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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 434 455
Rank change year-on-year +59 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 224 100 145
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 0.83% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 52 115
10th Percentile £368 £508 £475
25th Percentile £442 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £628 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.64% +9.26% -11.54%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £694
90th Percentile £709 £750 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £685 £550
% change year-on-year -30.66% +24.55% -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 14,111 12,063 14,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.14% 36.23% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,669 8,042 10,715
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 174 265
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.65 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%
75th Percentile £56.50 £44.90 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +7.35% +15.14% +7.69%

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 December 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 30 December 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 +23 164 £550 -14.40% 297
UK excluding London +2 100 £475 -30.66% 288
London +16 83 £600 +6.19% 45
Work from Home +24 60 £589 +0.68% 191
West Midlands 0 31 £475 - 26
Midlands -19 31 £475 - 52
Scotland - 29 £411 - 20
North of England -42 27 £550 -24.14% 68
Yorkshire -37 16 £525 -27.59% 26
South East -3 11 £525 - 64
North West -22 6 £518 -13.75% 37
North East -4 5 £575 -23.33% 5
South West -14 4 £488 -28.83% 33
East of England -17 1 £600 - 39

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 28 (12.50%) Confluence
2 11 (4.91%) nginx
3 9 (4.02%) Apache
4 8 (3.57%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.79%) SAS
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 10 (4.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 223 (99.55%) AWS
2 145 (64.73%) Amazon S3
3 138 (61.61%) Amazon EC2
4 113 (50.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 94 (41.96%) Serverless
6 93 (41.52%) AWS Lambda
7 91 (40.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 68 (30.36%) GitHub
9 64 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
10 60 (26.79%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (21.88%) Azure
12 47 (20.98%) GitHub Actions
13 46 (20.54%) Amazon ELB
14 38 (16.96%) AWS KMS
15 34 (15.18%) Route 53
16 24 (10.71%) GCP
17 22 (9.82%) Entra ID
18 21 (9.38%) Datadog
19 20 (8.93%) AWS Direct Connect
20 19 (8.48%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 77 (34.38%) Firewall
2 69 (30.80%) DNS
3 54 (24.11%) VPN
4 27 (12.05%) TCP/IP
5 26 (11.61%) SSL
6 25 (11.16%) Network Security
7 17 (7.59%) FTP
7 17 (7.59%) HTTP
7 17 (7.59%) SMTP
7 17 (7.59%) SSH
8 13 (5.80%) WAN
9 11 (4.91%) Wireless
10 10 (4.46%) DHCP
10 10 (4.46%) IMAP
10 10 (4.46%) OpenLDAP
10 10 (4.46%) SD-WAN
11 9 (4.02%) BGP
11 9 (4.02%) LAN
12 8 (3.57%) OSPF
13 7 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (41.07%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 18 (8.04%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (8.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (6.70%) DynamoDB
6 12 (5.36%) Data Lake
7 10 (4.46%) MySQL
8 8 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (3.57%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.23%) Redis
10 5 (2.23%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.79%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.34%) Big Data
12 3 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.34%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.34%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 108 (48.21%) Jenkins
2 87 (38.84%) GitLab
3 73 (32.59%) Git
4 37 (16.52%) JIRA
5 17 (7.59%) Vagrant
6 11 (4.91%) Bitbucket
7 10 (4.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.57%) Terragrunt
9 6 (2.68%) MLflow
10 3 (1.34%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.45%) JUnit
11 1 (0.45%) Maven
11 1 (0.45%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.45%) Snyk
General
1 64 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 44 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 40 (17.86%) Finance
4 15 (6.70%) Banking
5 12 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.23%) Military
7 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Legal
8 2 (0.89%) Publishing
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 75 (33.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (25.45%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (22.77%) Architect
4 49 (21.88%) Senior
5 39 (17.41%) AWS DevOps
6 36 (16.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 31 (13.84%) AWS Architect
7 31 (13.84%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (11.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 24 (10.71%) Lead
10 21 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (8.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 19 (8.48%) Cloud Architect
