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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 85 66
Rank change year-on-year +6 -19 +14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 8 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.79% 0.25% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 0.67% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £466 - -
Scotland median daily rate £449 £500 -
% change year-on-year -10.20% - -

All Cloud Computing 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 397 300 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.19% 36.95% 34.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 206 197
10th Percentile £313 £348 £200
25th Percentile £375 £408 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £474 £440
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +7.67% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £500
90th Percentile £675 £643 £590
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £15.09 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +131.94% -71.26% +50.00%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £17.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +24.82% -63.24%

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
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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (75.00%) Snowflake
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (25.00%) Serverless
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (12.50%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Site Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) boto
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Analytics
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) Validation
2 6 (75.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (75.00%) GitOps
2 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) Observability
2 6 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 6 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Budget Management
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Databricks