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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 402 447
Rank change year-on-year -20 +45 -2
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 256 144 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.18% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 103 71
10th Percentile £407 £429 £409
25th Percentile £456 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £651
90th Percentile £638 £703 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £593
% change year-on-year +2.63% -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 18,763 12,249 13,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.16% 37.16% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,394 8,203 9,135
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £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 616 315 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.19 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.72% -29.03%
75th Percentile £69.00 £47.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.31 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 12 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 12 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 -3 215 £513 -2.38% 111
London +4 128 £525 -9.48% 68
UK excluding London -56 98 £488 +2.63% 56
Work from Home -11 90 £513 -7.66% 53
Midlands -42 32 £481 +1.26% 6
West Midlands -40 29 £488 +2.63% 5
North of England -54 27 £500 -6.54% 20
North West -32 17 £506 -5.37% 11
Scotland -6 11 £475 -5.00% 6
East of England -15 9 £450 -12.20% 6
South East -61 9 £669 +15.30% 6
North East -40 5 £544 -9.38% 4
Yorkshire -41 5 £500 - 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £446 - 6
South West -38 4 £450 - 6
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 1
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 40 (15.63%) Confluence
2 13 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.52%) nginx
4 6 (2.34%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.56%) Apache
7 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 253 (98.83%) AWS
2 136 (53.13%) Amazon S3
3 134 (52.34%) Amazon EC2
4 117 (45.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 116 (45.31%) Serverless
6 110 (42.97%) AWS Lambda
7 95 (37.11%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (28.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 61 (23.83%) Azure
10 52 (20.31%) GitHub
11 46 (17.97%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (13.67%) AWS CloudTrail
13 35 (13.67%) AWS KMS
14 34 (13.28%) GCP
15 26 (10.16%) Route 53
16 24 (9.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (7.42%) Datadog
18 18 (7.03%) AWS CodePipeline
18 18 (7.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 54 (21.09%) Firewall
2 31 (12.11%) VPN
3 25 (9.77%) TCP/IP
4 21 (8.20%) DNS
5 20 (7.81%) Network Security
6 16 (6.25%) WAN
7 13 (5.08%) BGP
8 11 (4.30%) OSPF
9 10 (3.91%) LAN
9 10 (3.91%) SSL
10 8 (3.13%) OpenVPN
11 7 (2.73%) VLAN
12 6 (2.34%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.34%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.95%) BIG-IP
13 5 (1.95%) MPLS
13 5 (1.95%) NetScaler
13 5 (1.95%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (33.20%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (10.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 24 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (6.64%) Power BI
6 13 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.69%) MySQL
8 11 (4.30%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.52%) MongoDB
10 8 (3.13%) Tableau
11 7 (2.73%) Redis
11 7 (2.73%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.95%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.56%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.17%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.17%) Big Data
14 3 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 69 (26.95%) GitLab
2 66 (25.78%) Jenkins
3 46 (17.97%) Git
4 33 (12.89%) JIRA
5 15 (5.86%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.69%) Artifactory
7 10 (3.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (3.52%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.39%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.39%) Snyk
9 1 (0.39%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.39%) sqlmap
General
1 82 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 78 (30.47%) Public Sector
3 30 (11.72%) Finance
4 11 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.13%) Banking
7 7 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.95%) Law
8 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Military
9 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Police
11 2 (0.78%) Games
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
11 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (25.78%) AWS Engineer
2 61 (23.83%) Architect
3 46 (17.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (14.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (14.06%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (10.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 26 (10.16%) AWS Architect
8 25 (9.77%) Senior
9 22 (8.59%) Security Engineer
9 22 (8.59%) Technical Architect
