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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 441 448
Rank change year-on-year +61 +7 +27
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 220 100 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 0.83% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 52 114
10th Percentile £368 £508 £475
25th Percentile £447 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £628 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +9.26% -11.54%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £694
90th Percentile £700 £750 £809
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 14,137 12,097 14,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.17% 36.23% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,689 8,069 10,642
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 312 176 265
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £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 £56.69 £44.71 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.86 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +11.06% +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 31 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 31 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 +27 165 £550 -14.40% 55
UK excluding London +13 99 £475 -30.66% 33
London +27 86 £600 +6.19% 32
Work from Home +22 57 £600 +2.56% 38
West Midlands -3 31 £475 - 3
Midlands -11 31 £475 - 3
Scotland - 28 £411 - 3
North of England -36 27 £550 -24.14% 8
Yorkshire -39 16 £525 -27.59%
South East -8 11 £525 - 7
North West -15 6 £518 -13.75% 8
North East -6 5 £575 -23.33%
South West -14 4 £488 -28.83% 6
East of England -19 1 £600 - 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 28 (12.73%) Confluence
2 11 (5.00%) nginx
3 9 (4.09%) Apache
4 8 (3.64%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.82%) SAS
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 219 (99.55%) AWS
2 141 (64.09%) Amazon S3
3 131 (59.55%) Amazon EC2
4 110 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 92 (41.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 90 (40.91%) Serverless
7 89 (40.45%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
9 65 (29.55%) GitHub
10 62 (28.18%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (22.27%) Azure
12 46 (20.91%) Amazon ELB
13 44 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (17.27%) Route 53
15 37 (16.82%) AWS KMS
16 24 (10.91%) GCP
17 22 (10.00%) Entra ID
18 20 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
18 20 (9.09%) Datadog
19 19 (8.64%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 78 (35.45%) Firewall
2 72 (32.73%) DNS
3 49 (22.27%) VPN
4 28 (12.73%) TCP/IP
5 26 (11.82%) SSL
6 25 (11.36%) Network Security
7 17 (7.73%) FTP
7 17 (7.73%) HTTP
7 17 (7.73%) SMTP
7 17 (7.73%) SSH
8 13 (5.91%) WAN
9 12 (5.45%) Wireless
10 10 (4.55%) BGP
10 10 (4.55%) DHCP
10 10 (4.55%) IMAP
10 10 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
10 10 (4.55%) SD-WAN
11 9 (4.09%) LAN
11 9 (4.09%) OSPF
12 7 (3.18%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (9.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 21 (9.55%) MongoDB
4 18 (8.18%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (7.73%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.91%) MySQL
7 12 (5.45%) Data Lake
8 8 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (3.64%) Delta Lake
8 8 (3.64%) Redis
9 7 (3.18%) DocumentDB
10 6 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.73%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.27%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.82%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.36%) Big Data
13 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 110 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 89 (40.45%) GitLab
3 73 (33.18%) Git
4 37 (16.82%) JIRA
5 17 (7.73%) Vagrant
6 11 (5.00%) Bitbucket
7 10 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.64%) Terragrunt
9 6 (2.73%) MLflow
10 3 (1.36%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.45%) JUnit
11 1 (0.45%) Maven
11 1 (0.45%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.45%) Snyk
General
1 63 (28.64%) Public Sector
2 44 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.73%) Finance
4 15 (6.82%) Banking
5 12 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.27%) Military
7 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.91%) Legal
7 2 (0.91%) Publishing
8 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 70 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (23.64%) Architect
3 51 (23.18%) AWS Engineer
4 49 (22.27%) Senior
5 34 (15.45%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (14.55%) AWS Architect
7 31 (14.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 31 (14.09%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (11.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 25 (11.36%) Lead
9 22 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (9.55%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 18 (8.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 14 (6.36%) Network Engineer
