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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 444 445
Rank change year-on-year +32 +1 +27
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 227 82 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 0.75% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 54 96
10th Percentile £400 £413 £403
25th Percentile £450 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £568 £533
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +6.57% -11.25%
75th Percentile £587 £668 £648
90th Percentile £649 £738 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -6.38%
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 17,106 10,947 13,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.61% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,532 7,522 9,850
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £620 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 515 245 349
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.12 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +35.09% +29.90% -38.94%
75th Percentile £65.13 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £80.12 £73.25 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +89.09% +17.89% -29.12%

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 21 May 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 15 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 21 May 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 +23 191 £519 -10.21% 35
London +22 118 £525 -13.58% 19
UK excluding London -47 80 £475 -5.00% 26
Work from Home -12 68 £513 -7.66% 21
West Midlands -35 25 £488 +2.63% 2
Midlands -35 25 £488 +2.63% 2
North of England -56 20 £568 +13.50% 9
North West -29 12 £568 +33.53% 6
Scotland +2 10 £440 -12.00% 3
South East -47 10 £491 -15.30% 8
East of England -21 8 £490 -6.67% 1
North East -18 6 £519 -
South West - 5 £475 - 2
Yorkshire -53 2 £556 -9.18% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £446 - 1

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 40 (17.62%) Confluence
2 11 (4.85%) nginx
3 6 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.88%) Apache
6 2 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.88%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 224 (98.68%) AWS
2 125 (55.07%) Amazon S3
3 124 (54.63%) Amazon EC2
4 104 (45.81%) Serverless
5 102 (44.93%) Amazon EKS
6 100 (44.05%) AWS Lambda
7 95 (41.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 73 (32.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (23.35%) GitHub
10 49 (21.59%) Azure
11 47 (20.70%) Route 53
12 42 (18.50%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (15.86%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (13.22%) GCP
15 29 (12.78%) AWS KMS
16 26 (11.45%) AWS CloudTrail
17 25 (11.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 22 (9.69%) AWS CodePipeline
18 22 (9.69%) AWS Control Tower
19 18 (7.93%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 56 (24.67%) Firewall
2 41 (18.06%) VPN
3 33 (14.54%) DNS
4 26 (11.45%) TCP/IP
5 19 (8.37%) Network Security
6 15 (6.61%) BGP
7 13 (5.73%) OSPF
8 11 (4.85%) OpenVPN
8 11 (4.85%) WAN
9 9 (3.96%) SSL
10 7 (3.08%) LAN
11 6 (2.64%) Wireless
12 5 (2.20%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.76%) NGFW
13 4 (1.76%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (1.76%) VLAN
14 3 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
15 2 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 2 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (28.19%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.37%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (7.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (7.05%) Power BI
5 13 (5.73%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (5.73%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.85%) MySQL
7 9 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.96%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.52%) Tableau
9 7 (3.08%) DocumentDB
9 7 (3.08%) Redis
10 5 (2.20%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (2.20%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.76%) Apache Hive
11 4 (1.76%) Big Data
11 4 (1.76%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 70 (30.84%) GitLab
2 68 (29.96%) Jenkins
3 38 (16.74%) JIRA
4 33 (14.54%) Git
5 21 (9.25%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.73%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.41%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.76%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.32%) Snyk
11 2 (0.88%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.88%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.88%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.88%) MLflow
12 1 (0.44%) AppScan
12 1 (0.44%) JUnit
12 1 (0.44%) sqlmap
General
1 64 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.31%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.10%) Finance
4 18 (7.93%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.20%) Military
8 4 (1.76%) Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.32%) Police
10 2 (0.88%) Games
10 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.88%) Law
10 2 (0.88%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.44%) Billing
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (29.52%) Architect
2 52 (22.91%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (17.18%) AWS Architect
