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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 435 466
Rank change year-on-year +39 +31 -7
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 237 84 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 0.76% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 53 94
10th Percentile £364 £414 £405
25th Percentile £422 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +7.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £689
90th Percentile £650 £750 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -26.15% +8.33% -

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 16,284 11,101 14,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.10% 38.17% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,111 7,773 10,237
10th Percentile £313 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £489
% change year-on-year -0.63% -2.25% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 212 358
10th Percentile £15.52 £15.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -18.64%
75th Percentile £63.75 £42.23 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.88 £62.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.31 £24.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +84.60% +35.44% -19.45%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +8 193 £525 -13.58% 39
London +4 115 £525 -13.37% 19
UK excluding London -28 93 £480 -26.15% 23
Work from Home +2 60 £528 -9.52% 24
North of England -53 29 £550 -24.14% 5
Scotland +33 25 £402 -8.11%
West Midlands -32 21 £505 +6.32% 2
Midlands -48 21 £505 +6.32% 2
South East -38 13 £404 -30.34% 9
Yorkshire -55 12 £525 -27.59% 1
North West -28 11 £558 +31.18% 3
North East -8 6 £600 -20.00% 1
East of England -30 4 £565 - 3
South West - 2 £419 - 4

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 32 (13.50%) Confluence
2 9 (3.80%) nginx
3 7 (2.95%) Apache
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 237 (100.00%) AWS
2 143 (60.34%) Amazon S3
3 135 (56.96%) Amazon EC2
4 121 (51.05%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (51.05%) Serverless
5 97 (40.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 96 (40.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 94 (39.66%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (24.89%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (23.63%) GitHub
10 51 (21.52%) Azure
11 48 (20.25%) Route 53
12 43 (18.14%) GCP
13 41 (17.30%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (10.97%) AWS KMS
15 21 (8.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 21 (8.86%) AWS Control Tower
16 20 (8.44%) AWS CloudTrail
16 20 (8.44%) Datadog
17 19 (8.02%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 66 (27.85%) Firewall
2 53 (22.36%) VPN
3 40 (16.88%) DNS
4 23 (9.70%) TCP/IP
5 20 (8.44%) Network Security
6 18 (7.59%) BGP
7 16 (6.75%) OSPF
8 12 (5.06%) WAN
9 11 (4.64%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.80%) LAN
10 9 (3.80%) SD-WAN
10 9 (3.80%) Wireless
11 8 (3.38%) SSL
12 7 (2.95%) VLAN
13 6 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (2.11%) DHCP
14 5 (2.11%) EIGRP
14 5 (2.11%) MPLS
14 5 (2.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (34.60%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (7.17%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (7.17%) DynamoDB
3 16 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.33%) Power BI
5 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.06%) MySQL
6 11 (4.64%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.80%) Redis
8 8 (3.38%) DocumentDB
8 8 (3.38%) Tableau
9 7 (2.95%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.53%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 83 (35.02%) Jenkins
2 80 (33.76%) GitLab
3 37 (15.61%) Git
3 37 (15.61%) JIRA
4 23 (9.70%) Bitbucket
5 11 (4.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (3.80%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.53%) MLflow
8 5 (2.11%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.69%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.69%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.27%) Snyk
11 2 (0.84%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.84%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.42%) AppScan
12 1 (0.42%) JUnit
12 1 (0.42%) Maven
12 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
General
1 62 (26.16%) Public Sector
2 61 (25.74%) Social Skills
3 49 (20.68%) Finance
4 18 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.49%) Banking
7 8 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (29.96%) Architect
2 44 (18.57%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (16.46%) AWS Architect
4 37 (15.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (13.08%) Senior
6 27 (11.39%) Cloud Architect
7 22 (9.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (8.86%) Lead
9 18 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (6.75%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (6.33%) Network Engineer
12 14 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.91%) Security Engineer
