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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 440 468
Rank change year-on-year +23 +28 +1
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 237 86 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 0.77% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 57 86
10th Percentile £400 £413 £403
25th Percentile £449 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £559 £620 £645
90th Percentile £625 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -1.32% -20.83% -
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 17,544 11,129 14,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.89% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 7,531 9,982
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.79% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 270 357
10th Percentile £15.91 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.06 £19.14 £19.09
% change year-on-year +93.68% +0.26% -30.60%

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 10 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 10 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 +17 201 £513 -2.38% 34
London +10 123 £522 -5.99% 15
UK excluding London -32 87 £469 -1.32% 28
Work from Home 0 72 £500 -9.09% 20
North of England -52 27 £481 +13.24% 8
West Midlands -34 25 £494 +3.95% 1
Midlands -45 25 £494 +3.95% 1
North West -23 17 £495 +16.53% 3
Scotland -9 9 £440 -12.00% 2
East of England -22 8 £490 -4.39% 1
South East -64 8 £450 -22.41% 11
North East -19 5 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -52 5 £500 - 4
South West - 5 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £446 - 1
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 39 (16.46%) Confluence
2 11 (4.64%) nginx
3 6 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 234 (98.73%) AWS
2 132 (55.70%) Amazon EC2
3 130 (54.85%) Amazon S3
4 117 (49.37%) Serverless
5 111 (46.84%) AWS Lambda
6 109 (45.99%) Amazon EKS
7 108 (45.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 68 (28.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (22.78%) Azure
10 49 (20.68%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (20.25%) Route 53
12 47 (19.83%) GitHub
13 35 (14.77%) GCP
14 34 (14.35%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (10.55%) AWS CloudTrail
16 21 (8.86%) AWS KMS
17 20 (8.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 20 (8.44%) AWS CodePipeline
18 17 (7.17%) AWS Control Tower
18 17 (7.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 61 (25.74%) Firewall
2 34 (14.35%) VPN
3 29 (12.24%) DNS
4 26 (10.97%) TCP/IP
5 22 (9.28%) Network Security
6 15 (6.33%) BGP
7 13 (5.49%) OSPF
8 12 (5.06%) WAN
9 11 (4.64%) OpenVPN
10 7 (2.95%) LAN
10 7 (2.95%) SSL
11 6 (2.53%) Wireless
12 5 (2.11%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.69%) NGFW
13 4 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (1.69%) VLAN
14 3 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
15 2 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 2 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (30.38%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (8.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (8.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (7.17%) Power BI
6 15 (6.33%) DynamoDB
7 13 (5.49%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (4.22%) MySQL
9 9 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.38%) Tableau
11 6 (2.53%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.53%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.11%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.69%) Redis
14 3 (1.27%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.27%) Big Data
14 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.84%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 71 (29.96%) GitLab
2 67 (28.27%) Jenkins
3 37 (15.61%) JIRA
4 35 (14.77%) Git
5 22 (9.28%) Bitbucket
6 14 (5.91%) SonarQube
7 12 (5.06%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
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%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.42%) JUnit
11 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
11 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 67 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 61 (25.74%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.08%) Finance
4 20 (8.44%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.53%) Banking
7 6 (2.53%) Military
8 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.69%) Law
9 3 (1.27%) Legal
9 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Police
10 2 (0.84%) Games
10 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (25.74%) AWS Engineer
2 60 (25.32%) Architect
3 41 (17.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (15.19%) AWS Architect
5 31 (13.08%) AWS DevOps
5 31 (13.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (9.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 22 (9.28%) Senior
7 22 (9.28%) Technical Architect
8 21 (8.86%) Security Engineer
9 16 (6.75%) Cloud Architect
9 16 (6.75%) Network Engineer
10 13 (5.49%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (5.06%) Lead
