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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 445 469
Rank change year-on-year +61 +24 -27
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 237 82 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 0.73% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 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 -13.35% +8.59% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £675
90th Percentile £650 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £650 £588
% change year-on-year -27.50% +10.64% -2.08%

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 16,388 11,168 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.91% 38.13% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,162 7,838 10,213
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 £476 £490
% change year-on-year -0.11% -2.96% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 222 352
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -21.47%
75th Percentile £67.19 £41.50 £39.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.45 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year +86.10% +36.46% -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 30 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 30 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 +12 193 £525 -13.58% 38
London +21 115 £525 -13.58% 18
UK excluding London -17 93 £471 -27.50% 23
Work from Home +7 62 £525 -9.95% 24
North of England -55 27 £550 -24.14% 5
Scotland +31 25 £402 -8.11%
West Midlands -37 20 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -49 20 £500 +5.26% 2
South East -45 12 £404 -30.34% 9
Yorkshire -57 12 £525 -27.59% 1
North West -34 9 £568 +33.53% 3
East of England -24 7 £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 32 (13.50%) Confluence
2 9 (3.80%) nginx
3 7 (2.95%) Apache
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.53%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 237 (100.00%) AWS
2 142 (59.92%) Amazon S3
3 134 (56.54%) Amazon EC2
4 120 (50.63%) Serverless
5 118 (49.79%) AWS Lambda
6 99 (41.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 95 (40.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 91 (38.40%) Amazon EKS
9 58 (24.47%) Amazon ECS
10 56 (23.63%) GitHub
11 49 (20.68%) Azure
11 49 (20.68%) Route 53
12 43 (18.14%) GCP
13 41 (17.30%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (10.97%) AWS KMS
15 22 (9.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 22 (9.28%) AWS Control Tower
16 21 (8.86%) AWS CloudTrail
17 19 (8.02%) Amazon ELB
17 19 (8.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 65 (27.43%) Firewall
2 53 (22.36%) VPN
3 41 (17.30%) DNS
4 23 (9.70%) TCP/IP
5 20 (8.44%) Network Security
6 19 (8.02%) BGP
7 17 (7.17%) OSPF
8 12 (5.06%) WAN
9 11 (4.64%) OpenVPN
10 10 (4.22%) Wireless
11 9 (3.80%) LAN
11 9 (3.80%) SD-WAN
11 9 (3.80%) SSL
12 8 (3.38%) VLAN
13 6 (2.53%) EIGRP
13 6 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (2.11%) DHCP
14 5 (2.11%) MPLS
14 5 (2.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (34.18%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.17%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (7.17%) DynamoDB
4 15 (6.33%) Power BI
5 14 (5.91%) MySQL
6 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (4.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (4.64%) Data Lake
8 9 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.80%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.80%) Redis
9 8 (3.38%) DocumentDB
9 8 (3.38%) Tableau
10 6 (2.53%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 81 (34.18%) Jenkins
2 78 (32.91%) GitLab
3 36 (15.19%) Git
3 36 (15.19%) JIRA
4 21 (8.86%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.80%) SonarQube
5 9 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.53%) MLflow
7 5 (2.11%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.69%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.27%) Snyk
10 2 (0.84%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.84%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.42%) AppScan
11 1 (0.42%) JUnit
11 1 (0.42%) Maven
11 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
General
1 61 (25.74%) Public Sector
2 60 (25.32%) Social Skills
3 47 (19.83%) Finance
4 18 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.64%) Banking
7 8 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 70 (29.54%) Architect
2 45 (18.99%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (16.46%) AWS Architect
4 37 (15.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (13.08%) Senior
6 27 (11.39%) Cloud Architect
7 21 (8.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (8.86%) Lead
8 16 (6.75%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (6.75%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (6.33%) Network Engineer
10 14 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.91%) Security Engineer
