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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 409 437
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 +1
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 244 144 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.18% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 103 71
10th Percentile £406 £448 £413
25th Percentile £455 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £576 £625 £651
90th Percentile £638 £706 £685
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 18,751 12,228 13,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.15% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,380 8,158 9,133
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 320 262
10th Percentile £15.80 £15.24 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.35
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.92
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.36% -24.48%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £54.69
90th Percentile £82.27 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -14.52%

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 August 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 14 August 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 -13 203 £513 -2.38% 107
London -6 119 £535 -9.32% 70
UK excluding London -56 95 £483 +1.68% 45
Work from Home -8 87 £520 -6.35% 44
Midlands -42 29 £477 +0.42% 5
North of England -46 27 £500 -6.54% 16
West Midlands -50 26 £482 +1.53% 5
North West -28 17 £506 -5.37% 8
Scotland -6 11 £475 -5.00% 7
East of England -16 9 £450 -12.20% 5
South East -64 9 £669 +15.30% 5
Yorkshire -37 5 £500 - 6
North East -41 5 £544 -9.38% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 1
South West -45 4 £450 -33.33% 6
East Midlands - 3 £450 -
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 33 (13.52%) Confluence
2 13 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.69%) nginx
4 6 (2.46%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.64%) Apache
7 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 241 (98.77%) AWS
2 125 (51.23%) Amazon S3
3 123 (50.41%) Amazon EC2
4 111 (45.49%) Serverless
5 108 (44.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 105 (43.03%) AWS Lambda
7 94 (38.52%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (29.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 61 (25.00%) Azure
10 51 (20.90%) GitHub
11 44 (18.03%) Amazon ECS
12 35 (14.34%) AWS CloudTrail
12 35 (14.34%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (13.93%) GCP
14 30 (12.30%) AWS KMS
15 28 (11.48%) Route 53
16 23 (9.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (7.79%) Datadog
18 18 (7.38%) Snowflake
19 16 (6.56%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 53 (21.72%) Firewall
2 31 (12.70%) VPN
3 25 (10.25%) TCP/IP
4 21 (8.61%) DNS
5 20 (8.20%) Network Security
6 16 (6.56%) WAN
7 13 (5.33%) BGP
8 11 (4.51%) OSPF
9 10 (4.10%) LAN
9 10 (4.10%) SSL
10 8 (3.28%) OpenVPN
11 7 (2.87%) VLAN
12 6 (2.46%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.46%) SD-WAN
13 5 (2.05%) BIG-IP
13 5 (2.05%) MPLS
13 5 (2.05%) NetScaler
13 5 (2.05%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (31.15%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (11.48%) Amazon Aurora
3 25 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (7.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (5.33%) MySQL
5 13 (5.33%) Power BI
6 11 (4.51%) DynamoDB
7 10 (4.10%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.28%) Redis
8 8 (3.28%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.05%) Tableau
10 4 (1.64%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.64%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.23%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.23%) Big Data
11 3 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 67 (27.46%) GitLab
2 64 (26.23%) Jenkins
3 39 (15.98%) Git
4 26 (10.66%) JIRA
5 13 (5.33%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.92%) Artifactory
7 10 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (3.69%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.41%) Snyk
9 1 (0.41%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.41%) sqlmap
General
1 74 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 72 (29.51%) Public Sector
3 26 (10.66%) Finance
4 12 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.28%) Banking
6 5 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.05%) Law
7 4 (1.64%) Military
7 4 (1.64%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Police
9 2 (0.82%) Games
9 2 (0.82%) Legal
9 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (26.64%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (25.41%) Architect
3 46 (18.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (14.75%) AWS DevOps
5 35 (14.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (11.07%) AWS Architect
6 27 (11.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 25 (10.25%) Senior
8 22 (9.02%) Technical Architect
9 20 (8.20%) Security Engineer
10 19 (7.79%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (6.15%) Network Engineer
12 13 (5.33%) Lead
12 13 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.92%) DBA
14 11 (4.51%) Scrum Master
15 10 (4.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 9 (3.69%) Administrator
16 9 (3.69%) Network Architect
17 8 (3.28%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.61%) AWS CDK
2 11 (4.51%) Kafka
3 8 (3.28%) GraphQL
3 8 (3.28%) RESTful
3 8 (3.28%) SAML
4 7 (2.87%) Apollo GraphQL
4 7 (2.87%) REST
5 6 (2.46%) boto
5 6 (2.46%) OpenID
6 5 (2.05%) LDAP
7 4 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.23%) React
9 2 (0.82%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.82%) cloud-init
9 2 (0.82%) OAuth
9 2 (0.82%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.82%) PySpark
9 2 (0.82%) SOAP
10 1 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.79%) Security Posture
3 17 (6.97%) Replication
4 15 (6.15%) Data Centre
5 14 (5.74%) Product Ownership
6 13 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.69%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.28%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.46%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.05%) NHS
12 4 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.64%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.23%) Client/Server
13 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
13 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.82%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.13%) Linux
2 27 (11.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (9.02%) Windows
4 7 (2.87%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (2.87%) Unix
5 4 (1.64%) AIX
6 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.41%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (65.16%) CI/CD
2 132 (54.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 130 (53.28%) DevOps
4 65 (26.64%) Containerisation
5 58 (23.77%) Agile
6 50 (20.49%) Cloud Security
7 48 (19.67%) Observability
7 48 (19.67%) Platform Engineering
8 45 (18.44%) Roadmaps
9 43 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (16.39%) Migration
11 34 (13.93%) Microservices
12 31 (12.70%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (11.48%) High Availability
14 28 (11.48%) Secrets Management
15 25 (10.25%) Disaster Recovery
15 25 (10.25%) SIEM
16 24 (9.84%) DevSecOps
16 24 (9.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 101 (41.39%) Python
2 60 (24.59%) Bash
3 37 (15.16%) Java
4 34 (13.93%) PowerShell
5 27 (11.07%) SQL
6 11 (4.51%) Groovy
7 10 (4.10%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.69%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.28%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.46%) Go
10 6 (2.46%) Perl
11 2 (0.82%) Bicep
11 2 (0.82%) Ruby
12 1 (0.41%) Cypher
12 1 (0.41%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.41%) SHACL
12 1 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 119 (48.77%) Security Cleared
2 107 (43.85%) SC Cleared
3 59 (24.18%) AWS Certification
4 31 (12.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (10.66%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.79%) Degree
7 12 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.51%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (3.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (3.69%) CISSP
10 8 (3.28%) CCNP
10 8 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.64%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.23%) CCIE
13 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.69%) GDPR
4 7 (2.87%) NCSC
5 6 (2.46%) SLA
6 5 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.64%) PMO
8 3 (1.23%) QA
9 2 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.82%) NIST
10 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (34.43%) Docker
2 15 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.10%) Squid
4 9 (3.69%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.23%) vSphere
7 2 (0.82%) HDFS
8 1 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 166 (68.03%) Terraform
2 97 (39.75%) Kubernetes
3 60 (24.59%) Grafana
4 54 (22.13%) Prometheus
5 43 (17.62%) Ansible
6 12 (4.92%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.51%) Puppet
8 10 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.28%) Packer
10 6 (2.46%) Argo
11 5 (2.05%) Istio
11 5 (2.05%) Salt
12 4 (1.64%) Suricata
13 3 (1.23%) Consul
13 3 (1.23%) linkerd
13 3 (1.23%) SELinux
13 3 (1.23%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.82%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.82%) systemd
Vendors
1 22 (9.02%) Red Hat
2 20 (8.20%) Google
3 18 (7.38%) Cisco
3 18 (7.38%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.38%) ServiceNow
4 13 (5.33%) Splunk
4 13 (5.33%) VMware
5 10 (4.10%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.10%) Zscaler
6 9 (3.69%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.87%) F5
7 7 (2.87%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.46%) Databricks
8 6 (2.46%) Tenable
9 5 (2.05%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.64%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.64%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.64%) Oracle
10 4 (1.64%) Trend Micro
11 3 (1.23%) Veeam