10 19 (7.42%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.86%) Network Engineer
12 13 (5.08%) Lead
12 13 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.69%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (4.30%) DBA
14 11 (4.30%) Scrum Master
15 10 (3.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.91%) Technical Delivery Manager
15 10 (3.91%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.98%) AWS CDK
2 11 (4.30%) Kafka
3 8 (3.13%) GraphQL
3 8 (3.13%) RESTful
3 8 (3.13%) SAML
4 7 (2.73%) Apollo GraphQL
4 7 (2.73%) REST
5 6 (2.34%) boto
5 6 (2.34%) OpenID
6 5 (1.95%) LDAP
7 4 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.17%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.17%) React
9 2 (0.78%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.78%) cloud-init
9 2 (0.78%) OAuth
9 2 (0.78%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.78%) PySpark
9 2 (0.78%) SOAP
10 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.42%) Security Posture
3 16 (6.25%) Replication
4 15 (5.86%) Data Centre
5 14 (5.47%) Product Ownership
6 12 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.52%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.13%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.34%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.95%) NHS
12 4 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.56%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.17%) Client/Server
13 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
13 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.78%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 55 (21.48%) Linux
2 27 (10.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (8.59%) Windows
4 8 (3.13%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.73%) Unix
6 4 (1.56%) AIX
7 3 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 133 (51.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 132 (51.56%) DevOps
4 69 (26.95%) Agile
5 66 (25.78%) Containerisation
6 52 (20.31%) Cloud Security
6 52 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (19.92%) Platform Engineering
8 48 (18.75%) Observability
9 44 (17.19%) Roadmaps
10 42 (16.41%) Migration
11 34 (13.28%) Microservices
12 31 (12.11%) Infrastructure Automation
12 31 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (10.55%) High Availability
14 26 (10.16%) Secrets Management
14 26 (10.16%) SIEM
15 25 (9.77%) DevSecOps
16 24 (9.38%) Data Modelling
16 24 (9.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 102 (39.84%) Python
2 60 (23.44%) Bash
3 37 (14.45%) Java
4 34 (13.28%) PowerShell
5 30 (11.72%) SQL
6 12 (4.69%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.30%) Groovy
8 9 (3.52%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.34%) Go
10 6 (2.34%) Perl
11 2 (0.78%) Bicep
11 2 (0.78%) Ruby
12 1 (0.39%) C
12 1 (0.39%) Cypher
12 1 (0.39%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.39%) SHACL
12 1 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 130 (50.78%) Security Cleared
2 118 (46.09%) SC Cleared
3 57 (22.27%) AWS Certification
4 29 (11.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (10.16%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.42%) Degree
7 12 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.30%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (3.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (3.52%) CISSP
10 8 (3.13%) CCNP
10 8 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.56%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.17%) CCIE
13 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.52%) GDPR
4 7 (2.73%) NCSC
4 7 (2.73%) PMO
4 7 (2.73%) SLA
5 5 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.17%) QA
7 2 (0.78%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.78%) NIST
8 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (33.59%) Docker
2 15 (5.86%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.91%) Squid
4 9 (3.52%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.78%) HDFS
8 1 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 167 (65.23%) Terraform
2 97 (37.89%) Kubernetes
3 60 (23.44%) Grafana
4 54 (21.09%) Prometheus
5 44 (17.19%) Ansible
6 12 (4.69%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.30%) Puppet
8 10 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.13%) Packer
10 6 (2.34%) Argo
11 5 (1.95%) Istio
11 5 (1.95%) Salt
12 4 (1.56%) Suricata
13 3 (1.17%) Consul
13 3 (1.17%) linkerd
13 3 (1.17%) SELinux
13 3 (1.17%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.78%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.78%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (9.77%) ServiceNow
2 22 (8.59%) Red Hat
3 20 (7.81%) Google
4 18 (7.03%) Cisco
4 18 (7.03%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.08%) Splunk
5 13 (5.08%) VMware
6 10 (3.91%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.91%) Zscaler
7 9 (3.52%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.73%) F5
8 7 (2.73%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.34%) Databricks
9 6 (2.34%) Tenable
10 5 (1.95%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.56%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.56%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.56%) Oracle
11 4 (1.56%) Trend Micro
12 3 (1.17%) Veeam