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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 437 471
Rank change year-on-year +26 +34 -11
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 244 89 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 0.79% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 60 84
10th Percentile £400 £413 £391
25th Percentile £450 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.47% -12.08%
75th Percentile £564 £616 £630
90th Percentile £623 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £475 £595
% change year-on-year +0.42% -20.17% -0.83%
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 17,960 11,288 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.80% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,998 7,611 10,028
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £636
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 594 277 365
10th Percentile £16.54 £15.13 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +29.55% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.81 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
% change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -22.36%

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 20 June 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 16 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 20 June 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 +35 208 £513 -2.38% 30
London +14 129 £519 -5.72% 11
UK excluding London -50 88 £477 +0.42% 31
Work from Home -5 76 £511 -7.05% 19
North of England -54 28 £475 +11.76% 9
Midlands -41 25 £494 +3.95% 3
West Midlands -42 25 £494 +3.95% 3
North West -28 18 £475 +11.76% 6
South East -56 9 £533 -8.19% 9
Scotland -6 8 £445 -11.10% 3
East of England -31 8 £490 -4.39%
North East -32 5 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -56 5 £500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 2
South West - 4 £500 - 5
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 38 (15.57%) Confluence
2 11 (4.51%) nginx
3 7 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 241 (98.77%) AWS
2 134 (54.92%) Amazon EC2
2 134 (54.92%) Amazon S3
3 120 (49.18%) Serverless
4 114 (46.72%) AWS Lambda
5 110 (45.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 108 (44.26%) Amazon EKS
7 67 (27.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (22.54%) Azure
9 48 (19.67%) Amazon ECS
9 48 (19.67%) Route 53
10 47 (19.26%) GitHub
11 32 (13.11%) GCP
11 32 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (10.66%) AWS CloudTrail
13 23 (9.43%) AWS KMS
14 20 (8.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 19 (7.79%) AWS CodePipeline
16 18 (7.38%) Snowflake
17 17 (6.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (26.23%) Firewall
2 38 (15.57%) VPN
3 30 (12.30%) DNS
4 29 (11.89%) TCP/IP
5 23 (9.43%) Network Security
6 16 (6.56%) BGP
6 16 (6.56%) WAN
7 13 (5.33%) OSPF
8 11 (4.51%) OpenVPN
9 8 (3.28%) LAN
9 8 (3.28%) SSL
10 6 (2.46%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.46%) Wireless
11 5 (2.05%) NGFW
11 5 (2.05%) VLAN
12 4 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (1.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (1.64%) IPsec
12 4 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (29.10%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (8.61%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.97%) Power BI
6 15 (6.15%) DynamoDB
7 13 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (4.10%) MySQL
9 9 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.28%) Tableau
11 6 (2.46%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.46%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.05%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.64%) Redis
14 3 (1.23%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.23%) Big Data
14 3 (1.23%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.23%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.23%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 72 (29.51%) GitLab
2 69 (28.28%) Jenkins
3 37 (15.16%) Git
3 37 (15.16%) JIRA
4 21 (8.61%) Bitbucket
5 14 (5.74%) SonarQube
6 13 (5.33%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.82%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.82%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.82%) Snyk
9 1 (0.41%) AppScan
9 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.41%) sqlmap
General
1 69 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.59%) Public Sector
3 30 (12.30%) Finance
4 20 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.46%) Banking
8 5 (2.05%) Military
9 4 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.64%) Law
9 4 (1.64%) Legal
10 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Police
11 2 (0.82%) Games
11 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Billing
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (26.64%) Architect
2 60 (24.59%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (17.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (14.75%) AWS Architect
5 33 (13.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (13.11%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (9.84%) Technical Architect
8 23 (9.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 20 (8.20%) Security Engineer
10 19 (7.79%) Senior
11 18 (7.38%) Network Engineer
12 15 (6.15%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (5.33%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
15 11 (4.51%) Lead
15 11 (4.51%) Scrum Master
15 11 (4.51%) Site Engineer
15 11 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (4.51%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.48%) AWS CDK
2 16 (6.56%) OpenID
3 14 (5.74%) Kafka
4 11 (4.51%) LDAP
4 11 (4.51%) RESTful
5 8 (3.28%) GraphQL
5 8 (3.28%) OAuth
5 8 (3.28%) OAuth2
5 8 (3.28%) REST
6 7 (2.87%) Apollo GraphQL
6 7 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.46%) SAML
8 4 (1.64%) gRPC
8 4 (1.64%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.64%) JPA
8 4 (1.64%) Spring
8 4 (1.64%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.64%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 62 (25.41%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.79%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.15%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.74%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.05%) Replication
9 4 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.64%) NHS
10 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.23%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.23%) SCADA
11 2 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.62%) Linux
2 22 (9.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (8.20%) Windows
4 5 (2.05%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.23%) Unix
5 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) CentOS
7 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (63.52%) CI/CD
2 127 (52.05%) DevOps
3 126 (51.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (26.23%) Containerisation
5 61 (25.00%) Agile
6 56 (22.95%) Observability
7 51 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (20.49%) Roadmaps
9 48 (19.67%) Cloud Security
10 45 (18.44%) Platform Engineering
11 40 (16.39%) Migration
12 33 (13.52%) Microservices
13 31 (12.70%) Infrastructure Automation
14 28 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (10.66%) Decision-Making
15 26 (10.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (10.66%) Test Automation
16 24 (9.84%) Change Management
16 24 (9.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 97 (39.75%) Python
2 59 (24.18%) Bash
3 33 (13.52%) Java
4 29 (11.89%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.20%) SQL
6 8 (3.28%) Go
6 8 (3.28%) Groovy
6 8 (3.28%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.28%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.87%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.64%) Perl
9 3 (1.23%) Bicep
9 3 (1.23%) Cypher
10 2 (0.82%) Ruby
11 1 (0.41%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.41%) Lisp
11 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.41%) SHACL
11 1 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 118 (48.36%) Security Cleared
2 107 (43.85%) SC Cleared
3 45 (18.44%) AWS Certification
4 23 (9.43%) Azure Certification
5 17 (6.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (6.56%) Degree
7 11 (4.51%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (4.10%) CISSP
9 9 (3.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (2.46%) CCNP
12 6 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.82%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.82%) PMP
15 1 (0.41%) GIAC
15 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.51%) SLA
2 9 (3.69%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.69%) NIST
2 9 (3.69%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.87%) PMO
3 7 (2.87%) QA
4 6 (2.46%) GDPR
5 4 (1.64%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.41%) COBIT
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 80 (32.79%) Docker
2 17 (6.97%) Squid
3 13 (5.33%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.87%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.23%) vSphere
8 2 (0.82%) HDFS
9 1 (0.41%) Firmware
9 1 (0.41%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 161 (65.98%) Terraform
2 99 (40.57%) Kubernetes
3 60 (24.59%) Grafana
3 60 (24.59%) Prometheus
4 39 (15.98%) Ansible
5 13 (5.33%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.92%) Puppet
7 11 (4.51%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (3.69%) FortiGate
9 8 (3.28%) Consul
10 6 (2.46%) Packer
10 6 (2.46%) Salt
11 4 (1.64%) Argo
11 4 (1.64%) Istio
11 4 (1.64%) linkerd
11 4 (1.64%) Suricata
12 3 (1.23%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.82%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 24 (9.84%) Red Hat
2 18 (7.38%) Google
3 16 (6.56%) Dynatrace
3 16 (6.56%) Splunk
4 15 (6.15%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.33%) Microsoft
6 12 (4.92%) Cisco
7 9 (3.69%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.69%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.28%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.28%) Tenable
9 7 (2.87%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.87%) Databricks
9 7 (2.87%) VMware
10 6 (2.46%) AVEVA
11 5 (2.05%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.05%) F5
11 5 (2.05%) PagerDuty
11 5 (2.05%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.64%) Trend Micro