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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 78 76
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.90% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 0.35% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £364 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £445 - -
Scotland median daily rate £440 £500 -
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -

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 348 285 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 44.73% 37.95% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 193 221
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £453
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +2.65% -9.40%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £513
90th Percentile £675 £598 £588
Scotland median daily rate £475 £471 £460
% change year-on-year +0.84% +2.40% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £15.09 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +181.64% -71.26% +50.00%
75th Percentile £46.25 - £53.75
90th Percentile £48.50 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.72 £21.22 £17.00
% change year-on-year +16.49% +24.82% -71.92%

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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (71.43%) Snowflake
4 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Site Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Analytics
2 6 (85.71%) Chaos Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (85.71%) GitOps
2 6 (85.71%) Incident Response
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
2 6 (85.71%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (85.71%) Service-Level Objective
2 6 (85.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Validation
3 5 (71.43%) Data Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle