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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 462 461
Rank change year-on-year +85 -1 +48
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 201 89 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 0.69% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 48 140
10th Percentile £400 £487 £463
25th Percentile £463 £526 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £577
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +4.08% -9.21%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £650
90th Percentile £713 £787 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -24.62% +13.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 13,382 12,847 16,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.65% 35.17% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,014 8,457 11,795
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 166 318
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.90 £14.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +45.61%
75th Percentile £44.43 £64.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.05 £70.00 £78.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.74 £22.50
% change year-on-year -37.75% +49.93% +15.38%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +64 150 £525 -12.50% 130
UK excluding London +14 90 £490 -24.62% 116
London +14 65 £600 +9.09% 71
Work from Home +51 60 £567 -3.16% 51
West Midlands +9 37 £475 - 4
Midlands -2 37 £475 - 6
North of England -12 28 £535 +12.63% 17
Yorkshire -13 18 £525 -8.70% 3
Scotland - 15 £500 - 25
South East +6 6 £300 - 55
North West -12 6 £518 +21.76% 12
North East -7 4 £575 - 2
East of England -12 4 £500 - 4
South West -4 3 £675 +3.85% 3

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 31 (15.42%) Confluence
2 13 (6.47%) nginx
3 4 (1.99%) Apache
4 3 (1.49%) SAS
5 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.50%) JBoss
6 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (5.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 200 (99.50%) AWS
2 140 (69.65%) Amazon EC2
2 140 (69.65%) Amazon S3
3 114 (56.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 73 (36.32%) Serverless
5 72 (35.82%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (32.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 61 (30.35%) GitHub
8 54 (26.87%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (25.37%) Amazon ELB
10 49 (24.38%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (20.90%) GitHub Actions
12 41 (20.40%) Azure
13 37 (18.41%) AWS KMS
14 33 (16.42%) Route 53
15 23 (11.44%) Datadog
16 22 (10.95%) AWS Direct Connect
17 19 (9.45%) AWS CloudTrail
18 17 (8.46%) AWS Fargate
19 16 (7.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 80 (39.80%) Firewall
2 78 (38.81%) DNS
3 47 (23.38%) VPN
4 27 (13.43%) TCP/IP
5 24 (11.94%) SMTP
5 24 (11.94%) SSL
6 22 (10.95%) FTP
6 22 (10.95%) HTTP
6 22 (10.95%) Network Security
6 22 (10.95%) SSH
7 13 (6.47%) WAN
8 12 (5.97%) IMAP
8 12 (5.97%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (5.47%) DHCP
10 9 (4.48%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.98%) BGP
11 8 (3.98%) LAN
11 8 (3.98%) Wireless
12 7 (3.48%) OSPF
12 7 (3.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (46.77%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (13.93%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (10.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (8.96%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.97%) MySQL
6 11 (5.47%) DynamoDB
7 8 (3.98%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.48%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.48%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.49%) MariaDB
9 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.49%) Metadata
11 2 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.00%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (1.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 110 (54.73%) Jenkins
2 82 (40.80%) Git
3 70 (34.83%) GitLab
4 37 (18.41%) JIRA
5 24 (11.94%) Vagrant
6 10 (4.98%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (3.98%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.99%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.00%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.50%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) Metasploit
General
1 54 (26.87%) Public Sector
2 38 (18.91%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.45%) Finance
4 12 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (5.47%) Banking
6 9 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.99%) Military
9 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Legal
9 2 (1.00%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.50%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (40.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (29.35%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (19.90%) AWS DevOps
3 40 (19.90%) Senior
4 37 (18.41%) Architect
5 36 (17.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 32 (15.92%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (13.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 25 (12.44%) AWS Architect
