Virtual Private Cloud Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 270 284 333
Rank change year-on-year +14 +49 +156
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 34 61 145
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.40% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 1.10% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 46 110
10th Percentile £525 £405 £469
25th Percentile £538 £501 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £686 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £590 £550 £615
% change year-on-year +7.27% -10.57% +11.82%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Virtual Private Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Private Cloud trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Virtual Private Cloud daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Virtual Private Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Virtual Private Cloud hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (14.71%) nginx
1 5 (14.71%) Traefik
2 2 (5.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) IIS
3 1 (2.94%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (64.71%) Amazon EC2
3 20 (58.82%) Amazon S3
4 18 (52.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (44.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (26.47%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (23.53%) Route 53
8 7 (20.59%) AWS Fargate
8 7 (20.59%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (20.59%) Entra ID
8 7 (20.59%) Serverless
9 6 (17.65%) GitHub
10 5 (14.71%) IaaS
10 5 (14.71%) PaaS
11 4 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (8.82%) AWS KMS
12 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
13 2 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 16 (47.06%) DNS
2 9 (26.47%) Firewall
3 8 (23.53%) VPN
4 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (8.82%) SSL
6 2 (5.88%) X.509
7 1 (2.94%) DHCP
7 1 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (23.53%) MongoDB
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.88%) MySQL
4 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.88%) SAP HANA
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.94%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 18 (52.94%) GitLab
2 17 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (35.29%) Git
4 4 (11.76%) JIRA
5 3 (8.82%) Artifactory
5 3 (8.82%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.94%) Spinnaker
6 1 (2.94%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Senior
3 9 (26.47%) AWS DevOps
3 9 (26.47%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (26.47%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (20.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Architect
5 5 (14.71%) AWS Architect
5 5 (14.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Risk Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.94%) DevOps Specialist
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) Kafka
2 7 (20.59%) cloud-init
2 7 (20.59%) Keycloak
3 4 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) PKI
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.94%) Clustering
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (55.88%) Linux
2 11 (32.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (26.47%) CentOS
4 8 (23.53%) Unix
4 8 (23.53%) Windows
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 22 (64.71%) DevOps
3 21 (61.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (44.12%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (41.18%) Cloud Security
6 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 10 (29.41%) Observability
7 8 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (23.53%) Microservices
7 8 (23.53%) Secrets Management
8 7 (20.59%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 7 (20.59%) Identity Management
8 7 (20.59%) Static Application Security Testing
9 6 (17.65%) Task Automation
10 5 (14.71%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (14.71%) Refactoring
11 4 (11.76%) Agile
11 4 (11.76%) Load Balancing
12 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
12 3 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (79.41%) Python
2 23 (67.65%) Bash
3 11 (32.35%) PowerShell
4 8 (23.53%) Go
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (67.65%) Security Cleared
2 22 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 14 (41.18%) AWS Certification
4 6 (17.65%) Degree
5 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) NCSC
2 5 (14.71%) SOC 2
3 4 (11.76%) GDPR
4 3 (8.82%) NIST
5 2 (5.88%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (5.88%) HIPAA
5 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (5.88%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (85.29%) Terraform
2 21 (61.76%) Kubernetes
3 18 (52.94%) Ansible
4 15 (44.12%) Prometheus
5 14 (41.18%) Grafana
6 10 (29.41%) Consul
6 10 (29.41%) Progress Chef
7 9 (26.47%) Packer
7 9 (26.47%) Puppet
8 8 (23.53%) Rancher
8 8 (23.53%) ZABBIX
9 7 (20.59%) Istio
9 7 (20.59%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (20.59%) linkerd
10 5 (14.71%) HAProxy
11 3 (8.82%) Argo
11 3 (8.82%) logstash
12 1 (2.94%) Kibana
12 1 (2.94%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Splunk
2 7 (20.59%) Okta
3 5 (14.71%) Apple
3 5 (14.71%) ESET
4 3 (8.82%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.88%) Google
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.88%) SAP
5 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.88%) Tenable
6 1 (2.94%) Black Duck
6 1 (2.94%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.94%) Confluent
6 1 (2.94%) Dell
6 1 (2.94%) HP
6 1 (2.94%) IBM
6 1 (2.94%) MKS
6 1 (2.94%) Qualys
6 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.94%) VMware