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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 65 83
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 +32
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 13 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.46% 0.77% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.35% 1.66% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £496 £686 -
25th Percentile £511 £703 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £738 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +55.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £563 £750 -
90th Percentile £595 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £713 £475
% change year-on-year -26.32% +50.00% -17.39%

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 388 361 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.45% 46.10% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 239 292
10th Percentile £316 £308 £283
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £600
90th Percentile £636 £700 £686
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £16.65 £20.67 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £41.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -33.87% +175.56%
75th Percentile £114.38 £99.32 -
90th Percentile £165.75 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £27.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +7.93% -12.70% +40.00%

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 November 2025.

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 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
Leeds -4 13 £550 -25.42% 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 13 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 13 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (53.85%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (53.85%) Serverless
4 6 (46.15%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (23.08%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (23.08%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (23.08%) GitHub
6 3 (23.08%) Route 53
7 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (15.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) Firewall
2 8 (61.54%) DNS
3 6 (46.15%) VPN
4 5 (38.46%) SSL
4 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
5 3 (23.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
2 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Jenkins
2 8 (61.54%) Git
3 4 (30.77%) GitLab
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
1 6 (46.15%) Senior DevOps
1 6 (46.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) NHS
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (76.92%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (38.46%) High Availability
5 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps
6 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
6 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
7 3 (23.08%) Auto-Scaling
7 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
7 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (15.38%) Analytics
8 2 (15.38%) Application Discovery
8 2 (15.38%) Business Case
8 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
8 2 (15.38%) Key Management
8 2 (15.38%) RBAC
8 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (61.54%) Ansible
3 3 (23.08%) Packer
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) CheckPoint
1 6 (46.15%) F5
1 6 (46.15%) Palo Alto
2 3 (23.08%) Splunk
3 2 (15.38%) CloudEndure
3 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 2 (15.38%) Zscaler