Virtual Private Cloud Contracts

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Private Cloud skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 455 575
Rank change year-on-year -4 +120 -38
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 135 268 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.45% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 1.22% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 200 208
10th Percentile £405 £413 £437
25th Percentile £452 £524 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £546
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +12.59% +9.25%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £593 £588 £500
% change year-on-year +0.85% +17.50% +5.26%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Virtual Private Cloud is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,985 22,031 34,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,926 15,923 24,891
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 350 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 13 Contract 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 28 April 2024. 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 +18 119 £550 -12.00% 34
London +20 65 £550 -12.00% 22
Work from Home +42 61 £575 -4.17% 17
UK excluding London +18 50 £593 +0.85% 14
North of England +27 32 £575 -9.80% 2
North West +20 26 £663 +1.92% 2
South East -6 8 £568 -5.38% 4
Midlands +32 6 £650 +4.00% 5
Yorkshire +21 6 £463 -2.63%
West Midlands - 6 £650 - 4
East of England +10 3 £550 -12.00%
Scotland +17 2 - - 1
South West +12 1 - - 2

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.44%) Confluence
2 5 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.96%) Apache
3 4 (2.96%) nginx
4 2 (1.48%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.48%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) AWS
2 96 (71.11%) Amazon EC2
3 81 (60.00%) Amazon S3
4 56 (41.48%) Route 53
5 52 (38.52%) Serverless
6 51 (37.78%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (31.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 37 (27.41%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (17.78%) Azure
10 22 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (14.07%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (12.59%) Amazon ECR
13 13 (9.63%) GitHub
14 12 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (8.89%) CloudFront
14 12 (8.89%) IaaS
15 11 (8.15%) AWS CloudTrail
15 11 (8.15%) Entra ID
15 11 (8.15%) GCP
16 9 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 23 (17.04%) Network Security
2 19 (14.07%) DNS
3 18 (13.33%) Firewall
4 17 (12.59%) VPN
5 12 (8.89%) TCP/IP
6 7 (5.19%) DHCP
7 6 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (4.44%) WAN
8 5 (3.70%) Wireless
9 4 (2.96%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (2.96%) SSL
9 4 (2.96%) VLAN
10 3 (2.22%) BGP
10 3 (2.22%) HTTP
10 3 (2.22%) LAN
11 2 (1.48%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (1.48%) MPLS
11 2 (1.48%) WLAN
12 1 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.74%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (42.96%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (14.07%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.19%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (4.44%) Big Data
6 5 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.70%) MySQL
6 5 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.96%) Parquet
8 3 (2.22%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.22%) Bigtable
8 3 (2.22%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.22%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.48%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.48%) HBase
9 2 (1.48%) IBM BigInsights
9 2 (1.48%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 42 (31.11%) Git
2 36 (26.67%) GitLab
3 33 (24.44%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.67%) webpack
5 6 (4.44%) JIRA
6 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.48%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.74%) Maven
7 1 (0.74%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (15.56%) Finance
2 19 (14.07%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.93%) Retail
4 8 (5.93%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.44%) Electronics
5 6 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.44%) Marketing
6 5 (3.70%) Banking
7 2 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.48%) Billing
7 2 (1.48%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.48%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Games
8 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (38.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (23.70%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 26 (19.26%) Architect
5 22 (16.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 19 (14.07%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (12.59%) AWS Architect
7 17 (12.59%) Lead
8 12 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.89%) Senior
9 11 (8.15%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (8.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Lead Architect
10 7 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.44%) Lead Cloud Architect
11 6 (4.44%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.37%) Node.js
2 9 (6.67%) Express.js
2 9 (6.67%) React
2 9 (6.67%) Redux
3 6 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.70%) OAuth
4 5 (3.70%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.70%) SAML
5 4 (2.96%) Kafka
5 4 (2.96%) LDAP
5 4 (2.96%) YAML
6 3 (2.22%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.22%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.48%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.48%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.48%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.48%) Django
7 2 (1.48%) HornetQ
7 2 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.70%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.96%) Clustering
6 3 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.22%) Life Science
6 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.22%) PKI
7 2 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.48%) Replication
8 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.52%) Linux
2 16 (11.85%) Windows
3 14 (10.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (6.67%) CentOS
5 5 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.22%) Debian
6 3 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.48%) Unix
7 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (57.78%) DevOps
2 69 (51.11%) CI/CD
3 50 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (25.19%) Containerisation
5 30 (22.22%) Agile
6 13 (9.63%) Infrastructure Management
7 12 (8.89%) API Development
7 12 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (8.89%) Kanban
7 12 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (8.15%) DevSecOps
8 11 (8.15%) ETL
8 11 (8.15%) Migration
8 11 (8.15%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (8.15%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (8.15%) Service Design
8 11 (8.15%) Test Automation
9 10 (7.41%) Configuration Management
9 10 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 62 (45.93%) Python
2 22 (16.30%) Bash
3 20 (14.81%) Java
4 6 (4.44%) Go
4 6 (4.44%) SQL
4 6 (4.44%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.96%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.22%) Perl
8 2 (1.48%) Ruby
8 2 (1.48%) U-SQL
9 1 (0.74%) C#
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) PHP
9 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 56 (41.48%) SC Cleared
3 25 (18.52%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.93%) Degree
5 7 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.96%) CCNP
7 4 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.48%) CCNA
8 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.48%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.74%) OCP
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) NCSC
3 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.22%) GDPR
4 2 (1.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.74%) IFRS
5 1 (0.74%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (31.85%) Docker
2 13 (9.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.48%) Varnish
5 2 (1.48%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 74 (54.81%) Terraform
2 60 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 34 (25.19%) Ansible
4 22 (16.30%) Prometheus
5 20 (14.81%) Grafana
6 14 (10.37%) Puppet
7 10 (7.41%) Packer
8 9 (6.67%) Progress Chef
9 6 (4.44%) Consul
10 4 (2.96%) HAProxy
10 4 (2.96%) Rancher
11 3 (2.22%) FortiGate
11 3 (2.22%) Istio
12 2 (1.48%) Ambari
12 2 (1.48%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.48%) Graphite
12 2 (1.48%) linkerd
12 2 (1.48%) Oozie
12 2 (1.48%) Podman
12 2 (1.48%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (8.15%) Red Hat
1 11 (8.15%) VMware
2 10 (7.41%) Cisco
2 10 (7.41%) Palo Alto
3 8 (5.93%) SAP
4 7 (5.19%) Google
5 4 (2.96%) Splunk
6 3 (2.22%) Databricks
6 3 (2.22%) Sage
7 2 (1.48%) Juniper
7 2 (1.48%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.48%) Qualys
7 2 (1.48%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.74%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.74%) Informatica
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle
8 1 (0.74%) Talend
8 1 (0.74%) Trend Micro