 (8.26%) Splunk
2 16 (7.34%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.42%) Databricks
4 13 (5.96%) Cisco
4 13 (5.96%) Google
4 13 (5.96%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.96%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.50%) Dynatrace
6 10 (4.59%) Fortinet
6 10 (4.59%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.67%) Tenable
8 7 (3.21%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.21%) Citrix
9 6 (2.75%) AVEVA
9 6 (2.75%) CheckPoint
9 6 (2.75%) CloudEndure
10 5 (2.29%) Avaya
10 5 (2.29%) Genesys
10 5 (2.29%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.83%) Salesforce