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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 382 473
Rank change year-on-year -67 +91 -31
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 235 171 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.52% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.36% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 124 60
10th Percentile £400 £413 £424
25th Percentile £439 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £625 £675
90th Percentile £638 £713 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -2.63% -20.83% +4.35%
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 19,022 12,530 13,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.67% 37.88% 34.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,616 8,370 8,741
10th Percentile £325 £312 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 298 189
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.42 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.08 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +26.92%

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 26 September 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 17 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 26 September 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 -50 190 £500 -4.76% 180
London -23 120 £525 -12.50% 115
UK excluding London -92 82 £463 -2.63% 76
Work from Home -27 79 £500 -11.74% 87
North of England -65 23 £450 -17.05% 23
Midlands -56 22 £477 +0.42% 10
West Midlands -59 19 £482 +1.53% 9
Scotland -25 12 £450 -10.00% 7
North West -39 11 £447 -13.62% 15
South East -63 9 £669 - 15
Yorkshire -40 8 £481 -3.75% 6
East of England -34 6 £400 -21.95% 10
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 5
South West -38 4 £425 -37.04% 6
North East -39 4 £425 -26.09% 2
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 1
Wales - 1 £550 - 2

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 (12.34%) Confluence
2 15 (6.38%) Apache Spark
3 12 (5.11%) Apache
4 10 (4.26%) nginx
5 8 (3.40%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.43%) Appian
8 1 (0.43%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 232 (98.72%) AWS
2 124 (52.77%) Amazon S3
3 116 (49.36%) Amazon EC2
4 110 (46.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 103 (43.83%) Serverless
6 96 (40.85%) AWS Lambda
7 94 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
8 78 (33.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 52 (22.13%) Azure
10 51 (21.70%) GitHub
11 49 (20.85%) Amazon ECS
12 37 (15.74%) AWS CloudTrail
13 36 (15.32%) AWS KMS
14 33 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (13.19%) GCP
15 31 (13.19%) Route 53
16 24 (10.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 16 (6.81%) Datadog
18 15 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
18 15 (6.38%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 41 (17.45%) Firewall
2 23 (9.79%) DNS
3 18 (7.66%) TCP/IP
4 16 (6.81%) VPN
5 15 (6.38%) Network Security
6 14 (5.96%) WAN
7 9 (3.83%) LAN
7 9 (3.83%) SSL
8 6 (2.55%) BGP
8 6 (2.55%) SSH
9 5 (2.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (2.13%) MPLS
9 5 (2.13%) OSPF
9 5 (2.13%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.70%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (1.70%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (1.70%) IPsec
10 4 (1.70%) NetScaler
10 4 (1.70%) OpenVPN
10 4 (1.70%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (31.91%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (13.19%) Amazon Aurora
3 30 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.81%) MySQL
5 15 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (5.96%) DynamoDB
7 12 (5.11%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.26%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.26%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.40%) Redis
10 7 (2.98%) Big Data
11 6 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.55%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.13%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (1.70%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (1.70%) Apache Hive
13 4 (1.70%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.70%) Metadata
14 3 (1.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 68 (28.94%) GitLab
2 58 (24.68%) Jenkins
3 43 (18.30%) Git
4 27 (11.49%) JIRA
5 9 (3.83%) Artifactory
5 9 (3.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (3.40%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.40%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.85%) Maven
7 2 (0.85%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.43%) Postman
8 1 (0.43%) Terragrunt
General
1 80 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.38%) Public Sector
3 20 (8.51%) Finance
4 9 (3.83%) Banking
5 8 (3.40%) Military
6 7 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.55%) Law
8 5 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.28%) Police
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (26.81%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (24.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 56 (23.83%) Architect
4 37 (15.74%) AWS DevOps
5 31 (13.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 28 (11.91%) AWS Architect
6 28 (11.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (9.79%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (9.79%) Senior
8 20 (8.51%) Technical Architect
9 14 (5.96%) Lead
10 13 (5.53%) DBA
10 13 (5.53%) Security Engineer
