Virtual Private Cloud Contracts

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 470 456
Rank change year-on-year +40 -14 +120
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 104 115 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.27% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 0.81% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 82 190
10th Percentile £413 £389 £425
25th Percentile £463 £416 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £694 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £571 £600
% change year-on-year -16.85% -4.79% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £50.00
75th Percentile £39.69 - £52.50
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 11,532 14,163 20,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.62% 32.81% 36.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,730 9,952 14,655
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 355 335
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.05 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.87 £26.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -19.73% +36.20%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 13 Contract 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 30 June 2025. 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 +37 77 £525 -2.10% 428
London +42 44 £568 +6.07% 195
Work from Home +33 39 £550 -2.22% 172
UK excluding London +32 32 £475 -16.85% 260
Midlands +16 11 £475 -26.92% 37
West Midlands +12 11 £475 -26.92% 23
East of England +29 6 £513 -6.82% 32
Scotland +8 6 £500 - 26
North of England -8 6 £425 -8.11% 48
South East +51 3 £580 -2.93% 75
North West +1 2 £425 -23.42% 24
Yorkshire -4 2 £500 +8.11% 17
North East - 2 - - 7

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (8.65%) Confluence
2 3 (2.88%) nginx
2 3 (2.88%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.92%) IIS
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.96%) JBoss
4 1 (0.96%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 103 (99.04%) AWS
2 68 (65.38%) Amazon EC2
3 64 (61.54%) Amazon S3
4 41 (39.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 40 (38.46%) Serverless
6 39 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 38 (36.54%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (23.08%) Route 53
9 20 (19.23%) GitHub
10 19 (18.27%) AWS KMS
11 15 (14.42%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
13 12 (11.54%) AWS CloudTrail
13 12 (11.54%) Azure
14 11 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (9.62%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (8.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 7 (6.73%) Datadog
18 6 (5.77%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 32 (30.77%) Firewall
2 27 (25.96%) DNS
3 25 (24.04%) VPN
4 8 (7.69%) Network Security
4 8 (7.69%) WAN
5 7 (6.73%) SMTP
5 7 (6.73%) SSL
6 6 (5.77%) BGP
6 6 (5.77%) HTTP
6 6 (5.77%) OSPF
7 5 (4.81%) FTP
7 5 (4.81%) SSH
8 4 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (3.85%) LAN
9 3 (2.88%) DHCP
9 3 (2.88%) SD-WAN
9 3 (2.88%) VLAN
10 2 (1.92%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (1.92%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (41.35%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.81%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.81%) MySQL
6 4 (3.85%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.88%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.88%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.92%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.96%) Big Data
9 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 36 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 31 (29.81%) Git
3 29 (27.88%) GitLab
4 15 (14.42%) JIRA
5 8 (7.69%) Vagrant
6 6 (5.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (3.85%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (2.88%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.96%) Snyk
10 1 (0.96%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (14.42%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.58%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.62%) Finance
4 2 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.96%) Police
5 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (31.73%) AWS Engineer
2 31 (29.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (20.19%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (15.38%) Architect
4 16 (15.38%) AWS Architect
5 15 (14.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 12 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (11.54%) Senior
7 7 (6.73%) Administrator
7 7 (6.73%) AWS Solution Architect
7 7 (6.73%) Security Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.77%) AWS Specialist
8 6 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Lead
9 5 (4.81%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) DevOps Specialist
10 4 (3.85%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.81%) AWS CDK
3 4 (3.85%) REST
4 3 (2.88%) Kafka
4 3 (2.88%) Node.js
4 3 (2.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (1.92%) JSON
5 2 (1.92%) LDAP
5 2 (1.92%) SOAP
6 1 (0.96%) Akka
6 1 (0.96%) boto
6 1 (0.96%) CSS
6 1 (0.96%) HTML
6 1 (0.96%) Middleware
6 1 (0.96%) Play Framework
6 1 (0.96%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (0.96%) ServiceStack
6 1 (0.96%) Swagger
6 1 (0.96%) Web Services
6 1 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.65%) Replication
3 5 (4.81%) Clustering
4 4 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.85%) PKI
5 3 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.85%) Linux
2 19 (18.27%) Windows
3 10 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.73%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (6.73%) VMS
5 4 (3.85%) CentOS
5 4 (3.85%) Unix
5 4 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.96%) SUSE
7 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (63.46%) DevOps
2 61 (58.65%) CI/CD
3 50 (48.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (25.96%) Cloud Security
5 23 (22.12%) Containerisation
6 17 (16.35%) Configuration Management
7 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
8 15 (14.42%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (14.42%) High Availability
9 14 (13.46%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (13.46%) Patch Management
9 14 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (13.46%) Task Automation
10 13 (12.50%) Microservices
10 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (9.62%) Change Management
11 10 (9.62%) Network Load Balancing
12 9 (8.65%) Mentoring
12 9 (8.65%) Migration
12 9 (8.65%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 62 (59.62%) Python
2 29 (27.88%) Bash
3 22 (21.15%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.62%) Java
4 10 (9.62%) Shell Script
5 8 (7.69%) Groovy
6 6 (5.77%) SQL
7 5 (4.81%) Perl
8 3 (2.88%) CodeQL
8 3 (2.88%) Go
9 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.92%) Scala
10 1 (0.96%) Bicep
10 1 (0.96%) Ruby
10 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (40.38%) Security Cleared
2 41 (39.42%) SC Cleared
3 30 (28.85%) AWS Certification
4 11 (10.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (9.62%) Degree
6 8 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.92%) CCNP
9 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.96%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.58%) GDPR
2 10 (9.62%) NIST
2 10 (9.62%) SOC 2
3 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.77%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.81%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.88%) QA
7 2 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.92%) FIPS 140-2
7 2 (1.92%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.92%) SLA
8 1 (0.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (34.62%) Docker
2 13 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.81%) DFS Replication
4 3 (2.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.88%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.92%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.92%) Firmware
5 2 (1.92%) Postfix
5 2 (1.92%) Squid
5 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (72.12%) Terraform
2 37 (35.58%) Kubernetes
3 34 (32.69%) Ansible
4 22 (21.15%) Prometheus
5 20 (19.23%) Grafana
6 15 (14.42%) Progress Chef
6 15 (14.42%) Puppet
7 6 (5.77%) Argo
8 4 (3.85%) Consul
9 3 (2.88%) logstash
9 3 (2.88%) Nagios
9 3 (2.88%) Packer
10 2 (1.92%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.92%) Nessus
10 2 (1.92%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.96%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.96%) Cilium
11 1 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.96%) Podman
11 1 (0.96%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 10 (9.62%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.73%) Splunk
3 6 (5.77%) Oracle
4 5 (4.81%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.85%) Cisco
5 4 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.85%) Tenable
5 4 (3.85%) VMware
6 3 (2.88%) Google
6 3 (2.88%) Qualys
6 3 (2.88%) SAP
6 3 (2.88%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.92%) Dell
7 2 (1.92%) F5
7 2 (1.92%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.92%) HP
7 2 (1.92%) Huawei
7 2 (1.92%) IBM
7 2 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.92%) Palo Alto