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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 453 445
Rank change year-on-year +92 -8 +47
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 216 96 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 0.74% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 50 145
10th Percentile £400 £499 £474
25th Percentile £450 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £606 £579
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +4.74% -10.99%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £650
90th Percentile £713 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £668 £600
% change year-on-year -28.84% +11.25% -
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 13,780 12,954 16,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.36% 35.26% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,334 8,529 11,730
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £711 £738 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 186 306
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.30 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% +1.46% +35.73%
75th Percentile £51.00 £55.00 £61.41
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +15.30%

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 22 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 22 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 +37 153 £525 -13.37% 88
UK excluding London +13 100 £475 -28.84% 60
London +29 71 £588 +6.09% 43
Work from Home +35 63 £555 -7.50% 73
West Midlands +8 37 £475 - 2
Midlands -6 37 £475 - 3
Scotland - 28 £418 - 11
North of England -23 27 £550 -21.43% 25
Yorkshire -31 16 £525 -26.32% 3
South East +2 6 £300 - 6
North West -21 6 £518 +21.76% 18
North East -1 5 £575 -23.33% 4
South West -17 3 £675 +3.85% 6
East of England -13 2 £488 - 4

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 (14.35%) Confluence
2 13 (6.02%) nginx
3 8 (3.70%) Apache
4 7 (3.24%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.39%) SAS
7 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (5.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 215 (99.54%) AWS
2 149 (68.98%) Amazon S3
3 142 (65.74%) Amazon EC2
4 119 (55.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 90 (41.67%) Serverless
6 89 (41.20%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 61 (28.24%) Amazon ECS
9 58 (26.85%) GitHub
10 53 (24.54%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (23.61%) Amazon ELB
12 41 (18.98%) Azure
13 39 (18.06%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (17.59%) AWS KMS
15 36 (16.67%) Route 53
16 25 (11.57%) Datadog
17 20 (9.26%) AWS Direct Connect
18 16 (7.41%) AWS Fargate
18 16 (7.41%) Entra ID
19 15 (6.94%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 79 (36.57%) Firewall
2 76 (35.19%) DNS
3 45 (20.83%) VPN
4 25 (11.57%) TCP/IP
5 24 (11.11%) SMTP
6 22 (10.19%) FTP
6 22 (10.19%) HTTP
6 22 (10.19%) Network Security
6 22 (10.19%) SSH
6 22 (10.19%) SSL
7 13 (6.02%) WAN
8 12 (5.56%) IMAP
8 12 (5.56%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (5.09%) DHCP
10 9 (4.17%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.70%) LAN
11 8 (3.70%) Wireless
12 7 (3.24%) BGP
13 6 (2.78%) EIGRP
13 6 (2.78%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (44.91%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (10.19%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 17 (7.87%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (6.94%) DynamoDB
7 11 (5.09%) MySQL
8 10 (4.63%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.24%) Delta Lake
9 7 (3.24%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.78%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.31%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.85%) MariaDB
13 3 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.39%) Metadata
14 2 (0.93%) Apache Hudi
14 2 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 110 (50.93%) Jenkins
2 83 (38.43%) GitLab
3 80 (37.04%) Git
4 38 (17.59%) JIRA
5 24 (11.11%) Vagrant
6 10 (4.63%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.31%) MLflow
8 4 (1.85%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.46%) Maven
10 1 (0.46%) Metasploit
General
1 59 (27.31%) Public Sector
2 38 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.28%) Finance
4 14 (6.48%) Banking
5 12 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.85%) Military
9 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Legal
9 2 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Police
10 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (38.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 62 (28.70%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (20.83%) Senior
4 42 (19.44%) Architect
5 41 (18.98%) AWS DevOps
6 37 (17.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 31 (14.35%) Platform Engineer
8 27 (12.50%) AWS Architect
8 27 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 21 (9.72%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (9.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 20 (9.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 18 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (6.94%) Lead
