Virtual Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 18 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.37% - 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.04% - 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile £358 - £526
25th Percentile £390 - £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 - £558
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.41%
75th Percentile £413 - £573
90th Percentile £539 - -
Scotland median daily rate £415 - £558
% change year-on-year - - +6.19%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 298 202 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.16% 28.09% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 132 187
10th Percentile £313 £312 £357
25th Percentile £402 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £516 £637
90th Percentile £640 £629 £718
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £22.75 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year - +47.54% +17.17%
Scotland median hourly rate £36.95 £23.00 £16.57
% change year-on-year +60.66% +38.81% -6.49%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in Glasgow over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in Glasgow

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) AWS
2 16 (88.89%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (83.33%) Serverless
4 8 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (38.89%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 6 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
8 4 (22.22%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (16.67%) Azure
10 2 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
11 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (5.56%) Datadog
11 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) BGP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
3 1 (5.56%) OSPF
3 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (38.89%) DynamoDB
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.11%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 5 (27.78%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket
3 4 (22.22%) JIRA
3 4 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Architect
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Node.js
2 4 (22.22%) PySpark
3 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Camel
3 1 (5.56%) J2EE
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) IVR
1 6 (33.33%) NHS
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Migration
3 8 (44.44%) DevOps
4 7 (38.89%) Analytics
5 6 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
5 6 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 5 (27.78%) Microservices
7 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (22.22%) CRM
7 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
7 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (22.22%) High Availability
7 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
7 4 (22.22%) ITSM
7 4 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 4 (22.22%) Perl
4 4 (22.22%) Ruby
5 1 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) GDPR
2 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 3 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 3 (16.67%) PMO
4 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Terraform
2 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Avaya
2 5 (27.78%) Genesys
3 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
3 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
4 3 (16.67%) Databricks
4 3 (16.67%) Pega
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle
6 1 (5.56%) Meraki
6 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.56%) Splunk