Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in West Yorkshire

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 72 102
Rank change year-on-year +16 +30 +12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 6 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.09% 0.50% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 1.71% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £690 - £363
25th Percentile £713 £456 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +56.76% +8.82% -30.61%
75th Percentile £750 £469 £488
90th Percentile - - £518
Yorkshire median daily rate £725 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +56.76% -2.63% -13.64%

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 239 292 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.61% 29.23% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 203 432
10th Percentile £263 £280 £331
25th Percentile £375 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £604
90th Percentile £684 £669 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £29.90 - £35.40
25th Percentile £31.69 - £41.63
Median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +338.05% -72.22% +170.00%
75th Percentile £99.42 - £68.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - £75.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year +338.05% -65.32% +129.14%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend 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 1 May 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 6 £725 +56.76% 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) nginx
1 5 (83.33%) Traefik
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 6 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
1 5 (83.33%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) cloud-init
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) CentOS
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
1 6 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 6 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Go
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Consul
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Istio
1 6 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) linkerd
1 6 (100.00%) Packer
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (100.00%) Rancher
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
1 6 (100.00%) ZABBIX
2 5 (83.33%) HAProxy
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Okta
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 5 (83.33%) Apple
2 5 (83.33%) ESET