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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 453 451
Rank change year-on-year +84 -2 +41
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 211 99 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 0.77% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 55 141
10th Percentile £400 £493 £473
25th Percentile £461 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £578
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +5.10% -9.33%
75th Percentile £625 £705 £650
90th Percentile £713 £756 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £668 £575
% change year-on-year -28.84% +16.09% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,676 12,852 16,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.52% 35.25% 35.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,240 8,464 11,709
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 168 313
10th Percentile £15.22 £19.06 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.47 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% +6.70% +47.56%
75th Percentile £45.73 £60.15 £61.88
90th Percentile £72.00 £70.00 £78.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £32.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -35.88% +45.56% +18.73%

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 13 November 2025.

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 14 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 13 November 2025. 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 +8 149 £525 -14.04% 89
UK excluding London +15 101 £475 -28.84% 50
London +15 64 £600 +7.62% 53
Work from Home +43 62 £555 -7.50% 50
West Midlands +6 37 £475 - 3
Midlands -5 37 £475 - 4
North of England -22 28 £535 -23.57% 14
Scotland - 26 £415 - 10
Yorkshire -23 18 £525 -26.32% 2
South East +4 6 £300 - 12
North West -19 6 £518 +21.76% 11
North East -7 4 £575 -23.33% 1
East of England -15 4 £500 - 3
South West -12 3 £675 +3.85% 3

