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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 463 443
Rank change year-on-year +92 -20 +40
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 219 98 182
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.27% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 0.76% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 52 149
10th Percentile £391 £487 £471
25th Percentile £450 £535 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £579
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +5.00% -10.99%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £663
90th Percentile £713 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £685 £575
% change year-on-year -30.66% +19.13% -4.17%

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 13,810 12,971 16,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.31% 35.58% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,372 8,543 11,601
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 189 302
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.02 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +22.73%
75th Percentile £52.33 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £21.82
% change year-on-year -18.18% +26.03% +14.36%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +38 155 £536 -11.73% 26
UK excluding London +29 101 £475 -30.66% 27
London +42 72 £600 +6.90% 12
Work from Home +42 64 £565 -3.42% 24
West Midlands +9 37 £475 - 1
Midlands -3 37 £475 - 3
North of England -29 28 £550 -22.81% 5
Scotland - 28 £418 - 4
Yorkshire -20 16 £525 -26.32% 1
South East +8 7 £300 - 4
North East -3 6 £575 -23.33%
North West -23 6 £518 +15.00% 4
South West -5 3 £675 -1.46% 5
East of England -16 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 33 (15.07%) Confluence
2 13 (5.94%) nginx
3 9 (4.11%) Apache
4 8 (3.65%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.83%) SAS
7 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (5.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 218 (99.54%) AWS
2 150 (68.49%) Amazon S3
3 142 (64.84%) Amazon EC2
4 119 (54.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 91 (41.55%) Serverless
6 90 (41.10%) AWS Lambda
7 82 (37.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 63 (28.77%) GitHub
9 62 (28.31%) Amazon ECS
10 58 (26.48%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (21.92%) Amazon ELB
12 42 (19.18%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (18.72%) Azure
14 37 (16.89%) AWS KMS
15 36 (16.44%) Route 53
16 22 (10.05%) Datadog
17 19 (8.68%) AWS Direct Connect
18 18 (8.22%) AWS Fargate
19 16 (7.31%) Entra ID
20 14 (6.39%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 77 (35.16%) Firewall
2 75 (34.25%) DNS
3 46 (21.00%) VPN
4 25 (11.42%) TCP/IP
5 24 (10.96%) SSL
6 23 (10.50%) SMTP
7 22 (10.05%) Network Security
8 21 (9.59%) FTP
8 21 (9.59%) HTTP
8 21 (9.59%) SSH
9 12 (5.48%) IMAP
9 12 (5.48%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (5.48%) WAN
10 11 (5.02%) DHCP
11 8 (3.65%) LAN
11 8 (3.65%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.65%) Wireless
12 6 (2.74%) BGP
12 6 (2.74%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (2.74%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (44.75%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (9.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (9.13%) MongoDB
5 18 (8.22%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (6.85%) DynamoDB
7 11 (5.02%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.57%) MySQL
9 8 (3.65%) Delta Lake
10 7 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.74%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.28%) Oracle Database
12 5 (2.28%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.83%) Redis
14 3 (1.37%) DocumentDB
14 3 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.37%) MariaDB
14 3 (1.37%) Metadata
15 2 (0.91%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 110 (50.23%) Jenkins
2 86 (39.27%) GitLab
3 78 (35.62%) Git
4 40 (18.26%) JIRA
5 23 (10.50%) Vagrant
6 10 (4.57%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.74%) MLflow
9 4 (1.83%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.46%) Maven
11 1 (0.46%) Metasploit
General
1 60 (27.40%) Public Sector
2 40 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.53%) Finance
4 14 (6.39%) Banking
5 12 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Military
9 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Legal
9 2 (0.91%) Publishing
10 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Police
10 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (37.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 62 (28.31%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (21.46%) Senior
4 43 (19.63%) Architect
5 41 (18.72%) AWS DevOps
6 37 (16.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 32 (14.61%) Platform Engineer
8 28 (12.79%) AWS Architect
9 27 (12.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (9.59%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (9.13%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 20 (9.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 18 (8.22%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (7.76%) Lead
14 14 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (5.48%) AWS Solution Architect
