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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 439 454
Rank change year-on-year +31 +15 +38
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 229 82 132
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 0.76% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 54 94
10th Percentile £400 £413 £402
25th Percentile £450 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +3.29% -11.25%
75th Percentile £576 £643 £640
90th Percentile £638 £734 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% -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 17,393 10,826 13,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.79% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,681 7,404 9,904
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 243 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.32 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.25 £66.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -33.08%

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 28 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 15 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 28 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 +5 195 £519 -6.57% 32
London +13 120 £525 -7.49% 19
UK excluding London -33 80 £475 -5.00% 23
Work from Home -12 68 £521 -6.08% 20
West Midlands -40 24 £494 +3.95% 2
Midlands -41 24 £494 +3.95% 2
North of England -58 22 £538 +7.50% 6
North West -28 13 £563 +32.35% 4
South East -46 10 £533 -8.19% 8
Scotland 0 9 £440 -12.00% 2
East of England -26 8 £490 -6.67%
North East -24 5 £413 -
South West - 5 £475 - 3
Yorkshire -57 4 £491 -19.80% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 - 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 37 (16.16%) Confluence
2 11 (4.80%) nginx
3 6 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 226 (98.69%) AWS
2 127 (55.46%) Amazon EC2
3 125 (54.59%) Amazon S3
4 107 (46.72%) Serverless
5 103 (44.98%) AWS Lambda
6 101 (44.10%) Amazon EKS
7 99 (43.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 72 (31.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (21.83%) Azure
10 48 (20.96%) Route 53
11 47 (20.52%) GitHub
12 42 (18.34%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (14.41%) GCP
13 33 (14.41%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (13.10%) AWS CloudTrail
14 30 (13.10%) AWS KMS
15 27 (11.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 21 (9.17%) AWS Control Tower
17 19 (8.30%) AWS CodePipeline
18 18 (7.86%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 60 (26.20%) Firewall
2 39 (17.03%) VPN
3 34 (14.85%) DNS
4 26 (11.35%) TCP/IP
5 19 (8.30%) Network Security
6 15 (6.55%) BGP
7 13 (5.68%) OSPF
8 12 (5.24%) WAN
9 11 (4.80%) OpenVPN
10 8 (3.49%) SSL
11 7 (3.06%) LAN
12 6 (2.62%) Wireless
13 5 (2.18%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.75%) NGFW
14 4 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.75%) VLAN
15 3 (1.31%) Cisco Nexus
16 2 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 2 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (28.82%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.73%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (7.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (6.99%) Power BI
6 13 (5.68%) DynamoDB
7 11 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (4.80%) MySQL
8 9 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.49%) Tableau
10 7 (3.06%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.62%) DocumentDB
12 5 (2.18%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.18%) Redis
13 4 (1.75%) Apache Hive
13 4 (1.75%) Big Data
13 4 (1.75%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.75%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.87%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 68 (29.69%) Jenkins
2 67 (29.26%) GitLab
3 35 (15.28%) JIRA
4 33 (14.41%) Git
5 21 (9.17%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.68%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.37%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.75%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.31%) Snyk
11 2 (0.87%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.87%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.44%) AppScan
12 1 (0.44%) JUnit
12 1 (0.44%) sqlmap
General
1 64 (27.95%) Public Sector
1 64 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.97%) Finance
3 20 (8.73%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.18%) Military
7 4 (1.75%) Banking
8 3 (1.31%) Legal
8 3 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.31%) Police
9 2 (0.87%) Games
9 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.87%) Law
10 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.44%) Billing
10 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (30.57%) Architect
2 54 (23.58%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (18.34%) AWS Architect
4 30 (13.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (12.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (12.23%) Cloud Architect
7 23 (10.04%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (9.17%) Technical Architect
9 20 (8.73%) Senior
10 17 (7.42%) Security Engineer
11 16 (6.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (6.99%) Network Engineer
12 14 (6.11%) Lead
