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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 395 456
Rank change year-on-year -53 +61 -11
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 237 164 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.35% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 116 67
10th Percentile £400 £449 £411
25th Percentile £446 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £559 £632 £675
90th Percentile £638 £713 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -2.63% -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 18,877 12,179 13,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.69% 37.52% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,526 8,111 8,851
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
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 610 297 201
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.65 £52.50 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -34.55% +11.11%

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 15 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 15 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 -53 194 £500 -4.76% 212
London -25 119 £533 -13.41% 142
UK excluding London -92 86 £463 -2.63% 100
Work from Home -35 84 £500 -9.91% 105
Midlands -53 25 £477 +0.42% 13
North of England -60 23 £450 -17.05% 30
West Midlands -63 22 £477 +0.42% 12
Scotland -18 11 £463 -7.50% 17
North West -38 11 £447 -17.60% 18
South East -57 9 £669 +15.30% 15
Yorkshire -31 8 £481 -3.75% 8
East of England -28 7 £450 -12.20% 8
South West -47 5 £438 -35.19% 8
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 7
North East -36 4 £425 -29.17% 4
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 1
Wales - 1 £550 - 2

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 (13.08%) Confluence
2 12 (5.06%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.64%) nginx
4 9 (3.80%) Apache
4 9 (3.80%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 234 (98.73%) AWS
2 125 (52.74%) Amazon S3
3 119 (50.21%) Amazon EC2
4 111 (46.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 109 (45.99%) Serverless
6 101 (42.62%) AWS Lambda
7 94 (39.66%) Amazon EKS
8 79 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (22.36%) GitHub
10 52 (21.94%) Azure
11 50 (21.10%) Amazon ECS
12 37 (15.61%) AWS CloudTrail
13 36 (15.19%) AWS KMS
14 35 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (13.92%) Route 53
16 28 (11.81%) GCP
17 25 (10.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 17 (7.17%) AWS CodePipeline
19 16 (6.75%) Datadog
20 14 (5.91%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 43 (18.14%) Firewall
2 27 (11.39%) DNS
3 21 (8.86%) TCP/IP
4 18 (7.59%) VPN
5 15 (6.33%) Network Security
5 15 (6.33%) WAN
6 10 (4.22%) LAN
7 9 (3.80%) SSL
8 7 (2.95%) BGP
9 6 (2.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (2.53%) OSPF
9 6 (2.53%) SSH
9 6 (2.53%) VLAN
10 5 (2.11%) BIG-IP
10 5 (2.11%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (2.11%) MPLS
10 5 (2.11%) OpenVPN
10 5 (2.11%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.69%) IPsec
11 4 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (31.65%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (13.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 30 (12.66%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (6.75%) MySQL
5 14 (5.91%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (5.49%) DynamoDB
7 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.80%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.38%) Redis
10 7 (2.95%) Big Data
10 7 (2.95%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.53%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.11%) Power BI
13 4 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (1.69%) Apache Hive
13 4 (1.69%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.69%) Metadata
14 3 (1.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 67 (28.27%) GitLab
2 60 (25.32%) Jenkins
3 42 (17.72%) Git
4 29 (12.24%) JIRA
5 11 (4.64%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.80%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (3.38%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.84%) Maven
8 2 (0.84%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.84%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 80 (33.76%) Social Skills
2 64 (27.00%) Public Sector
3 22 (9.28%) Finance
4 9 (3.80%) Banking
5 8 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.38%) Military
6 7 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.53%) Law
8 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.27%) Police
11 2 (0.84%) Games
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
11 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Local Government
12 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (26.16%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (24.47%) Architect
3 54 (22.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (15.61%) AWS DevOps
5 30 (12.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (12.24%) AWS Architect
7 28 (11.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (10.55%) Senior
9 21 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (8.44%) Technical Architect
11 14 (5.91%) Lead
12 13 (5.49%) DBA
12 13 (5.49%) Security Engineer
12 13 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (5.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.64%) Scrum Master
15 10 (4.22%) Administrator
15 10 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 9 (3.80%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (69.20%) Terraform
2 19 (8.02%) AWS CDK
3 12 (5.06%) Kafka
4 9 (3.80%) RESTful
5 8 (3.38%) GraphQL
5 8 (3.38%) REST
5 8 (3.38%) SAML
6 7 (2.95%) Apollo GraphQL
6 7 (2.95%) boto
7 6 (2.53%) OpenID
8 5 (2.11%) LDAP
8 5 (2.11%) PySpark
9 4 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.69%) OAuth
9 4 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.69%) OpenTofu
9 4 (1.69%) React
10 3 (1.27%) cloud-init
10 3 (1.27%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.10%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.28%) Replication
3 17 (7.17%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.91%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.22%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.22%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.95%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (2.53%) NHS
10 5 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.11%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.27%) IVR
12 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.36%) Linux
2 23 (9.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (8.86%) Windows
4 10 (4.22%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.95%) Unix
6 5 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.69%) AIX
8 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.84%) CentOS
10 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 141 (59.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (58.65%) DevOps
4 67 (28.27%) Containerisation
5 59 (24.89%) Agile
6 53 (22.36%) Platform Engineering
7 50 (21.10%) Cloud Security
8 47 (19.83%) Observability
9 43 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (14.77%) Roadmaps
10 35 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (14.35%) High Availability
12 33 (13.92%) Secrets Management
13 32 (13.50%) Migration
14 30 (12.66%) Microservices
15 29 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
16 27 (11.39%) AI
17 25 (10.55%) Disaster Recovery
18 24 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
19 23 (9.70%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 95 (40.08%) Python
2 56 (23.63%) Bash
3 34 (14.35%) SQL
4 32 (13.50%) PowerShell
5 31 (13.08%) Java
6 14 (5.91%) Groovy
7 10 (4.22%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.80%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.38%) Go
10 7 (2.95%) Perl
11 3 (1.27%) Bicep
11 3 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.84%) C#
12 2 (0.84%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.84%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) C
13 1 (0.42%) Cypher
13 1 (0.42%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.42%) SHACL
13 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 108 (45.57%) Security Cleared
2 99 (41.77%) SC Cleared
3 58 (24.47%) AWS Certification
4 30 (12.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (8.44%) Degree
6 19 (8.02%) Azure Certification
7 13 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.64%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (3.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (3.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.95%) CISSP
11 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.27%) CCNP
12 3 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.84%) CCIE
14 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.49%) GDPR
3 10 (4.22%) NCSC
4 6 (2.53%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.53%) QA
5 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.84%) PMO
6 2 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.84%) SLA
7 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (34.18%) Docker
2 16 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.64%) Squid
4 9 (3.80%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.27%) vSphere
8 2 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.84%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.84%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.84%) HDFS
8 2 (0.84%) Postfix
9 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 96 (40.51%) Kubernetes
2 65 (27.43%) Grafana
3 58 (24.47%) Prometheus
4 45 (18.99%) Ansible
5 11 (4.64%) Puppet
6 10 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.80%) Packer
7 9 (3.80%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.95%) Argo
9 5 (2.11%) 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 (0.84%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.84%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (8.86%) ServiceNow
2 17 (7.17%) Cisco
2 17 (7.17%) Red Hat
3 15 (6.33%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.91%) Splunk
4 14 (5.91%) VMware
5 11 (4.64%) Google
6 9 (3.80%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.80%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.95%) Databricks
7 7 (2.95%) F5
8 6 (2.53%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.53%) Tenable
9 5 (2.11%) Oracle
9 5 (2.11%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.69%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.69%) Trend Micro
10 4 (1.69%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.27%) Aruba
11 3 (1.27%) Ping Identity