16 11 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 10 (4.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
17 10 (4.57%) Network Engineer
18 9 (4.11%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.68%) Kafka
1 19 (8.68%) Node.js
2 15 (6.85%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (5.48%) LDAP
4 11 (5.02%) AWS CDK
5 8 (3.65%) PySpark
6 7 (3.20%) cloud-init
6 7 (3.20%) Keycloak
7 6 (2.74%) JSON
8 5 (2.28%) REST
8 5 (2.28%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.83%) RESTful
9 4 (1.83%) Spring
10 3 (1.37%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (1.37%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 2 (0.91%) Middleware
11 2 (0.91%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.91%) React
11 2 (0.91%) SignalR
11 2 (0.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.16%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.70%) Replication
3 14 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (5.48%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.57%) NHS
6 8 (3.65%) PKI
7 7 (3.20%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.74%) IVR
8 6 (2.74%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.28%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.37%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.37%) Clustering
11 3 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.91%) Life Science
13 1 (0.46%) Cyberattack
13 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 72 (32.88%) Linux
2 33 (15.07%) Windows
3 26 (11.87%) Amazon Linux
4 23 (10.50%) VMS
5 12 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.48%) Ubuntu
5 12 (5.48%) Unix
6 8 (3.65%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.20%) CentOS
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.46%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (66.21%) DevOps
2 139 (63.47%) CI/CD
3 134 (61.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (25.57%) Containerisation
5 49 (22.37%) High Availability
6 46 (21.00%) Cloud Security
7 45 (20.55%) Incident Response
7 45 (20.55%) Infrastructure Automation
8 39 (17.81%) Configuration Management
9 37 (16.89%) Cost Optimisation
10 35 (15.98%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (15.53%) Migration
11 34 (15.53%) Observability
12 32 (14.61%) Mentoring
13 30 (13.70%) Agile
14 27 (12.33%) Patch Management
15 25 (11.42%) Change Management
16 24 (10.96%) DevSecOps
17 23 (10.50%) Microservices
18 22 (10.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 135 (61.64%) Python
2 63 (28.77%) Bash
3 45 (20.55%) PowerShell
4 30 (13.70%) Java
5 23 (10.50%) Groovy
5 23 (10.50%) Perl
5 23 (10.50%) SQL
6 12 (5.48%) Go
7 9 (4.11%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.65%) Ruby
9 5 (2.28%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.28%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.46%) Bicep
10 1 (0.46%) Korn
10 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 93 (42.47%) Security Cleared
2 82 (37.44%) SC Cleared
3 59 (26.94%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.22%) Degree
5 17 (7.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.85%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.74%) CCNP
10 5 (2.28%) CCSP
11 4 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.83%) CISSP
12 3 (1.37%) CCIE
12 3 (1.37%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.91%) CCNA
13 2 (0.91%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.91%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.42%) GDPR
2 23 (10.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (8.22%) PCI DSS
4 11 (5.02%) NIST
5 10 (4.57%) NCSC
6 7 (3.20%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.83%) QA
8 3 (1.37%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.37%) PMO
8 3 (1.37%) SLA
9 1 (0.46%) JSP 440
System Software
1 109 (49.77%) Docker
2 21 (9.59%) DFS Replication
3 17 (7.76%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.48%) Dovecot
4 12 (5.48%) Postfix
4 12 (5.48%) Squid
5 7 (3.20%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (2.28%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.37%) KVM
9 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 168 (76.71%) Terraform
2 67 (30.59%) Kubernetes
3 61 (27.85%) Prometheus
4 60 (27.40%) Grafana
5 55 (25.11%) Ansible
6 13 (5.94%) Nessus
7 11 (5.02%) Packer
8 10 (4.57%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.11%) Puppet
10 8 (3.65%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (3.20%) Argo
12 6 (2.74%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.83%) NetBackup
13 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
15 2 (0.91%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.91%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.91%) Karpenter
15 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (14.61%) Palo Alto
2 28 (12.79%) F5
2 28 (12.79%) ServiceNow
3 23 (10.50%) CheckPoint
4 15 (6.85%) Cisco
4 15 (6.85%) Splunk
5 13 (5.94%) Oracle
6 12 (5.48%) Jaspersoft
7 11 (5.02%) Databricks
7 11 (5.02%) Dynatrace
8 10 (4.57%) Microsoft
9 8 (3.65%) Okta
10 7 (3.20%) Commvault
10 7 (3.20%) VMware
11 6 (2.74%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.74%) Meraki
12 5 (2.28%) Avaya
12 5 (2.28%) Genesys
12 5 (2.28%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.83%) Red Hat