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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 435 473
Rank change year-on-year +23 +38 -4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 251 96 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 0.84% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 65 83
10th Percentile £400 £413 £390
25th Percentile £452 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £569 £620 £625
90th Percentile £625 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £593
% change year-on-year +1.68% -19.83% -1.25%
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 18,048 11,456 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 37.87% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,047 7,701 10,004
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 286 363
10th Percentile £16.61 £15.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +26.41% -36.71%
75th Percentile £68.92 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.30 £71.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £18.87 £20.97
% change year-on-year +100.72% -10.01% -20.81%

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 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 26 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 +9 210 £513 -2.38% 30
London +20 127 £519 -5.72% 14
UK excluding London -48 97 £483 +1.68% 26
Work from Home -11 77 £505 -8.18% 15
North of England -44 28 £475 +11.76% 8
West Midlands -41 27 £488 +2.63% 4
Midlands -46 27 £488 +2.63% 4
North West -27 18 £475 +11.76% 5
Scotland -3 13 £450 -10.10% 2
South East -50 11 £533 -8.19% 6
East of England -27 8 £490 -4.39%
North East -28 5 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -44 5 £500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 2
South West - 4 £500 - 4
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 38 (15.14%) Confluence
2 11 (4.38%) nginx
3 7 (2.79%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 248 (98.80%) AWS
2 140 (55.78%) Amazon S3
3 139 (55.38%) Amazon EC2
4 121 (48.21%) Serverless
5 115 (45.82%) AWS Lambda
6 113 (45.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 108 (43.03%) Amazon EKS
8 69 (27.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 57 (22.71%) Azure
10 49 (19.52%) GitHub
11 48 (19.12%) Amazon ECS
12 47 (18.73%) Route 53
13 34 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (13.15%) GCP
15 29 (11.55%) AWS CloudTrail
16 25 (9.96%) AWS KMS
17 22 (8.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 21 (8.37%) AWS CodePipeline
19 18 (7.17%) Snowflake
20 17 (6.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 65 (25.90%) Firewall
2 40 (15.94%) VPN
3 32 (12.75%) DNS
4 30 (11.95%) TCP/IP
5 22 (8.76%) Network Security
6 18 (7.17%) BGP
6 18 (7.17%) WAN
7 15 (5.98%) OSPF
8 11 (4.38%) OpenVPN
9 10 (3.98%) LAN
10 8 (3.19%) SD-WAN
10 8 (3.19%) SSL
11 7 (2.79%) VLAN
12 6 (2.39%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.39%) IPsec
12 6 (2.39%) MPLS
13 5 (1.99%) BIG-IP
13 5 (1.99%) Wireless
14 4 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (29.88%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (8.37%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (7.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.77%) Power BI
6 15 (5.98%) DynamoDB
7 13 (5.18%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (3.98%) MySQL
9 9 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.19%) Tableau
11 6 (2.39%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.39%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.99%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.59%) Redis
14 3 (1.20%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.20%) Big Data
14 3 (1.20%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.20%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 72 (28.69%) GitLab
2 71 (28.29%) Jenkins
3 38 (15.14%) Git
4 37 (14.74%) JIRA
5 21 (8.37%) Bitbucket
6 14 (5.58%) SonarQube
7 13 (5.18%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.80%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.80%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.80%) Snyk
10 1 (0.40%) AppScan
10 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.40%) sqlmap
General
1 72 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 63 (25.10%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.35%) Finance
4 19 (7.57%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.79%) Banking
6 7 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.99%) Military
7 5 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.59%) Law
8 4 (1.59%) Legal
8 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Police
10 2 (0.80%) Games
10 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 69 (27.49%) Architect
2 62 (24.70%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (16.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (14.74%) AWS Architect
5 35 (13.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (12.75%) AWS DevOps
7 26 (10.36%) Technical Architect
8 23 (9.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 22 (8.76%) Security Engineer
10 19 (7.57%) Senior
11 17 (6.77%) Network Engineer
