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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 4 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.55% - 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% - 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £435 - £529
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £563 - £573
90th Percentile £570 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 - £519
% change year-on-year - - -3.40%

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 276 210 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 37.91% 30.88% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 145 176
10th Percentile £318 £272 £363
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +0.25%
75th Percentile £564 £538 £588
90th Percentile £641 £608 £661
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £17.47
25th Percentile - £18.50 £23.93
Median hourly rate £15.09 £19.00 £35.33
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -46.22% +168.47%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £47.35
90th Percentile - - £54.19
Scotland median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
% change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud 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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in Glasgow

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Kanban
1 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (25.00%) Microservices
1 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (25.00%) OOP
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM
1 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Meraki
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk