Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 451 557
Rank change year-on-year +21 +106 -23
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 112 191 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.40% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.10% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 152 174
10th Percentile £409 £413 £438
25th Percentile £456 £538 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +6.96% +15.00%
75th Percentile £658 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,813 17,321 27,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.99% 36.28% 38.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,512 12,705 20,077
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 285 323
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.98 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £38.75 £70.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +15 60 £535 -14.40% 18
North of England +37 30 £475 -24.00% 3
North West +21 21 £663 +6.00%
Yorkshire +24 9 £463 -12.32% 3
South East -18 7 £593 -1.25% 2
Midlands +30 6 £650 +4.00% 6
West Midlands - 6 £650 - 6
East of England +10 3 £550 - 1
South West +9 2 £600 +9.09% 4
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.36%) Apache
2 5 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.46%) Confluence
3 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.68%) nginx
4 2 (1.79%) Traefik
5 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) AWS
2 80 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 79 (70.54%) Amazon EC2
4 45 (40.18%) Serverless
5 44 (39.29%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (37.50%) Route 53
7 32 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (17.86%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (15.18%) Azure
11 16 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (9.82%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (9.82%) CloudFront
13 10 (8.93%) AWS CloudTrail
13 10 (8.93%) GCP
14 9 (8.04%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (8.04%) GitHub
15 8 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.29%) DNS
1 16 (14.29%) Network Security
2 11 (9.82%) Firewall
2 11 (9.82%) VPN
3 8 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.36%) DHCP
5 4 (3.57%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (2.68%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (2.68%) HTTP
6 3 (2.68%) SSL
6 3 (2.68%) VLAN
6 3 (2.68%) WAN
7 2 (1.79%) BGP
7 2 (1.79%) Wireless
8 1 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.89%) LAN
8 1 (0.89%) MPLS
8 1 (0.89%) OSPF
8 1 (0.89%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (41.07%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (16.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (8.93%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.36%) MySQL
5 5 (4.46%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.46%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.68%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.68%) Big Data
7 3 (2.68%) Bigtable
7 3 (2.68%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.68%) Parquet
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.79%) IBM BigInsights
8 2 (1.79%) PolyBase
8 2 (1.79%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 38 (33.93%) Git
2 35 (31.25%) GitLab
3 18 (16.07%) Jenkins
4 9 (8.04%) webpack
5 5 (4.46%) JIRA
6 2 (1.79%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.89%) Maven
7 1 (0.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (16.07%) Finance
2 10 (8.93%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.36%) Retail
5 4 (3.57%) Banking
6 2 (1.79%) Billing
6 2 (1.79%) Legal
6 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Games
7 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (36.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (23.21%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (19.64%) Architect
5 20 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (16.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 12 (10.71%) Lead
8 10 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (8.93%) Security Architect
8 10 (8.93%) Senior
9 9 (8.04%) AWS Architect
9 9 (8.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Developer
11 6 (5.36%) Python Developer
11 6 (5.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.36%) Technical Leader
12 5 (4.46%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (4.46%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.50%) Node.js
2 9 (8.04%) Express.js
2 9 (8.04%) React
2 9 (8.04%) Redux
3 7 (6.25%) Kafka
4 5 (4.46%) OAuth
4 5 (4.46%) OAuth2
4 5 (4.46%) SAML
5 4 (3.57%) LDAP
6 3 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.68%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (2.68%) YAML
7 2 (1.79%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.79%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.79%) Spring
8 1 (0.89%) Django
8 1 (0.89%) JSON
8 1 (0.89%) REST
8 1 (0.89%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.36%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.46%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.68%) Clustering
6 3 (2.68%) Life Science
7 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.79%) PKI
7 2 (1.79%) Replication
7 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.29%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (8.93%) Windows
4 7 (6.25%) CentOS
5 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.79%) Debian
6 2 (1.79%) Unix
7 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (55.36%) DevOps
2 60 (53.57%) CI/CD
3 33 (29.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (26.79%) Containerisation
5 23 (20.54%) Agile
6 16 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
7 14 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 14 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (11.61%) Migration
9 12 (10.71%) API Development
9 12 (10.71%) Kanban
10 11 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (8.93%) Application Security
11 10 (8.93%) ETL
11 10 (8.93%) Test Automation
12 9 (8.04%) Computer Science
12 9 (8.04%) Customer Engagement
12 9 (8.04%) DevSecOps
12 9 (8.04%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (8.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 54 (48.21%) Python
2 21 (18.75%) Bash
3 13 (11.61%) Java
4 8 (7.14%) SQL
5 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.79%) Go
7 2 (1.79%) Ruby
7 2 (1.79%) U-SQL
8 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.89%) PHP
8 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 48 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 17 (15.18%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.93%) Degree
5 6 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.68%) CCNP
7 3 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.79%) CCNA
8 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.89%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.89%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.89%) OCP
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) NCSC
3 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) GDPR
3 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.79%) SLA
4 1 (0.89%) IFRS
4 1 (0.89%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (29.46%) Docker
2 11 (9.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.89%) Varnish
6 1 (0.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (43.75%) Kubernetes
1 49 (43.75%) Terraform
2 24 (21.43%) Ansible
3 16 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 14 (12.50%) Grafana
5 9 (8.04%) Puppet
6 7 (6.25%) Packer
7 5 (4.46%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.57%) Rancher
9 3 (2.68%) Consul
9 3 (2.68%) HAProxy
9 3 (2.68%) Istio
10 2 (1.79%) Ambari
10 2 (1.79%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.79%) Graphite
10 2 (1.79%) linkerd
10 2 (1.79%) Oozie
10 2 (1.79%) Podman
10 2 (1.79%) Salt
10 2 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (8.04%) VMware
2 8 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 6 (5.36%) Cisco
3 6 (5.36%) Google
3 6 (5.36%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.36%) SAP
4 4 (3.57%) Informatica
5 3 (2.68%) Databricks
5 3 (2.68%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.68%) Sage
5 3 (2.68%) Splunk
5 3 (2.68%) Unisys
6 2 (1.79%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.79%) Qualys
6 2 (1.79%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.89%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.89%) Juniper
7 1 (0.89%) Meraki
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle
7 1 (0.89%) Talend