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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 456 445
Rank change year-on-year +61 -11 +111
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 164 105 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 0.80% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 67 168
10th Percentile £449 £411 £463
25th Percentile £463 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -3.61%
75th Percentile £632 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £753 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -4.17%
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 12,160 13,084 18,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.47% 34.30% 35.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,102 8,848 12,967
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 200 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.22 £18.95
Median hourly rate £29.04 £30.73 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -12.19% +62.79%
75th Percentile £52.42 £61.42 £66.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -35.77% +11.11% +40.61%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +38 119 £525 -6.46% 46
UK excluding London +24 68 £475 -20.83% 23
London +29 58 £615 +14.31% 29
Work from Home +49 57 £555 -7.50% 23
West Midlands +12 34 £475 -26.92% 1
Midlands +8 34 £475 -26.92% 1
North of England -15 13 £543 +21.23% 4
Scotland - 12 £500 - 1
Yorkshire -11 7 £500 +11.11% 1
East of England +10 6 £513 -6.82% 2
North West -14 4 £543 +21.23% 3
South West +14 3 £675 +3.85% 7
South East +24 2 £580 -2.52% 8
North East -1 2 £600 -

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 26 (15.85%) Confluence
2 14 (8.54%) nginx
3 4 (2.44%) Apache
4 3 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.83%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.83%) SAS
5 1 (0.61%) JBoss
5 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (7.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 163 (99.39%) AWS
2 115 (70.12%) Amazon EC2
2 115 (70.12%) Amazon S3
3 95 (57.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 52 (31.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 51 (31.10%) Serverless
6 48 (29.27%) AWS Lambda
7 47 (28.66%) Amazon ELB
8 42 (25.61%) GitHub
9 38 (23.17%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (22.56%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (22.56%) AWS KMS
11 29 (17.68%) Azure
11 29 (17.68%) GitHub Actions
11 29 (17.68%) Route 53
12 18 (10.98%) AWS CloudTrail
13 15 (9.15%) Amazon Glacier
14 13 (7.93%) AWS CodePipeline
14 13 (7.93%) AWS Direct Connect
14 13 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 67 (40.85%) DNS
2 66 (40.24%) Firewall
3 43 (26.22%) VPN
4 26 (15.85%) SSL
5 24 (14.63%) SMTP
5 24 (14.63%) TCP/IP
6 22 (13.41%) FTP
6 22 (13.41%) HTTP
6 22 (13.41%) SSH
7 17 (10.37%) Network Security
8 12 (7.32%) IMAP
8 12 (7.32%) OpenLDAP
9 9 (5.49%) WAN
10 7 (4.27%) DHCP
11 5 (3.05%) BGP
11 5 (3.05%) OSPF
11 5 (3.05%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (2.44%) LAN
12 4 (2.44%) SD-WAN
13 3 (1.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (42.68%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (10.98%) Amazon Aurora
2 18 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.49%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (4.88%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (4.27%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.05%) MariaDB
7 5 (3.05%) MySQL
8 4 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.83%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.83%) Metadata
9 3 (1.83%) SAP HANA
10 2 (1.22%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (1.22%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.22%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.22%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 86 (52.44%) Jenkins
2 70 (42.68%) Git
3 53 (32.32%) GitLab
4 27 (16.46%) JIRA
5 24 (14.63%) Vagrant
6 6 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.83%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.83%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.22%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.61%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.61%) Snyk
9 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (28.66%) Public Sector
2 32 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.98%) Finance
4 11 (6.71%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (2.44%) Banking
5 4 (2.44%) Military
6 2 (1.22%) Legal
7 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.61%) Police
7 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (41.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (31.71%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (24.39%) AWS DevOps
4 35 (21.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 31 (18.90%) Senior
6 26 (15.85%) Architect
