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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 468 436
Rank change year-on-year +104 -32 +55
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 223 98 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 0.77% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 52 137
10th Percentile £378 £487 £469
25th Percentile £450 £535 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £608 £578
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +5.10% -11.08%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £685 £570
% change year-on-year -30.66% +20.18% -5.00%

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 13,728 12,738 16,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.16% 35.70% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,318 8,408 11,463
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 184 297
10th Percentile £15.45 £17.66 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £52.33 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.67 £27.35 £21.35
% change year-on-year -17.11% +28.10% +13.87%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +27 161 £538 -11.52% 28
UK excluding London +16 104 £475 -30.66% 32
London +35 74 £600 +6.90% 12
Work from Home +40 64 £578 -1.20% 28
West Midlands +5 37 £475 - 1
Midlands +1 37 £475 - 3
North of England -36 28 £550 -22.81% 4
Scotland - 28 £418 - 5
Yorkshire -26 16 £525 -26.32%
South East +7 10 £450 - 7
North East -3 6 £575 -23.33%
North West -22 6 £518 +15.00% 4
South West -14 3 £675 -1.46% 6
East of England -14 1 £600 - 1

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 34 (15.25%) Confluence
2 13 (5.83%) nginx
3 9 (4.04%) Apache
4 8 (3.59%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.79%) SAS
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (5.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 222 (99.55%) AWS
2 149 (66.82%) Amazon S3
3 141 (63.23%) Amazon EC2
4 118 (52.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 91 (40.81%) Serverless
6 90 (40.36%) AWS Lambda
7 86 (38.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (28.70%) GitHub
9 62 (27.80%) Amazon ECS
10 59 (26.46%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (21.52%) Amazon ELB
12 42 (18.83%) AWS KMS
12 42 (18.83%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (18.39%) Azure
14 36 (16.14%) Route 53
15 21 (9.42%) Datadog
15 21 (9.42%) Entra ID
16 19 (8.52%) AWS Direct Connect
17 18 (8.07%) AWS CloudTrail
17 18 (8.07%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 77 (34.53%) Firewall
2 75 (33.63%) DNS
3 47 (21.08%) VPN
4 25 (11.21%) SSL
4 25 (11.21%) TCP/IP
5 23 (10.31%) SMTP
6 22 (9.87%) Network Security
7 21 (9.42%) FTP
7 21 (9.42%) HTTP
7 21 (9.42%) SSH
8 12 (5.38%) IMAP
8 12 (5.38%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (4.93%) DHCP
9 11 (4.93%) WAN
10 8 (3.59%) SD-WAN
10 8 (3.59%) Wireless
11 7 (3.14%) LAN
12 6 (2.69%) BGP
12 6 (2.69%) EIGRP
12 6 (2.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (43.50%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (9.42%) MongoDB
4 20 (8.97%) Amazon Aurora
5 18 (8.07%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (6.73%) DynamoDB
7 11 (4.93%) Data Lake
8 9 (4.04%) MySQL
9 8 (3.59%) Delta Lake
10 7 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.24%) Redis
12 5 (2.24%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.24%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.79%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.79%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.35%) Metadata
14 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.90%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (49.33%) Jenkins
2 86 (38.57%) GitLab
3 79 (35.43%) Git
4 41 (18.39%) JIRA
5 23 (10.31%) Vagrant
6 10 (4.48%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.69%) MLflow
9 4 (1.79%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.45%) Maven
11 1 (0.45%) Metasploit
General
1 65 (29.15%) Public Sector
2 40 (17.94%) Social Skills
3 38 (17.04%) Finance
4 14 (6.28%) Banking
5 12 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.79%) Military
9 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Legal
9 2 (0.90%) Publishing
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Police
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (36.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 61 (27.35%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (21.52%) Architect
4 47 (21.08%) Senior
5 41 (18.39%) AWS DevOps
6 37 (16.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 32 (14.35%) Platform Engineer
8 31 (13.90%) AWS Architect
9 27 (12.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (9.42%) Lead
10 21 (9.42%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (8.97%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 20 (8.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 18 (8.07%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (5.38%) AWS Solution Architect
15 11 (4.93%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (4.48%) DevOps Platform Engineer
17 9 (4.04%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.97%) Kafka
1 20 (8.97%) Node.js
2 15 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (5.38%) LDAP
4 11 (4.93%) AWS CDK
5 8 (3.59%) PySpark
6 7 (3.14%) cloud-init
6 7 (3.14%) Keycloak
7 6 (2.69%) JSON
7 6 (2.69%) REST
7 6 (2.69%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.24%) RESTful
8 5 (2.24%) Spring
9 3 (1.35%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.35%) SignalR
10 2 (0.90%) Middleware
10 2 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 2 (0.90%) React
10 2 (0.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.00%) Replication
3 14 (6.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (5.38%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.48%) NHS
6 8 (3.59%) PKI
7 7 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.69%) IVR
8 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.24%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.24%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.90%) Clustering
12 2 (0.90%) Life Science
13 1 (0.45%) Cyberattack
13 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 72 (32.29%) Linux
2 33 (14.80%) Windows
3 26 (11.66%) Amazon Linux
4 23 (10.31%) VMS
5 12 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.38%) Ubuntu
5 12 (5.38%) Unix
6 8 (3.59%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.14%) CentOS
8 2 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.45%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (64.57%) DevOps
2 139 (62.33%) CI/CD
3 133 (59.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (25.56%) Containerisation
5 48 (21.52%) High Availability
6 46 (20.63%) Cloud Security
7 45 (20.18%) Incident Response
8 44 (19.73%) Infrastructure Automation
9 39 (17.49%) Configuration Management
10 38 (17.04%) Migration
11 37 (16.59%) Cost Optimisation
12 35 (15.70%) Observability
12 35 (15.70%) Platform Engineering
13 32 (14.35%) Mentoring
14 30 (13.45%) Agile
15 27 (12.11%) Patch Management
16 25 (11.21%) Change Management
16 25 (11.21%) Roadmaps
17 24 (10.76%) DevSecOps
17 24 (10.76%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 135 (60.54%) Python
2 63 (28.25%) Bash
3 45 (20.18%) PowerShell
4 30 (13.45%) Java
5 23 (10.31%) Groovy
5 23 (10.31%) Perl
5 23 (10.31%) SQL
6 12 (5.38%) Go
7 9 (4.04%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.59%) Ruby
9 6 (2.69%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.24%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.45%) Bicep
11 1 (0.45%) Korn
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 97 (43.50%) Security Cleared
2 85 (38.12%) SC Cleared
3 64 (28.70%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (8.07%) Degree
6 15 (6.73%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.69%) CCNP
10 5 (2.24%) CCSP
11 4 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.79%) CISSP
12 3 (1.35%) CCIE
12 3 (1.35%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.90%) CCNA
13 2 (0.90%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.90%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.21%) GDPR
2 23 (10.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.62%) PCI DSS
4 15 (6.73%) NCSC
5 11 (4.93%) NIST
6 7 (3.14%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.79%) QA
8 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.35%) PMO
8 3 (1.35%) SLA
9 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
System Software
1 110 (49.33%) Docker
2 21 (9.42%) DFS Replication
3 17 (7.62%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.38%) Dovecot
4 12 (5.38%) Postfix
4 12 (5.38%) Squid
5 7 (3.14%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (2.24%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.35%) KVM
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 171 (76.68%) Terraform
2 67 (30.04%) Kubernetes
3 61 (27.35%) Prometheus
4 60 (26.91%) Grafana
5 55 (24.66%) Ansible
6 13 (5.83%) Nessus
7 11 (4.93%) Packer
8 10 (4.48%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.04%) Puppet
10 8 (3.59%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (3.14%) Argo
12 6 (2.69%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.79%) NetBackup
13 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
15 2 (0.90%) Fluentd
15 2 (0.90%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.90%) Karpenter
15 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (14.35%) Palo Alto
2 28 (12.56%) F5
2 28 (12.56%) ServiceNow
3 23 (10.31%) CheckPoint
4 15 (6.73%) Cisco
4 15 (6.73%) Splunk
5 12 (5.38%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (5.38%) Oracle
6 11 (4.93%) Databricks
6 11 (4.93%) Dynatrace
7 10 (4.48%) Microsoft
8 8 (3.59%) CloudEndure
8 8 (3.59%) Okta
9 7 (3.14%) Commvault
9 7 (3.14%) VMware
10 6 (2.69%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.69%) Meraki
11 5 (2.24%) Avaya
11 5 (2.24%) Citrix
11 5 (2.24%) Genesys