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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 449 474
Rank change year-on-year +52 +25 -14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 242 89 120
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 154 60 86
10th Percentile £400 £413 £394
25th Percentile £450 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -1.41% -11.25%
75th Percentile £560 £616 £640
90th Percentile £620 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £598
% change year-on-year +0.21% -20.50% -0.42%
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 17,914 11,278 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.82% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,970 7,607 10,025
10th Percentile £326 £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 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £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 586 278 365
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.13 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.77
% change year-on-year +98.73% -9.15% -23.07%

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 19 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 19 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 +21 206 £513 -2.38% 27
London +19 129 £519 -5.72% 11
UK excluding London -50 86 £476 +0.21% 25
Work from Home +3 74 £510 -7.27% 15
North of England -46 28 £475 +11.76% 7
Midlands -40 25 £494 +3.95% 2
West Midlands -43 25 £494 +3.95% 2
North West -20 18 £475 +11.76% 4
Scotland -7 8 £445 -11.10% 2
East of England -26 8 £490 -4.39%
South East -61 7 £445 -23.23% 8
North East -32 5 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -56 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 (15.70%) Confluence
2 11 (4.55%) nginx
3 6 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.24%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 239 (98.76%) AWS
2 134 (55.37%) Amazon EC2
3 133 (54.96%) Amazon S3
4 119 (49.17%) Serverless
5 113 (46.69%) AWS Lambda
6 110 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 107 (44.21%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (27.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (22.31%) Azure
10 49 (20.25%) Route 53
11 47 (19.42%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (19.42%) GitHub
12 32 (13.22%) GCP
12 32 (13.22%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (10.74%) AWS CloudTrail
14 23 (9.50%) AWS KMS
15 20 (8.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 19 (7.85%) AWS CodePipeline
17 17 (7.02%) Power Platform
17 17 (7.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (26.03%) Firewall
2 36 (14.88%) VPN
3 28 (11.57%) DNS
3 28 (11.57%) TCP/IP
4 22 (9.09%) Network Security
5 15 (6.20%) BGP
6 14 (5.79%) WAN
7 12 (4.96%) OSPF
8 11 (4.55%) OpenVPN
9 8 (3.31%) SSL
10 7 (2.89%) Wireless
11 6 (2.48%) LAN
12 4 (1.65%) NGFW
12 4 (1.65%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.65%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (1.24%) 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 (29.34%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (8.68%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (7.02%) Power BI
6 15 (6.20%) DynamoDB
7 13 (5.37%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (4.13%) MySQL
9 9 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.31%) Tableau
11 6 (2.48%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.48%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.07%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.65%) Redis
14 3 (1.24%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.24%) Big Data
14 3 (1.24%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.83%) Data Vault
15 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.83%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 72 (29.75%) GitLab
2 69 (28.51%) Jenkins
3 37 (15.29%) Git
3 37 (15.29%) JIRA
4 21 (8.68%) Bitbucket
5 14 (5.79%) SonarQube
6 13 (5.37%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.83%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.83%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.83%) Snyk
9 1 (0.41%) AppScan
9 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.41%) sqlmap
General
1 69 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 61 (25.21%) Public Sector
3 30 (12.40%) Finance
4 20 (8.26%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.48%) Banking
7 6 (2.48%) Military
8 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.65%) Law
8 4 (1.65%) Legal
9 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Police
10 2 (0.83%) Games
10 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.41%) Billing
11 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (25.62%) Architect
2 60 (24.79%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (17.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (14.88%) AWS Architect
5 33 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (13.22%) AWS DevOps
7 23 (9.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 23 (9.50%) Technical Architect
8 20 (8.26%) Security Engineer
