Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 65 91
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 +21
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.66% 0.59% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 1.47% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -24.00%
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -29.63%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

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 in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 330 341 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.71% 40.07% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 242 314
10th Percentile £313 £350 £350
25th Percentile £385 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +0.98%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £200.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +627.27% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £200.00 £21.50 £21.26
% change year-on-year +830.23% +1.15% -5.53%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in West Yorkshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Leeds -4 5 £500 +11.11% 1
Virtual Private Cloud
Yorkshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) SSL
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Database Security
4 1 (20.00%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (80.00%) F5
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk