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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 437 476
Rank change year-on-year +39 +39 -12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 251 92 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 0.81% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 62 83
10th Percentile £400 £413 £390
25th Percentile £453 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £569 £619 £625
90th Percentile £625 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £593
% change year-on-year +1.68% -19.83% -1.25%
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 18,062 11,423 14,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.49% 37.93% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,063 7,684 10,016
10th Percentile £329 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £733 £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 599 286 365
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.20 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% +28.41% -37.14%
75th Percentile £69.60 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £71.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.77
% change year-on-year +102.70% -9.15% -21.56%

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 25 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 25 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 +16 211 £513 -2.38% 23
London +18 128 £519 -5.72% 10
UK excluding London -47 96 £483 +1.68% 22
Work from Home -6 77 £505 -8.18% 11
North of England -52 28 £475 +11.76% 6
West Midlands -39 27 £488 +2.63% 2
Midlands -41 27 £488 +2.63% 2
North West -23 18 £475 +11.76% 3
Scotland -4 12 £450 -10.10% 2
South East -55 11 £533 -8.19% 7
East of England -24 8 £490 -4.39%
North East -32 5 £413 - 1
Yorkshire -51 5 £500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 1
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 (15.14%) Confluence
2 11 (4.38%) nginx
3 7 (2.79%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 248 (98.80%) AWS
2 139 (55.38%) Amazon EC2
2 139 (55.38%) Amazon S3
3 121 (48.21%) Serverless
4 115 (45.82%) AWS Lambda
5 113 (45.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 108 (43.03%) Amazon EKS
7 69 (27.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 58 (23.11%) Azure
9 49 (19.52%) GitHub
10 48 (19.12%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (18.73%) Route 53
12 34 (13.55%) GCP
12 34 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (11.16%) AWS CloudTrail
14 25 (9.96%) AWS KMS
15 21 (8.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 21 (8.37%) AWS CodePipeline
16 18 (7.17%) Snowflake
17 17 (6.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 66 (26.29%) Firewall
2 41 (16.33%) VPN
3 32 (12.75%) DNS
4 30 (11.95%) TCP/IP
5 23 (9.16%) Network Security
6 19 (7.57%) WAN
7 18 (7.17%) BGP
8 15 (5.98%) OSPF
9 11 (4.38%) LAN
9 11 (4.38%) OpenVPN
10 9 (3.59%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.19%) SSL
12 7 (2.79%) VLAN
13 6 (2.39%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (2.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (2.39%) IPsec
13 6 (2.39%) MPLS
14 5 (1.99%) BIG-IP
14 5 (1.99%) Wireless
15 4 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (29.88%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (8.37%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (7.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.77%) Power BI
6 15 (5.98%) DynamoDB
7 13 (5.18%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (3.98%) MySQL
9 9 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.19%) Tableau
11 6 (2.39%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.39%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.99%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.59%) Redis
14 3 (1.20%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.20%) Big Data
14 3 (1.20%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.20%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 72 (28.69%) GitLab
2 71 (28.29%) Jenkins
3 38 (15.14%) Git
4 37 (14.74%) JIRA
5 21 (8.37%) Bitbucket
6 14 (5.58%) SonarQube
7 13 (5.18%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.80%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.80%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.80%) Snyk
10 1 (0.40%) AppScan
10 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.40%) sqlmap
General
1 73 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.70%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.35%) Finance
4 20 (7.97%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.79%) Banking
6 7 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.99%) Military
7 5 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.59%) Law
8 4 (1.59%) Legal
8 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Police
10 2 (0.80%) Games
10 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 70 (27.89%) Architect
2 61 (24.30%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (16.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (14.74%) AWS Architect
5 35 (13.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (12.75%) AWS DevOps
7 26 (10.36%) Technical Architect
