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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 443 466
Rank change year-on-year +49 +23 -25
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 238 81 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 0.72% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 48 95
10th Percentile £365 £413 £402
25th Percentile £419 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £606 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +10.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £728 £694
90th Percentile £650 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £700 £588
% change year-on-year -28.57% +19.15% -2.08%

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 16,120 11,193 14,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.35% 37.93% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,001 7,744 10,327
10th Percentile £313 £313 £287
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £633
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 196 360
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.18 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%
75th Percentile £61.81 £43.10 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.72 £62.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.15 £24.00 £17.80
% change year-on-year +79.78% +34.83% -19.24%

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 14 March 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 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 14 March 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 +27 191 £525 -13.58% 42
London +12 113 £525 -13.58% 20
UK excluding London -7 94 £500 -28.57% 24
Work from Home -3 55 £540 -7.69% 25
North of England -50 31 £550 -24.14% 6
Scotland +36 27 £404 -7.77%
Midlands -39 18 £511 - 3
West Midlands - 18 £511 - 3
South East -39 14 £404 - 9
Yorkshire -52 12 £525 -27.59% 2
North West -26 11 £558 +31.18% 4
North East -8 8 £575 -23.33%
East of England -25 3 £600 -
South West -26 2 £419 - 6

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 29 (12.18%) Confluence
2 8 (3.36%) nginx
3 7 (2.94%) Apache
4 6 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.52%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.68%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 237 (99.58%) AWS
2 139 (58.40%) Amazon S3
3 129 (54.20%) Amazon EC2
4 116 (48.74%) AWS Lambda
4 116 (48.74%) Serverless
5 95 (39.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 93 (39.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 90 (37.82%) Amazon EKS
8 57 (23.95%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (23.53%) GitHub
10 52 (21.85%) Azure
11 46 (19.33%) Route 53
12 44 (18.49%) GCP
13 39 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (10.92%) AWS KMS
15 21 (8.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 21 (8.82%) AWS Control Tower
15 21 (8.82%) Datadog
16 19 (7.98%) Amazon ELB
16 19 (7.98%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 65 (27.31%) Firewall
2 53 (22.27%) VPN
3 39 (16.39%) DNS
4 21 (8.82%) Network Security
5 20 (8.40%) TCP/IP
6 19 (7.98%) BGP
7 16 (6.72%) OSPF
8 13 (5.46%) WAN
9 11 (4.62%) Wireless
10 10 (4.20%) OpenVPN
10 10 (4.20%) SD-WAN
11 9 (3.78%) LAN
12 8 (3.36%) SSL
13 6 (2.52%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (2.52%) EIGRP
13 6 (2.52%) VLAN
13 6 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (2.10%) MPLS
14 5 (2.10%) VXLAN
15 4 (1.68%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (36.13%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.56%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (7.56%) DynamoDB
3 17 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.88%) Power BI
5 13 (5.46%) MySQL
6 11 (4.62%) Data Lake
7 10 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.78%) Redis
9 8 (3.36%) DocumentDB
10 7 (2.94%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.94%) Tableau
11 6 (2.52%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.10%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.10%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 83 (34.87%) Jenkins
2 81 (34.03%) GitLab
3 38 (15.97%) Git
4 34 (14.29%) JIRA
5 20 (8.40%) Bitbucket
6 11 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (3.78%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.52%) MLflow
8 6 (2.52%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.68%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.68%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.26%) Snyk
11 2 (0.84%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.84%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.42%) AppScan
12 1 (0.42%) JUnit
12 1 (0.42%) Maven
12 1 (0.42%) sqlmap
General
1 61 (25.63%) Public Sector
2 57 (23.95%) Social Skills
3 46 (19.33%) Finance
4 17 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (5.46%) Banking
6 8 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Legal
9 2 (0.84%) Military
9 2 (0.84%) Publishing
10 1 (0.42%) Billing
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 70 (29.41%) Architect
2 48 (20.17%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (17.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (15.97%) AWS Architect
5 31 (13.03%) Senior
6 27 (11.34%) Cloud Architect
7 22 (9.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (9.24%) Lead
8 19 (7.98%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (7.98%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (6.72%) Network Engineer
10 14 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.88%) Security Engineer
11 13 (5.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.04%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (4.62%) Technical Manager
14 10 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.20%) Site Engineer
14 10 (4.20%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.08%) Kafka
2 21 (8.82%) Node.js
3 19 (7.98%) AWS CDK
4 14 (5.88%) OpenID
5 13 (5.46%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (4.62%) REST
7 9 (3.78%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.78%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.36%) LDAP
8 8 (3.36%) OAuth
8 8 (3.36%) OAuth2
8 8 (3.36%) PySpark
8 8 (3.36%) RESTful
8 8 (3.36%) Spring
9 6 (2.52%) JSON
10 4 (1.68%) gRPC
10 4 (1.68%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.68%) JPA
10 4 (1.68%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.49%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.66%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.20%) NHS
5 8 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.52%) IVR
6 6 (2.52%) PKI
7 5 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.68%) Replication
9 3 (1.26%) Life Science
9 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.26%) SCADA
9 3 (1.26%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.33%) Linux
2 11 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (4.62%) Windows
3 4 (1.68%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.26%) Unix
5 2 (0.84%) CentOS
5 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (59.24%) CI/CD
2 128 (53.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 110 (46.22%) DevOps
4 61 (25.63%) Containerisation
5 59 (24.79%) Observability
6 57 (23.95%) Migration
7 50 (21.01%) Roadmaps
8 42 (17.65%) Incident Response
9 39 (16.39%) Cost Optimisation
10 36 (15.13%) Agile
10 36 (15.13%) Microservices
11 35 (14.71%) Cloud Security
12 34 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (12.18%) High Availability
15 28 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 26 (10.92%) Infrastructure Automation
17 25 (10.50%) Analytics
17 25 (10.50%) Mentoring
18 24 (10.08%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 114 (47.90%) Python
2 48 (20.17%) Bash
3 34 (14.29%) Java
4 20 (8.40%) PowerShell
5 19 (7.98%) SQL
6 10 (4.20%) Go
7 9 (3.78%) Perl
7 9 (3.78%) Ruby
8 7 (2.94%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.52%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.52%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.10%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.26%) Bicep
12 2 (0.84%) Cypher
13 1 (0.42%) Lisp
13 1 (0.42%) PHP
13 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 98 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 85 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 69 (28.99%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.30%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (4.62%) CCNP
8 10 (4.20%) Degree
9 8 (3.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.36%) CISSP
10 7 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.10%) CCSP
11 5 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.68%) CCIE
13 3 (1.26%) CCIE Security
13 3 (1.26%) CCNA
13 3 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.84%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (9.24%) GDPR
3 21 (8.82%) PCI DSS
4 20 (8.40%) NIST
5 13 (5.46%) SLA
6 11 (4.62%) Data Quality
7 10 (4.20%) NCSC
8 8 (3.36%) PMO
9 6 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (2.10%) QA
11 3 (1.26%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.42%) COBIT
12 1 (0.42%) GRC
12 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
System Software
1 87 (36.55%) Docker
2 9 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.78%) Squid
3 7 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.68%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.84%) HDFS
6 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.42%) Firmware
7 1 (0.42%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 159 (66.81%) Terraform
2 84 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 46 (19.33%) Ansible
4 44 (18.49%) Prometheus
5 39 (16.39%) Grafana
6 11 (4.62%) FortiGate
6 11 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.94%) Argo
7 7 (2.94%) Consul
8 6 (2.52%) Karpenter
8 6 (2.52%) Kibana
8 6 (2.52%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.10%) Packer
10 4 (1.68%) Puppet
11 3 (1.26%) Istio
11 3 (1.26%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.84%) linkerd
12 2 (0.84%) Suricata
12 2 (0.84%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 20 (8.40%) Splunk
2 18 (7.56%) Databricks
3 17 (7.14%) Cisco
4 15 (6.30%) Google
5 14 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 14 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 13 (5.46%) Dynatrace
6 13 (5.46%) Microsoft
6 13 (5.46%) ServiceNow
7 12 (5.04%) Red Hat
8 10 (4.20%) CloudEndure
9 9 (3.78%) F5
9 9 (3.78%) Zscaler
10 8 (3.36%) Atlassian
11 7 (2.94%) Citrix
11 7 (2.94%) Oracle
12 6 (2.52%) AVEVA
12 6 (2.52%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.52%) Meraki
13 5 (2.10%) SolarWinds