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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 439 449
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 214 77 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 0.71% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 50 94
10th Percentile £400 £413 £402
25th Percentile £445 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +7.98% -11.25%
75th Percentile £586 £668 £653
90th Percentile £640 £738 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% -6.38%
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 16,950 10,887 13,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.63% 37.57% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,444 7,495 9,847
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 245 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.86 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +36.65% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £35.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £64.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £21.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +99.56% +20.71% -28.58%

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 14 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 14 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 +19 182 £518 -10.78% 46
London +17 116 £525 -13.58% 19
UK excluding London -44 75 £463 -7.50% 32
Work from Home -2 62 £505 -9.82% 28
West Midlands -36 22 £494 +3.95% 1
Midlands -40 22 £494 +3.95% 1
North of England -52 19 £563 -2.17% 8
Scotland +15 13 £440 -6.13% 3
North West -27 12 £568 +33.53% 5
South East -50 9 £450 -22.41% 12
East of England -30 7 £530 +0.95% 1
North East -12 6 £519 - 2
South West - 5 £475 - 4
Yorkshire -54 1 £463 -36.21% 1

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 39 (18.22%) Confluence
2 11 (5.14%) nginx
3 7 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.80%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.87%) Apache
6 2 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.93%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 213 (99.53%) AWS
2 128 (59.81%) Amazon S3
3 125 (58.41%) Amazon EC2
4 102 (47.66%) Serverless
5 98 (45.79%) AWS Lambda
6 95 (44.39%) Amazon EKS
7 87 (40.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 71 (33.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (21.96%) Amazon ECS
9 47 (21.96%) Azure
10 45 (21.03%) GitHub
11 42 (19.63%) Route 53
12 36 (16.82%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (14.49%) GCP
14 28 (13.08%) AWS KMS
15 21 (9.81%) AWS CodePipeline
15 21 (9.81%) AWS Control Tower
16 19 (8.88%) Amazon ELB
17 18 (8.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 17 (7.94%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 54 (25.23%) Firewall
2 41 (19.16%) VPN
3 32 (14.95%) DNS
4 25 (11.68%) TCP/IP
5 19 (8.88%) Network Security
6 15 (7.01%) BGP
7 13 (6.07%) OSPF
8 11 (5.14%) OpenVPN
9 8 (3.74%) WAN
10 7 (3.27%) SSL
11 5 (2.34%) LAN
11 5 (2.34%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.34%) Wireless
12 4 (1.87%) NGFW
12 4 (1.87%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.87%) VLAN
13 3 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
14 2 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 2 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (28.97%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (8.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (7.48%) Power BI
4 15 (7.01%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (7.01%) DynamoDB
5 13 (6.07%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.14%) MySQL
8 9 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.21%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.74%) Tableau
10 7 (3.27%) DocumentDB
10 7 (3.27%) Redis
11 6 (2.80%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.34%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.34%) Apache Hive
12 5 (2.34%) Big Data
12 5 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.34%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 73 (34.11%) GitLab
2 62 (28.97%) Jenkins
3 36 (16.82%) JIRA
4 32 (14.95%) Git
5 20 (9.35%) Bitbucket
6 13 (6.07%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.67%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.87%) MLflow
9 4 (1.87%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.40%) Snyk
11 2 (0.93%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.93%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.47%) AppScan
12 1 (0.47%) JUnit
12 1 (0.47%) sqlmap
General
1 61 (28.50%) Public Sector
1 61 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.36%) Finance
3 18 (8.41%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.34%) Military
7 4 (1.87%) Banking
8 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Police
9 2 (0.93%) Games
9 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.93%) Law
9 2 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.47%) Billing
10 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (27.57%) Architect
2 49 (22.90%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (15.42%) AWS Architect
4 30 (14.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (12.62%) Cloud Architect
6 25 (11.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (11.21%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (11.21%) Senior