12 14 (5.58%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (5.18%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (4.78%) Lead
14 12 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
15 11 (4.38%) Scrum Master
15 11 (4.38%) Site Engineer
15 11 (4.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (4.38%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.16%) AWS CDK
2 16 (6.37%) OpenID
3 14 (5.58%) Kafka
4 11 (4.38%) LDAP
4 11 (4.38%) RESTful
5 10 (3.98%) REST
6 8 (3.19%) GraphQL
6 8 (3.19%) OAuth
6 8 (3.19%) OAuth2
7 7 (2.79%) Apollo GraphQL
7 7 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.39%) SAML
9 4 (1.59%) gRPC
9 4 (1.59%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.59%) JPA
9 4 (1.59%) Spring
9 4 (1.59%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.59%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 65 (25.90%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.37%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.98%) Security Posture
4 10 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.19%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.99%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.99%) Replication
9 4 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.59%) NHS
10 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) SCADA
11 2 (0.80%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 46 (18.33%) Linux
2 24 (9.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (9.16%) Windows
4 5 (1.99%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.20%) Unix
5 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) AIX
7 1 (0.40%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (64.94%) CI/CD
2 132 (52.59%) DevOps
3 131 (52.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (26.29%) Containerisation
5 63 (25.10%) Agile
6 56 (22.31%) Observability
7 52 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (20.72%) Roadmaps
8 51 (20.32%) Cloud Security
9 46 (18.33%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (16.33%) Migration
11 34 (13.55%) Microservices
12 31 (12.35%) Infrastructure Automation
12 31 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (11.16%) Decision-Making
14 27 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (10.36%) Cost Optimisation
15 26 (10.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (10.36%) Test Automation
16 25 (9.96%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 100 (39.84%) Python
2 59 (23.51%) Bash
3 33 (13.15%) Java
4 29 (11.55%) PowerShell
5 20 (7.97%) SQL
6 8 (3.19%) Go
6 8 (3.19%) Groovy
6 8 (3.19%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.79%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.59%) Perl
9 3 (1.20%) Bicep
9 3 (1.20%) Cypher
10 2 (0.80%) Ruby
11 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.40%) Lisp
11 1 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.40%) SHACL
11 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 119 (47.41%) Security Cleared
2 106 (42.23%) SC Cleared
3 49 (19.52%) AWS Certification
4 23 (9.16%) Azure Certification
5 21 (8.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (7.17%) Degree
7 11 (4.38%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (3.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.98%) CISSP
9 9 (3.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (3.19%) CCNP
10 8 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.20%) CCIE
12 3 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.38%) SLA
2 10 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.98%) PCI DSS
3 9 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.19%) NIST
5 7 (2.79%) PMO
5 7 (2.79%) QA
6 6 (2.39%) GDPR
6 6 (2.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) COBIT
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 82 (32.67%) Docker
2 17 (6.77%) Squid
3 13 (5.18%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.59%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.20%) vSphere
8 2 (0.80%) HDFS
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 168 (66.93%) Terraform
2 101 (40.24%) Kubernetes
3 60 (23.90%) Grafana
3 60 (23.90%) Prometheus
4 41 (16.33%) Ansible
5 13 (5.18%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.78%) Puppet
6 12 (4.78%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.59%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.19%) Consul
9 6 (2.39%) Packer
9 6 (2.39%) Salt
10 4 (1.59%) Argo
10 4 (1.59%) Istio
10 4 (1.59%) linkerd
10 4 (1.59%) Suricata
11 3 (1.20%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.80%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 24 (9.56%) Red Hat
2 20 (7.97%) Google
3 16 (6.37%) Dynatrace
3 16 (6.37%) Splunk
4 15 (5.98%) Cisco
4 15 (5.98%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.98%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.98%) Palo Alto
5 10 (3.98%) VMware
6 9 (3.59%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.19%) Tenable
8 7 (2.79%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.79%) Databricks
8 7 (2.79%) F5
8 7 (2.79%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.39%) AVEVA
9 6 (2.39%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.99%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.59%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.59%) Oracle