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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 407 455
Rank change year-on-year -25 +48 -22
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 245 144 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.44% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.18% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 103 78
10th Percentile £407 £415 £409
25th Percentile £455 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -2.60% -10.17%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £640
90th Percentile £638 £703 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £571
% change year-on-year +2.63% -16.85% -4.79%
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 18,613 12,245 13,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.22% 37.21% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,280 8,214 9,247
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £617 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 311 273
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%
75th Percentile £69.79 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.05 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -19.36%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -10 202 £513 -2.38% 73
London +5 118 £522 -10.04% 49
UK excluding London -52 97 £488 +2.63% 28
Work from Home -15 88 £513 -7.66% 38
Midlands -42 30 £484 +1.95% 2
West Midlands -49 28 £488 +2.63% 2
North of England -40 27 £500 -6.54% 15
North West -36 18 £475 -11.21% 9
Scotland -11 12 £450 -10.10% 1
South East -60 9 £669 +15.30% 5
East of England -15 8 £490 -4.39% 1
South West -39 5 £475 - 4
Yorkshire -40 5 £500 - 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 -
North East -39 4 £625 +4.17% 2
East Midlands - 2 £466 -
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 39 (15.92%) Confluence
2 12 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.49%) nginx
4 6 (2.45%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.63%) Apache
7 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 242 (98.78%) AWS
2 139 (56.73%) Amazon EC2
3 137 (55.92%) Amazon S3
4 115 (46.94%) Serverless
5 109 (44.49%) AWS Lambda
6 105 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 95 (38.78%) Amazon EKS
8 65 (26.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 59 (24.08%) Azure
10 53 (21.63%) GitHub
11 43 (17.55%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (14.69%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (13.47%) AWS CloudTrail
14 32 (13.06%) GCP
15 30 (12.24%) Route 53
16 26 (10.61%) AWS KMS
17 22 (8.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 20 (8.16%) Snowflake
19 18 (7.35%) Datadog
20 17 (6.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 55 (22.45%) Firewall
2 33 (13.47%) VPN
3 28 (11.43%) TCP/IP
4 23 (9.39%) DNS
5 21 (8.57%) Network Security
6 16 (6.53%) WAN
7 14 (5.71%) BGP
8 11 (4.49%) OSPF
9 10 (4.08%) LAN
9 10 (4.08%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.67%) SSL
11 7 (2.86%) VLAN
12 6 (2.45%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.45%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.04%) BIG-IP
13 5 (2.04%) IPsec
13 5 (2.04%) MPLS
13 5 (2.04%) NetScaler
13 5 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (30.20%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (7.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (6.94%) Power BI
5 15 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (4.49%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.27%) Tableau
9 5 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (2.04%) MySQL
10 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.63%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.22%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.22%) Big Data
11 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.82%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 67 (27.35%) GitLab
2 64 (26.12%) Jenkins
3 46 (18.78%) Git
4 33 (13.47%) JIRA
5 16 (6.53%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.90%) Artifactory
7 10 (4.08%) SonarQube
8 9 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.41%) Snyk
9 1 (0.41%) sqlmap
General
1 73 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 68 (27.76%) Public Sector
3 28 (11.43%) Finance
4 12 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.27%) Banking
7 7 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.04%) Law
8 5 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.63%) Military
9 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.22%) Legal
10 3 (1.22%) Police
11 2 (0.82%) Games
11 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.41%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 65 (26.53%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (25.31%) Architect
3 44 (17.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (14.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (13.88%) AWS DevOps
6 29 (11.84%) AWS Architect
7 25 (10.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 22 (8.98%) Security Engineer
