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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 434 473
Rank change year-on-year +47 +39 -20
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 235 81 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 0.73% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 52 93
10th Percentile £368 £413 £405
25th Percentile £425 £534 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £597 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +8.59% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £675
90th Percentile £650 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £650 £588
% change year-on-year -26.15% +10.64% -1.05%

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 16,431 11,080 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.90% 38.11% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,210 7,785 10,216
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
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 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 217 352
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.50 £39.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £23.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +92.47% +32.62% -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 31 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 31 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 +8 191 £525 -13.58% 38
London +9 113 £525 -13.58% 18
UK excluding London -29 93 £480 -26.15% 23
Work from Home -4 62 £528 -9.52% 24
North of England -55 27 £550 -24.14% 5
Scotland +27 25 £402 -8.11%
West Midlands -37 20 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -47 20 £500 +5.26% 2
Yorkshire -49 12 £525 -27.59% 1
South East -46 11 £404 -30.34% 9
North West -27 9 £568 +33.53% 3
East of England -28 8 £530 +6.00% 3
North East -9 6 £600 -20.00% 1
South West - 3 £450 - 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 31 (13.19%) Confluence
2 9 (3.83%) nginx
3 7 (2.98%) Apache
4 6 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.55%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.13%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 235 (100.00%) AWS
2 140 (59.57%) Amazon S3
3 133 (56.60%) Amazon EC2
4 119 (50.64%) Serverless
5 117 (49.79%) AWS Lambda
6 99 (42.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 93 (39.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 89 (37.87%) Amazon EKS
9 57 (24.26%) Amazon ECS
10 55 (23.40%) GitHub
11 49 (20.85%) Route 53
12 47 (20.00%) Azure
13 42 (17.87%) GCP
14 40 (17.02%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (11.06%) AWS KMS
16 22 (9.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 22 (9.36%) AWS Control Tower
17 20 (8.51%) AWS CloudTrail
18 19 (8.09%) Amazon ELB
18 19 (8.09%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 65 (27.66%) Firewall
2 52 (22.13%) VPN
3 40 (17.02%) DNS
4 23 (9.79%) TCP/IP
5 20 (8.51%) Network Security
6 19 (8.09%) BGP
7 17 (7.23%) OSPF
8 12 (5.11%) WAN
9 11 (4.68%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.83%) LAN
10 9 (3.83%) SD-WAN
10 9 (3.83%) SSL
10 9 (3.83%) Wireless
11 8 (3.40%) VLAN
12 6 (2.55%) EIGRP
13 5 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (2.13%) DHCP
13 5 (2.13%) MPLS
13 5 (2.13%) VXLAN
13 5 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (34.04%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.23%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (7.23%) DynamoDB
4 15 (6.38%) Power BI
5 13 (5.53%) MySQL
6 12 (5.11%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (4.68%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (3.83%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.40%) DocumentDB
10 8 (3.40%) Redis
10 8 (3.40%) Tableau
11 6 (2.55%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.13%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.28%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 80 (34.04%) Jenkins
2 78 (33.19%) GitLab
3 36 (15.32%) Git
4 35 (14.89%) JIRA
5 20 (8.51%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.83%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (2.55%) MLflow
8 5 (2.13%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.70%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.70%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.28%) Snyk
11 2 (0.85%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.85%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.43%) AppScan
12 1 (0.43%) JUnit
12 1 (0.43%) Maven
12 1 (0.43%) sqlmap
General
1 61 (25.96%) Public Sector
2 60 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 46 (19.57%) Finance
4 18 (7.66%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.68%) Banking
7 8 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Legal
10 2 (0.85%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 69 (29.36%) Architect
2 45 (19.15%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (16.60%) AWS Architect
4 37 (15.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (13.62%) Senior
6 27 (11.49%) Cloud Architect
7 21 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (8.94%) Lead
8 16 (6.81%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (6.81%) Network Engineer
9 15 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (5.96%) Security Engineer
11 13 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.11%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (4.68%) Site Engineer
13 11 (4.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.68%) Technical Manager
14 10 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.26%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.21%) AWS CDK
2 22 (9.36%) Kafka
3 18 (7.66%) Node.js
4 15 (6.38%) OpenID
5 13 (5.53%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (4.68%) REST
7 9 (3.83%) LDAP
7 9 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.83%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.40%) OAuth
8 8 (3.40%) OAuth2
8 8 (3.40%) PySpark
8 8 (3.40%) RESTful
8 8 (3.40%) Spring
9 6 (2.55%) JSON
10 4 (1.70%) gRPC
10 4 (1.70%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.70%) JPA
10 4 (1.70%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.36%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.26%) NHS
6 8 (3.40%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.98%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.55%) IVR
9 5 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.13%) PKI
10 4 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.28%) Replication
11 3 (1.28%) SCADA
11 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.30%) Linux
2 10 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.83%) Windows
4 4 (1.70%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.85%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 126 (53.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 108 (45.96%) DevOps
4 59 (25.11%) Containerisation
5 57 (24.26%) Migration
5 57 (24.26%) Observability
6 47 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 43 (18.30%) Incident Response
8 39 (16.60%) Agile
8 39 (16.60%) Cloud Security
8 39 (16.60%) Cost Optimisation
9 37 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (12.77%) Microservices
12 29 (12.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 27 (11.49%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (11.06%) Infrastructure Automation
15 25 (10.64%) Cost Management
15 25 (10.64%) High Availability
16 24 (10.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 109 (46.38%) Python
2 48 (20.43%) Bash
3 31 (13.19%) Java
4 22 (9.36%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.36%) SQL
5 9 (3.83%) Go
5 9 (3.83%) Ruby
6 7 (2.98%) Perl
7 6 (2.55%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.55%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.55%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.13%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.85%) Bicep
9 2 (0.85%) Cypher
10 1 (0.43%) Groovy
10 1 (0.43%) Lisp
10 1 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 102 (43.40%) Security Cleared
2 89 (37.87%) SC Cleared
3 61 (25.96%) AWS Certification
4 25 (10.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.96%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.83%) CCNP
8 8 (3.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.40%) CISSP
8 8 (3.40%) Degree
9 7 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.13%) CCSP
11 4 (1.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.70%) CCIE
11 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.28%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.85%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.85%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (9.79%) PCI DSS
3 21 (8.94%) GDPR
4 19 (8.09%) NIST
5 12 (5.11%) SLA
6 11 (4.68%) Data Quality
7 10 (4.26%) PMO
8 9 (3.83%) NCSC
9 6 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (2.13%) QA
11 3 (1.28%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.43%) COBIT
12 1 (0.43%) GRC
12 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.43%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 88 (37.45%) Docker
2 11 (4.68%) Squid
3 10 (4.26%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.55%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.85%) HDFS
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) NLBS
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 160 (68.09%) Terraform
2 82 (34.89%) Kubernetes
3 44 (18.72%) Ansible
4 42 (17.87%) Prometheus
5 38 (16.17%) Grafana
6 12 (5.11%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.26%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.98%) Argo
8 7 (2.98%) Consul
9 6 (2.55%) Karpenter
9 6 (2.55%) Kibana
10 5 (2.13%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.70%) Packer
12 3 (1.28%) Istio
12 3 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.28%) Puppet
13 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.85%) Salt
13 2 (0.85%) Suricata
13 2 (0.85%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 19 (8.09%) Splunk
2 18 (7.66%) Databricks
3 17 (7.23%) Cisco
4 14 (5.96%) Google
5 13 (5.53%) Red Hat
5 13 (5.53%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.11%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.11%) Fortinet
6 12 (5.11%) Palo Alto
7 11 (4.68%) F5
7 11 (4.68%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.26%) CloudEndure
9 9 (3.83%) CheckPoint
9 9 (3.83%) Zscaler
10 7 (2.98%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.98%) Citrix
10 7 (2.98%) Oracle
11 6 (2.55%) AVEVA
11 6 (2.55%) VMware
12 5 (2.13%) SolarWinds