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 31 (14.69%) Confluence
2 13 (6.16%) nginx
3 6 (2.84%) Apache
4 4 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.42%) SAS
6 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.47%) JBoss
7 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (5.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 210 (99.53%) AWS
2 144 (68.25%) Amazon S3
3 142 (67.30%) Amazon EC2
4 118 (55.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 82 (38.86%) Serverless
6 81 (38.39%) AWS Lambda
7 76 (36.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 60 (28.44%) GitHub
9 57 (27.01%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (24.64%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (23.70%) Amazon ELB
12 42 (19.91%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (19.43%) Azure
14 39 (18.48%) AWS KMS
15 34 (16.11%) Route 53
16 22 (10.43%) AWS Direct Connect
16 22 (10.43%) Datadog
17 18 (8.53%) AWS CloudTrail
17 18 (8.53%) AWS Fargate
18 16 (7.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 82 (38.86%) Firewall
2 78 (36.97%) DNS
3 47 (22.27%) VPN
4 27 (12.80%) TCP/IP
5 24 (11.37%) SMTP
5 24 (11.37%) SSL
6 22 (10.43%) FTP
6 22 (10.43%) HTTP
6 22 (10.43%) Network Security
6 22 (10.43%) SSH
7 13 (6.16%) WAN
8 12 (5.69%) IMAP
8 12 (5.69%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (5.21%) DHCP
10 9 (4.27%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.79%) BGP
11 8 (3.79%) LAN
11 8 (3.79%) Wireless
12 7 (3.32%) OSPF
12 7 (3.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (45.50%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (13.27%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (10.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (8.53%) MongoDB
5 15 (7.11%) DynamoDB
6 14 (6.64%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.69%) MySQL
8 8 (3.79%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.32%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.32%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.37%) MariaDB
10 5 (2.37%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.90%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.42%) Metadata
13 2 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.95%) Redis
13 2 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 111 (52.61%) Jenkins
2 83 (39.34%) Git
3 77 (36.49%) GitLab
4 39 (18.48%) JIRA
5 24 (11.37%) Vagrant
6 11 (5.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (4.74%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.90%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.95%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.95%) MLflow
10 1 (0.47%) Maven
10 1 (0.47%) Metasploit
General
1 57 (27.01%) Public Sector
2 38 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.27%) Finance
4 14 (6.64%) Banking
5 12 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Military
9 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Legal
9 2 (0.95%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (39.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (29.86%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (19.91%) Senior
4 41 (19.43%) AWS DevOps
5 40 (18.96%) Architect
6 37 (17.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 32 (15.17%) Platform Engineer
8 28 (13.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (12.32%) AWS Architect
10 21 (9.95%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 21 (9.95%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (9.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 18 (8.53%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (7.11%) Cloud Engineer
14 13 (6.16%) Lead
15 12 (5.69%) AWS Solution Architect
15 12 (5.69%) Network Engineer
16 11 (5.21%) Administrator
16 11 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 10 (4.74%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.06%) Elastic Stack
1 17 (8.06%) Kafka
2 15 (7.11%) Node.js
3 12 (5.69%) LDAP
4 9 (4.27%) AWS CDK
5 7 (3.32%) cloud-init
5 7 (3.32%) Keycloak
6 5 (2.37%) JSON
6 5 (2.37%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 5 (2.37%) REST
7 4 (1.90%) PySpark
8 3 (1.42%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.42%) Middleware
8 3 (1.42%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.95%) .NET
9 2 (0.95%) React
9 2 (0.95%) RESTful
9 2 (0.95%) SOAP
9 2 (0.95%) Spring
9 2 (0.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.64%) Replication
2 28 (13.27%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.27%) NHS
5 8 (3.79%) PKI
6 7 (3.32%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.37%) Clustering
8 5 (2.37%) IVR
8 5 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.95%) Life Science
12 1 (0.47%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 72 (34.12%) Linux
2 35 (16.59%) Windows
3 27 (12.80%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (11.37%) VMS
5 15 (7.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (5.69%) Ubuntu
6 12 (5.69%) Unix
7 7 (3.32%) CentOS
7 7 (3.32%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.47%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (70.14%) DevOps
2 133 (63.03%) CI/CD
3 128 (60.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (22.75%) Containerisation
5 47 (22.27%) High Availability
5 47 (22.27%) Infrastructure Automation
6 46 (21.80%) Cloud Security
7 40 (18.96%) Incident Response
8 39 (18.48%) Configuration Management
9 37 (17.54%) Cost Optimisation
9 37 (17.54%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (15.64%) Observability
11 31 (14.69%) Mentoring
12 30 (14.22%) Patch Management
13 28 (13.27%) Agile
13 28 (13.27%) Migration
14 26 (12.32%) Change Management
15 25 (11.85%) DevSecOps
16 24 (11.37%) Performance Tuning
17 21 (9.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 129 (61.14%) Python
2 62 (29.38%) Bash
3 44 (20.85%) PowerShell
4 26 (12.32%) Java
5 25 (11.85%) Groovy
6 24 (11.37%) Perl
7 18 (8.53%) SQL
8 13 (6.16%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.74%) Go
10 8 (3.79%) Ruby
11 3 (1.42%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.95%) CodeQL
13 1 (0.47%) Bicep
13 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.47%) Korn
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 89 (42.18%) Security Cleared
2 81 (38.39%) SC Cleared
3 54 (25.59%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.53%) Degree
5 15 (7.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (7.11%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.84%) CCNP
9 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.90%) CCSP
10 3 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.42%) CCIE
10 3 (1.42%) CCIE Security
10 3 (1.42%) CISSP
10 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.95%) CCNA
11 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.95%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.90%) GDPR
2 20 (9.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.58%) PCI DSS
4 12 (5.69%) NIST
5 10 (4.74%) NCSC
6 7 (3.32%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.84%) QA
8 3 (1.42%) PMO
8 3 (1.42%) SLA
9 2 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
System Software
1 103 (48.82%) Docker
2 22 (10.43%) DFS Replication
3 19 (9.00%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.69%) Dovecot
4 12 (5.69%) Postfix
4 12 (5.69%) Squid
5 7 (3.32%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (2.37%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.42%) KVM
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 165 (78.20%) Terraform
2 63 (29.86%) Kubernetes
3 61 (28.91%) Prometheus
4 60 (28.44%) Grafana
5 59 (27.96%) Ansible
6 13 (6.16%) Nessus
7 11 (5.21%) Packer
8 10 (4.74%) Proxmox
8 10 (4.74%) Puppet
9 8 (3.79%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (3.32%) Argo
11 6 (2.84%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.42%) Nagios
13 3 (1.42%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.95%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.95%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.95%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (15.17%) Palo Alto
2 29 (13.74%) ServiceNow
3 28 (13.27%) F5
4 23 (10.90%) CheckPoint
5 17 (8.06%) Oracle
5 17 (8.06%) Splunk
6 14 (6.64%) Cisco
7 12 (5.69%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (5.21%) Dynatrace
9 9 (4.27%) Microsoft
10 8 (3.79%) Fortinet
10 8 (3.79%) Okta
11 7 (3.32%) Databricks
11 7 (3.32%) VMware
12 6 (2.84%) Commvault
12 6 (2.84%) Meraki
13 5 (2.37%) SolarWinds
13 5 (2.37%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.90%) CloudEndure
14 4 (1.90%) Genesys