Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Virtual Private Cloud skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 462 550
Rank change year-on-year +44 +88 -21
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 119 194 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 1.10% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 151 165
10th Percentile £406 £413 £437
25th Percentile £456 £538 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £753 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £543
% change year-on-year -10.83% +10.60% +8.50%

All Cloud Skills
England

Virtual Private Cloud is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,649 17,595 26,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 36.52% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,405 12,904 19,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 294 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +26 63 £536 -14.20% 18
North of England +32 33 £494 -21.00% 4
North West +24 24 £663 +1.92% 3
Yorkshire +15 9 £463 -2.63% 1
South East -11 8 £568 -5.38% 4
Midlands +32 6 £650 +4.00% 8
West Midlands - 6 £650 - 8
East of England +12 3 £550 -
South West +7 1 - - 2
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (5.88%) Apache
2 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.20%) Confluence
3 4 (3.36%) nginx
4 3 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.68%) Traefik
6 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
3 79 (66.39%) Amazon S3
4 50 (42.02%) Serverless
5 49 (41.18%) AWS Lambda
6 45 (37.82%) Route 53
7 36 (30.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 26 (21.85%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (16.81%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (15.13%) Azure
12 16 (13.45%) Amazon ECR
13 12 (10.08%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (10.08%) CloudFront
13 12 (10.08%) GitHub
14 11 (9.24%) GCP
15 10 (8.40%) AWS CloudTrail
16 9 (7.56%) Amazon EMR
16 9 (7.56%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (7.56%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.13%) DNS
2 16 (13.45%) Network Security
3 12 (10.08%) Firewall
3 12 (10.08%) VPN
4 9 (7.56%) TCP/IP
5 7 (5.88%) DHCP
6 4 (3.36%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (3.36%) VLAN
7 3 (2.52%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (2.52%) HTTP
7 3 (2.52%) SSL
7 3 (2.52%) WAN
8 2 (1.68%) BGP
8 2 (1.68%) Wireless
9 1 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.84%) LAN
9 1 (0.84%) MPLS
9 1 (0.84%) OSPF
9 1 (0.84%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (42.02%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (15.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (8.40%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (6.72%) MySQL
5 7 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (5.04%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.20%) Big Data
7 5 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.20%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.36%) Parquet
8 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.52%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.52%) Bigtable
9 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.52%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.68%) DB2
10 2 (1.68%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.68%) HBase
10 2 (1.68%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 39 (32.77%) Git
2 35 (29.41%) GitLab
3 22 (18.49%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.56%) webpack
5 5 (4.20%) JIRA
6 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.68%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.84%) Maven
7 1 (0.84%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (15.97%) Finance
2 14 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.24%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.88%) Retail
5 5 (4.20%) Banking
6 4 (3.36%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.68%) Billing
7 2 (1.68%) Electronics
7 2 (1.68%) Legal
7 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.68%) Marketing
8 1 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Games
8 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (36.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (25.21%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (21.01%) AWS DevOps
4 23 (19.33%) Architect
5 21 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (16.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (11.76%) Lead
8 12 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (9.24%) AWS Architect
9 11 (9.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (9.24%) Senior
10 8 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.88%) Security Architect
12 6 (5.04%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (5.04%) Developer
12 6 (5.04%) Python Developer
12 6 (5.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (5.04%) Technical Leader
13 5 (4.20%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) Node.js
2 9 (7.56%) Express.js
2 9 (7.56%) React
2 9 (7.56%) Redux
3 6 (5.04%) Kafka
4 5 (4.20%) OAuth
4 5 (4.20%) OAuth2
4 5 (4.20%) SAML
5 4 (3.36%) LDAP
5 4 (3.36%) YAML
6 3 (2.52%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.52%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.68%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.68%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.68%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.68%) HornetQ
7 2 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.68%) REST
7 2 (1.68%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.04%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.20%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.52%) Clustering
6 3 (2.52%) Life Science
6 3 (2.52%) PKI
7 2 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.68%) Replication
8 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.97%) Linux
2 14 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (10.08%) Windows
4 7 (5.88%) CentOS
5 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.52%) Debian
7 2 (1.68%) Unix
8 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (56.30%) DevOps
2 64 (53.78%) CI/CD
3 37 (31.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (26.05%) Containerisation
5 23 (19.33%) Agile
6 16 (13.45%) Infrastructure Management
7 14 (11.76%) Cloud Security
7 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (10.08%) API Development
8 12 (10.08%) Kanban
8 12 (10.08%) Migration
9 11 (9.24%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.40%) Application Security
10 10 (8.40%) DevSecOps
10 10 (8.40%) ETL
10 10 (8.40%) Microservices
10 10 (8.40%) Test Automation
11 9 (7.56%) Computer Science
11 9 (7.56%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 58 (48.74%) Python
2 22 (18.49%) Bash
3 14 (11.76%) Java
4 8 (6.72%) SQL
5 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.20%) Go
6 5 (4.20%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.68%) Ruby
8 2 (1.68%) U-SQL
9 1 (0.84%) PHP
9 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (43.70%) Security Cleared
2 51 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.13%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.40%) Degree
5 6 (5.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.52%) CCNP
7 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.68%) CCNA
8 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.84%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.84%) OCP
9 1 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.52%) NCSC
3 2 (1.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.84%) IFRS
4 1 (0.84%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (27.73%) Docker
2 12 (10.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.52%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.68%) Varnish
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (47.06%) Terraform
2 49 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 27 (22.69%) Ansible
4 16 (13.45%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.76%) Grafana
6 11 (9.24%) Puppet
7 9 (7.56%) Packer
8 7 (5.88%) Progress Chef
9 5 (4.20%) Consul
10 4 (3.36%) HAProxy
10 4 (3.36%) Rancher
11 3 (2.52%) Istio
12 2 (1.68%) Ambari
12 2 (1.68%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.68%) Graphite
12 2 (1.68%) linkerd
12 2 (1.68%) Oozie
12 2 (1.68%) Podman
12 2 (1.68%) Salt
12 2 (1.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (7.56%) VMware
2 8 (6.72%) Palo Alto
2 8 (6.72%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.88%) Cisco
3 7 (5.88%) Google
3 7 (5.88%) SAP
4 4 (3.36%) Informatica
5 3 (2.52%) Databricks
5 3 (2.52%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.52%) Sage
5 3 (2.52%) Splunk
6 2 (1.68%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.68%) Qualys
6 2 (1.68%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.68%) Unisys
7 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.84%) Juniper
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle
7 1 (0.84%) Talend
7 1 (0.84%) Trend Micro