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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 447 464
Rank change year-on-year +43 +17 -10
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 230 81 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.73% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 53 89
10th Percentile £368 £414 £404
25th Percentile £425 £538 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £605 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +12.47% -10.79%
75th Percentile £589 £738 £675
90th Percentile £650 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £580 £588
% change year-on-year -20.26% -1.28% -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 16,787 11,126 14,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.70% 38.07% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,459 7,792 10,102
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -2.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 231 346
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -27.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.97 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.25 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +96.65% +29.83% -22.13%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +1 184 £525 -13.58% 38
London -1 112 £525 -13.58% 18
UK excluding London -28 90 £463 -20.26% 23
Work from Home +4 64 £528 -9.52% 24
Scotland +29 26 £402 -8.11%
North of England -50 24 £550 -24.14% 5
Midlands -45 19 £500 +5.26% 2
West Midlands -47 19 £500 +5.26% 2
South East -37 10 £404 -30.34% 9
North West -25 9 £568 +33.53% 3
Yorkshire -49 9 £525 -27.59% 1
East of England -25 8 £530 +3.41% 3
North East -14 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 31 (13.48%) Confluence
2 10 (4.35%) nginx
3 7 (3.04%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.61%) Apache
4 6 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.61%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 230 (100.00%) AWS
2 135 (58.70%) Amazon S3
3 128 (55.65%) Amazon EC2
4 120 (52.17%) Serverless
5 117 (50.87%) AWS Lambda
6 99 (43.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 89 (38.70%) Amazon EKS
8 88 (38.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 55 (23.91%) Amazon ECS
10 51 (22.17%) Route 53
11 50 (21.74%) GitHub
12 48 (20.87%) Azure
13 41 (17.83%) GCP
14 35 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (11.30%) AWS KMS
16 22 (9.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 21 (9.13%) AWS Control Tower
18 20 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
19 18 (7.83%) AWS CodePipeline
20 17 (7.39%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 62 (26.96%) Firewall
2 48 (20.87%) VPN
3 37 (16.09%) DNS
4 20 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 19 (8.26%) BGP
6 17 (7.39%) OSPF
7 16 (6.96%) Network Security
8 12 (5.22%) WAN
9 11 (4.78%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.91%) LAN
10 9 (3.91%) SD-WAN
10 9 (3.91%) Wireless
11 8 (3.48%) VLAN
12 6 (2.61%) EIGRP
12 6 (2.61%) SSL
13 5 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (2.17%) DHCP
13 5 (2.17%) MPLS
13 5 (2.17%) VXLAN
13 5 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (33.48%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.26%) DynamoDB
3 18 (7.83%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.96%) Power BI
5 14 (6.09%) MySQL
6 13 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (4.78%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (4.35%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (3.91%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.48%) DocumentDB
10 8 (3.48%) Redis
10 8 (3.48%) Tableau
11 6 (2.61%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.74%) Big Data
13 4 (1.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 75 (32.61%) GitLab
1 75 (32.61%) Jenkins
2 34 (14.78%) JIRA
3 30 (13.04%) Git
4 20 (8.70%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.35%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (2.61%) MLflow
8 5 (2.17%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.74%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.74%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.30%) Snyk
11 2 (0.87%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.87%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.43%) AppScan
12 1 (0.43%) JUnit
12 1 (0.43%) Maven
12 1 (0.43%) sqlmap
General
1 61 (26.52%) Public Sector
2 60 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 46 (20.00%) Finance
4 18 (7.83%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.78%) Banking
7 8 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Games
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (30.00%) Architect
2 47 (20.43%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (16.52%) AWS Architect
4 32 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (11.74%) Cloud Architect
6 26 (11.30%) Senior
7 22 (9.57%) Lead
8 19 (8.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (7.39%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (6.09%) Network Engineer
11 14 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (5.65%) Security Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (4.78%) Site Engineer
14 11 (4.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (4.78%) Technical Manager
15 10 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 10 (4.35%) Technical Architect
15 10 (4.35%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 21 (9.13%) Kafka
3 17 (7.39%) Node.js
4 14 (6.09%) OpenID
5 11 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.35%) REST
7 9 (3.91%) LDAP
7 9 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.91%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.48%) PySpark
8 8 (3.48%) Spring
9 7 (3.04%) OAuth
9 7 (3.04%) OAuth2
9 7 (3.04%) RESTful
10 5 (2.17%) JSON
11 4 (1.74%) gRPC
11 4 (1.74%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.74%) JPA
11 4 (1.74%) Spring Cloud
12 3 (1.30%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.57%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.35%) NHS
6 8 (3.48%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.61%) IVR
9 5 (2.17%) PKI
10 4 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.30%) SCADA
11 3 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.87%) Replication
13 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.26%) Linux
2 10 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.91%) Windows
4 4 (1.74%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (59.13%) CI/CD
2 122 (53.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 103 (44.78%) DevOps
4 58 (25.22%) Migration
5 57 (24.78%) Containerisation
5 57 (24.78%) Observability
6 47 (20.43%) Roadmaps
7 38 (16.52%) Cloud Security
7 38 (16.52%) Incident Response
8 37 (16.09%) Agile
8 37 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (15.65%) Cost Optimisation
10 33 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (13.48%) Microservices
12 29 (12.61%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (12.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (10.43%) Cost Management
14 24 (10.43%) Test Automation
15 22 (9.57%) Infrastructure Automation
15 22 (9.57%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 108 (46.96%) Python
2 46 (20.00%) Bash
3 32 (13.91%) Java
4 23 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 23 (10.00%) SQL
5 10 (4.35%) Go
6 9 (3.91%) Ruby
7 7 (3.04%) Kotlin
7 7 (3.04%) Perl
8 6 (2.61%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.17%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.30%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.87%) Bicep
11 2 (0.87%) Cypher
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) Lisp
12 1 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 96 (41.74%) Security Cleared
2 85 (36.96%) SC Cleared
3 60 (26.09%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (6.09%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.91%) CCNP
8 8 (3.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.48%) CISSP
9 7 (3.04%) Degree
10 6 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.74%) CCIE
11 4 (1.74%) CCSP
12 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.30%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.87%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.87%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 19 (8.26%) GDPR
3 18 (7.83%) NIST
4 12 (5.22%) SLA
5 11 (4.78%) Data Quality
6 10 (4.35%) PMO
7 8 (3.48%) NCSC
8 6 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (2.17%) QA
10 3 (1.30%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.43%) COBIT
11 1 (0.43%) GRC
11 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.43%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 81 (35.22%) Docker
2 11 (4.78%) Squid
3 10 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.61%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.30%) HDFS
7 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.43%) Firmware
8 1 (0.43%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 156 (67.83%) Terraform
2 80 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 41 (17.83%) Ansible
3 41 (17.83%) Prometheus
4 37 (16.09%) Grafana
5 11 (4.78%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.35%) FortiGate
7 7 (3.04%) Consul
8 6 (2.61%) Argo
8 6 (2.61%) Karpenter
8 6 (2.61%) Kibana
9 5 (2.17%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.74%) Packer
11 3 (1.30%) Istio
11 3 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.30%) linkerd
11 3 (1.30%) Puppet
12 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.87%) Suricata
12 2 (0.87%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 20 (8.70%) Splunk
2 18 (7.83%) Databricks
3 17 (7.39%) Cisco
4 14 (6.09%) Google
5 13 (5.65%) Red Hat
5 13 (5.65%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.22%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.22%) Fortinet
7 11 (4.78%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.35%) CloudEndure
8 10 (4.35%) Zscaler
9 9 (3.91%) Palo Alto
10 8 (3.48%) F5
11 7 (3.04%) Atlassian
11 7 (3.04%) Citrix
11 7 (3.04%) Oracle
12 6 (2.61%) AVEVA
12 6 (2.61%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.61%) Tenable
12 6 (2.61%) VMware