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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 441 457
Rank change year-on-year +28 +16 -7
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 222 78 134
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 0.70% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 52 94
10th Percentile £368 £413 £402
25th Percentile £425 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £608 £547
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% +11.16% -11.14%
75th Percentile £576 £738 £675
90th Percentile £639 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £553 £595
% change year-on-year -18.55% -7.14% -0.83%

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 16,863 11,160 14,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.29% 37.78% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,484 7,770 10,006
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £702 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 251 348
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.88% +30.95% -37.78%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.01% -26.19%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +10 178 £518 -16.48% 30
London +9 115 £522 -16.52% 9
UK excluding London -24 83 £450 -18.55% 23
Work from Home +1 63 £505 -13.01% 21
Scotland +32 25 £411 -6.00% 1
North of England -57 22 £548 -24.48% 7
West Midlands -43 16 £500 +5.26%
Midlands -43 16 £500 +5.26%
North West -29 11 £568 +33.53% 3
South East -48 10 £404 -30.34% 8
North East -11 7 £575 -23.33% 4
East of England -29 7 £530 +0.95% 4
Yorkshire -53 4 £499 -31.21%
South West - 3 £450 - 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 33 (14.86%) Confluence
2 11 (4.95%) nginx
3 9 (4.05%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.70%) Apache
4 6 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 222 (100.00%) AWS
2 134 (60.36%) Amazon S3
3 123 (55.41%) Amazon EC2
4 115 (51.80%) Serverless
5 111 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
6 91 (40.99%) Amazon EKS
7 87 (39.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 84 (37.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (23.42%) Amazon ECS
10 51 (22.97%) Route 53
11 48 (21.62%) GitHub
12 47 (21.17%) Azure
13 35 (15.77%) GCP
14 33 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (13.51%) AWS KMS
16 22 (9.91%) AWS Control Tower
17 20 (9.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 18 (8.11%) Amazon ELB
18 18 (8.11%) AWS CloudTrail
19 17 (7.66%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 56 (25.23%) Firewall
2 42 (18.92%) VPN
3 33 (14.86%) DNS
4 21 (9.46%) TCP/IP
5 17 (7.66%) Network Security
6 15 (6.76%) BGP
7 13 (5.86%) OSPF
8 11 (4.95%) OpenVPN
9 8 (3.60%) WAN
10 7 (3.15%) SSL
11 5 (2.25%) LAN
11 5 (2.25%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.25%) Wireless
12 4 (1.80%) NGFW
12 4 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.80%) VLAN
13 3 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (1.35%) Kerberos
14 2 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.98%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (10.36%) DynamoDB
3 22 (9.91%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (7.21%) Power BI
6 14 (6.31%) MySQL
7 13 (5.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.05%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.60%) DocumentDB
9 8 (3.60%) Redis
9 8 (3.60%) Tableau
10 7 (3.15%) Data Lake
10 7 (3.15%) MongoDB
11 6 (2.70%) Big Data
11 6 (2.70%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.70%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.25%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.25%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 74 (33.33%) GitLab
2 68 (30.63%) Jenkins
3 34 (15.32%) JIRA
4 29 (13.06%) Git
5 19 (8.56%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.86%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.70%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.70%) MLflow
9 4 (1.80%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.80%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.35%) Snyk
11 2 (0.90%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.90%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.45%) AppScan
12 1 (0.45%) JUnit
12 1 (0.45%) sqlmap
General
1 62 (27.93%) Public Sector
2 60 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 46 (20.72%) Finance
4 18 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.05%) Banking
7 7 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.80%) Military
9 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.90%) Games
10 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.90%) Law
10 2 (0.90%) Legal
10 2 (0.90%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Billing
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (29.73%) Architect
2 47 (21.17%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (17.12%) AWS Architect
4 31 (13.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (12.16%) Cloud Architect
6 23 (10.36%) Senior