10 13 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (5.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.26%) Administrator
12 10 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) Data Engineer
14 8 (3.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (71.06%) Terraform
2 15 (6.38%) AWS CDK
3 13 (5.53%) Kafka
4 10 (4.26%) RESTful
5 9 (3.83%) GraphQL
5 9 (3.83%) SAML
6 8 (3.40%) PySpark
6 8 (3.40%) REST
7 7 (2.98%) Apollo GraphQL
7 7 (2.98%) boto
8 5 (2.13%) OAuth
8 5 (2.13%) OpenID
9 4 (1.70%) .NET
9 4 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.70%) LDAP
9 4 (1.70%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.70%) OpenTofu
9 4 (1.70%) React
10 3 (1.28%) cloud-init
10 3 (1.28%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.36%) Replication
3 17 (7.23%) Security Posture
4 12 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.68%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.26%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.83%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.40%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.98%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.55%) NHS
11 5 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (2.13%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.70%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.28%) Fixed Income
13 3 (1.28%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.98%) Linux
2 23 (9.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (9.36%) Windows
4 10 (4.26%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.98%) Unix
6 5 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.70%) AIX
7 4 (1.70%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.85%) CentOS
10 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (68.51%) CI/CD
2 146 (62.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (59.15%) DevOps
4 63 (26.81%) Containerisation
5 57 (24.26%) Agile
6 54 (22.98%) Observability
7 52 (22.13%) Platform Engineering
8 51 (21.70%) Cloud Security
9 42 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (16.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 36 (15.32%) Secrets Management
12 34 (14.47%) Migration
12 34 (14.47%) Roadmaps
13 33 (14.04%) High Availability
14 31 (13.19%) Microservices
15 29 (12.34%) Infrastructure Automation
16 27 (11.49%) AI
16 27 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
17 26 (11.06%) Cybersecurity
17 26 (11.06%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 100 (42.55%) Python
2 57 (24.26%) Bash
3 32 (13.62%) SQL
4 31 (13.19%) Java
4 31 (13.19%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.96%) Groovy
6 10 (4.26%) Go
6 10 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.83%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.98%) Perl
9 3 (1.28%) Bicep
9 3 (1.28%) C#
9 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) Cypher
11 1 (0.43%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.43%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) SHACL
11 1 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 102 (43.40%) Security Cleared
2 93 (39.57%) SC Cleared
3 60 (25.53%) AWS Certification
4 32 (13.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (9.36%) Degree
6 19 (8.09%) Azure Certification
7 13 (5.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.83%) CISSP
9 8 (3.40%) SAFe Agilist
10 6 (2.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.70%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.28%) CCNP
13 3 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.85%) CCIE
14 2 (0.85%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (5.96%) Data Quality
3 13 (5.53%) GDPR
4 10 (4.26%) NCSC
5 7 (2.98%) QA
6 5 (2.13%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.70%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.28%) NIST
8 3 (1.28%) SLA
9 2 (0.85%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (32.77%) Docker
2 14 (5.96%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.26%) Squid
4 8 (3.40%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.28%) vSphere
7 2 (0.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.85%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.85%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.85%) HDFS
7 2 (0.85%) Postfix
8 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 96 (40.85%) Kubernetes
2 65 (27.66%) Grafana
3 58 (24.68%) Prometheus
4 44 (18.72%) Ansible
5 12 (5.11%) Puppet
6 9 (3.83%) Packer
6 9 (3.83%) Progress Chef
6 9 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.98%) Argo
8 5 (2.13%) Istio
9 4 (1.70%) linkerd
9 4 (1.70%) Salt
9 4 (1.70%) Suricata
10 3 (1.28%) Consul
10 3 (1.28%) SELinux
10 3 (1.28%) systemd
10 3 (1.28%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.28%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.85%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.85%) Nessus
Vendors
1 22 (9.36%) ServiceNow
2 16 (6.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.81%) Red Hat
3 15 (6.38%) Cisco
3 15 (6.38%) Splunk
4 13 (5.53%) Google
4 13 (5.53%) VMware
5 8 (3.40%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.40%) Palo Alto
6 7 (2.98%) Databricks
7 6 (2.55%) SolarWinds
7 6 (2.55%) Tenable
8 5 (2.13%) F5
8 5 (2.13%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.70%) Oracle
9 4 (1.70%) Trend Micro
9 4 (1.70%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.28%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.28%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.28%) Veeam