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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.79% - 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% - 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £375 - £529
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.52%
75th Percentile £550 - £573
90th Percentile £565 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 297 192 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.18% 27.20% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 126 181
10th Percentile £316 £312 £362
25th Percentile £412 £360 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £513 £636
90th Percentile £646 £622 £723
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £15.09 £19.00 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +44.38% -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.09 £22.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -31.41% +24.15% -

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 4 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (16.67%) Datadog
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (16.67%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Camel
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Meraki
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk