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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 451 440
Rank change year-on-year +88 -11 +32
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 234 102 152
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.30% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 0.83% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 54 119
10th Percentile £368 £502 £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 £734 £691
90th Percentile £713 £750 £803
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £685 £547
% change year-on-year -30.66% +25.34% -8.92%

All Cloud 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 14,080 12,304 15,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.06% 36.24% 34.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,624 8,185 10,792
10th Percentile £308 £313 £294
25th Percentile £406 £415 £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 £734 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 175 264
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £14.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.80% +18.89%
75th Percentile £56.00 £45.59 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.13 £68.75 £78.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.28 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.56% +15.14% +6.54%

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 24 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 24 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 +43 169 £550 -14.40% 88
UK excluding London +18 102 £475 -30.66% 72
London +23 85 £600 +5.26% 29
Work from Home +41 65 £600 +2.56% 80
West Midlands +4 33 £475 - 11
Midlands -18 33 £475 - 16
Scotland - 29 £411 - 1
North of England -37 27 £550 -24.14% 15
Yorkshire -29 16 £525 -27.59% 5
South East -2 11 £525 - 17
North West -26 6 £518 -13.75% 9
North East -5 5 £575 -23.33% 1
South West -16 4 £488 -28.83% 8
East of England -16 1 £600 - 9