13 12 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (4.64%) Site Engineer
14 11 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (4.64%) Technical Manager
15 10 (4.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.28%) AWS CDK
1 22 (9.28%) Kafka
2 20 (8.44%) Node.js
3 15 (6.33%) OpenID
4 13 (5.49%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (4.64%) REST
6 9 (3.80%) LDAP
6 9 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (3.80%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.38%) OAuth
7 8 (3.38%) OAuth2
7 8 (3.38%) PySpark
7 8 (3.38%) RESTful
7 8 (3.38%) Spring
8 6 (2.53%) JSON
9 4 (1.69%) gRPC
9 4 (1.69%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.69%) JPA
9 4 (1.69%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.28%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.22%) NHS
5 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.53%) IVR
7 5 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.11%) PKI
8 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.69%) Replication
9 3 (1.27%) SCADA
9 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Life Science
10 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (18.99%) Linux
2 10 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (4.22%) Windows
3 4 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.42%) CentOS
5 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (59.49%) CI/CD
2 126 (53.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 110 (46.41%) DevOps
4 63 (26.58%) Containerisation
5 59 (24.89%) Observability
6 56 (23.63%) Migration
7 51 (21.52%) Roadmaps
8 42 (17.72%) Incident Response
9 39 (16.46%) Agile
9 39 (16.46%) Cost Optimisation
10 38 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (15.19%) Cloud Security
12 35 (14.77%) Microservices
12 35 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (12.24%) High Availability
13 29 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
14 27 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
15 26 (10.97%) Mentoring
16 24 (10.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (46.41%) Python
2 46 (19.41%) Bash
3 33 (13.92%) Java
4 21 (8.86%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.44%) SQL
6 9 (3.80%) Go
6 9 (3.80%) Perl
6 9 (3.80%) Ruby
7 6 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.53%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.53%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.11%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.84%) Bicep
9 2 (0.84%) Cypher
10 1 (0.42%) Lisp
10 1 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 101 (42.62%) Security Cleared
2 88 (37.13%) SC Cleared
3 66 (27.85%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.91%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.80%) CCNP
8 8 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.38%) CISSP
8 8 (3.38%) Degree
9 7 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.11%) CCSP
11 4 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.69%) CCIE
11 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.27%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.84%) CCNA
13 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.28%) GDPR
1 22 (9.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (8.86%) PCI DSS
3 19 (8.02%) NIST
4 12 (5.06%) SLA
5 11 (4.64%) Data Quality
6 10 (4.22%) PMO
7 9 (3.80%) NCSC
8 6 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (2.11%) QA
10 3 (1.27%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.42%) COBIT
11 1 (0.42%) GRC
11 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
System Software
1 91 (38.40%) Docker
2 10 (4.22%) Squid
3 9 (3.80%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.95%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (2.11%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.84%) HDFS
8 1 (0.42%) Firmware
8 1 (0.42%) NLBS
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 159 (67.09%) Terraform
2 84 (35.44%) Kubernetes
3 45 (18.99%) Ansible
3 45 (18.99%) Prometheus
4 38 (16.03%) Grafana
5 13 (5.49%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (4.64%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.95%) Argo
7 7 (2.95%) Consul
8 6 (2.53%) Karpenter
8 6 (2.53%) Kibana
9 5 (2.11%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.69%) Packer
11 3 (1.27%) Istio
11 3 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.27%) Puppet
12 2 (0.84%) linkerd
12 2 (0.84%) Salt
12 2 (0.84%) Suricata
Vendors
1 19 (8.02%) Splunk
2 18 (7.59%) Databricks
3 16 (6.75%) Cisco
4 15 (6.33%) Google
5 13 (5.49%) Fortinet
5 13 (5.49%) Red Hat
5 13 (5.49%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.06%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.06%) Microsoft
6 12 (5.06%) Palo Alto
7 10 (4.22%) CloudEndure
8 9 (3.80%) F5
8 9 (3.80%) Zscaler
9 8 (3.38%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.95%) CheckPoint
10 7 (2.95%) Citrix
10 7 (2.95%) Oracle
11 6 (2.53%) AVEVA
12 5 (2.11%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.11%) VMware