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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 441 457
Rank change year-on-year +28 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 241 83 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.76% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 54 93
10th Percentile £400 £413 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £576 £635 £645
90th Percentile £638 £718 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -7.50% -13.04% -2.13%
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 17,533 10,917 13,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 37.81% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 7,438 9,909
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 253 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% +31.02% -42.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.13 £70.75 £68.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -35.21%

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 30 May 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 16 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 30 May 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 +14 206 £518 -5.91% 31
London +19 124 £525 -7.49% 17
UK excluding London -30 88 £463 -7.50% 23
Work from Home -18 74 £513 -6.82% 19
North of England -57 26 £463 - 7
Midlands -39 25 £488 +2.63% 2
West Midlands -47 25 £488 +2.63% 2
North West -31 17 £495 +16.53% 4
South East -54 12 £533 -8.19% 7
Scotland +1 9 £440 -12.00% 2
East of England -29 8 £490 -4.39%
North East -20 5 £413 -
South West - 5 £475 - 3
Yorkshire -63 4 £491 -19.80% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 - 2
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 (16.18%) Confluence
2 11 (4.56%) nginx
3 6 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.24%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 238 (98.76%) AWS
2 133 (55.19%) Amazon EC2
3 131 (54.36%) Amazon S3
4 115 (47.72%) Serverless
5 109 (45.23%) AWS Lambda
6 106 (43.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 106 (43.98%) Amazon EKS
7 75 (31.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (23.24%) Azure
9 52 (21.58%) Route 53
10 50 (20.75%) GitHub
11 46 (19.09%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (16.18%) GCP
13 36 (14.94%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (13.28%) AWS CloudTrail
15 30 (12.45%) AWS KMS
16 27 (11.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 23 (9.54%) AWS Control Tower
18 19 (7.88%) AWS CodePipeline
19 18 (7.47%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (26.56%) Firewall
2 39 (16.18%) VPN
3 34 (14.11%) DNS
4 26 (10.79%) TCP/IP
5 21 (8.71%) Network Security
6 15 (6.22%) BGP
7 13 (5.39%) OSPF
8 12 (4.98%) WAN
9 11 (4.56%) OpenVPN
10 8 (3.32%) SSL
11 7 (2.90%) LAN
12 6 (2.49%) Wireless
13 5 (2.07%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.66%) NGFW
14 4 (1.66%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.66%) VLAN
15 3 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
16 2 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 2 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (29.46%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.30%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (7.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.64%) Power BI
5 13 (5.39%) DynamoDB
6 12 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (4.56%) MySQL
8 9 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.32%) Tableau
10 7 (2.90%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.49%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.49%) DocumentDB
12 5 (2.07%) Redis
13 4 (1.66%) Apache Hive
13 4 (1.66%) Big Data
13 4 (1.66%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.66%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.83%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 70 (29.05%) GitLab
1 70 (29.05%) Jenkins
2 37 (15.35%) JIRA
3 36 (14.94%) Git
4 21 (8.71%) Bitbucket
5 14 (5.81%) SonarQube
6 12 (4.98%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.66%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.24%) Snyk
10 2 (0.83%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.83%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.83%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.41%) AppScan
11 1 (0.41%) JUnit
11 1 (0.41%) sqlmap
General
1 66 (27.39%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.97%) Public Sector
3 37 (15.35%) Finance
4 20 (8.30%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.07%) Banking
7 5 (2.07%) Military
8 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.24%) Law
8 3 (1.24%) Legal
8 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.24%) Police
9 2 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.41%) Billing
10 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (30.29%) Architect
2 55 (22.82%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (18.67%) AWS Architect
4 33 (13.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (12.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (11.62%) Cloud Architect
7 24 (9.96%) AWS DevOps
8 23 (9.54%) Technical Architect
9 21 (8.71%) Security Engineer
