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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 69 65
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +30
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.41% 0.17% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 0.38% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £423 - £410
25th Percentile £456 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £520 - £469
90th Percentile £598 - £471
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -12.32%

All Cloud Computing 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 475 261 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 38.65% 43.07% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 168 227
10th Percentile £322 £312 £288
25th Percentile £406 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £572 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £641 £652
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £22.48 £27.82 -
25th Percentile £26.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -65.32%
75th Percentile £64.25 £50.48 -
90th Percentile £74.60 £79.33 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in West Yorkshire

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 23 June 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
Leeds -16 5 £500 - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
Yorkshire

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Datadog
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Health
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Health Technology
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Red Team
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (20.00%) New Relic
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) Tenable