9 19 (7.85%) Network Engineer
9 19 (7.85%) Senior
10 15 (6.20%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (5.37%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.55%) Lead
13 11 (4.55%) Scrum Master
13 11 (4.55%) Site Engineer
13 11 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.57%) AWS CDK
2 16 (6.61%) OpenID
3 14 (5.79%) Kafka
4 11 (4.55%) LDAP
4 11 (4.55%) RESTful
5 8 (3.31%) GraphQL
5 8 (3.31%) OAuth
5 8 (3.31%) OAuth2
5 8 (3.31%) REST
6 7 (2.89%) Apollo GraphQL
7 6 (2.48%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.48%) SAML
8 4 (1.65%) gRPC
8 4 (1.65%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.65%) JPA
8 4 (1.65%) Spring
8 4 (1.65%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.65%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.24%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.24%) React
Miscellaneous
1 60 (24.79%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.44%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.20%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.07%) Replication
10 4 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.65%) NHS
11 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.24%) SCADA
12 2 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.83%) Fixed Income
13 1 (0.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 1 (0.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.77%) Linux
2 22 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (8.26%) Windows
4 5 (2.07%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.24%) Unix
5 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) CentOS
7 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (64.05%) CI/CD
2 127 (52.48%) DevOps
3 126 (52.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (26.45%) Containerisation
5 60 (24.79%) Agile
6 55 (22.73%) Observability
7 51 (21.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (20.25%) Roadmaps
9 47 (19.42%) Cloud Security
10 44 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
11 40 (16.53%) Migration
12 33 (13.64%) Microservices
13 31 (12.81%) Infrastructure Automation
14 28 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (10.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (10.74%) Test Automation
16 25 (10.33%) Decision-Making
16 25 (10.33%) SIEM
17 24 (9.92%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 97 (40.08%) Python
2 59 (24.38%) Bash
3 33 (13.64%) Java
4 29 (11.98%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.26%) SQL
6 8 (3.31%) Go
6 8 (3.31%) Groovy
6 8 (3.31%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.31%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.89%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.65%) Perl
9 3 (1.24%) Bicep
10 2 (0.83%) Cypher
10 2 (0.83%) Ruby
11 1 (0.41%) C
11 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.41%) Lisp
11 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 117 (48.35%) Security Cleared
2 108 (44.63%) SC Cleared
3 44 (18.18%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 16 (6.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.79%) Degree
7 11 (4.55%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (4.13%) CISSP
9 9 (3.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (3.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.07%) CCNP
12 5 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.83%) PMP
15 1 (0.41%) CCIE
15 1 (0.41%) GIAC
15 1 (0.41%) JNCIA
15 1 (0.41%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.55%) SLA
2 9 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.72%) NIST
2 9 (3.72%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.89%) PMO
4 7 (2.89%) QA
5 6 (2.48%) GDPR
6 2 (0.83%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) COBIT
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 80 (33.06%) Docker
2 17 (7.02%) Squid
3 13 (5.37%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.07%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.24%) vSphere
7 2 (0.83%) HDFS
8 1 (0.41%) Firmware
8 1 (0.41%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 162 (66.94%) Terraform
2 99 (40.91%) Kubernetes
3 59 (24.38%) Grafana
3 59 (24.38%) Prometheus
4 40 (16.53%) Ansible
5 13 (5.37%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.96%) Puppet
7 11 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (3.72%) FortiGate
9 8 (3.31%) Consul
10 6 (2.48%) Packer
10 6 (2.48%) Salt
11 4 (1.65%) Argo
11 4 (1.65%) Istio
11 4 (1.65%) linkerd
11 4 (1.65%) Suricata
12 3 (1.24%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.83%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 24 (9.92%) Red Hat
2 18 (7.44%) Google
3 17 (7.02%) Splunk
4 16 (6.61%) Dynatrace
5 15 (6.20%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.55%) Microsoft
7 10 (4.13%) Cisco
8 9 (3.72%) Fortinet
8 9 (3.72%) Zscaler
9 8 (3.31%) Palo Alto
9 8 (3.31%) Tenable
10 7 (2.89%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.89%) Databricks
11 6 (2.48%) AVEVA
12 5 (2.07%) CheckPoint
12 5 (2.07%) PagerDuty
12 5 (2.07%) VMware
13 4 (1.65%) Aruba
13 4 (1.65%) Trend Micro
14 3 (1.24%) F5