Virtual Private Cloud Contracts

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 465 563
Rank change year-on-year +20 +98 +25
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 130 224 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 1.10% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 176 201
10th Percentile £405 £419 £438
25th Percentile £450 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £584 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -0.64% +11.90% +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 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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 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 1 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 +9 112 £547 -12.56% 33
London +10 60 £535 -14.40% 16
Work from Home +32 52 £563 -6.25% 15
UK excluding London +5 48 £584 -0.64% 18
North of England +31 30 £475 -24.00% 3
North West +26 21 £663 +6.00%
Yorkshire +21 9 £463 -12.32% 3
South East -17 7 £593 -1.25% 2
Midlands +28 6 £650 +4.00% 7
West Midlands - 6 £650 - 7
East of England +7 3 £550 -
Scotland +21 2 - - 2
South West +5 2 £600 +9.09% 4

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 (4.62%) Apache
1 6 (4.62%) Confluence
2 5 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.31%) nginx
4 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.54%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 129 (99.23%) AWS
2 87 (66.92%) Amazon S3
3 86 (66.15%) Amazon EC2
4 50 (38.46%) Route 53
5 46 (35.38%) Serverless
6 45 (34.62%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (29.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (16.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
10 20 (15.38%) Azure
11 17 (13.08%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (8.46%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (8.46%) CloudFront
12 11 (8.46%) GitHub
13 10 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
13 10 (7.69%) GCP
14 9 (6.92%) Amazon EMR
15 8 (6.15%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (6.15%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.92%) Network Security
2 17 (13.08%) DNS
3 14 (10.77%) Firewall
3 14 (10.77%) VPN
4 11 (8.46%) TCP/IP
5 6 (4.62%) DHCP
6 5 (3.85%) WAN
7 4 (3.08%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (3.08%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (2.31%) BGP
8 3 (2.31%) HTTP
8 3 (2.31%) SSL
8 3 (2.31%) VLAN
9 2 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (1.54%) MPLS
9 2 (1.54%) Wireless
10 1 (0.77%) LAN
10 1 (0.77%) OSPF
10 1 (0.77%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (14.62%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (4.62%) Data Lake
4 6 (4.62%) MySQL
5 5 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.31%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.31%) Big Data
7 3 (2.31%) Bigtable
7 3 (2.31%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.31%) Parquet
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.54%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.54%) IBM BigInsights
8 2 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (33.85%) Git
2 36 (27.69%) GitLab
3 24 (18.46%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.92%) webpack
5 6 (4.62%) JIRA
6 2 (1.54%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.77%) Maven
7 1 (0.77%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (13.85%) Finance
2 15 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.62%) Retail
5 4 (3.08%) Banking
6 2 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.54%) Billing
6 2 (1.54%) Legal
6 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Games
7 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (37.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (21.54%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 25 (19.23%) Architect
5 21 (16.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 21 (16.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) AWS Architect
6 12 (9.23%) Lead
7 11 (8.46%) Senior
8 10 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Security Architect
9 9 (6.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.62%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.62%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.77%) Node.js
2 9 (6.92%) Express.js
2 9 (6.92%) React
2 9 (6.92%) Redux
3 7 (5.38%) Kafka
4 6 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (3.85%) OAuth
5 5 (3.85%) OAuth2
5 5 (3.85%) SAML
6 4 (3.08%) LDAP
7 3 (2.31%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.31%) YAML
8 2 (1.54%) Apache Avro
8 2 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.54%) cloud-init
8 2 (1.54%) Spring
9 1 (0.77%) .NET
9 1 (0.77%) Django
9 1 (0.77%) JSON
9 1 (0.77%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (4.62%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.08%) Clustering
6 3 (2.31%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.31%) Life Science
7 2 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.54%) PKI
7 2 (1.54%) Replication
7 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.38%) Linux
2 13 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (10.00%) Windows
3 7 (5.38%) CentOS
4 4 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.54%) Debian
5 2 (1.54%) Unix
6 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (56.92%) DevOps
2 71 (54.62%) CI/CD
3 45 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (25.38%) Containerisation
5 28 (21.54%) Agile
6 16 (12.31%) Infrastructure Management
6 16 (12.31%) Migration
7 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (10.77%) Cloud Security
9 12 (9.23%) API Development
9 12 (9.23%) Kanban
9 12 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.46%) ETL
10 11 (8.46%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (8.46%) Service Design
10 11 (8.46%) Test Automation
11 10 (7.69%) Application Security
11 10 (7.69%) Computer Science
11 10 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (7.69%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 62 (47.69%) Python
2 24 (18.46%) Bash
3 19 (14.62%) Java
4 9 (6.92%) SQL
5 4 (3.08%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.08%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.08%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.31%) Go
6 3 (2.31%) Perl
7 2 (1.54%) Ruby
7 2 (1.54%) U-SQL
8 1 (0.77%) C#
8 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.77%) PHP
8 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (40.77%) Security Cleared
2 52 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.23%) Degree
5 6 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.08%) CCNP
7 4 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.54%) CCNA
8 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.54%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.77%) OCP
9 1 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) NCSC
3 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.54%) GDPR
3 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.54%) SLA
4 1 (0.77%) IFRS
4 1 (0.77%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (33.08%) Docker
2 11 (8.46%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.54%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.77%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 61 (46.92%) Kubernetes
1 61 (46.92%) Terraform
2 28 (21.54%) Ansible
3 22 (16.92%) Prometheus
4 20 (15.38%) Grafana
5 9 (6.92%) Puppet
6 7 (5.38%) Packer
7 5 (3.85%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.08%) Rancher
9 3 (2.31%) Consul
9 3 (2.31%) HAProxy
9 3 (2.31%) Istio
10 2 (1.54%) Ambari
10 2 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.54%) Graphite
10 2 (1.54%) linkerd
10 2 (1.54%) Oozie
10 2 (1.54%) Podman
10 2 (1.54%) Salt
10 2 (1.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (8.46%) VMware
2 9 (6.92%) Red Hat
3 8 (6.15%) Palo Alto
4 7 (5.38%) Cisco
5 6 (4.62%) Google
5 6 (4.62%) SAP
6 4 (3.08%) Informatica
6 4 (3.08%) Splunk
7 3 (2.31%) Databricks
7 3 (2.31%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.31%) Sage
7 3 (2.31%) Unisys
8 2 (1.54%) Juniper
8 2 (1.54%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.54%) Qualys
8 2 (1.54%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.77%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.77%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.77%) Meraki
9 1 (0.77%) Talend