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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 462 445
Rank change year-on-year +100 -17 +36
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 215 95 178
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 0.75% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 50 143
10th Percentile £400 £499 £473
25th Percentile £460 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £606 £579
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +4.74% -10.99%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £650
90th Percentile £713 £750 £772
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £668 £588
% change year-on-year -28.84% +13.62% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 13,594 12,721 16,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.41% 35.29% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,210 8,376 11,811
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 168 308
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £14.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.32 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% +7.32% +40.91%
75th Percentile £47.12 £59.66 £62.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.94 £22.50
% change year-on-year -32.12% +37.50% +18.73%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 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 +26 153 £525 -13.37% 69
UK excluding London +35 102 £475 -28.84% 50
London +32 68 £600 +8.35% 40
Work from Home +42 63 £555 -7.50% 41
West Midlands +5 37 £475 - 2
Midlands -4 37 £475 - 2
North of England -22 28 £543 -22.50% 14
Scotland - 27 £415 - 15
Yorkshire -28 17 £525 -26.32% 2
South East +5 6 £300 - 5
North West -17 6 £518 +21.76% 11
North East -4 5 £575 -23.33% 1
East of England -15 4 £500 - 3
South West -15 3 £675 +3.85% 6

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 31 (14.42%) Confluence
2 13 (6.05%) nginx
3 5 (2.33%) Apache
4 4 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.40%) SAS
6 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (5.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 214 (99.53%) AWS
2 147 (68.37%) Amazon S3
3 144 (66.98%) Amazon EC2
4 121 (56.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 86 (40.00%) Serverless
6 85 (39.53%) AWS Lambda
7 77 (35.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 60 (27.91%) GitHub
9 59 (27.44%) Amazon ECS
10 53 (24.65%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (23.26%) Amazon ELB
12 41 (19.07%) Azure
12 41 (19.07%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (18.60%) AWS KMS
14 35 (16.28%) Route 53
15 24 (11.16%) Datadog
16 21 (9.77%) AWS Direct Connect
17 17 (7.91%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (7.91%) AWS Fargate
18 16 (7.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 81 (37.67%) Firewall
2 77 (35.81%) DNS
3 46 (21.40%) VPN
4 26 (12.09%) TCP/IP
5 24 (11.16%) SMTP
6 23 (10.70%) Network Security
6 23 (10.70%) SSL
7 22 (10.23%) FTP
7 22 (10.23%) HTTP
7 22 (10.23%) SSH
8 13 (6.05%) WAN
9 12 (5.58%) IMAP
9 12 (5.58%) OpenLDAP
10 11 (5.12%) DHCP
11 9 (4.19%) SD-WAN
12 8 (3.72%) BGP
12 8 (3.72%) LAN
12 8 (3.72%) Wireless
13 7 (3.26%) OSPF
13 7 (3.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (45.58%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (12.56%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (9.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (8.37%) MongoDB
5 15 (6.98%) DynamoDB
6 14 (6.51%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (5.12%) MySQL
8 7 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.26%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.26%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.79%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.33%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.86%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.86%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.40%) Metadata
13 2 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.93%) Redis
13 2 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 112 (52.09%) Jenkins
2 81 (37.67%) Git
3 80 (37.21%) GitLab
4 38 (17.67%) JIRA
5 24 (11.16%) Vagrant
6 10 (4.65%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.86%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.93%) MLflow
9 1 (0.47%) Maven
9 1 (0.47%) Metasploit
General
1 59 (27.44%) Public Sector
2 39 (18.14%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.42%) Finance
4 14 (6.51%) Banking
5 12 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.86%) Military
9 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Legal
9 2 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (39.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 64 (29.77%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (20.00%) Architect
4 42 (19.53%) AWS DevOps
4 42 (19.53%) Senior
5 38 (17.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 32 (14.88%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (13.02%) AWS Architect
7 28 (13.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 21 (9.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 21 (9.77%) Senior DevOps
9 20 (9.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 19 (8.84%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (6.51%) Lead
13 13 (6.05%) AWS Solution Architect
14 12 (5.58%) Network Engineer
15 11 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (4.65%) Administrator
16 10 (4.65%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.91%) Kafka
2 16 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (7.44%) Node.js
3 12 (5.58%) LDAP
4 9 (4.19%) AWS CDK
5 7 (3.26%) cloud-init
5 7 (3.26%) Keycloak
6 5 (2.33%) JSON
6 5 (2.33%) REST
7 4 (1.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 4 (1.86%) PySpark
8 3 (1.40%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.40%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.93%) Middleware
9 2 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.93%) React
9 2 (0.93%) RESTful
9 2 (0.93%) SOAP
9 2 (0.93%) Spring
9 2 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.88%) Replication
2 28 (13.02%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (5.12%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.65%) NHS
6 8 (3.72%) PKI
7 7 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.79%) IVR
8 6 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.86%) Clustering
10 4 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.93%) Life Science
13 1 (0.47%) Cyberattack
13 1 (0.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 74 (34.42%) Linux
2 35 (16.28%) Windows
3 27 (12.56%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (11.16%) VMS
5 14 (6.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (5.58%) Ubuntu
6 12 (5.58%) Unix
7 7 (3.26%) CentOS
7 7 (3.26%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.47%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (69.30%) DevOps
2 136 (63.26%) CI/CD
3 132 (61.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (23.72%) Containerisation
5 49 (22.79%) High Availability
6 47 (21.86%) Cloud Security
7 46 (21.40%) Infrastructure Automation
8 44 (20.47%) Incident Response
9 40 (18.60%) Configuration Management
10 37 (17.21%) Platform Engineering
11 36 (16.74%) Cost Optimisation
12 35 (16.28%) Observability
13 31 (14.42%) Mentoring
14 30 (13.95%) Migration
14 30 (13.95%) Patch Management
15 29 (13.49%) Agile
16 26 (12.09%) Change Management
17 25 (11.63%) DevSecOps
18 23 (10.70%) Performance Tuning
19 21 (9.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 132 (61.40%) Python
2 65 (30.23%) Bash
3 45 (20.93%) PowerShell
4 29 (13.49%) Java
5 24 (11.16%) Groovy
5 24 (11.16%) Perl
6 18 (8.37%) SQL
7 12 (5.58%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.65%) Go
9 8 (3.72%) Ruby
10 3 (1.40%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.93%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.47%) Korn
12 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 89 (41.40%) Security Cleared
2 80 (37.21%) SC Cleared
3 59 (27.44%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.37%) Degree
5 17 (7.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.98%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.79%) CCNP
11 5 (2.33%) CCSP
12 4 (1.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.86%) CISSP
13 3 (1.40%) CCIE
13 3 (1.40%) CCIE Security
13 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.93%) CCNA
14 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.93%) JNCIP
14 2 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.63%) GDPR
2 22 (10.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (8.37%) PCI DSS
4 11 (5.12%) NIST
5 10 (4.65%) NCSC
6 7 (3.26%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.79%) QA
8 3 (1.40%) PMO
8 3 (1.40%) SLA
9 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (48.84%) Docker
2 22 (10.23%) DFS Replication
3 19 (8.84%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.58%) Dovecot
4 12 (5.58%) Postfix
4 12 (5.58%) Squid
5 7 (3.26%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (2.33%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.40%) KVM
9 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 169 (78.60%) Terraform
2 65 (30.23%) Kubernetes
3 61 (28.37%) Prometheus
4 60 (27.91%) Grafana
5 57 (26.51%) Ansible
6 13 (6.05%) Nessus
7 11 (5.12%) Packer
8 10 (4.65%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.19%) Puppet
10 8 (3.72%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (3.26%) Argo
12 6 (2.79%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.86%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (1.40%) Nagios
14 3 (1.40%) NetBackup
15 2 (0.93%) Fluentd
15 2 (0.93%) Karpenter
15 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (14.88%) Palo Alto
2 29 (13.49%) ServiceNow
3 28 (13.02%) F5
4 23 (10.70%) CheckPoint
5 16 (7.44%) Oracle
5 16 (7.44%) Splunk
6 15 (6.98%) Cisco
7 12 (5.58%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (5.12%) Dynatrace
9 9 (4.19%) Microsoft
10 8 (3.72%) Fortinet
10 8 (3.72%) Okta
11 7 (3.26%) Databricks
11 7 (3.26%) VMware
12 6 (2.79%) Commvault
12 6 (2.79%) Meraki
13 5 (2.33%) Avaya
13 5 (2.33%) Genesys
13 5 (2.33%) SolarWinds
13 5 (2.33%) Zscaler