14 12 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 9 (4.09%) Lead DevOps
16 9 (4.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 8 (3.64%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.45%) Kafka
2 21 (9.55%) Node.js
3 18 (8.18%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (5.00%) AWS CDK
5 10 (4.55%) LDAP
6 8 (3.64%) PySpark
6 8 (3.64%) REST
6 8 (3.64%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.18%) RESTful
7 7 (3.18%) Spring
8 6 (2.73%) cloud-init
8 6 (2.73%) Keycloak
8 6 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.27%) JSON
9 5 (2.27%) OAuth
9 5 (2.27%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.27%) OpenID
10 3 (1.36%) JPA
10 3 (1.36%) SignalR
10 3 (1.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.91%) Replication
3 16 (7.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (5.91%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.55%) NHS
5 10 (4.55%) PKI
6 9 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.73%) IVR
7 6 (2.73%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.27%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.36%) Life Science
10 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.91%) Clustering
12 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 68 (30.91%) Linux
2 28 (12.73%) Windows
3 20 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (7.73%) VMS
5 11 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 11 (5.00%) Unix
6 10 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (3.18%) Windows Server
8 6 (2.73%) CentOS
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (62.73%) CI/CD
2 136 (61.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 130 (59.09%) DevOps
4 60 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 50 (22.73%) Incident Response
6 49 (22.27%) High Availability
7 45 (20.45%) Observability
8 42 (19.09%) Cost Optimisation
9 40 (18.18%) Migration
10 38 (17.27%) Cloud Security
10 38 (17.27%) Infrastructure Automation
11 33 (15.00%) Configuration Management
11 33 (15.00%) Mentoring
12 31 (14.09%) Platform Engineering
12 31 (14.09%) Roadmaps
13 27 (12.27%) Microservices
14 26 (11.82%) Performance Tuning
15 25 (11.36%) DevSecOps
16 24 (10.91%) Agile
17 21 (9.55%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 131 (59.55%) Python
2 65 (29.55%) Bash
3 41 (18.64%) PowerShell
4 30 (13.64%) Java
5 23 (10.45%) SQL
6 20 (9.09%) Perl
7 17 (7.73%) Groovy
8 13 (5.91%) Go
9 9 (4.09%) Ruby
9 9 (4.09%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.73%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.45%) Bicep
12 1 (0.45%) Cypher
12 1 (0.45%) Korn
12 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 90 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 79 (35.91%) SC Cleared
3 64 (29.09%) AWS Certification
4 23 (10.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (8.18%) Degree
6 15 (6.82%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (3.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.18%) CCNP
10 5 (2.27%) CCSP
10 5 (2.27%) CISSP
11 4 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.36%) CCIE
12 3 (1.36%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.36%) CCNA
12 3 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.91%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.91%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.82%) GDPR
2 25 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (9.09%) PCI DSS
4 17 (7.73%) NIST
5 16 (7.27%) NCSC
6 7 (3.18%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.18%) QA
7 6 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.36%) PMO
8 3 (1.36%) SLA
9 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
System Software
1 113 (51.36%) Docker
2 17 (7.73%) DFS Replication
3 16 (7.27%) Active Directory
4 11 (5.00%) Squid
5 10 (4.55%) Dovecot
5 10 (4.55%) Postfix
6 7 (3.18%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (1.82%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.36%) KVM
10 2 (0.91%) HDFS
11 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 171 (77.73%) Terraform
2 70 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 65 (29.55%) Ansible
4 55 (25.00%) Grafana
4 55 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.00%) Nessus
6 10 (4.55%) Packer
6 10 (4.55%) Proxmox
7 9 (4.09%) Puppet
8 7 (3.18%) Argo
8 7 (3.18%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (2.73%) Karpenter
9 6 (2.73%) Kibana
10 5 (2.27%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.82%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.36%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (16.36%) Palo Alto
2 29 (13.18%) F5
3 26 (11.82%) CheckPoint
4 22 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 19 (8.64%) Cisco
6 17 (7.73%) Splunk
7 12 (5.45%) Fortinet
7 12 (5.45%) Oracle
8 11 (5.00%) Databricks
8 11 (5.00%) Dynatrace
9 10 (4.55%) CloudEndure
9 10 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
9 10 (4.55%) Microsoft
10 7 (3.18%) Citrix
10 7 (3.18%) Commvault
10 7 (3.18%) Okta
11 6 (2.73%) Meraki
11 6 (2.73%) VMware
11 6 (2.73%) Zscaler
12 5 (2.27%) Avaya