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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 402 467
Rank change year-on-year -40 +65 -16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 236 164 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.33% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 116 68
10th Percentile £402 £436 £411
25th Percentile £449 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £559 £632 £675
90th Percentile £638 £713 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -0.74% -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 18,989 12,346 13,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.81% 37.40% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,599 8,215 8,949
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
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 609 308 205
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.20
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.70 £54.06 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.62 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +46.34% -28.07% +5.56%

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 12 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 12 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 -57 193 £500 -4.76% 106
London -14 120 £533 -12.35% 79
UK excluding London -90 84 £472 -0.74% 47
Work from Home -36 83 £500 -9.91% 172
Midlands -58 26 £477 +0.42% 4
West Midlands -60 23 £477 +0.42% 4
North of England -64 21 £453 -16.50% 12
Scotland -25 11 £463 -7.50% 10
North West -40 10 £450 -17.05% 4
South East -51 9 £669 +15.30% 7
East of England -20 7 £450 -12.20% 5
Yorkshire -44 7 £500 - 6
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 1
South West -41 4 £450 -33.33% 7
North East -43 4 £425 -29.17% 2
East Midlands - 3 £450 -
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

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 (13.14%) Confluence
2 11 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.66%) nginx
3 9 (3.81%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.97%) Apache
5 6 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 233 (98.73%) AWS
2 125 (52.97%) Amazon S3
3 119 (50.42%) Amazon EC2
4 111 (47.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 109 (46.19%) Serverless
6 102 (43.22%) AWS Lambda
7 94 (39.83%) Amazon EKS
8 79 (33.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (22.88%) GitHub
10 53 (22.46%) Azure
11 50 (21.19%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (16.10%) AWS CloudTrail
13 36 (15.25%) AWS KMS
13 36 (15.25%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (14.41%) Route 53
15 28 (11.86%) GCP
16 26 (11.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 17 (7.20%) AWS CodePipeline
18 16 (6.78%) Datadog
19 14 (5.93%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 43 (18.22%) Firewall
2 26 (11.02%) DNS
3 21 (8.90%) TCP/IP
4 18 (7.63%) VPN
5 16 (6.78%) Network Security
6 15 (6.36%) WAN
7 10 (4.24%) LAN
8 9 (3.81%) SSL
9 7 (2.97%) BGP
10 6 (2.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (2.54%) OSPF
10 6 (2.54%) SSH
10 6 (2.54%) VLAN
11 5 (2.12%) BIG-IP
11 5 (2.12%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (2.12%) MPLS
11 5 (2.12%) OpenVPN
11 5 (2.12%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.69%) IPsec
12 4 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (32.20%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (13.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 29 (12.29%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (6.36%) MySQL
6 14 (5.93%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (5.51%) DynamoDB
8 12 (5.08%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.39%) Redis
9 8 (3.39%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.54%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.54%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.12%) Big Data
11 5 (2.12%) Power BI
12 4 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.69%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.69%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.69%) Metadata
13 3 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (28.81%) GitLab
2 60 (25.42%) Jenkins
3 41 (17.37%) Git
4 28 (11.86%) JIRA
5 11 (4.66%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.81%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.97%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.85%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.42%) Maven
9 1 (0.42%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
9 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 79 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 65 (27.54%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.90%) Finance
4 8 (3.39%) Banking
4 8 (3.39%) Military
5 7 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.54%) Law
7 5 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.27%) Police
10 2 (0.85%) Games
10 2 (0.85%) Legal
10 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (26.69%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (25.00%) Architect
3 54 (22.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (15.68%) AWS DevOps
5 30 (12.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (12.29%) AWS Architect
7 28 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (10.59%) Senior
9 21 (8.90%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (8.47%) Technical Architect