9 21 (8.71%) Senior
10 17 (7.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (6.64%) Lead
11 16 (6.64%) Network Engineer
12 12 (4.98%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.98%) Site Engineer
12 12 (4.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (4.56%) Technical Manager
14 10 (4.15%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.79%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.05%) OpenID
3 15 (6.22%) Kafka
4 12 (4.98%) RESTful
5 11 (4.56%) LDAP
6 9 (3.73%) OAuth
6 9 (3.73%) OAuth2
6 9 (3.73%) REST
7 8 (3.32%) GraphQL
8 7 (2.90%) Apollo GraphQL
8 7 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.07%) SAML
9 5 (2.07%) Spring
9 5 (2.07%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.66%) gRPC
10 4 (1.66%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.66%) JPA
10 4 (1.66%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.24%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.24%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.05%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.39%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.07%) Replication
9 4 (1.66%) PKI
10 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.24%) NHS
10 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.24%) SCADA
11 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.26%) Linux
2 19 (7.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (7.05%) Windows
4 5 (2.07%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.24%) Unix
6 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) CentOS
7 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (61.83%) CI/CD
2 115 (47.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 114 (47.30%) DevOps
4 61 (25.31%) Observability
5 59 (24.48%) Containerisation
6 55 (22.82%) Agile
7 54 (22.41%) Roadmaps
8 48 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (19.50%) Cloud Security
9 47 (19.50%) Migration
10 41 (17.01%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (14.11%) Microservices
12 28 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (11.20%) Test Automation
14 26 (10.79%) Cost Optimisation
14 26 (10.79%) Infrastructure Automation
15 25 (10.37%) SIEM
15 25 (10.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (9.54%) Decision-Making
16 23 (9.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (39.42%) Python
2 57 (23.65%) Bash
3 31 (12.86%) Java
3 31 (12.86%) PowerShell
4 20 (8.30%) SQL
5 8 (3.32%) Groovy
5 8 (3.32%) Shell Script
5 8 (3.32%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.90%) Go
6 7 (2.90%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.07%) Perl
8 3 (1.24%) Bicep
8 3 (1.24%) Ruby
9 2 (0.83%) Cypher
9 2 (0.83%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.41%) C
10 1 (0.41%) Lisp
10 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 120 (49.79%) Security Cleared
2 110 (45.64%) SC Cleared
3 53 (21.99%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (8.71%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.56%) Degree
7 10 (4.15%) CISSP
7 10 (4.15%) SAFe Agilist
8 8 (3.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.49%) CCNP
10 6 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.83%) PMP
13 1 (0.41%) CEH
13 1 (0.41%) GIAC
13 1 (0.41%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.98%) NIST
2 11 (4.56%) SLA
3 10 (4.15%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.73%) NCSC
5 8 (3.32%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.90%) PMO
6 7 (2.90%) QA
7 6 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (2.07%) GDPR
9 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.41%) COBIT
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 79 (32.78%) Docker
2 18 (7.47%) Squid
3 16 (6.64%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.07%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.24%) HDFS
7 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.41%) Firmware
8 1 (0.41%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 159 (65.98%) Terraform
2 92 (38.17%) Kubernetes
3 58 (24.07%) Grafana
4 56 (23.24%) Prometheus
5 39 (16.18%) Ansible
6 12 (4.98%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.15%) FortiGate
8 9 (3.73%) Puppet
9 8 (3.32%) Consul
10 6 (2.49%) Suricata
11 5 (2.07%) Salt
12 4 (1.66%) Argo
12 4 (1.66%) Istio
12 4 (1.66%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.66%) Kibana
12 4 (1.66%) linkerd
12 4 (1.66%) Packer
13 3 (1.24%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.83%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 21 (8.71%) Red Hat
2 18 (7.47%) Google
2 18 (7.47%) Splunk
3 16 (6.64%) Dynatrace
4 15 (6.22%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.98%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.56%) Cisco
7 10 (4.15%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.15%) Tenable
7 10 (4.15%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.32%) Citrix
9 7 (2.90%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.90%) Databricks
10 6 (2.49%) AVEVA
10 6 (2.49%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.49%) CloudEndure
10 6 (2.49%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.07%) VMware
12 4 (1.66%) F5
12 4 (1.66%) Trend Micro