9 21 (10.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 21 (10.45%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (9.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 17 (8.46%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (6.47%) Lead
14 12 (5.97%) Network Engineer
15 11 (5.47%) Administrator
15 11 (5.47%) AWS Solution Architect
15 11 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (4.98%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.46%) Elastic Stack
1 17 (8.46%) Kafka
2 12 (5.97%) LDAP
3 9 (4.48%) AWS CDK
3 9 (4.48%) Node.js
4 7 (3.48%) cloud-init
4 7 (3.48%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.49%) JSON
5 5 (2.49%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 5 (2.49%) REST
6 3 (1.49%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (1.49%) Middleware
6 3 (1.49%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.00%) .NET
7 2 (1.00%) React
7 2 (1.00%) RESTful
7 2 (1.00%) SOAP
7 2 (1.00%) Spring
7 2 (1.00%) Swagger
8 1 (0.50%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.42%) Replication
2 25 (12.44%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.98%) PKI
6 7 (3.48%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.49%) Clustering
8 5 (2.49%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.49%) NHS
8 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.00%) Life Science
12 1 (0.50%) CSOC
12 1 (0.50%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (34.83%) Linux
2 35 (17.41%) Windows
3 27 (13.43%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (11.94%) VMS
5 15 (7.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (5.97%) Ubuntu
6 12 (5.97%) Unix
7 7 (3.48%) CentOS
7 7 (3.48%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.50%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.50%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (71.14%) DevOps
2 125 (62.19%) CI/CD
3 119 (59.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (22.39%) Containerisation
4 45 (22.39%) Infrastructure Automation
5 44 (21.89%) High Availability
6 43 (21.39%) Cloud Security
7 39 (19.40%) Configuration Management
7 39 (19.40%) Incident Response
8 37 (18.41%) Platform Engineering
9 34 (16.92%) Cost Optimisation
10 33 (16.42%) Observability
11 30 (14.93%) Patch Management
12 29 (14.43%) Mentoring
13 27 (13.43%) Agile
14 26 (12.94%) Change Management
15 25 (12.44%) DevSecOps
16 23 (11.44%) Performance Tuning
17 21 (10.45%) Migration
18 18 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 119 (59.20%) Python
2 61 (30.35%) Bash
3 42 (20.90%) PowerShell
4 25 (12.44%) Groovy
5 24 (11.94%) Java
6 22 (10.95%) Perl
7 18 (8.96%) SQL
8 14 (6.97%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.98%) Go
10 6 (2.99%) Ruby
11 3 (1.49%) CodeQL
11 3 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.50%) Bicep
12 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.50%) Korn
12 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 89 (44.28%) Security Cleared
2 81 (40.30%) SC Cleared
3 50 (24.88%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.96%) Degree
5 15 (7.46%) Azure Certification
6 14 (6.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.99%) CCNP
10 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.99%) CCSP
11 3 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.49%) CCIE
11 3 (1.49%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.49%) CISSP
11 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.00%) CCNA
12 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.00%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.45%) GDPR
2 16 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.97%) NIST
3 12 (5.97%) PCI DSS
4 10 (4.98%) NCSC
5 7 (3.48%) QA
6 4 (1.99%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.49%) SLA
8 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.50%) JSP 440
System Software
1 100 (49.75%) Docker
2 22 (10.95%) DFS Replication
3 19 (9.45%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.97%) Dovecot
4 12 (5.97%) Postfix
4 12 (5.97%) Squid
5 6 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (2.49%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.49%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.49%) KVM
8 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 161 (80.10%) Terraform
2 61 (30.35%) Prometheus
3 60 (29.85%) Kubernetes
4 59 (29.35%) Ansible
4 59 (29.35%) Grafana
5 13 (6.47%) Nessus
6 11 (5.47%) Packer
7 10 (4.98%) Proxmox
7 10 (4.98%) Puppet
8 8 (3.98%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (2.99%) Argo
9 6 (2.99%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.99%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.49%) Nagios
11 3 (1.49%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.00%) HAProxy
12 2 (1.00%) Kibana
12 2 (1.00%) Kustomize
12 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (15.92%) Palo Alto
2 28 (13.93%) F5
3 26 (12.94%) ServiceNow
4 23 (11.44%) CheckPoint
5 16 (7.96%) Oracle
5 16 (7.96%) Splunk
6 12 (5.97%) Jaspersoft
7 11 (5.47%) Dynatrace
8 10 (4.98%) Cisco
9 8 (3.98%) Fortinet
9 8 (3.98%) Microsoft
9 8 (3.98%) Okta
10 7 (3.48%) VMware
11 6 (2.99%) Commvault
11 6 (2.99%) Meraki
12 5 (2.49%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.49%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.99%) CloudEndure
13 4 (1.99%) Databricks
13 4 (1.99%) Red Hat