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 29 (12.39%) Confluence
2 11 (4.70%) nginx
3 9 (3.85%) Apache
4 8 (3.42%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.71%) SAS
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 10 (4.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 233 (99.57%) AWS
2 149 (63.68%) Amazon S3
3 142 (60.68%) Amazon EC2
4 116 (49.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 97 (41.45%) Serverless
6 96 (41.03%) AWS Lambda
7 93 (39.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (30.34%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (29.49%) GitHub
10 61 (26.07%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (20.94%) Azure
12 48 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
13 47 (20.09%) Amazon ELB
14 41 (17.52%) AWS KMS
14 41 (17.52%) Route 53
15 23 (9.83%) GCP
16 22 (9.40%) Entra ID
17 21 (8.97%) AWS CloudTrail
17 21 (8.97%) Datadog
18 20 (8.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 83 (35.47%) Firewall
2 77 (32.91%) DNS
3 53 (22.65%) VPN
4 27 (11.54%) TCP/IP
5 26 (11.11%) SSL
6 24 (10.26%) Network Security
7 18 (7.69%) FTP
7 18 (7.69%) HTTP
7 18 (7.69%) SMTP
7 18 (7.69%) SSH
8 13 (5.56%) WAN
9 11 (4.70%) DHCP
9 11 (4.70%) Wireless
10 10 (4.27%) IMAP
10 10 (4.27%) OpenLDAP
11 9 (3.85%) BGP
11 9 (3.85%) LAN
11 9 (3.85%) SD-WAN
12 8 (3.42%) OSPF
13 7 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (40.60%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.97%) MongoDB
4 18 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (6.41%) DynamoDB
6 12 (5.13%) Data Lake
7 10 (4.27%) MySQL
8 9 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (3.42%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.14%) Redis
11 5 (2.14%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.14%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.71%) DocumentDB
13 3 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.28%) Big Data
13 3 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 111 (47.44%) Jenkins
2 94 (40.17%) GitLab
3 76 (32.48%) Git
4 38 (16.24%) JIRA
5 18 (7.69%) Vagrant
6 11 (4.70%) Bitbucket
7 10 (4.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.42%) Terragrunt
9 6 (2.56%) MLflow
10 3 (1.28%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.43%) JUnit
11 1 (0.43%) Maven
11 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 66 (28.21%) Public Sector
2 43 (18.38%) Social Skills
3 41 (17.52%) Finance
4 15 (6.41%) Banking
5 12 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.14%) Military
7 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.85%) Legal
7 2 (0.85%) Publishing
8 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 77 (32.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (24.79%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (24.36%) Architect
4 49 (20.94%) Senior
5 40 (17.09%) AWS DevOps
6 38 (16.24%) AWS Architect
7 36 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 30 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
9 25 (10.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 24 (10.26%) Lead
11 21 (8.97%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (8.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 19 (8.12%) Cloud Architect
14 18 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 18 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (5.56%) Network Engineer
16 12 (5.13%) AWS Solution Architect
17 11 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 9 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
18 9 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.97%) Kafka
1 21 (8.97%) Node.js
2 19 (8.12%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (4.70%) AWS CDK
4 10 (4.27%) LDAP
5 8 (3.42%) PySpark
6 6 (2.56%) cloud-init
6 6 (2.56%) JSON
6 6 (2.56%) Keycloak
6 6 (2.56%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.14%) REST
7 5 (2.14%) RESTful
7 5 (2.14%) Spring
8 3 (1.28%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.28%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.28%) SignalR
8 3 (1.28%) YAML
9 2 (0.85%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.85%) OpenID
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.11%) Replication
3 15 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.70%) PKI
6 10 (4.27%) NHS
7 6 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.56%) IVR
7 6 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.28%) Life Science
11 2 (0.85%) Clustering
12 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 70 (29.91%) Linux
2 30 (12.82%) Windows
3 21 (8.97%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (7.69%) VMS
5 12 (5.13%) Ubuntu
6 11 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (4.70%) Unix
7 8 (3.42%) Windows Server
8 6 (2.56%) CentOS
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.43%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.43%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 141 (60.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 140 (59.83%) DevOps
4 62 (26.50%) Containerisation
5 50 (21.37%) Incident Response
6 49 (20.94%) High Availability
7 47 (20.09%) Cloud Security
8 43 (18.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 42 (17.95%) Observability
10 40 (17.09%) Cost Optimisation
10 40 (17.09%) Migration
11 34 (14.53%) Configuration Management
12 31 (13.25%) Mentoring
12 31 (13.25%) Platform Engineering
13 30 (12.82%) Agile
14 28 (11.97%) Roadmaps
15 25 (10.68%) DevSecOps
15 25 (10.68%) Microservices
16 24 (10.26%) Patch Management
17 22 (9.40%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 134 (57.26%) Python
2 68 (29.06%) Bash
3 43 (18.38%) PowerShell
4 29 (12.39%) Java
5 21 (8.97%) Perl
5 21 (8.97%) SQL
6 18 (7.69%) Groovy
7 12 (5.13%) Go
8 9 (3.85%) Ruby
8 9 (3.85%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.56%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.14%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.43%) Bicep
11 1 (0.43%) Korn
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 100 (42.74%) Security Cleared
2 88 (37.61%) SC Cleared
3 71 (30.34%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (8.12%) Degree
6 15 (6.41%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.99%) CCNP
9 5 (2.14%) CCSP
9 5 (2.14%) CISSP
10 4 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.28%) CCIE
11 3 (1.28%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.28%) CCNA
11 3 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.85%) JNCIE
12 2 (0.85%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.68%) GDPR
2 23 (9.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (7.69%) PCI DSS
4 16 (6.84%) NCSC
5 14 (5.98%) NIST
6 7 (2.99%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.71%) QA
9 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.28%) PMO
9 3 (1.28%) SLA
10 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 114 (48.72%) Docker
2 18 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.69%) DFS Replication
3 11 (4.70%) Squid
4 10 (4.27%) Dovecot
4 10 (4.27%) Postfix
5 7 (2.99%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (2.14%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.28%) KVM
9 2 (0.85%) HDFS
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 177 (75.64%) Terraform
2 75 (32.05%) Kubernetes
3 65 (27.78%) Ansible
4 58 (24.79%) Prometheus
5 57 (24.36%) Grafana
6 11 (4.70%) Nessus
7 10 (4.27%) Packer
7 10 (4.27%) Proxmox
8 9 (3.85%) Puppet
9 7 (2.99%) Argo
9 7 (2.99%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (2.56%) Karpenter
10 6 (2.56%) Kibana
11 5 (2.14%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.71%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.28%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (14.96%) Palo Alto
2 29 (12.39%) F5
3 25 (10.68%) CheckPoint
4 23 (9.83%) ServiceNow
5 18 (7.69%) Cisco
6 17 (7.26%) Splunk
7 12 (5.13%) Oracle
8 11 (4.70%) Databricks
8 11 (4.70%) Dynatrace
8 11 (4.70%) Microsoft
9 10 (4.27%) CloudEndure
9 10 (4.27%) Fortinet
9 10 (4.27%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (2.99%) Citrix
10 7 (2.99%) Commvault
10 7 (2.99%) Okta
10 7 (2.99%) VMware
11 6 (2.56%) Meraki
11 6 (2.56%) Zscaler
12 5 (2.14%) Avaya