8 22 (8.98%) Technical Architect
9 19 (7.76%) Senior
10 18 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (6.53%) Network Engineer
12 14 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.90%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (4.90%) Lead
14 11 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.49%) Scrum Master
15 10 (4.08%) Technical Delivery Manager
15 10 (4.08%) Technical Manager
16 9 (3.67%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.80%) AWS CDK
2 9 (3.67%) Kafka
3 8 (3.27%) GraphQL
4 7 (2.86%) Apollo GraphQL
4 7 (2.86%) LDAP
4 7 (2.86%) OpenID
4 7 (2.86%) RESTful
4 7 (2.86%) SAML
5 6 (2.45%) boto
5 6 (2.45%) REST
6 4 (1.63%) React
7 3 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.82%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.82%) OAuth
8 2 (0.82%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.82%) PySpark
8 2 (0.82%) SOAP
9 1 (0.41%) Web Services
9 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.04%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.35%) Security Posture
3 15 (6.12%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.27%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.45%) Replication
8 5 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.04%) NHS
8 5 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.63%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.22%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.63%) Linux
2 28 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (9.39%) Windows
4 7 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.45%) Unix
6 4 (1.63%) AIX
7 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (62.86%) CI/CD
2 129 (52.65%) DevOps
3 125 (51.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (27.35%) Agile
5 62 (25.31%) Containerisation
6 53 (21.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (20.41%) Cloud Security
7 50 (20.41%) Observability
8 49 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
9 44 (17.96%) Roadmaps
10 40 (16.33%) Migration
11 31 (12.65%) Microservices
12 30 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
13 25 (10.20%) DevSecOps
13 25 (10.20%) SIEM
14 24 (9.80%) Change Management
14 24 (9.80%) Scrum
15 23 (9.39%) Test Automation
16 22 (8.98%) AI
16 22 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (41.22%) Python
2 60 (24.49%) Bash
3 34 (13.88%) Java
4 33 (13.47%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.16%) SQL
6 11 (4.49%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.67%) Groovy
8 8 (3.27%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.04%) Go
9 5 (2.04%) Perl
10 2 (0.82%) Bicep
10 2 (0.82%) Ruby
11 1 (0.41%) Cypher
11 1 (0.41%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.41%) R
11 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.41%) SHACL
11 1 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 124 (50.61%) Security Cleared
2 112 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 49 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 25 (10.20%) Azure Certification
5 22 (8.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (7.76%) Degree
7 11 (4.49%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (4.08%) CISSP
9 9 (3.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (3.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.27%) CCNP
10 8 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.63%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.22%) CCIE
12 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.27%) SLA
3 7 (2.86%) GDPR
3 7 (2.86%) NCSC
3 7 (2.86%) PMO
4 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.22%) QA
6 2 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.82%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (32.65%) Docker
2 14 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.90%) Squid
4 9 (3.67%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.22%) vSphere
7 2 (0.82%) HDFS
8 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 160 (65.31%) Terraform
2 95 (38.78%) Kubernetes
3 58 (23.67%) Grafana
4 53 (21.63%) Prometheus
5 44 (17.96%) Ansible
6 12 (4.90%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.49%) Puppet
7 11 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.86%) Packer
9 6 (2.45%) Argo
10 5 (2.04%) Salt
11 4 (1.63%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.63%) Istio
11 4 (1.63%) Suricata
12 3 (1.22%) Consul
12 3 (1.22%) SELinux
12 3 (1.22%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.82%) linkerd
13 2 (0.82%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 24 (9.80%) Red Hat
2 23 (9.39%) ServiceNow
3 20 (8.16%) Google
4 18 (7.35%) Cisco
4 18 (7.35%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.31%) VMware
6 12 (4.90%) Splunk
7 11 (4.49%) Dynatrace
8 10 (4.08%) Zscaler
9 9 (3.67%) Palo Alto
10 8 (3.27%) Databricks
11 7 (2.86%) F5
11 7 (2.86%) SolarWinds
12 6 (2.45%) Tenable
13 5 (2.04%) PagerDuty
14 4 (1.63%) CheckPoint
14 4 (1.63%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.63%) Oracle
14 4 (1.63%) Trend Micro
15 3 (1.22%) Aruba