4 30 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.33%) Cloud Architect
6 26 (11.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (10.13%) AWS DevOps
8 22 (9.69%) Senior
9 17 (7.49%) Lead
9 17 (7.49%) Technical Architect
10 16 (7.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (6.61%) Network Engineer
12 14 (6.17%) Security Engineer
13 13 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (5.29%) Delivery Manager
15 11 (4.85%) Site Engineer
15 11 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (4.85%) Technical Manager
16 10 (4.41%) Scrum Master
16 10 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.89%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.49%) Kafka
3 15 (6.61%) OpenID
4 13 (5.73%) RESTful
5 11 (4.85%) LDAP
6 10 (4.41%) REST
7 7 (3.08%) GraphQL
7 7 (3.08%) OAuth
7 7 (3.08%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (3.08%) Spring
7 7 (3.08%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.64%) Apollo GraphQL
8 6 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.64%) Node.js
9 4 (1.76%) gRPC
9 4 (1.76%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.76%) JPA
9 4 (1.76%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.32%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.49%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.20%) Replication
7 5 (2.20%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.76%) PKI
9 3 (1.32%) SCADA
10 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.88%) NHS
10 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.86%) Linux
2 11 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (4.85%) Windows
3 5 (2.20%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.32%) Unix
5 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) CentOS
6 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (60.35%) CI/CD
2 107 (47.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (44.49%) DevOps
4 57 (25.11%) Containerisation
5 50 (22.03%) Observability
6 46 (20.26%) Agile
7 45 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (19.82%) Roadmaps
8 43 (18.94%) Migration
9 38 (16.74%) Cloud Security
9 38 (16.74%) Platform Engineering
10 31 (13.66%) Microservices
11 28 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (11.45%) Test Automation
13 23 (10.13%) Cost Optimisation
13 23 (10.13%) Decision-Making
13 23 (10.13%) Incident Response
13 23 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (9.25%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 86 (37.89%) Python
2 44 (19.38%) Bash
3 26 (11.45%) Java
4 23 (10.13%) SQL
5 21 (9.25%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.96%) Go
6 9 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.52%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.08%) Groovy
8 7 (3.08%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.64%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.20%) Perl
11 3 (1.32%) Bicep
11 3 (1.32%) Ruby
12 2 (0.88%) Cypher
13 1 (0.44%) Lisp
13 1 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 119 (52.42%) Security Cleared
2 108 (47.58%) SC Cleared
3 45 (19.82%) AWS Certification
4 20 (8.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.61%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.41%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (3.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.64%) CCNP
8 6 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.76%) CISSP
10 4 (1.76%) Degree
11 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.88%) PMP
12 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.73%) NIST
2 11 (4.85%) SLA
3 10 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.41%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.96%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.52%) NCSC
6 7 (3.08%) PMO
7 6 (2.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.64%) QA
8 5 (2.20%) GDPR
9 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.44%) COBIT
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 73 (32.16%) Docker
2 17 (7.49%) Squid
3 14 (6.17%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.20%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.32%) HDFS
7 3 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.32%) vSphere
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 145 (63.88%) Terraform
2 83 (36.56%) Kubernetes
3 56 (24.67%) Grafana
4 53 (23.35%) Prometheus
5 35 (15.42%) Ansible
6 12 (5.29%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.41%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.52%) Consul
9 7 (3.08%) Puppet
10 6 (2.64%) Suricata
11 5 (2.20%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.76%) Karpenter
12 4 (1.76%) Kibana
12 4 (1.76%) linkerd
12 4 (1.76%) Salt
13 3 (1.32%) Argo
13 3 (1.32%) Istio
13 3 (1.32%) Packer
13 3 (1.32%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.88%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 17 (7.49%) Splunk
2 14 (6.17%) Dynatrace
2 14 (6.17%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.73%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.29%) Google
4 12 (5.29%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.85%) Cisco
6 10 (4.41%) Fortinet
6 10 (4.41%) Zscaler
7 9 (3.96%) Databricks
7 9 (3.96%) Tenable
8 8 (3.52%) Citrix
9 7 (3.08%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.64%) AVEVA
10 6 (2.64%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.64%) CloudEndure
10 6 (2.64%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.20%) VMware
12 4 (1.76%) Oracle
12 4 (1.76%) SAP