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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 407 462
Rank change year-on-year -14 +55 -27
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 252 145 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.44% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.18% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 103 71
10th Percentile £411 £415 £409
25th Percentile £456 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £651
90th Percentile £638 £703 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £593
% change year-on-year +2.16% -19.83% -1.25%
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 18,743 12,307 13,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.14% 37.12% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,365 8,244 9,135
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £421 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 314 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.18 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +11.23% -29.03%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.41 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.35 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 10 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 10 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 -7 210 £513 -2.38% 122
London -14 124 £529 -10.38% 76
UK excluding London -50 97 £485 +2.16% 59
Work from Home -5 88 £513 -7.24% 57
Midlands -40 31 £484 +1.95% 6
West Midlands -44 29 £488 +2.63% 5
North of England -43 27 £500 -6.54% 23
North West -28 17 £506 -5.37% 14
Scotland -9 11 £450 -10.00% 6
East of England -14 9 £450 -12.20% 6
South East -65 9 £669 +15.30% 7
Yorkshire -39 5 £500 - 5
North East -40 5 £544 -9.38% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 6
South West -39 4 £450 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £466 - 1
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 39 (15.48%) Confluence
2 12 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.97%) nginx
4 6 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.59%) Apache
7 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 249 (98.81%) AWS
2 135 (53.57%) Amazon S3
3 134 (53.17%) Amazon EC2
4 115 (45.63%) Serverless
5 113 (44.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 109 (43.25%) AWS Lambda
7 94 (37.30%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 59 (23.41%) Azure
10 53 (21.03%) GitHub
11 44 (17.46%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (13.49%) AWS CloudTrail
14 33 (13.10%) AWS KMS
14 33 (13.10%) GCP
15 28 (11.11%) Route 53
16 23 (9.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (7.54%) Snowflake
18 18 (7.14%) Datadog
19 17 (6.75%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 54 (21.43%) Firewall
2 32 (12.70%) VPN
3 27 (10.71%) TCP/IP
4 22 (8.73%) DNS
5 21 (8.33%) Network Security
6 16 (6.35%) WAN
7 14 (5.56%) BGP
8 11 (4.37%) OSPF
9 10 (3.97%) LAN
9 10 (3.97%) SSL
10 9 (3.57%) OpenVPN
11 7 (2.78%) VLAN
12 6 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.38%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.98%) BIG-IP
13 5 (1.98%) IPsec
13 5 (1.98%) MPLS
13 5 (1.98%) NetScaler
13 5 (1.98%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (32.54%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (9.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 22 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (7.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (6.75%) Power BI
6 13 (5.16%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.76%) DynamoDB
8 11 (4.37%) MySQL
9 8 (3.17%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.17%) Tableau
10 6 (2.38%) Redis
10 6 (2.38%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.59%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.19%) Apache Hive
13 3 (1.19%) Big Data
13 3 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.19%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 67 (26.59%) GitLab
2 63 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 46 (18.25%) Git
4 33 (13.10%) JIRA
5 16 (6.35%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.76%) Artifactory
7 10 (3.97%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.40%) Snyk
8 1 (0.40%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.40%) sqlmap
General
1 81 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 74 (29.37%) Public Sector
3 29 (11.51%) Finance
4 12 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.17%) Banking
7 7 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.98%) Law
8 5 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Military
9 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Police
11 2 (0.79%) Games
11 2 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (26.19%) AWS Engineer
2 61 (24.21%) Architect
3 44 (17.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (15.08%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (13.89%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (10.71%) AWS Architect
7 26 (10.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (9.52%) Senior
9 22 (8.73%) Security Engineer
9 22 (8.73%) Technical Architect
10 18 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (6.35%) Network Engineer
12 14 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (4.76%) Lead
14 11 (4.37%) Scrum Master
15 10 (3.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.97%) Technical Delivery Manager
15 10 (3.97%) Technical Manager
16 9 (3.57%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.92%) AWS CDK
2 10 (3.97%) Kafka
3 8 (3.17%) GraphQL
3 8 (3.17%) RESTful
3 8 (3.17%) SAML
4 7 (2.78%) Apollo GraphQL
4 7 (2.78%) OpenID
5 6 (2.38%) boto
5 6 (2.38%) LDAP
6 5 (1.98%) REST
7 3 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.19%) React
8 2 (0.79%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.79%) cloud-init
8 2 (0.79%) OAuth
8 2 (0.79%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.79%) PySpark
8 2 (0.79%) SOAP
9 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.54%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.16%) Replication
5 10 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.98%) NHS
9 4 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.59%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.19%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 52 (20.63%) Linux
2 27 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (9.13%) Windows
4 7 (2.78%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (2.78%) Unix
5 4 (1.59%) AIX
6 3 (1.19%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (63.49%) CI/CD
2 133 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 129 (51.19%) DevOps
4 67 (26.59%) Agile
5 64 (25.40%) Containerisation
6 52 (20.63%) Cloud Security
7 51 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (19.84%) Platform Engineering
9 49 (19.44%) Observability
10 43 (17.06%) Roadmaps
11 41 (16.27%) Migration
12 31 (12.30%) Microservices
13 30 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (10.32%) Secrets Management
14 26 (10.32%) SIEM
15 25 (9.92%) DevSecOps
16 24 (9.52%) Change Management
16 24 (9.52%) Scrum
17 23 (9.13%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 100 (39.68%) Python
2 60 (23.81%) Bash
3 34 (13.49%) Java
4 33 (13.10%) PowerShell
5 27 (10.71%) SQL
6 12 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.97%) Groovy
8 8 (3.17%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.17%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.38%) Go
10 5 (1.98%) Perl
11 2 (0.79%) Bicep
11 2 (0.79%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) Cypher
12 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.40%) R
12 1 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.40%) SHACL
12 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 129 (51.19%) Security Cleared
2 117 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 55 (21.83%) AWS Certification
4 29 (11.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (9.92%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.54%) Degree
7 12 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.37%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (3.97%) CISSP
10 9 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) CCNP
11 8 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.19%) CCIE
13 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.75%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.17%) GDPR
4 7 (2.78%) NCSC
4 7 (2.78%) PMO
4 7 (2.78%) SLA
5 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.19%) QA
7 2 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.79%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (32.54%) Docker
2 14 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.37%) Squid
4 9 (3.57%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.19%) vSphere
7 2 (0.79%) HDFS
8 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 166 (65.87%) Terraform
2 95 (37.70%) Kubernetes
3 58 (23.02%) Grafana
4 53 (21.03%) Prometheus
5 44 (17.46%) Ansible
6 12 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.37%) Puppet
7 11 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (3.17%) Packer
9 6 (2.38%) Argo
10 5 (1.98%) Istio
10 5 (1.98%) Salt
11 4 (1.59%) Consul
11 4 (1.59%) Suricata
12 3 (1.19%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.19%) linkerd
12 3 (1.19%) SELinux
12 3 (1.19%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.79%) Sysdig
13 2 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (9.52%) ServiceNow
2 23 (9.13%) Red Hat
3 20 (7.94%) Google
4 18 (7.14%) Cisco
4 18 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.16%) Splunk
5 13 (5.16%) VMware
6 11 (4.37%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.97%) Zscaler
8 9 (3.57%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.78%) Databricks
9 7 (2.78%) F5
9 7 (2.78%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.38%) Tenable
11 5 (1.98%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.59%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.59%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.59%) Oracle
12 4 (1.59%) Trend Micro
13 3 (1.19%) Veeam