Virtual Private Cloud Contracts

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 479 566
Rank change year-on-year +16 +87 +24
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 122 223 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 1.10% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 178 197
10th Percentile £403 £421 £438
25th Percentile £450 £532 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £525
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 104 £550 -10.57% 31
London -8 58 £533 -14.80% 17
Work from Home +31 50 £563 -6.25% 15
UK excluding London -9 42 £600 - 15
North of England +23 26 £469 -25.00% 4
North West +19 18 £663 +6.00% 1
Yorkshire +16 8 £463 -12.32% 3
Midlands +22 6 £650 +4.00% 5
West Midlands - 6 £650 - 4
South East -15 5 £598 -0.42% 2
East of England +6 3 £550 -8.33%
Scotland +33 2 - - 1
South West +1 2 £600 +9.09% 3

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (4.92%) Confluence
2 5 (4.10%) Apache
3 4 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.64%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.82%) nginx
6 1 (0.82%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 121 (99.18%) AWS
2 83 (68.03%) Amazon S3
3 81 (66.39%) Amazon EC2
4 48 (39.34%) Route 53
5 45 (36.89%) Serverless
6 44 (36.07%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (27.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (24.59%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (15.57%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (13.93%) Amazon ECR
11 17 (13.93%) Azure
12 11 (9.02%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (7.38%) AWS CloudTrail
13 9 (7.38%) CloudFront
14 8 (6.56%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (6.56%) GitHub
15 7 (5.74%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (5.74%) Entra ID
16 6 (4.92%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.03%) Network Security
2 13 (10.66%) DNS
2 13 (10.66%) Firewall
3 12 (9.84%) VPN
4 8 (6.56%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.10%) WAN
6 4 (3.28%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (3.28%) DHCP
6 4 (3.28%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (2.46%) BGP
7 3 (2.46%) HTTP
7 3 (2.46%) SSL
8 2 (1.64%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.64%) MPLS
8 2 (1.64%) Wireless
9 1 (0.82%) LAN
9 1 (0.82%) OSPF
9 1 (0.82%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (40.16%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (14.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (4.92%) MySQL
5 5 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (4.10%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.10%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.28%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.64%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.64%) Big Data
7 2 (1.64%) Bigtable
7 2 (1.64%) DB2
7 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.64%) Parquet
7 2 (1.64%) Power BI
8 1 (0.82%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 41 (33.61%) Git
2 34 (27.87%) GitLab
3 22 (18.03%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.38%) webpack
5 6 (4.92%) JIRA
6 1 (0.82%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.82%) Maven
6 1 (0.82%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (13.93%) Finance
2 13 (10.66%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.38%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.10%) Retail
5 4 (3.28%) Banking
6 2 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.64%) Billing
7 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Games
7 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.82%) Legal
7 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (37.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (22.13%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (20.49%) AWS DevOps
4 23 (18.85%) Architect
5 20 (16.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 18 (14.75%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (9.84%) Lead
8 11 (9.02%) AWS Architect
8 11 (9.02%) Senior
9 9 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.56%) Security Architect
11 7 (5.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.74%) Developer
12 6 (4.92%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.92%) Technical Leader
13 5 (4.10%) Applications Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.48%) Node.js
2 9 (7.38%) Express.js
2 9 (7.38%) React
2 9 (7.38%) Redux
3 6 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.92%) Kafka
4 5 (4.10%) OAuth
4 5 (4.10%) OAuth2
4 5 (4.10%) SAML
5 4 (3.28%) LDAP
6 3 (2.46%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (2.46%) YAML
7 2 (1.64%) Spring
8 1 (0.82%) .NET
8 1 (0.82%) ADO
8 1 (0.82%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.82%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.82%) cloud-init
8 1 (0.82%) JSON
8 1 (0.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.38%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.92%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.46%) Clustering
6 3 (2.46%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.46%) Life Science
6 3 (2.46%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.64%) Replication
7 2 (1.64%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.11%) Linux
2 13 (10.66%) Windows
3 10 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.92%) CentOS
5 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.64%) Unix
7 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (57.38%) DevOps
2 68 (55.74%) CI/CD
3 44 (36.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (26.23%) Containerisation
5 27 (22.13%) Agile
6 16 (13.11%) Infrastructure Management
7 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (11.48%) Migration
8 12 (9.84%) API Development
8 12 (9.84%) Cloud Security
8 12 (9.84%) Kanban
8 12 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (9.02%) ETL
9 11 (9.02%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (9.02%) Service Design
9 11 (9.02%) Test Automation
10 10 (8.20%) Application Security
10 10 (8.20%) Computer Science
10 10 (8.20%) GitOps
11 9 (7.38%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 58 (47.54%) Python
2 21 (17.21%) Bash
3 19 (15.57%) Java
4 8 (6.56%) SQL
5 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.28%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.46%) Perl
6 3 (2.46%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.64%) Go
8 1 (0.82%) C#
8 1 (0.82%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.82%) PHP
8 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.82%) Ruby
8 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.82%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (41.80%) Security Cleared
2 50 (40.98%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.39%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.84%) Degree
5 6 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.28%) CCNP
7 4 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.64%) CCNA
8 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.64%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.82%) OCP
9 1 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) QA
2 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.64%) NCSC
2 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.64%) SLA
3 1 (0.82%) GDPR
3 1 (0.82%) IFRS
3 1 (0.82%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (34.43%) Docker
2 11 (9.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 59 (48.36%) Kubernetes
2 57 (46.72%) Terraform
3 24 (19.67%) Ansible
4 21 (17.21%) Prometheus
5 20 (16.39%) Grafana
6 8 (6.56%) Puppet
7 6 (4.92%) Packer
8 5 (4.10%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.28%) Rancher
10 2 (1.64%) Consul
10 2 (1.64%) Istio
10 2 (1.64%) Salt
11 1 (0.82%) Argo
11 1 (0.82%) Cilium
11 1 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.82%) Graphite
11 1 (0.82%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.82%) linkerd
11 1 (0.82%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (8.20%) VMware
2 8 (6.56%) Palo Alto
3 7 (5.74%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.92%) Cisco
4 6 (4.92%) SAP
5 4 (3.28%) Informatica
6 3 (2.46%) Google
6 3 (2.46%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.46%) Sage
6 3 (2.46%) Splunk
6 3 (2.46%) Unisys
7 2 (1.64%) Databricks
7 2 (1.64%) Juniper
7 2 (1.64%) Qualys
7 2 (1.64%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.82%) Confluent
8 1 (0.82%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.82%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.82%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.82%) Talend