8 23 (9.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 21 (8.37%) Security Engineer
10 19 (7.57%) Senior
11 17 (6.77%) Network Engineer
12 15 (5.98%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (5.18%) Delivery Manager
15 12 (4.78%) Lead
15 12 (4.78%) Network Architect
15 12 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (4.38%) Scrum Master
16 11 (4.38%) Site Engineer
16 11 (4.38%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.16%) AWS CDK
2 16 (6.37%) OpenID
3 14 (5.58%) Kafka
4 11 (4.38%) LDAP
4 11 (4.38%) RESTful
5 10 (3.98%) REST
6 8 (3.19%) GraphQL
6 8 (3.19%) OAuth
6 8 (3.19%) OAuth2
7 7 (2.79%) Apollo GraphQL
7 7 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.39%) SAML
9 4 (1.59%) gRPC
9 4 (1.59%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.59%) JPA
9 4 (1.59%) Spring
9 4 (1.59%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.59%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 65 (25.90%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.37%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.98%) Security Posture
4 10 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.99%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.99%) Replication
8 4 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.59%) NHS
9 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) SCADA
10 2 (0.80%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 46 (18.33%) Linux
2 24 (9.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (9.16%) Windows
4 5 (1.99%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.20%) Unix
5 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) AIX
7 1 (0.40%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (64.54%) CI/CD
2 132 (52.59%) DevOps
3 131 (52.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (26.29%) Containerisation
5 63 (25.10%) Agile
6 56 (22.31%) Observability
7 52 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (20.72%) Roadmaps
8 51 (20.32%) Cloud Security
9 46 (18.33%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (16.73%) Migration
11 34 (13.55%) Microservices
12 31 (12.35%) Infrastructure Automation
12 31 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (11.16%) Decision-Making
14 27 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (10.36%) Cost Optimisation
15 26 (10.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (10.36%) Test Automation
16 24 (9.56%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 100 (39.84%) Python
2 59 (23.51%) Bash
3 33 (13.15%) Java
4 29 (11.55%) PowerShell
5 20 (7.97%) SQL
6 8 (3.19%) Go
6 8 (3.19%) Groovy
6 8 (3.19%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.79%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.59%) Perl
9 3 (1.20%) Bicep
9 3 (1.20%) Cypher
10 2 (0.80%) Ruby
11 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.40%) Lisp
11 1 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.40%) SHACL
11 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 119 (47.41%) Security Cleared
2 106 (42.23%) SC Cleared
3 49 (19.52%) AWS Certification
4 23 (9.16%) Azure Certification
5 21 (8.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (7.17%) Degree
7 11 (4.38%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (3.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.98%) CISSP
9 9 (3.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (3.19%) CCNP
10 8 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.20%) CCIE
12 3 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.38%) SLA
2 10 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.98%) PCI DSS
3 9 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.59%) NIST
4 7 (2.79%) GDPR
4 7 (2.79%) PMO
4 7 (2.79%) QA
5 6 (2.39%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 82 (32.67%) Docker
2 17 (6.77%) Squid
3 13 (5.18%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.59%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.20%) vSphere
8 2 (0.80%) HDFS
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 169 (67.33%) Terraform
2 101 (40.24%) Kubernetes
3 60 (23.90%) Grafana
3 60 (23.90%) Prometheus
4 42 (16.73%) Ansible
5 13 (5.18%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.78%) Puppet
6 12 (4.78%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.59%) FortiGate
8 8 (3.19%) Consul
9 6 (2.39%) Packer
9 6 (2.39%) Salt
10 4 (1.59%) Argo
10 4 (1.59%) Istio
10 4 (1.59%) linkerd
10 4 (1.59%) Suricata
11 3 (1.20%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.80%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 24 (9.56%) Red Hat
2 20 (7.97%) Google
3 16 (6.37%) Cisco
3 16 (6.37%) Dynatrace
3 16 (6.37%) Splunk
4 15 (5.98%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.98%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.98%) Palo Alto
5 10 (3.98%) VMware
6 9 (3.59%) Zscaler
7 8 (3.19%) Tenable
8 7 (2.79%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.79%) Databricks
8 7 (2.79%) F5
8 7 (2.79%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.79%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.39%) AVEVA
10 5 (1.99%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.99%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.59%) Trend Micro