11 12 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Scrum Master
12 11 (4.64%) Site Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (4.64%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.81%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.17%) OpenID
3 14 (5.91%) Kafka
4 11 (4.64%) LDAP
4 11 (4.64%) RESTful
5 9 (3.80%) OAuth
5 9 (3.80%) OAuth2
6 8 (3.38%) GraphQL
6 8 (3.38%) REST
7 7 (2.95%) Apollo GraphQL
7 7 (2.95%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.11%) SAML
9 4 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.69%) gRPC
9 4 (1.69%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.69%) JPA
9 4 (1.69%) Spring
9 4 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.69%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 59 (24.89%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.17%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.91%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.91%) Security Posture
4 9 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.95%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.11%) Replication
9 4 (1.69%) NHS
10 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) SCADA
11 2 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.42%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.14%) Linux
2 19 (8.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (7.17%) Windows
4 5 (2.11%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.27%) Unix
6 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.42%) CentOS
7 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.42%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (64.14%) CI/CD
2 124 (52.32%) DevOps
3 119 (50.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (27.43%) Containerisation
5 58 (24.47%) Observability
6 57 (24.05%) Agile
7 51 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (20.25%) Roadmaps
9 46 (19.41%) Cloud Security
10 44 (18.57%) Platform Engineering
11 40 (16.88%) Migration
12 34 (14.35%) Microservices
13 29 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
14 28 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (11.39%) Test Automation
16 26 (10.97%) Cost Optimisation
16 26 (10.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 25 (10.55%) Incident Response
17 25 (10.55%) SIEM
18 23 (9.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 96 (40.51%) Python
2 57 (24.05%) Bash
3 33 (13.92%) Java
4 31 (13.08%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.44%) SQL
6 8 (3.38%) Groovy
6 8 (3.38%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.38%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.95%) Go
7 7 (2.95%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.11%) Perl
9 3 (1.27%) Bicep
9 3 (1.27%) Ruby
10 2 (0.84%) Cypher
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) Lisp
11 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 113 (47.68%) Security Cleared
2 104 (43.88%) SC Cleared
3 46 (19.41%) AWS Certification
4 21 (8.86%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (5.06%) Degree
7 11 (4.64%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (4.22%) CISSP
9 9 (3.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (3.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.53%) CCNP
11 6 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.84%) PMP
14 1 (0.42%) CEH
14 1 (0.42%) GIAC
14 1 (0.42%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.06%) NIST
2 11 (4.64%) SLA
3 10 (4.22%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.38%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.95%) PMO
6 7 (2.95%) QA
7 5 (2.11%) GDPR
8 2 (0.84%) NCSC
9 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.42%) COBIT
9 1 (0.42%) GRC
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 80 (33.76%) Docker
2 18 (7.59%) Squid
3 13 (5.49%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.11%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.84%) HDFS
8 1 (0.42%) Firmware
8 1 (0.42%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 158 (66.67%) Terraform
2 97 (40.93%) Kubernetes
3 58 (24.47%) Grafana
4 57 (24.05%) Prometheus
5 37 (15.61%) Ansible
6 12 (5.06%) Progress Chef
6 12 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.22%) FortiGate
8 9 (3.80%) Puppet
9 8 (3.38%) Consul
10 5 (2.11%) Argo
10 5 (2.11%) Salt
11 4 (1.69%) Istio
11 4 (1.69%) linkerd
11 4 (1.69%) Packer
11 4 (1.69%) Suricata
12 3 (1.27%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.84%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.84%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 21 (8.86%) Red Hat
2 18 (7.59%) Google
3 17 (7.17%) Splunk
4 16 (6.75%) Dynatrace
5 15 (6.33%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.64%) Cisco
6 11 (4.64%) Microsoft
7 10 (4.22%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.22%) Tenable
7 10 (4.22%) Zscaler
8 7 (2.95%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.95%) Databricks
9 6 (2.53%) AVEVA
9 6 (2.53%) CheckPoint
9 6 (2.53%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.11%) VMware
11 4 (1.69%) F5
11 4 (1.69%) Oracle
11 4 (1.69%) Qualys
11 4 (1.69%) Trend Micro