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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 292 288
Rank change year-on-year +24 -4 +205
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 50 45 142
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.34% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 0.91% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 31 114
10th Percentile £459 £450 £513
25th Percentile £503 £525 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £739 £675 £684
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.75 - £50.00

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 4,182 4,931 8,770
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.46% 37.62% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,930 3,498 6,491
10th Percentile £340 £345 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 53 132
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.70 £16.72
25th Percentile £28.75 £18.50 £21.99
Median hourly rate £41.25 £35.50 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -16.96% +22.14%
75th Percentile £68.06 £62.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.34% -32.00% +59.09%

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 7 August 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 2 (4.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (74.00%) Amazon EC2
3 34 (68.00%) Amazon S3
4 28 (56.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 23 (46.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (36.00%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (36.00%) Serverless
7 15 (30.00%) GitHub
8 13 (26.00%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (26.00%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (26.00%) Route 53
9 7 (14.00%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (12.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudTrail
10 6 (12.00%) AWS KMS
10 6 (12.00%) Datadog
11 4 (8.00%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (8.00%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.00%) DNS
1 17 (34.00%) Firewall
2 16 (32.00%) VPN
3 8 (16.00%) SSL
4 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (6.00%) Network Security
5 3 (6.00%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (4.00%) X.509
7 1 (2.00%) DHCP
7 1 (2.00%) LAN
7 1 (2.00%) SMS
7 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (48.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.00%) Oracle Database
3 5 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (10.00%) MariaDB
3 5 (10.00%) MySQL
3 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.00%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (36.00%) Git
1 18 (36.00%) GitLab
2 17 (34.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (22.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (28.00%) Architect
3 12 (24.00%) AWS Architect
3 12 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Senior
6 5 (10.00%) Administrator
6 5 (10.00%) DBA
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Solution Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Security Architect
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Specialist
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Cloud Security Architect
9 2 (4.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.00%) Loki
4 1 (2.00%) Node.js
4 1 (2.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceStack
4 1 (2.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.00%) Clustering
2 5 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.00%) Replication
3 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Linux
2 7 (14.00%) Windows
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.00%) Unix
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (74.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (66.00%) DevOps
3 32 (64.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (30.00%) High Availability
5 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 13 (26.00%) Cloud Security
7 10 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 9 (18.00%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (16.00%) Observability
10 7 (14.00%) Agile
10 7 (14.00%) Configuration Management
10 7 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (12.00%) Database Security
11 6 (12.00%) DevSecOps
11 6 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (12.00%) Migration
11 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
12 5 (10.00%) Database Migration
12 5 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Python
2 18 (36.00%) Bash
3 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
1 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Degree
6 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (14.00%) PCI DSS
2 6 (12.00%) NIST
3 4 (8.00%) SOC 2
4 3 (6.00%) GDPR
5 2 (4.00%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (4.00%) NCSC
5 2 (4.00%) NIST 800
5 2 (4.00%) QA
6 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (2.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (82.00%) Terraform
2 20 (40.00%) Ansible
3 17 (34.00%) Kubernetes
4 15 (30.00%) Progress Chef
5 13 (26.00%) Puppet
6 11 (22.00%) Grafana
7 10 (20.00%) Prometheus
8 3 (6.00%) Argo
8 3 (6.00%) Consul
9 2 (4.00%) logstash
10 1 (2.00%) Fluentd
10 1 (2.00%) HAProxy
10 1 (2.00%) Kustomize
10 1 (2.00%) Nagios
10 1 (2.00%) Packer
10 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Oracle
2 5 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 4 (8.00%) CheckPoint
3 4 (8.00%) F5
3 4 (8.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (6.00%) Splunk
5 2 (4.00%) Google
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.00%) SAP
5 2 (4.00%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.00%) Commvault
6 1 (2.00%) Qualys
6 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.00%) Tenable