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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 455 578
Rank change year-on-year +6 +123 -25
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 137 245 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.42% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.98% 1.15% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 187 196
10th Percentile £402 £413 £438
25th Percentile £450 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £658 £650 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £518
% change year-on-year -6.38% +13.53% +8.95%

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 13,925 21,380 33,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.80% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,896 15,449 24,739
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 £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 343 416
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £62.40 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +5 120 £547 -12.56% 38
London +20 64 £536 -14.20% 20
Work from Home +47 58 £563 -6.25% 17
UK excluding London +36 52 £550 -6.38% 20
North of England +30 34 £513 -18.00% 5
North West +24 25 £663 +1.92% 5
Yorkshire +28 9 £463 -2.63%
South East -14 8 £568 -5.38% 4
Midlands +36 6 £650 +4.00% 7
West Midlands - 6 £650 - 7
East of England +7 3 £550 -
Scotland +29 2 - - 1
South West +16 1 - - 3

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 7 (5.11%) Apache
2 6 (4.38%) Confluence
3 5 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.92%) nginx
5 3 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.46%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.46%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) AWS
2 97 (70.80%) Amazon EC2
3 85 (62.04%) Amazon S3
4 57 (41.61%) Route 53
5 50 (36.50%) Serverless
6 49 (35.77%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (29.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 35 (25.55%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (17.52%) Azure
10 22 (16.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (13.87%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (12.41%) Amazon ECR
13 14 (10.22%) GitHub
14 12 (8.76%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (8.76%) CloudFront
15 11 (8.03%) Entra ID
15 11 (8.03%) GCP
16 10 (7.30%) AWS CloudTrail
16 10 (7.30%) IaaS
17 9 (6.57%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.06%) Network Security
2 20 (14.60%) DNS
3 18 (13.14%) Firewall
3 18 (13.14%) VPN
4 12 (8.76%) TCP/IP
5 7 (5.11%) DHCP
5 7 (5.11%) WAN
6 6 (4.38%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (3.65%) Wireless
8 4 (2.92%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (2.92%) VLAN
9 3 (2.19%) BGP
9 3 (2.19%) HTTP
9 3 (2.19%) LAN
9 3 (2.19%) SSL
10 2 (1.46%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (1.46%) MPLS
10 2 (1.46%) WLAN
11 1 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (43.80%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (13.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (7.30%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.84%) MySQL
5 7 (5.11%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.65%) Big Data
7 5 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.92%) Parquet
9 3 (2.19%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.19%) Bigtable
9 3 (2.19%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.19%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.46%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.46%) HBase
10 2 (1.46%) Power BI
10 2 (1.46%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 45 (32.85%) Git
2 36 (26.28%) GitLab
3 31 (22.63%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.57%) webpack
5 6 (4.38%) JIRA
6 2 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.46%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.73%) Maven
7 1 (0.73%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (13.14%) Finance
1 18 (13.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.95%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.11%) Retail
4 6 (4.38%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.92%) Banking
5 4 (2.92%) Electronics
5 4 (2.92%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.92%) Marketing
6 3 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Billing
7 2 (1.46%) Legal
8 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Games
8 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (37.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (23.36%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (19.71%) AWS DevOps
4 23 (16.79%) Architect
5 22 (16.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 22 (16.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (11.68%) Lead
7 14 (10.22%) AWS Architect
8 12 (8.76%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Senior
9 11 (8.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.38%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Technical Leader
13 5 (3.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.22%) Node.js
2 9 (6.57%) Express.js
2 9 (6.57%) React
2 9 (6.57%) Redux
3 6 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.65%) OAuth
4 5 (3.65%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.65%) SAML
5 4 (2.92%) Kafka
5 4 (2.92%) LDAP
5 4 (2.92%) YAML
6 3 (2.19%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.19%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.46%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.46%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.46%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.46%) HornetQ
7 2 (1.46%) JSON
7 2 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.38%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.65%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.65%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.92%) Clustering
6 3 (2.19%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.19%) Life Science
6 3 (2.19%) PKI
7 2 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.46%) Replication
8 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.25%) Linux
2 18 (13.14%) Windows
3 14 (10.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (6.57%) CentOS
5 7 (5.11%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.19%) Debian
6 3 (2.19%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.46%) Unix
7 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (57.66%) DevOps
2 71 (51.82%) CI/CD
3 52 (37.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (24.82%) Containerisation
5 30 (21.90%) Agile
6 17 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure Management
8 14 (10.22%) Migration
9 12 (8.76%) API Development
9 12 (8.76%) Kanban
9 12 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (8.76%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (8.03%) ETL
10 11 (8.03%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (8.03%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (8.03%) Service Design
10 11 (8.03%) Test Automation
11 10 (7.30%) Cloud Security
11 10 (7.30%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (7.30%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 65 (47.45%) Python
2 25 (18.25%) Bash
3 20 (14.60%) Java
4 9 (6.57%) SQL
5 6 (4.38%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.65%) Go
6 5 (3.65%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.92%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.19%) Perl
9 2 (1.46%) Ruby
9 2 (1.46%) U-SQL
10 1 (0.73%) C#
10 1 (0.73%) Groovy
10 1 (0.73%) PHP
10 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (41.61%) Security Cleared
2 56 (40.88%) SC Cleared
3 23 (16.79%) AWS Certification
4 11 (8.03%) Degree
5 6 (4.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.92%) CCNP
7 4 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.46%) CCNA
8 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.46%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.73%) OCP
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.57%) QA
2 4 (2.92%) NCSC
3 3 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.46%) GDPR
4 2 (1.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.73%) IFRS
5 1 (0.73%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (31.39%) Docker
2 15 (10.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.11%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.19%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.46%) Varnish
5 2 (1.46%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.73%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 73 (53.28%) Terraform
2 60 (43.80%) Kubernetes
3 34 (24.82%) Ansible
4 22 (16.06%) Prometheus
5 20 (14.60%) Grafana
6 13 (9.49%) Puppet
7 9 (6.57%) Packer
8 8 (5.84%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.65%) Consul
10 4 (2.92%) HAProxy
10 4 (2.92%) Rancher
11 3 (2.19%) FortiGate
11 3 (2.19%) Istio
12 2 (1.46%) Ambari
12 2 (1.46%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.46%) linkerd
12 2 (1.46%) Oozie
12 2 (1.46%) Podman
12 2 (1.46%) Salt
12 2 (1.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (8.03%) Red Hat
1 11 (8.03%) VMware
2 10 (7.30%) Cisco
2 10 (7.30%) Palo Alto
3 7 (5.11%) Google
4 6 (4.38%) SAP
5 4 (2.92%) Informatica
5 4 (2.92%) Splunk
6 3 (2.19%) Databricks
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.19%) Sage
7 2 (1.46%) Juniper
7 2 (1.46%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.46%) Qualys
7 2 (1.46%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.73%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.73%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.73%) Meraki
8 1 (0.73%) Talend
8 1 (0.73%) Trend Micro