13 14 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
15 11 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (5.09%) Network Engineer
16 10 (4.63%) Administrator
16 10 (4.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.87%) Kafka
2 16 (7.41%) Node.js
3 15 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (5.56%) LDAP
5 9 (4.17%) AWS CDK
6 7 (3.24%) cloud-init
6 7 (3.24%) Keycloak
6 7 (3.24%) PySpark
7 6 (2.78%) JSON
8 4 (1.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 4 (1.85%) REST
9 3 (1.39%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.39%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.93%) Middleware
10 2 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.93%) React
10 2 (0.93%) RESTful
10 2 (0.93%) Spring
10 2 (0.93%) Swagger
10 2 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.81%) Replication
2 28 (12.96%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.63%) NHS
6 8 (3.70%) PKI
7 7 (3.24%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.78%) IVR
8 6 (2.78%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.31%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.85%) Clustering
10 4 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.93%) Life Science
13 1 (0.46%) Cyberattack
13 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 72 (33.33%) Linux
2 33 (15.28%) Windows
3 27 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (11.11%) VMS
5 12 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.56%) Ubuntu
5 12 (5.56%) Unix
6 7 (3.24%) CentOS
6 7 (3.24%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.46%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (68.06%) DevOps
2 135 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 132 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (23.61%) Containerisation
5 49 (22.69%) High Availability
6 47 (21.76%) Cloud Security
7 45 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation
8 44 (20.37%) Incident Response
9 39 (18.06%) Configuration Management
10 36 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
11 35 (16.20%) Observability
11 35 (16.20%) Platform Engineering
12 34 (15.74%) Migration
13 32 (14.81%) Mentoring
14 29 (13.43%) Agile
15 28 (12.96%) Patch Management
16 26 (12.04%) Change Management
17 24 (11.11%) DevSecOps
18 23 (10.65%) Performance Tuning
19 21 (9.72%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 135 (62.50%) Python
2 64 (29.63%) Bash
3 45 (20.83%) PowerShell
4 29 (13.43%) Java
5 24 (11.11%) Groovy
5 24 (11.11%) Perl
6 20 (9.26%) SQL
7 11 (5.09%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.63%) Go
9 8 (3.70%) Ruby
10 3 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.93%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.46%) Bicep
12 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.46%) Korn
12 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 89 (41.20%) Security Cleared
2 79 (36.57%) SC Cleared
3 59 (27.31%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.33%) Degree
5 16 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.94%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.78%) CCNP
10 5 (2.31%) CCSP
11 4 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.85%) CISSP
12 3 (1.39%) CCIE
12 3 (1.39%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.93%) CCNA
13 2 (0.93%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.93%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.57%) GDPR
2 22 (10.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (8.80%) PCI DSS
4 10 (4.63%) NCSC
4 10 (4.63%) NIST
5 7 (3.24%) HIPAA
6 6 (2.78%) QA
7 3 (1.39%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.39%) PMO
7 3 (1.39%) SLA
8 1 (0.46%) JSP 440
System Software
1 105 (48.61%) Docker
2 22 (10.19%) DFS Replication
3 18 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.56%) Dovecot
4 12 (5.56%) Postfix
4 12 (5.56%) Squid
5 7 (3.24%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (2.31%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.39%) KVM
9 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 168 (77.78%) Terraform
2 64 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 60 (27.78%) Prometheus
4 59 (27.31%) Grafana
5 55 (25.46%) Ansible
6 13 (6.02%) Nessus
7 11 (5.09%) Packer
8 10 (4.63%) Proxmox
9 8 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (3.70%) Puppet
10 7 (3.24%) Argo
11 6 (2.78%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.39%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.93%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.93%) Kibana
14 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (14.81%) Palo Alto
2 29 (13.43%) ServiceNow
3 28 (12.96%) F5
4 23 (10.65%) CheckPoint
5 15 (6.94%) Cisco
5 15 (6.94%) Splunk
6 14 (6.48%) Oracle
7 12 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (5.09%) Dynatrace
9 10 (4.63%) Databricks
9 10 (4.63%) Microsoft
10 8 (3.70%) Okta
11 7 (3.24%) Fortinet
11 7 (3.24%) VMware
12 6 (2.78%) Commvault
12 6 (2.78%) Meraki
13 5 (2.31%) Avaya
13 5 (2.31%) Genesys
13 5 (2.31%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.85%) Salesforce