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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 439 449
Rank change year-on-year +31 +10 +49
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 228 83 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 0.77% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 55 93
10th Percentile £400 £413 £401
25th Percentile £450 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £576 £660 £645
90th Percentile £637 £738 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -6.38%
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 17,337 10,775 13,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.57% 37.71% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 7,387 9,882
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.37% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 238 344
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -39.80%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.10 £72.50 £66.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 27 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 15 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 27 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 +5 194 £519 -7.40% 32
London +12 120 £525 -8.70% 17
UK excluding London -56 80 £475 -5.00% 23
Work from Home -5 68 £521 -6.08% 19
West Midlands -40 25 £488 +2.63% 3
Midlands -49 25 £488 +2.63% 3
North of England -57 21 £548 +9.50% 6
North West -31 12 £568 +33.53% 4
South East -50 10 £533 -8.19% 8
Scotland +3 9 £440 -12.00% 2
East of England -26 8 £490 -6.67%
North East -20 5 £413 -
South West - 5 £475 - 3
Yorkshire -52 4 £491 -19.80% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 - 1

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 (17.11%) Confluence
2 11 (4.82%) nginx
3 6 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.88%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.44%) Apache
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 225 (98.68%) AWS
2 125 (54.82%) Amazon EC2
3 124 (54.39%) Amazon S3
4 105 (46.05%) Serverless
5 101 (44.30%) Amazon EKS
5 101 (44.30%) AWS Lambda
6 97 (42.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 71 (31.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (21.93%) GitHub
9 49 (21.49%) Azure
10 48 (21.05%) Route 53
11 40 (17.54%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (13.60%) GCP
14 30 (13.16%) AWS KMS
15 28 (12.28%) AWS CloudTrail
16 27 (11.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 22 (9.65%) AWS Control Tower
18 19 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
19 18 (7.89%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 58 (25.44%) Firewall
2 40 (17.54%) VPN
3 34 (14.91%) DNS
4 26 (11.40%) TCP/IP
5 19 (8.33%) Network Security
6 15 (6.58%) BGP
7 13 (5.70%) OSPF
8 12 (5.26%) WAN
9 11 (4.82%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.95%) SSL
11 7 (3.07%) LAN
12 6 (2.63%) Wireless
13 5 (2.19%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.75%) NGFW
14 4 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.75%) VLAN
15 3 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
16 2 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 2 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (27.63%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.77%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (7.02%) Power BI
6 13 (5.70%) DynamoDB
7 12 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (4.82%) MySQL
9 9 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.51%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.51%) Tableau
11 7 (3.07%) DocumentDB
12 6 (2.63%) Redis
13 5 (2.19%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (2.19%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.75%) Apache Hive
14 4 (1.75%) Big Data
14 4 (1.75%) Hadoop
15 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
15 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 68 (29.82%) GitLab
1 68 (29.82%) Jenkins
2 37 (16.23%) JIRA
3 34 (14.91%) Git
4 21 (9.21%) Bitbucket
5 13 (5.70%) SonarQube
6 10 (4.39%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.75%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.32%) Snyk
10 2 (0.88%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.88%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.88%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.44%) AppScan
11 1 (0.44%) JUnit
11 1 (0.44%) MLflow
11 1 (0.44%) sqlmap
General
1 64 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 63 (27.63%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.60%) Finance
4 19 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.19%) Military
8 4 (1.75%) Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Legal
9 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.32%) Police
10 2 (0.88%) Games
10 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.88%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.44%) Billing
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (30.26%) Architect
2 53 (23.25%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (17.98%) AWS Architect
4 30 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.28%) Cloud Architect
6 26 (11.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (10.09%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (9.21%) Senior
9 19 (8.33%) Technical Architect
10 16 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 16 (7.02%) Network Engineer
11 15 (6.58%) Lead
11 15 (6.58%) Security Engineer
12 13 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (5.26%) Site Engineer
13 12 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (4.82%) Technical Manager
15 10 (4.39%) Scrum Master
15 10 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.96%) AWS CDK
2 16 (7.02%) Kafka
3 15 (6.58%) OpenID
4 13 (5.70%) RESTful
5 11 (4.82%) LDAP
6 10 (4.39%) REST
7 8 (3.51%) GraphQL
8 7 (3.07%) Apollo GraphQL
8 7 (3.07%) OAuth
8 7 (3.07%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.63%) Spring
9 6 (2.63%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.75%) gRPC
10 4 (1.75%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.75%) JPA
10 4 (1.75%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Node.js
11 3 (1.32%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.30%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.46%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.63%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.19%) Replication
9 4 (1.75%) PKI
10 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.32%) NHS
10 3 (1.32%) SCADA
11 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.44%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.23%) Linux
2 12 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (5.26%) Windows
3 5 (2.19%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.32%) Unix
5 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) CentOS
6 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (59.65%) CI/CD
2 105 (46.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 100 (43.86%) DevOps
4 54 (23.68%) Containerisation
5 51 (22.37%) Observability
6 47 (20.61%) Agile
7 46 (20.18%) Roadmaps
8 45 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (19.74%) Migration
9 39 (17.11%) Platform Engineering
10 38 (16.67%) Cloud Security
11 31 (13.60%) Microservices
12 27 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (11.40%) Test Automation
14 24 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (10.09%) Cost Optimisation
15 23 (10.09%) Decision-Making
15 23 (10.09%) Incident Response
16 22 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (9.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 85 (37.28%) Python
2 45 (19.74%) Bash
3 24 (10.53%) Java
4 22 (9.65%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.21%) SQL
6 8 (3.51%) Groovy
6 8 (3.51%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.51%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.07%) Go
7 7 (3.07%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.19%) Perl
9 3 (1.32%) Bicep
9 3 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.32%) Ruby
10 2 (0.88%) Cypher
11 1 (0.44%) C
11 1 (0.44%) Lisp
11 1 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 117 (51.32%) Security Cleared
2 106 (46.49%) SC Cleared
3 45 (19.74%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.58%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.39%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (3.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.63%) CCNP
8 6 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.75%) CISSP
10 4 (1.75%) Degree
11 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.88%) PMP
12 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.26%) NIST
2 11 (4.82%) SLA
3 10 (4.39%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.51%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.51%) NCSC
6 7 (3.07%) PMO
7 6 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.63%) QA
8 5 (2.19%) GDPR
9 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.44%) COBIT
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 71 (31.14%) Docker
2 18 (7.89%) Squid
3 15 (6.58%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.19%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.32%) HDFS
7 3 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.32%) vSphere
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 145 (63.60%) Terraform
2 84 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 56 (24.56%) Grafana
4 53 (23.25%) Prometheus
5 36 (15.79%) Ansible
6 12 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.39%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.51%) Consul
8 8 (3.51%) Puppet
9 6 (2.63%) Suricata
10 5 (2.19%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.75%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.75%) Kibana
11 4 (1.75%) linkerd
11 4 (1.75%) Packer
11 4 (1.75%) Salt
12 3 (1.32%) Argo
12 3 (1.32%) Istio
12 3 (1.32%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.88%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 18 (7.89%) Splunk
2 15 (6.58%) Red Hat
3 14 (6.14%) Dynatrace
4 13 (5.70%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.26%) Google
5 12 (5.26%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.82%) Cisco
7 10 (4.39%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.39%) Tenable
7 10 (4.39%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.51%) Citrix
8 8 (3.51%) Databricks
9 7 (3.07%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.63%) AVEVA
10 6 (2.63%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.63%) CloudEndure
10 6 (2.63%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.19%) VMware
12 4 (1.75%) F5
12 4 (1.75%) Trend Micro