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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 24 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.45% - 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.48% - 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 1
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £400 - £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - £565
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.07%
75th Percentile £440 - £573
90th Percentile £489 - -
Scotland median daily rate £404 £438 £565
% change year-on-year -7.77% -22.57% +11.44%

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 283 284 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.72% 36.88% 29.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 187 192
10th Percentile £314 £313 £344
25th Percentile £402 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £513 £614
90th Percentile £675 £624 £705
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% +71.85% +17.17%
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £24.09 £16.57
% change year-on-year +128.31% +45.38% -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 6 February 2026.

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 5 (20.83%) Apache
1 5 (20.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (95.83%) AWS
2 22 (91.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (75.00%) Serverless
4 10 (41.67%) Amazon S3
5 9 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (29.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (20.83%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (12.50%) Azure
12 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
12 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
13 1 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) BGP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (4.17%) EIGRP
3 1 (4.17%) OSPF
3 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (20.83%) Delta Lake
4 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) GitLab
2 6 (25.00%) Git
3 5 (20.83%) Bitbucket
3 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.83%) JIRA
3 5 (20.83%) MLflow
3 5 (20.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (54.17%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
3 5 (20.83%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Senior
2 7 (29.17%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Principal Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) Node.js
2 7 (29.17%) PySpark
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) IVR
1 6 (25.00%) NHS
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 12 (50.00%) Migration
4 10 (41.67%) Analytics
5 9 (37.50%) Data Engineering
5 9 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 8 (33.33%) DevOps
7 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (29.17%) Unit Testing
8 6 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
8 6 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (25.00%) Validation
9 5 (20.83%) Cost Optimisation
9 5 (20.83%) High Availability
9 5 (20.83%) Microservices
10 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
10 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.83%) Perl
3 5 (20.83%) Ruby
4 3 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) GDPR
2 6 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 4 (16.67%) SLA
4 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (12.50%) HIPAA
4 3 (12.50%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Databricks
2 6 (25.00%) Cisco
3 5 (20.83%) Avaya
3 5 (20.83%) Genesys
4 4 (16.67%) Salesforce
4 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 3 (12.50%) Oracle
5 3 (12.50%) Pega
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.17%) Meraki
7 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.17%) Splunk