13 18 (8.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 13 (5.80%) Network Engineer
15 12 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 9 (4.02%) Lead DevOps
17 9 (4.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 8 (3.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.38%) Kafka
1 21 (9.38%) Node.js
2 18 (8.04%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (4.91%) AWS CDK
4 10 (4.46%) LDAP
5 8 (3.57%) PySpark
6 6 (2.68%) cloud-init
6 6 (2.68%) JSON
6 6 (2.68%) Keycloak
6 6 (2.68%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.23%) REST
7 5 (2.23%) RESTful
7 5 (2.23%) Spring
8 3 (1.34%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.34%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.34%) SignalR
8 3 (1.34%) YAML
9 2 (0.89%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 2 (0.89%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.71%) Replication
3 16 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (5.80%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.46%) NHS
5 10 (4.46%) PKI
6 6 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.68%) IVR
6 6 (2.68%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.23%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.23%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.34%) Life Science
9 3 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.89%) Clustering
11 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 68 (30.36%) Linux
2 28 (12.50%) Windows
3 20 (8.93%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (7.59%) VMS
5 11 (4.91%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.91%) Unix
6 10 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (3.13%) Windows Server
8 6 (2.68%) CentOS
9 2 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (63.39%) CI/CD
2 139 (62.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 135 (60.27%) DevOps
4 60 (26.79%) Containerisation
5 50 (22.32%) Incident Response
6 49 (21.88%) High Availability
7 44 (19.64%) Cloud Security
8 43 (19.20%) Infrastructure Automation
9 42 (18.75%) Observability
10 40 (17.86%) Migration
11 39 (17.41%) Cost Optimisation
12 33 (14.73%) Configuration Management
13 32 (14.29%) Mentoring
14 31 (13.84%) Platform Engineering
15 30 (13.39%) Agile
16 28 (12.50%) Roadmaps
17 25 (11.16%) DevSecOps
17 25 (11.16%) Microservices
18 23 (10.27%) Performance Tuning
19 22 (9.82%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 131 (58.48%) Python
2 65 (29.02%) Bash
3 41 (18.30%) PowerShell
4 28 (12.50%) Java
5 20 (8.93%) Perl
5 20 (8.93%) SQL
6 17 (7.59%) Groovy
7 13 (5.80%) Go
8 9 (4.02%) Ruby
8 9 (4.02%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.68%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.23%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.45%) Bicep
11 1 (0.45%) Cypher
11 1 (0.45%) Korn
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 94 (41.96%) Security Cleared
2 82 (36.61%) SC Cleared
3 65 (29.02%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (8.48%) Degree
6 15 (6.70%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.13%) CCNP
10 5 (2.23%) CCSP
10 5 (2.23%) CISSP
11 4 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.34%) CCIE
12 3 (1.34%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.34%) CCNA
12 3 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.89%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.61%) GDPR
2 22 (9.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.59%) PCI DSS
4 16 (7.14%) NCSC
5 14 (6.25%) NIST
6 7 (3.13%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.79%) QA
9 3 (1.34%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.34%) PMO
9 3 (1.34%) SLA
10 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
System Software
1 111 (49.55%) Docker
2 17 (7.59%) DFS Replication
3 16 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 11 (4.91%) Squid
5 10 (4.46%) Dovecot
5 10 (4.46%) Postfix
6 7 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (1.79%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.34%) KVM
10 2 (0.89%) HDFS
11 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 175 (78.13%) Terraform
2 68 (30.36%) Kubernetes
3 65 (29.02%) Ansible
4 56 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 55 (24.55%) Grafana
6 11 (4.91%) Nessus
7 10 (4.46%) Packer
7 10 (4.46%) Proxmox
8 9 (4.02%) Puppet
9 7 (3.13%) Argo
9 7 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (2.68%) Karpenter
10 6 (2.68%) Kibana
11 5 (2.23%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.79%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.34%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (15.63%) Palo Alto
2 29 (12.95%) F5
3 26 (11.61%) CheckPoint
4 22 (9.82%) ServiceNow
5 19 (8.48%) Cisco
6 17 (7.59%) Splunk
7 12 (5.36%) Oracle
8 11 (4.91%) Databricks
8 11 (4.91%) Dynatrace
8 11 (4.91%) Fortinet
9 10 (4.46%) CloudEndure
9 10 (4.46%) Jaspersoft
9 10 (4.46%) Microsoft
10 7 (3.13%) Citrix
10 7 (3.13%) Commvault
10 7 (3.13%) Okta
11 6 (2.68%) Meraki
11 6 (2.68%) VMware
11 6 (2.68%) Zscaler
12 5 (2.23%) Avaya