11 14 (5.93%) Lead
11 14 (5.93%) Security Engineer
11 14 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (5.51%) DBA
13 12 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.66%) Scrum Master
15 10 (4.24%) Administrator
15 10 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 9 (3.81%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (69.92%) Terraform
2 19 (8.05%) AWS CDK
3 12 (5.08%) Kafka
4 8 (3.39%) boto
4 8 (3.39%) GraphQL
4 8 (3.39%) RESTful
4 8 (3.39%) SAML
5 7 (2.97%) Apollo GraphQL
5 7 (2.97%) REST
6 6 (2.54%) OpenID
7 5 (2.12%) LDAP
7 5 (2.12%) PySpark
8 4 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.69%) OAuth
8 4 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.69%) OpenTofu
9 3 (1.27%) cloud-init
9 3 (1.27%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.27%) React
9 3 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.76%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.32%) Replication
3 17 (7.20%) Security Posture
4 15 (6.36%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.24%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (2.54%) NHS
9 5 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.12%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.27%) IVR
11 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.46%) Linux
2 23 (9.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (8.90%) Windows
4 10 (4.24%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.97%) Unix
6 5 (2.12%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.69%) AIX
8 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.85%) CentOS
10 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (66.53%) CI/CD
2 142 (60.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (58.90%) DevOps
4 67 (28.39%) Containerisation
5 58 (24.58%) Agile
6 54 (22.88%) Platform Engineering
7 52 (22.03%) Cloud Security
8 47 (19.92%) Observability
9 42 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (15.25%) Roadmaps
11 34 (14.41%) High Availability
11 34 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (13.56%) Secrets Management
13 31 (13.14%) Migration
14 30 (12.71%) Infrastructure Automation
15 29 (12.29%) Microservices
16 27 (11.44%) AI
17 25 (10.59%) Disaster Recovery
18 24 (10.17%) DevSecOps
19 23 (9.75%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 95 (40.25%) Python
2 56 (23.73%) Bash
3 32 (13.56%) PowerShell
3 32 (13.56%) SQL
4 29 (12.29%) Java
5 14 (5.93%) Groovy
6 9 (3.81%) Shell Script
6 9 (3.81%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.39%) Go
8 7 (2.97%) Perl
9 3 (1.27%) Bicep
9 3 (1.27%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.85%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) C#
11 1 (0.42%) Cypher
11 1 (0.42%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) R
11 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 109 (46.19%) Security Cleared
2 99 (41.95%) SC Cleared
3 58 (24.58%) AWS Certification
4 31 (13.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (8.05%) Azure Certification
5 19 (8.05%) Degree
6 13 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.66%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (3.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.97%) CISSP
10 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.27%) CCNP
11 3 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.85%) CCIE
13 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.51%) GDPR
3 10 (4.24%) NCSC
4 6 (2.54%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.12%) QA
6 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.85%) NIST
7 2 (0.85%) PMO
7 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.85%) SLA
8 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (34.32%) Docker
2 16 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.66%) Squid
4 9 (3.81%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.27%) vSphere
8 2 (0.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.85%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.85%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.85%) HDFS
8 2 (0.85%) Postfix
9 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 96 (40.68%) Kubernetes
2 65 (27.54%) Grafana
3 58 (24.58%) Prometheus
4 45 (19.07%) Ansible
5 11 (4.66%) Puppet
6 10 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.81%) Packer
7 9 (3.81%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.97%) Argo
9 5 (2.12%) Istio
10 4 (1.69%) linkerd
10 4 (1.69%) Salt
10 4 (1.69%) Suricata
11 3 (1.27%) Consul
11 3 (1.27%) SELinux
11 3 (1.27%) systemd
11 3 (1.27%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.27%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.85%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (8.90%) ServiceNow
2 17 (7.20%) Cisco
2 17 (7.20%) Red Hat
3 15 (6.36%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.93%) Splunk
4 14 (5.93%) VMware
5 11 (4.66%) Google
6 9 (3.81%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.81%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.97%) Databricks
7 7 (2.97%) F5
8 6 (2.54%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.54%) Tenable
9 5 (2.12%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.69%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.69%) Oracle
10 4 (1.69%) Trend Micro
10 4 (1.69%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.27%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.27%) Salesforce