6 26 (15.85%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (12.80%) AWS Architect
7 21 (12.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 14 (8.54%) Senior DevOps
9 13 (7.93%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 13 (7.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (6.71%) Administrator
12 10 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (6.10%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 9 (5.49%) Lead
13 9 (5.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (4.88%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.32%) LDAP
2 11 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (6.71%) Kafka
3 6 (3.66%) AWS CDK
4 5 (3.05%) cloud-init
4 5 (3.05%) Keycloak
4 5 (3.05%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (1.22%) JSON
5 2 (1.22%) REST
6 1 (0.61%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.61%) CSS
6 1 (0.61%) HTML
6 1 (0.61%) J2EE
6 1 (0.61%) Middleware
6 1 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.61%) RESTful
6 1 (0.61%) ServiceStack
6 1 (0.61%) SOAP
6 1 (0.61%) Spring
6 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.68%) Cloud Native
1 29 (17.68%) Replication
2 10 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.88%) PKI
4 5 (3.05%) Clustering
4 5 (3.05%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.83%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 60 (36.59%) Linux
2 36 (21.95%) Windows
3 24 (14.63%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (14.63%) VMS
4 16 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (7.93%) Unix
6 11 (6.71%) Ubuntu
7 7 (4.27%) Windows Server
8 5 (3.05%) CentOS
9 2 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (72.56%) DevOps
2 106 (64.63%) CI/CD
3 97 (59.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (29.27%) Cloud Security
5 39 (23.78%) Infrastructure Automation
6 38 (23.17%) Configuration Management
7 36 (21.95%) High Availability
8 33 (20.12%) Containerisation
9 31 (18.90%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (18.29%) Patch Management
11 26 (15.85%) Change Management
12 24 (14.63%) Incident Response
13 23 (14.02%) DevSecOps
14 21 (12.80%) Agile
14 21 (12.80%) Observability
14 21 (12.80%) Performance Tuning
15 20 (12.20%) Mentoring
16 19 (11.59%) Cost Optimisation
17 15 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 15 (9.15%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 102 (62.20%) Python
2 54 (32.93%) Bash
3 40 (24.39%) PowerShell
4 25 (15.24%) Groovy
5 18 (10.98%) Java
6 17 (10.37%) SQL
7 16 (9.76%) Perl
7 16 (9.76%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.27%) Go
9 3 (1.83%) CodeQL
10 2 (1.22%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.61%) Bicep
11 1 (0.61%) Korn
11 1 (0.61%) Scala
11 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 72 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 68 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 39 (23.78%) AWS Certification
4 17 (10.37%) Degree
5 14 (8.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (6.71%) Azure Certification
7 10 (6.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 4 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.61%) CCNP
11 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.10%) GDPR
1 10 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (6.10%) NIST
2 7 (4.27%) NCSC
2 7 (4.27%) PCI DSS
2 7 (4.27%) SOC 2
3 6 (3.66%) QA
4 5 (3.05%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.22%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (1.22%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (50.61%) Docker
2 22 (13.41%) DFS Replication
3 20 (12.20%) Active Directory
4 12 (7.32%) Dovecot
4 12 (7.32%) Postfix
4 12 (7.32%) Squid
5 3 (1.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (1.83%) KVM
6 2 (1.22%) Firmware
6 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 135 (82.32%) Terraform
2 51 (31.10%) Ansible
3 50 (30.49%) Grafana
3 50 (30.49%) Prometheus
4 49 (29.88%) Kubernetes
5 14 (8.54%) Puppet
6 13 (7.93%) Nessus
6 13 (7.93%) Progress Chef
7 10 (6.10%) Proxmox
8 6 (3.66%) Argo
8 6 (3.66%) Packer
9 5 (3.05%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (2.44%) Consul
10 4 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.83%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.83%) logstash
11 3 (1.83%) Nagios
11 3 (1.83%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.22%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 25 (15.24%) ServiceNow
2 22 (13.41%) Palo Alto
3 20 (12.20%) CheckPoint
3 20 (12.20%) F5
4 12 (7.32%) Jaspersoft
4 12 (7.32%) Splunk
5 11 (6.71%) Dynatrace
5 11 (6.71%) Oracle
6 8 (4.88%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.66%) Commvault
8 5 (3.05%) Cisco
8 5 (3.05%) Okta
8 5 (3.05%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.05%) Zscaler
9 4 (2.44%) Tenable
10 3 (1.83%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.83%) Google
10 3 (1.83%) SAP
10 3 (1.83%) SnapLogic
10 3 (1.83%) VMware