13 12 (5.24%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (5.24%) Site Engineer
13 12 (5.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (4.80%) Technical Manager
15 10 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (4.37%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.92%) AWS CDK
2 15 (6.55%) Kafka
2 15 (6.55%) OpenID
3 12 (5.24%) RESTful
4 11 (4.80%) LDAP
5 9 (3.93%) REST
6 8 (3.49%) GraphQL
7 7 (3.06%) Apollo GraphQL
7 7 (3.06%) OAuth
7 7 (3.06%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.18%) Spring
9 5 (2.18%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.75%) gRPC
10 4 (1.75%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.75%) JPA
10 4 (1.75%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.31%) 802.1X
11 3 (1.31%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (20.52%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.42%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.49%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.18%) Replication
8 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.75%) PKI
9 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.31%) NHS
9 3 (1.31%) SCADA
10 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.03%) Linux
2 15 (6.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (5.68%) Windows
4 5 (2.18%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.31%) Unix
6 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.44%) CentOS
7 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.44%) VMS
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (59.83%) CI/CD
2 107 (46.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 104 (45.41%) DevOps
4 54 (23.58%) Observability
5 52 (22.71%) Containerisation
6 50 (21.83%) Agile
7 49 (21.40%) Roadmaps
8 46 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (19.21%) Migration
10 40 (17.47%) Cloud Security
11 39 (17.03%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (13.10%) Microservices
13 27 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (11.35%) Test Automation
15 25 (10.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (10.04%) Cost Optimisation
16 23 (10.04%) Decision-Making
16 23 (10.04%) Incident Response
16 23 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (9.17%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 86 (37.55%) Python
2 48 (20.96%) Bash
3 26 (11.35%) Java
4 24 (10.48%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.73%) SQL
6 8 (3.49%) Groovy
6 8 (3.49%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.49%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.06%) Go
7 7 (3.06%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.18%) Perl
9 3 (1.31%) Bicep
9 3 (1.31%) Ruby
10 2 (0.87%) Cypher
10 2 (0.87%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.44%) C
11 1 (0.44%) Lisp
11 1 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 117 (51.09%) Security Cleared
2 107 (46.72%) SC Cleared
3 47 (20.52%) AWS Certification
4 20 (8.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (7.42%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.37%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (3.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.62%) CCNP
8 6 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.62%) CISSP
8 6 (2.62%) Degree
9 5 (2.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.87%) PMP
11 1 (0.44%) CEH
11 1 (0.44%) GIAC
11 1 (0.44%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.24%) NIST
2 11 (4.80%) SLA
3 10 (4.37%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.49%) NCSC
6 7 (3.06%) PMO
7 6 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.62%) QA
8 5 (2.18%) GDPR
9 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.44%) COBIT
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 71 (31.00%) Docker
2 18 (7.86%) Squid
3 15 (6.55%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.18%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.31%) HDFS
7 3 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.31%) vSphere
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 148 (64.63%) Terraform
2 84 (36.68%) Kubernetes
3 56 (24.45%) Grafana
4 53 (23.14%) Prometheus
5 36 (15.72%) Ansible
6 12 (5.24%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.37%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.49%) Consul
9 7 (3.06%) Progress Chef
9 7 (3.06%) Puppet
10 6 (2.62%) Suricata
11 4 (1.75%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.75%) Kibana
11 4 (1.75%) linkerd
11 4 (1.75%) Packer
11 4 (1.75%) Salt
12 3 (1.31%) Argo
12 3 (1.31%) Istio
12 3 (1.31%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.87%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 18 (7.86%) Splunk
2 17 (7.42%) Red Hat
3 14 (6.11%) Dynatrace
3 14 (6.11%) Google
4 13 (5.68%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.24%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.80%) Cisco
7 10 (4.37%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.37%) Tenable
7 10 (4.37%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.49%) Citrix
9 7 (3.06%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.06%) Databricks
10 6 (2.62%) AVEVA
10 6 (2.62%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.62%) CloudEndure
10 6 (2.62%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.18%) VMware
12 4 (1.75%) F5
12 4 (1.75%) Trend Micro