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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 430 470
Rank change year-on-year +24 +40 -22
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 240 89 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 0.79% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 59 85
10th Percentile £400 £413 £402
25th Percentile £452 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £560 £617 £645
90th Percentile £625 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £599
% change year-on-year +0.21% -20.67% -0.21%
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 17,796 11,228 14,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.90% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,899 7,582 9,936
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £631
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 279 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year +97.37% -4.76% -26.38%

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 16 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 16 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 +20 204 £513 -2.38% 47
London +6 127 £519 -5.72% 24
UK excluding London -47 86 £476 +0.21% 35
Work from Home +8 73 £505 -8.18% 24
North of England -49 28 £475 +11.76% 9
Midlands -39 25 £494 +3.95% 4
West Midlands -40 25 £494 +3.95% 4
North West -24 18 £475 +11.76% 6
Scotland -7 8 £445 -11.10% 3
East of England -28 8 £490 -4.39%
South East -54 7 £445 -23.23% 12
North East -30 5 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -51 5 £500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 1
South West - 4 £500 - 6
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 (16.25%) Confluence
2 11 (4.58%) nginx
3 6 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 237 (98.75%) AWS
2 133 (55.42%) Amazon EC2
3 132 (55.00%) Amazon S3
4 117 (48.75%) Serverless
5 111 (46.25%) AWS Lambda
6 110 (45.83%) Amazon EKS
7 109 (45.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 67 (27.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (22.92%) Azure
10 49 (20.42%) GitHub
10 49 (20.42%) Route 53
11 47 (19.58%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (14.17%) GCP
12 34 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (10.42%) AWS CloudTrail
14 22 (9.17%) AWS KMS
15 19 (7.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 19 (7.92%) AWS CodePipeline
16 17 (7.08%) AWS Control Tower
16 17 (7.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 61 (25.42%) Firewall
2 34 (14.17%) VPN
3 29 (12.08%) DNS
4 28 (11.67%) TCP/IP
5 21 (8.75%) Network Security
6 14 (5.83%) BGP
7 12 (5.00%) OSPF
8 11 (4.58%) OpenVPN
8 11 (4.58%) WAN
9 9 (3.75%) SSL
10 7 (2.92%) Wireless
11 5 (2.08%) LAN
12 4 (1.67%) NGFW
12 4 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.67%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (1.25%) VLAN
14 2 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
14 2 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 2 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (29.58%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (8.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (7.08%) Power BI
5 15 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 12 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (4.17%) MySQL
8 9 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.33%) Tableau
10 6 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (2.50%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.08%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.67%) Redis
13 3 (1.25%) Apache Hive
13 3 (1.25%) Big Data
13 3 (1.25%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.83%) Data Vault
14 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.83%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 72 (30.00%) GitLab
2 68 (28.33%) Jenkins
3 37 (15.42%) JIRA
4 35 (14.58%) Git
5 21 (8.75%) Bitbucket
6 14 (5.83%) SonarQube
7 12 (5.00%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.83%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.83%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.83%) Snyk
10 1 (0.42%) AppScan
10 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.42%) JUnit
10 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
10 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 70 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 61 (25.42%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.92%) Finance
4 20 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.50%) Banking
7 6 (2.50%) Military
8 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.67%) Law
8 4 (1.67%) Legal
9 3 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.25%) Police
10 2 (0.83%) Games
10 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (25.83%) Architect
2 60 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (15.00%) AWS Architect
5 32 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (12.92%) AWS DevOps
7 23 (9.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 22 (9.17%) Technical Architect
9 20 (8.33%) Security Engineer
9 20 (8.33%) Senior
10 16 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
10 16 (6.67%) Network Engineer
11 13 (5.42%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (5.00%) Lead
12 12 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.58%) Scrum Master
13 11 (4.58%) Site Engineer
13 11 (4.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.58%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.67%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.08%) OpenID
3 14 (5.83%) Kafka
4 11 (4.58%) LDAP
4 11 (4.58%) RESTful
5 9 (3.75%) OAuth
5 9 (3.75%) OAuth2
6 8 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 8 (3.33%) REST
7 7 (2.92%) Apollo GraphQL
7 7 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (2.92%) SAML
8 4 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.67%) gRPC
8 4 (1.67%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.67%) JPA
8 4 (1.67%) Spring
8 4 (1.67%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.67%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.25%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 61 (25.42%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.83%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.08%) Replication
9 4 (1.67%) NHS
10 3 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.25%) SCADA
11 2 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.83%) Fixed Income
12 1 (0.42%) CMDB
12 1 (0.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.33%) Linux
2 21 (8.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (7.92%) Windows
4 5 (2.08%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.25%) Unix
6 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.42%) CentOS
7 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.42%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 127 (52.92%) DevOps
3 124 (51.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (27.08%) Containerisation
5 59 (24.58%) Agile
5 59 (24.58%) Observability
6 52 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (20.42%) Roadmaps
8 47 (19.58%) Cloud Security
9 44 (18.33%) Platform Engineering
10 40 (16.67%) Migration
11 33 (13.75%) Microservices
12 30 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
13 28 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (11.25%) Test Automation
15 26 (10.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 25 (10.42%) Cost Optimisation
16 25 (10.42%) SIEM
17 24 (10.00%) Decision-Making
17 24 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (40.00%) Python
2 58 (24.17%) Bash
3 33 (13.75%) Java
4 31 (12.92%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.33%) SQL
6 8 (3.33%) Go
6 8 (3.33%) Groovy
6 8 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.92%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.67%) Perl
9 3 (1.25%) Bicep
10 2 (0.83%) Cypher
10 2 (0.83%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) Lisp
11 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 115 (47.92%) Security Cleared
2 106 (44.17%) SC Cleared
3 45 (18.75%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.17%) Azure Certification
5 16 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.83%) Degree
7 11 (4.58%) CISSP
7 11 (4.58%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.08%) CCNP
11 5 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.83%) PMP
14 1 (0.42%) CEH
14 1 (0.42%) GIAC
14 1 (0.42%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.42%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.58%) SLA
2 10 (4.17%) NIST
3 9 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.75%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.92%) PMO
5 7 (2.92%) QA
6 6 (2.50%) GDPR
7 2 (0.83%) NCSC
8 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.42%) COBIT
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 81 (33.75%) Docker
2 18 (7.50%) Squid
3 13 (5.42%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.08%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.25%) vSphere
7 2 (0.83%) HDFS
8 1 (0.42%) Firmware
8 1 (0.42%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 160 (66.67%) Terraform
2 100 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 59 (24.58%) Grafana
4 58 (24.17%) Prometheus
5 38 (15.83%) Ansible
6 13 (5.42%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (4.17%) Puppet
9 9 (3.75%) FortiGate
10 8 (3.33%) Consul
11 5 (2.08%) Argo
11 5 (2.08%) Packer
11 5 (2.08%) Salt
12 4 (1.67%) Istio
12 4 (1.67%) linkerd
12 4 (1.67%) Suricata
13 3 (1.25%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.83%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.83%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 23 (9.58%) Red Hat
2 19 (7.92%) Google
3 17 (7.08%) Splunk
4 16 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 15 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.58%) Microsoft
7 10 (4.17%) Cisco
8 9 (3.75%) Tenable
8 9 (3.75%) Zscaler
9 8 (3.33%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.92%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.92%) Databricks
10 7 (2.92%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.50%) AVEVA
12 5 (2.08%) VMware
13 4 (1.67%) Aruba
13 4 (1.67%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.67%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.67%) Trend Micro
14 3 (1.25%) Ping Identity