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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 387 469
Rank change year-on-year -61 +82 -31
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 240 166 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.51% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.34% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 120 59
10th Percentile £400 £425 £423
25th Percentile £431 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £559 £626 £675
90th Percentile £638 £713 £750
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 19,019 12,350 12,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.67% 37.77% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,616 8,238 8,668
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
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 625 291 186
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.28
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £53.13 £64.67
90th Percentile £80.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.75 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +59.57% -41.61% +29.67%

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 23 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 23 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 -38 195 £496 -5.50% 171
London -20 123 £525 -12.50% 113
UK excluding London -94 84 £463 -2.63% 68
Work from Home -39 82 £500 -11.74% 82
North of England -70 23 £450 -20.00% 20
Midlands -60 22 £477 +0.42% 9
West Midlands -54 19 £482 +1.53% 8
Scotland -23 12 £450 -10.00% 10
North West -42 11 £447 -17.60% 12
South East -55 9 £669 - 14
Yorkshire -44 8 £481 -3.75% 6
East of England -28 7 £400 -21.95% 9
South West -35 5 £438 -35.19% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 1
North East -38 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 (12.08%) Confluence
2 15 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 12 (5.00%) Apache
4 10 (4.17%) nginx
5 9 (3.75%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.42%) Appian
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.42%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 237 (98.75%) AWS
2 128 (53.33%) Amazon S3
3 120 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 112 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 106 (44.17%) Serverless
6 98 (40.83%) AWS Lambda
7 95 (39.58%) Amazon EKS
8 80 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (22.08%) Azure
10 51 (21.25%) GitHub
11 49 (20.42%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (15.83%) AWS CloudTrail
13 36 (15.00%) AWS KMS
14 33 (13.75%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (13.33%) Route 53
16 31 (12.92%) GCP
17 25 (10.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 16 (6.67%) Datadog
19 15 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
19 15 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 42 (17.50%) Firewall
2 25 (10.42%) DNS
3 19 (7.92%) TCP/IP
4 17 (7.08%) VPN
5 15 (6.25%) Network Security
6 14 (5.83%) WAN
7 9 (3.75%) LAN
7 9 (3.75%) SSL
8 7 (2.92%) BGP
9 6 (2.50%) OSPF
9 6 (2.50%) SSH
9 6 (2.50%) VLAN
10 5 (2.08%) BIG-IP
10 5 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 5 (2.08%) MPLS
10 5 (2.08%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.67%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (1.67%) HTTP
11 4 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (32.08%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 31 (12.92%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (7.08%) MySQL
5 16 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (5.83%) DynamoDB
8 12 (5.00%) MongoDB
9 10 (4.17%) Data Lake
9 10 (4.17%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.33%) Redis
11 7 (2.92%) Big Data
12 6 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.50%) Delta Lake
13 5 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (1.67%) Apache Hive
14 4 (1.67%) Hadoop
14 4 (1.67%) Metadata
14 4 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 68 (28.33%) GitLab
2 58 (24.17%) Jenkins
3 43 (17.92%) Git
4 27 (11.25%) JIRA
5 9 (3.75%) Artifactory
5 9 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.33%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.83%) Maven
7 2 (0.83%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.83%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.42%) Postman
8 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 82 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 63 (26.25%) Public Sector
3 22 (9.17%) Finance
4 9 (3.75%) Banking
5 8 (3.33%) Military
6 7 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.50%) Law
8 5 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.25%) Police
11 2 (0.83%) Games
11 2 (0.83%) Legal
11 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (26.25%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (24.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (23.75%) Architect
4 37 (15.42%) AWS DevOps
5 31 (12.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 28 (11.67%) AWS Architect
6 28 (11.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (10.00%) Senior
8 23 (9.58%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (8.33%) Technical Architect
10 14 (5.83%) Lead
10 14 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (5.42%) DBA
11 13 (5.42%) Security Engineer
12 12 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.17%) Administrator
13 10 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.75%) Data Engineer
15 8 (3.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (70.42%) Terraform
2 17 (7.08%) AWS CDK
3 13 (5.42%) Kafka
4 10 (4.17%) RESTful
5 9 (3.75%) GraphQL
5 9 (3.75%) SAML
6 8 (3.33%) PySpark
6 8 (3.33%) REST
7 7 (2.92%) Apollo GraphQL
7 7 (2.92%) boto
8 5 (2.08%) OAuth
8 5 (2.08%) OpenID
9 4 (1.67%) .NET
9 4 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.67%) LDAP
9 4 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.67%) OpenTofu
9 4 (1.67%) React
10 3 (1.25%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.17%) Replication
3 17 (7.08%) Security Posture
4 12 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.75%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.33%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.92%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.50%) NHS
11 5 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (2.08%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.25%) Fixed Income
13 3 (1.25%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.50%) Linux
2 23 (9.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (9.17%) Windows
4 10 (4.17%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.92%) Unix
6 5 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.67%) AIX
7 4 (1.67%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.83%) CentOS
10 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 148 (61.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (57.92%) DevOps
4 64 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 58 (24.17%) Agile
6 54 (22.50%) Observability
7 52 (21.67%) Cloud Security
7 52 (21.67%) Platform Engineering
8 43 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 36 (15.00%) Secrets Management
11 35 (14.58%) Migration
12 34 (14.17%) High Availability
12 34 (14.17%) Roadmaps
13 31 (12.92%) Microservices
14 30 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
15 27 (11.25%) AI
15 27 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
16 26 (10.83%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 101 (42.08%) Python
2 58 (24.17%) Bash
3 34 (14.17%) SQL
4 33 (13.75%) PowerShell
5 31 (12.92%) Java
6 14 (5.83%) Groovy
7 10 (4.17%) Go
7 10 (4.17%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.75%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.92%) Perl
10 3 (1.25%) Bicep
10 3 (1.25%) C#
10 3 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.83%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.83%) Ruby
12 1 (0.42%) Cypher
12 1 (0.42%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.42%) R
12 1 (0.42%) SHACL
12 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 104 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 95 (39.58%) SC Cleared
3 61 (25.42%) AWS Certification
4 33 (13.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (9.17%) Degree
6 19 (7.92%) Azure Certification
7 13 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) CISSP
9 8 (3.33%) SAFe Agilist
10 6 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.67%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.25%) CCNP
13 3 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.83%) CCIE
14 2 (0.83%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.83%) GDPR
3 10 (4.17%) NCSC
4 7 (2.92%) QA
5 6 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.25%) NIST
7 3 (1.25%) SLA
8 2 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.42%) PMO
9 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (32.50%) Docker
2 16 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.17%) Squid
4 8 (3.33%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.25%) vSphere
7 2 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.83%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.83%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.83%) HDFS
7 2 (0.83%) Postfix
8 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 97 (40.42%) Kubernetes
2 65 (27.08%) Grafana
3 58 (24.17%) Prometheus
4 45 (18.75%) Ansible
5 12 (5.00%) Puppet
6 10 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.75%) Packer
7 9 (3.75%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.92%) Argo
9 5 (2.08%) Istio
10 4 (1.67%) linkerd
10 4 (1.67%) Salt
10 4 (1.67%) Suricata
11 3 (1.25%) Consul
11 3 (1.25%) SELinux
11 3 (1.25%) systemd
11 3 (1.25%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.25%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.83%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 22 (9.17%) ServiceNow
2 17 (7.08%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.67%) Cisco
3 16 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 15 (6.25%) Splunk
5 13 (5.42%) Google
5 13 (5.42%) VMware
6 9 (3.75%) Palo Alto
7 8 (3.33%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.92%) Databricks
9 6 (2.50%) F5
9 6 (2.50%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.50%) Tenable
10 5 (2.08%) Oracle
10 5 (2.08%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.67%) Trend Micro
11 4 (1.67%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.25%) Aruba
12 3 (1.25%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.25%) Ping Identity