8 20 (9.35%) Lead
9 16 (7.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.54%) Network Engineer
11 13 (6.07%) Security Engineer
12 12 (5.61%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (5.14%) Site Engineer
13 11 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (5.14%) Technical Manager
14 10 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (4.67%) Technical Architect
14 10 (4.67%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.68%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.94%) Kafka
3 15 (7.01%) OpenID
4 11 (5.14%) LDAP
5 9 (4.21%) REST
6 7 (3.27%) Node.js
6 7 (3.27%) OAuth
6 7 (3.27%) OAuth2
6 7 (3.27%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.27%) RESTful
6 7 (3.27%) Spring
6 7 (3.27%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.87%) gRPC
8 4 (1.87%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.87%) JPA
8 4 (1.87%) PySpark
8 4 (1.87%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.40%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.16%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.01%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.34%) Replication
7 4 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.87%) PKI
7 4 (1.87%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.40%) SCADA
9 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.93%) NHS
9 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.29%) Linux
2 10 (4.67%) Windows
3 9 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.34%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.40%) Unix
6 1 (0.47%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (59.35%) CI/CD
2 106 (49.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (47.20%) DevOps
4 57 (26.64%) Containerisation
5 53 (24.77%) Observability
6 44 (20.56%) Agile
6 44 (20.56%) Migration
7 43 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (17.29%) Cloud Security
8 37 (17.29%) Roadmaps
9 34 (15.89%) Platform Engineering
10 31 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (12.62%) Incident Response
11 27 (12.62%) Microservices
12 26 (12.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 25 (11.68%) Test Automation
14 24 (11.21%) Cost Optimisation
15 23 (10.75%) Decision-Making
16 21 (9.81%) Event-Driven
17 20 (9.35%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 91 (42.52%) Python
2 45 (21.03%) Bash
3 29 (13.55%) Java
4 24 (11.21%) SQL
5 20 (9.35%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.21%) Go
7 8 (3.74%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.27%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.80%) Groovy
9 6 (2.80%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.34%) Perl
11 3 (1.40%) Bicep
11 3 (1.40%) Ruby
11 3 (1.40%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.93%) Cypher
13 1 (0.47%) Lisp
13 1 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 111 (51.87%) Security Cleared
2 100 (46.73%) SC Cleared
3 48 (22.43%) AWS Certification
4 22 (10.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (7.01%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.21%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (3.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (2.80%) CCNP
9 6 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.87%) CISSP
10 4 (1.87%) Degree
11 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.93%) PMP
12 1 (0.47%) CEH
12 1 (0.47%) GIAC
12 1 (0.47%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.07%) NIST
2 12 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (5.61%) PCI DSS
3 11 (5.14%) SLA
4 9 (4.21%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.27%) NCSC
5 7 (3.27%) PMO
6 6 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.80%) GDPR
6 6 (2.80%) QA
7 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.47%) COBIT
7 1 (0.47%) GRC
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 76 (35.51%) Docker
2 16 (7.48%) Squid
3 13 (6.07%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.87%) HDFS
5 4 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.47%) Firmware
7 1 (0.47%) NLBS
7 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 143 (66.82%) Terraform
2 74 (34.58%) Kubernetes
3 46 (21.50%) Grafana
4 44 (20.56%) Prometheus
5 32 (14.95%) Ansible
6 12 (5.61%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.67%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.74%) Consul
9 6 (2.80%) Suricata
10 5 (2.34%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.34%) Puppet
11 4 (1.87%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.87%) Kibana
11 4 (1.87%) linkerd
11 4 (1.87%) Salt
12 3 (1.40%) Argo
12 3 (1.40%) Istio
12 3 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.93%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 16 (7.48%) Splunk
2 13 (6.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.07%) Red Hat
2 13 (6.07%) ServiceNow
3 12 (5.61%) Dynatrace
3 12 (5.61%) Google
4 11 (5.14%) Databricks
5 10 (4.67%) Fortinet
5 10 (4.67%) Zscaler
6 9 (4.21%) Cisco
6 9 (4.21%) Tenable
7 7 (3.27%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.27%) Citrix
8 6 (2.80%) AVEVA
8 6 (2.80%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.80%) CloudEndure
9 5 (2.34%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.87%) Oracle
10 4 (1.87%) Qualys
10 4 (1.87%) SAP