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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 65 85
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +31
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 11 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.30% 0.51% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.98% 1.19% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £510 £370 -
25th Percentile £525 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £575 £463 -
90th Percentile £605 £470 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -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 369 335 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.51% 42.73% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 231 307
10th Percentile £305 £330 £281
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 £553 £600
90th Percentile £633 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £490 £510
% change year-on-year -0.51% -3.92% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £43.63 £15.09 -
25th Percentile £69.69 £19.28 -
Median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%
75th Percentile £157.19 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £182.88 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

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
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 27 October 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 -5 11 £550 +22.22% 2
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 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon S3
3 9 (81.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon ELB
5 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (45.45%) Serverless
6 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (18.18%) Datadog
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (9.09%) GitHub
8 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) Firewall
2 7 (63.64%) VPN
3 6 (54.55%) DNS
3 6 (54.55%) SSL
3 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
4 4 (36.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Git
1 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (45.45%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 6 (54.55%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Lead
5 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Network Operations Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
4 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
5 5 (45.45%) High Availability
5 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
6 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
7 3 (27.27%) RBAC
7 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (18.18%) Analytics
8 2 (18.18%) Application Discovery
8 2 (18.18%) Business Case
8 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
8 2 (18.18%) Data Security
8 2 (18.18%) Key Management
8 2 (18.18%) Migration
8 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (81.82%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Kustomize
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) CheckPoint
1 6 (54.55%) F5
1 6 (54.55%) Palo Alto
2 2 (18.18%) CloudEndure
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Zscaler
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk