Virtual Private Cloud Contracts with Work from Home Options

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Virtual Private Cloud skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 342 483
Rank change year-on-year +50 +141 -66
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 55 126 141
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 1.29% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 103 91
10th Percentile £405 £497 £413
25th Percentile £500 £550 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £670 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £722 £688
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £543
% change year-on-year -10.83% +10.60% +8.50%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Private Cloud is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,743 18,197
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,220 13,607
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Virtual Private Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Private Cloud trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Virtual Private Cloud daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Virtual Private Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Virtual Private Cloud hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.27%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 54 (98.18%) AWS
2 32 (58.18%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (45.45%) Amazon S3
3 25 (45.45%) Route 53
4 19 (34.55%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (32.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (30.91%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (30.91%) Serverless
7 13 (23.64%) Azure
8 9 (16.36%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (14.55%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (14.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (12.73%) Entra ID
11 6 (10.91%) AWS Direct Connect
11 6 (10.91%) CloudFront
11 6 (10.91%) GitHub
12 5 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
12 5 (9.09%) IaaS
13 3 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.45%) Network Security
2 10 (18.18%) VPN
3 9 (16.36%) Firewall
4 7 (12.73%) DNS
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
6 3 (5.45%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (3.64%) BGP
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (3.64%) MPLS
7 2 (3.64%) WAN
8 1 (1.82%) DHCP
8 1 (1.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.45%) MySQL
2 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.64%) Big Data
3 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Git
2 12 (21.82%) Jenkins
3 10 (18.18%) GitLab
4 4 (7.27%) JIRA
5 3 (5.45%) webpack
6 1 (1.82%) Maven
General
1 12 (21.82%) Finance
2 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Retail
4 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.64%) Electronics
5 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.64%) Marketing
5 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (29.09%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 11 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) Architect
5 7 (12.73%) AWS Architect
5 7 (12.73%) Lead
6 5 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Senior
7 4 (7.27%) Consultant
7 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes Consultant
8 3 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Lead Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) Node.js
2 5 (9.09%) OAuth
2 5 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 5 (9.09%) SAML
3 3 (5.45%) AWS CDK
3 3 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.45%) Express.js
3 3 (5.45%) LDAP
3 3 (5.45%) React
3 3 (5.45%) Redux
4 1 (1.82%) .NET
4 1 (1.82%) ADO
4 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.82%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.27%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.45%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Clustering
4 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Windows
2 10 (18.18%) Linux
3 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.64%) Unix
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (56.36%) DevOps
2 30 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 22 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (20.00%) Agile
4 11 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (12.73%) DevSecOps
6 7 (12.73%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (12.73%) Service Design
7 6 (10.91%) Cloud Security
7 6 (10.91%) Configuration Management
7 6 (10.91%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (10.91%) Open Source
8 5 (9.09%) Application Security
8 5 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (9.09%) Data Security
8 5 (9.09%) Defensive Programming
8 5 (9.09%) High Availability
8 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.18%) Python
2 8 (14.55%) Java
3 6 (10.91%) Bash
4 4 (7.27%) Go
5 3 (5.45%) Perl
5 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.64%) SQL
6 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.82%) C#
7 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 14 (25.45%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.64%) CCNP
5 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.64%) Degree
5 2 (3.64%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.82%) OCP
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) QA
1 2 (3.64%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) IFRS
2 1 (1.82%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 21 (38.18%) Docker
2 6 (10.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 30 (54.55%) Terraform
2 21 (38.18%) Kubernetes
3 10 (18.18%) Ansible
4 9 (16.36%) Grafana
4 9 (16.36%) Prometheus
5 7 (12.73%) Progress Chef
6 5 (9.09%) Puppet
7 2 (3.64%) Consul
7 2 (3.64%) Packer
7 2 (3.64%) Salt
8 1 (1.82%) Cilium
8 1 (1.82%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) VMware
2 5 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 5 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.27%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) Google
4 2 (3.64%) Juniper
4 2 (3.64%) Qualys
4 2 (3.64%) SaltStack
4 2 (3.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Splunk