7 21 (9.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (8.56%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (8.56%) Lead
9 14 (6.31%) Network Engineer
10 13 (5.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.86%) Security Engineer
11 12 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (4.95%) Site Engineer
12 11 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (4.95%) Technical Manager
13 10 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.50%) Technical Architect
13 10 (4.50%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.91%) AWS CDK
2 19 (8.56%) Kafka
3 16 (7.21%) Node.js
4 15 (6.76%) OpenID
5 9 (4.05%) LDAP
5 9 (4.05%) REST
6 8 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (3.60%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (3.60%) PySpark
6 8 (3.60%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.15%) OAuth
7 7 (3.15%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.15%) RESTful
7 7 (3.15%) Spring
8 5 (2.25%) JSON
9 4 (1.80%) gRPC
9 4 (1.80%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.80%) JPA
9 4 (1.80%) React
9 4 (1.80%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.66%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.60%) NHS
7 6 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.70%) IVR
8 5 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.25%) Replication
9 4 (1.80%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.80%) PKI
10 3 (1.35%) SCADA
10 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.45%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.92%) Linux
2 9 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (4.05%) Windows
3 7 (3.15%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (58.56%) CI/CD
2 116 (52.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 98 (44.14%) DevOps
4 59 (26.58%) Containerisation
5 54 (24.32%) Observability
6 53 (23.87%) Migration
7 41 (18.47%) Roadmaps
8 40 (18.02%) Agile
8 40 (18.02%) Cloud Security
8 40 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (13.96%) Cost Optimisation
11 30 (13.51%) Incident Response
12 29 (13.06%) Microservices
13 28 (12.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (12.16%) Test Automation
15 22 (9.91%) Decision-Making
16 20 (9.01%) Event-Driven
16 20 (9.01%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 107 (48.20%) Python
2 44 (19.82%) Bash
3 33 (14.86%) Java
4 23 (10.36%) PowerShell
4 23 (10.36%) SQL
5 11 (4.95%) Go
6 8 (3.60%) Perl
7 7 (3.15%) Kotlin
7 7 (3.15%) Ruby
7 7 (3.15%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.70%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.25%) Groovy
10 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.90%) Bicep
11 2 (0.90%) Cypher
12 1 (0.45%) Lisp
12 1 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 100 (45.05%) Security Cleared
2 90 (40.54%) SC Cleared
3 58 (26.13%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (5.86%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.70%) CCNP
9 5 (2.25%) CISSP
10 4 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.80%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (1.35%) Degree
12 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.90%) PMP
13 1 (0.45%) CEH
13 1 (0.45%) GIAC
13 1 (0.45%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (8.56%) PCI DSS
2 14 (6.31%) NIST
3 13 (5.86%) GDPR
4 11 (4.95%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.95%) SLA
5 10 (4.50%) PMO
6 7 (3.15%) NCSC
7 6 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.70%) QA
8 3 (1.35%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.45%) COBIT
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 83 (37.39%) Docker
2 12 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.95%) Squid
4 6 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.80%) HDFS
5 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.45%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 149 (67.12%) Terraform
2 79 (35.59%) Kubernetes
3 47 (21.17%) Prometheus
4 42 (18.92%) Grafana
5 36 (16.22%) Ansible
6 12 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.50%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.60%) Consul
9 5 (2.25%) Karpenter
9 5 (2.25%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.25%) Puppet
10 4 (1.80%) Argo
10 4 (1.80%) Kibana
10 4 (1.80%) linkerd
10 4 (1.80%) Packer
10 4 (1.80%) Salt
11 3 (1.35%) Istio
11 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.90%) Suricata
12 2 (0.90%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 22 (9.91%) Splunk
2 16 (7.21%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.31%) Databricks
4 13 (5.86%) Cisco
4 13 (5.86%) Google
4 13 (5.86%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.86%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.41%) Dynatrace
6 10 (4.50%) Fortinet
6 10 (4.50%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.60%) Tenable
8 7 (3.15%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.15%) Citrix
9 6 (2.70%) AVEVA
9 6 (2.70%) CheckPoint
9 6 (2.70%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.70%) Oracle
10 5 (2.25%) Avaya
10 5 (2.25%) Genesys
10 5 (2.25%) Palo Alto