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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 377 464
Rank change year-on-year -75 +87 -19
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 243 182 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.55% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.44% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 130 56
10th Percentile £400 £411 £475
25th Percentile £439 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.02% -1.48%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £675
90th Percentile £650 £713 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -1.47% -20.83% +4.35%
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 18,886 12,619 13,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.18% 34.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,525 8,413 8,640
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -38 197 £500 -4.76% 178
London -22 127 £525 -12.50% 119
Work from Home -49 82 £500 -9.91% 78
UK excluding London -99 82 £468 -1.47% 64
North of England -55 24 £447 -16.45% 15
Midlands -61 22 £477 +0.42% 15
West Midlands -59 19 £482 +1.53% 13
Scotland -20 11 £439 -12.30% 8
North West -38 11 £447 -13.62% 11
South East -56 11 £638 - 8
Yorkshire -35 9 £463 -9.76% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 £496 - 3
South West -37 4 £425 -37.04% 5
North East -39 4 £425 -26.09%
East of England -35 3 £345 -25.41% 8
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 2
Wales - 1 £550 - 2

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 28 (11.52%) Confluence
2 14 (5.76%) Apache Spark
3 13 (5.35%) Apache
4 9 (3.70%) nginx
5 7 (2.88%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.41%) Appian
8 1 (0.41%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 240 (98.77%) AWS
2 130 (53.50%) Amazon S3
3 123 (50.62%) Amazon EC2
4 122 (50.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 105 (43.21%) Serverless
6 104 (42.80%) Amazon EKS
7 100 (41.15%) AWS Lambda
8 85 (34.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 56 (23.05%) Amazon ECS
10 55 (22.63%) Azure
10 55 (22.63%) GitHub
11 39 (16.05%) AWS CloudTrail
12 38 (15.64%) AWS KMS
12 38 (15.64%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (14.81%) GCP
14 32 (13.17%) Route 53
15 24 (9.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 17 (7.00%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (7.00%) AWS CodePipeline
17 14 (5.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 40 (16.46%) Firewall
2 25 (10.29%) DNS
3 19 (7.82%) TCP/IP
4 18 (7.41%) Network Security
5 16 (6.58%) VPN
6 14 (5.76%) WAN
7 8 (3.29%) LAN
7 8 (3.29%) SSL
8 7 (2.88%) BGP
9 6 (2.47%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.47%) SSH
10 5 (2.06%) MPLS
10 5 (2.06%) OSPF
11 4 (1.65%) BIG-IP
11 4 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.65%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (1.65%) HTTP
11 4 (1.65%) IPsec
11 4 (1.65%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (1.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (34.98%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (13.99%) Amazon Aurora
2 34 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.41%) MySQL
4 16 (6.58%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (6.58%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (5.76%) DynamoDB
6 12 (4.94%) SQL Server
7 10 (4.12%) Data Lake
7 10 (4.12%) Redis
8 6 (2.47%) Big Data
8 6 (2.47%) Delta Lake
9 5 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.06%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (1.65%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.65%) Metadata
11 3 (1.23%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.23%) Flink
11 3 (1.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 73 (30.04%) GitLab
2 63 (25.93%) Jenkins
3 49 (20.16%) Git
4 26 (10.70%) JIRA
5 9 (3.70%) Artifactory
5 9 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (3.29%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.88%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.82%) Maven
8 2 (0.82%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.82%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.41%) Postman
9 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 86 (35.39%) Social Skills
2 63 (25.93%) Public Sector
3 24 (9.88%) Finance
4 10 (4.12%) Banking
5 8 (3.29%) Military
6 7 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.47%) Law
8 5 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.23%) Police
11 2 (0.82%) Billing
11 2 (0.82%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Local Government
12 1 (0.41%) Publishing
12 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (26.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (25.93%) AWS Engineer
3 56 (23.05%) Architect
4 39 (16.05%) AWS DevOps
5 33 (13.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (11.93%) AWS Architect
7 28 (11.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (10.70%) Senior
9 23 (9.47%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (7.41%) Technical Architect
11 16 (6.58%) DBA
12 15 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (5.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (5.35%) Lead
13 13 (5.35%) Security Engineer
13 13 (5.35%) Senior DevOps
13 13 (5.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.94%) Administrator
15 9 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 9 (3.70%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (73.66%) Terraform
2 19 (7.82%) Kafka
3 16 (6.58%) AWS CDK
4 11 (4.53%) SAML
5 10 (4.12%) RESTful
6 9 (3.70%) GraphQL
7 8 (3.29%) OpenID
7 8 (3.29%) PySpark
7 8 (3.29%) REST
8 7 (2.88%) Apollo GraphQL
8 7 (2.88%) boto
8 7 (2.88%) OAuth
9 6 (2.47%) React
10 5 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.06%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.65%) .NET
11 4 (1.65%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.65%) LDAP
11 4 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (1.65%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 55 (22.63%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.29%) Replication
3 17 (7.00%) Security Posture
4 13 (5.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (5.35%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.94%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.12%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.70%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.29%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (2.47%) NHS
10 5 (2.06%) PKI
10 5 (2.06%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.65%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 55 (22.63%) Linux
2 25 (10.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (9.47%) Windows
4 10 (4.12%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.88%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.47%) Unix
7 4 (1.65%) AIX
7 4 (1.65%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.82%) CentOS
10 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (71.60%) CI/CD
2 160 (65.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 148 (60.91%) DevOps
4 72 (29.63%) Containerisation
5 61 (25.10%) Agile
6 60 (24.69%) Observability
7 53 (21.81%) Platform Engineering
8 51 (20.99%) Cloud Security
9 47 (19.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (18.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (17.28%) Secrets Management
12 39 (16.05%) High Availability
13 38 (15.64%) Microservices
14 34 (13.99%) Migration
14 34 (13.99%) Roadmaps
15 32 (13.17%) AI
15 32 (13.17%) Infrastructure Automation
16 31 (12.76%) Root Cause Analysis
17 29 (11.93%) Disaster Recovery
18 28 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 104 (42.80%) Python
2 61 (25.10%) Bash
3 32 (13.17%) SQL
4 31 (12.76%) Java
4 31 (12.76%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.35%) Groovy
6 11 (4.53%) Go
6 11 (4.53%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.70%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.88%) Perl
9 3 (1.23%) Bicep
9 3 (1.23%) C#
10 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.82%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.41%) C
11 1 (0.41%) Cypher
11 1 (0.41%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.41%) R
11 1 (0.41%) SHACL
11 1 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (44.86%) Security Cleared
2 100 (41.15%) SC Cleared
3 63 (25.93%) AWS Certification
4 36 (14.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (9.05%) Degree
6 18 (7.41%) Azure Certification
7 15 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) CISSP
10 8 (3.29%) SAFe Agilist
11 7 (2.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.65%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.23%) CCNP
14 3 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.82%) CCIE
15 2 (0.82%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.94%) GDPR
4 10 (4.12%) NCSC
5 7 (2.88%) QA
6 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.23%) NIST
7 3 (1.23%) SLA
8 2 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (34.57%) Docker
2 13 (5.35%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.70%) Squid
4 7 (2.88%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.23%) vSphere
7 2 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.82%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.82%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.82%) Postfix
8 1 (0.41%) HDFS
8 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 106 (43.62%) Kubernetes
2 69 (28.40%) Grafana
3 62 (25.51%) Prometheus
4 46 (18.93%) Ansible
5 15 (6.17%) Puppet
6 10 (4.12%) Progress Chef
7 9 (3.70%) Packer
7 9 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.88%) Argo
8 7 (2.88%) Istio
9 4 (1.65%) Salt
9 4 (1.65%) Suricata
10 3 (1.23%) Consul
10 3 (1.23%) linkerd
10 3 (1.23%) SELinux
10 3 (1.23%) systemd
10 3 (1.23%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.23%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.82%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.82%) Nessus
Vendors
1 22 (9.05%) ServiceNow
2 19 (7.82%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.58%) Google
3 16 (6.58%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.76%) Cisco
4 14 (5.76%) Splunk
5 12 (4.94%) VMware
6 8 (3.29%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.29%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.88%) Databricks
8 6 (2.47%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.06%) Tenable
10 4 (1.65%) F5
10 4 (1.65%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.23%) Aruba
11 3 (1.23%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.23%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.23%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.23%) Veeam
11 3 (1.23%) Zscaler