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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 401 460
Rank change year-on-year -34 +59 -9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 237 152 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.46% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.25% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 108 66
10th Percentile £407 £449 £411
25th Percentile £454 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £576 £626 £648
90th Percentile £638 £708 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £475 £595
% change year-on-year +1.47% -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 18,770 12,196 13,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.14% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,423 8,144 9,083
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
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 £715 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 601 317 249
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.50
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.42
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.88% -17.63%

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 20 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 20 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 -47 195 £516 -1.67% 42
London -15 116 £537 -10.50% 27
UK excluding London -80 90 £482 +1.47% 23
Work from Home -31 83 £530 -4.50% 22
Midlands -52 28 £477 +0.42% 3
West Midlands -54 25 £477 +0.42% 3
North of England -42 23 £500 -6.54% 8
North West -25 14 £475 -11.21% 3
Scotland -13 11 £475 -5.00% 5
East of England -16 9 £450 -12.20% 2
South East -51 9 £669 +15.30% 2
North East -36 5 £544 -9.38% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 -
South West -37 4 £450 -33.33% 3
Yorkshire -39 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 32 (13.50%) Confluence
2 13 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.80%) nginx
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.69%) Apache
6 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 234 (98.73%) AWS
2 121 (51.05%) Amazon S3
3 118 (49.79%) Amazon EC2
4 107 (45.15%) Serverless
5 102 (43.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 101 (42.62%) AWS Lambda
7 91 (38.40%) Amazon EKS
8 70 (29.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 59 (24.89%) Azure
10 51 (21.52%) GitHub
11 41 (17.30%) Amazon ECS
12 35 (14.77%) AWS CloudTrail
12 35 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (14.35%) GCP
14 29 (12.24%) AWS KMS
15 28 (11.81%) Route 53
16 23 (9.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 18 (7.59%) Datadog
17 18 (7.59%) Snowflake
18 15 (6.33%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 51 (21.52%) Firewall
2 31 (13.08%) VPN
3 25 (10.55%) TCP/IP
4 21 (8.86%) DNS
4 21 (8.86%) Network Security
5 16 (6.75%) WAN
6 13 (5.49%) BGP
7 11 (4.64%) OSPF
8 10 (4.22%) LAN
8 10 (4.22%) SSL
9 8 (3.38%) OpenVPN
10 7 (2.95%) VLAN
11 6 (2.53%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (2.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 6 (2.53%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.11%) BIG-IP
12 5 (2.11%) MPLS
12 5 (2.11%) NetScaler
12 5 (2.11%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (30.38%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (11.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 25 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (7.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (5.49%) MySQL
6 12 (5.06%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (5.06%) Power BI
7 11 (4.64%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.22%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.38%) Redis
9 8 (3.38%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.69%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.69%) Tableau
12 3 (1.27%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.27%) Big Data
12 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 66 (27.85%) GitLab
2 62 (26.16%) Jenkins
3 38 (16.03%) Git
4 25 (10.55%) JIRA
5 12 (5.06%) Artifactory
5 12 (5.06%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (3.80%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.42%) Maven
8 1 (0.42%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.42%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
General
1 72 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 69 (29.11%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.13%) Finance
4 12 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.38%) Banking
6 7 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.11%) Law
8 4 (1.69%) Military
8 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Police
10 2 (0.84%) Games
10 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (26.58%) Architect
1 63 (26.58%) AWS Engineer
2 46 (19.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (15.19%) AWS DevOps
4 33 (13.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (11.39%) AWS Architect
5 27 (11.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 25 (10.55%) Senior