11 12 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (4.64%) Site Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Technical Manager
13 10 (4.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.13%) AWS CDK
2 22 (9.28%) Kafka
3 18 (7.59%) Node.js
4 15 (6.33%) OpenID
5 13 (5.49%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (4.64%) REST
7 9 (3.80%) LDAP
7 9 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.80%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.38%) OAuth
8 8 (3.38%) OAuth2
8 8 (3.38%) PySpark
8 8 (3.38%) RESTful
8 8 (3.38%) Spring
9 6 (2.53%) JSON
10 4 (1.69%) gRPC
10 4 (1.69%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.69%) JPA
10 4 (1.69%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.28%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.22%) NHS
5 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.53%) IVR
7 5 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.11%) PKI
8 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.69%) Replication
9 3 (1.27%) SCADA
9 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.84%) Life Science
10 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.14%) Linux
2 10 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (4.22%) Windows
3 4 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.42%) CentOS
5 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (59.49%) CI/CD
2 128 (54.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (45.99%) DevOps
4 61 (25.74%) Containerisation
5 58 (24.47%) Observability
6 57 (24.05%) Migration
7 48 (20.25%) Roadmaps
8 42 (17.72%) Incident Response
9 40 (16.88%) Cost Optimisation
10 39 (16.46%) Agile
11 38 (16.03%) Cloud Security
11 38 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (13.08%) Microservices
14 29 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 28 (11.81%) Platform Engineering
16 27 (11.39%) High Availability
16 27 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
17 25 (10.55%) Cost Management
18 24 (10.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (46.41%) Python
2 49 (20.68%) Bash
3 31 (13.08%) Java
4 22 (9.28%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.28%) SQL
5 9 (3.80%) Go
5 9 (3.80%) Ruby
6 7 (2.95%) Perl
7 6 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.53%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.53%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.11%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.84%) Bicep
9 2 (0.84%) Cypher
10 1 (0.42%) Groovy
10 1 (0.42%) Lisp
10 1 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 102 (43.04%) Security Cleared
2 89 (37.55%) SC Cleared
3 62 (26.16%) AWS Certification
4 26 (10.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.91%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.80%) CCNP
8 8 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.38%) CISSP
8 8 (3.38%) Degree
9 7 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.11%) CCSP
11 4 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.69%) CCIE
11 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.27%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.27%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.84%) CCNA
13 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (9.70%) PCI DSS
3 22 (9.28%) GDPR
4 19 (8.02%) NIST
5 12 (5.06%) SLA
6 11 (4.64%) Data Quality
7 10 (4.22%) PMO
8 9 (3.80%) NCSC
9 6 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (2.11%) QA
11 3 (1.27%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.42%) COBIT
12 1 (0.42%) GRC
12 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
System Software
1 89 (37.55%) Docker
2 11 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.64%) Squid
3 6 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.11%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.84%) HDFS
6 1 (0.42%) Firmware
6 1 (0.42%) NLBS
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 162 (68.35%) Terraform
2 82 (34.60%) Kubernetes
3 45 (18.99%) Ansible
4 43 (18.14%) Prometheus
5 38 (16.03%) Grafana
6 13 (5.49%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (4.64%) FortiGate
8 7 (2.95%) Argo
8 7 (2.95%) Consul
9 6 (2.53%) Karpenter
9 6 (2.53%) Kibana
10 5 (2.11%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.69%) Packer
12 3 (1.27%) Istio
12 3 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.27%) Puppet
13 2 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.84%) Salt
13 2 (0.84%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 19 (8.02%) Splunk
2 18 (7.59%) Databricks
3 17 (7.17%) Cisco
4 15 (6.33%) Google
5 13 (5.49%) Fortinet
5 13 (5.49%) Palo Alto
5 13 (5.49%) Red Hat
5 13 (5.49%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.06%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.06%) Microsoft
7 10 (4.22%) CloudEndure
7 10 (4.22%) F5
8 9 (3.80%) Zscaler
9 8 (3.38%) Atlassian
9 8 (3.38%) CheckPoint
10 7 (2.95%) Citrix
10 7 (2.95%) Oracle
11 6 (2.53%) AVEVA
12 5 (2.11%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.11%) VMware