7 22 (9.28%) Technical Architect
8 18 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (7.59%) Security Engineer
9 15 (6.33%) Network Engineer
10 14 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (5.49%) Lead
12 12 (5.06%) DBA
13 11 (4.64%) Scrum Master
14 9 (3.80%) Administrator
14 9 (3.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.80%) Network Architect
14 9 (3.80%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (67.51%) Terraform
2 20 (8.44%) AWS CDK
3 10 (4.22%) Kafka
4 8 (3.38%) GraphQL
4 8 (3.38%) RESTful
4 8 (3.38%) SAML
5 7 (2.95%) Apollo GraphQL
6 6 (2.53%) boto
6 6 (2.53%) OpenID
6 6 (2.53%) REST
7 5 (2.11%) LDAP
8 4 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.69%) OpenTofu
9 3 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.27%) React
10 2 (0.84%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.84%) cloud-init
10 2 (0.84%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.84%) PySpark
10 2 (0.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.68%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.17%) Replication
2 17 (7.17%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.91%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (5.91%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.11%) NHS
8 4 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.27%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.27%) IVR
9 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.10%) Linux
2 23 (9.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (8.44%) Windows
4 7 (2.95%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.53%) Unix
6 4 (1.69%) AIX
7 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.42%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (64.56%) CI/CD
2 129 (54.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 127 (53.59%) DevOps
4 63 (26.58%) Containerisation
5 53 (22.36%) Agile
6 48 (20.25%) Cloud Security
7 47 (19.83%) Platform Engineering
8 45 (18.99%) Observability
9 43 (18.14%) Roadmaps
10 41 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (16.46%) Migration
12 35 (14.77%) Microservices
13 30 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (12.24%) High Availability
15 28 (11.81%) Infrastructure Automation
16 27 (11.39%) Secrets Management
17 24 (10.13%) DevSecOps
17 24 (10.13%) Disaster Recovery
18 23 (9.70%) AI
19 22 (9.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 97 (40.93%) Python
2 58 (24.47%) Bash
3 34 (14.35%) Java
4 32 (13.50%) PowerShell
5 26 (10.97%) SQL
6 11 (4.64%) Groovy
7 9 (3.80%) Kotlin
7 9 (3.80%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.38%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.95%) Go
10 6 (2.53%) Perl
11 2 (0.84%) Bicep
11 2 (0.84%) Ruby
12 1 (0.42%) C
12 1 (0.42%) Cypher
12 1 (0.42%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.42%) R
12 1 (0.42%) SHACL
12 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 112 (47.26%) Security Cleared
2 101 (42.62%) SC Cleared
3 56 (23.63%) AWS Certification
4 31 (13.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (10.13%) Azure Certification
6 18 (7.59%) Degree
7 12 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.64%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (3.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (3.38%) CCNP
10 8 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (3.38%) CISSP
11 7 (2.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.27%) CCIE
13 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.80%) GDPR
4 7 (2.95%) NCSC
5 6 (2.53%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.53%) SLA
6 3 (1.27%) PMO
6 3 (1.27%) QA
7 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.42%) NIST
8 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (33.76%) Docker
2 15 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.22%) Squid
4 9 (3.80%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.84%) HDFS
8 1 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 95 (40.08%) Kubernetes
2 60 (25.32%) Grafana
3 53 (22.36%) Prometheus
4 42 (17.72%) Ansible
5 11 (4.64%) Puppet
5 11 (4.64%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.22%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.38%) Packer
8 6 (2.53%) Argo
9 5 (2.11%) Salt
10 4 (1.69%) Istio
10 4 (1.69%) Suricata
11 3 (1.27%) Consul
11 3 (1.27%) linkerd
11 3 (1.27%) SELinux
11 3 (1.27%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.84%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.84%) systemd
12 2 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (8.44%) Red Hat
2 19 (8.02%) Google
3 18 (7.59%) Cisco
4 17 (7.17%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.17%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.49%) VMware
6 12 (5.06%) Splunk
7 10 (4.22%) Dynatrace
7 10 (4.22%) Zscaler
8 9 (3.80%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.95%) F5
9 7 (2.95%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.53%) Databricks
11 5 (2.11%) PagerDuty
11 5 (2.11%) Tenable
12 4 (1.69%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.69%) Oracle
12 4 (1.69%) Trend Micro
13 3 (1.27%) Salesforce