Virtual Private Cloud Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 159 182 207
Rank change year-on-year +23 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 26 20 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.54% 0.37% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.02% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 32
10th Percentile £409 £513 £436
25th Percentile £452 £526 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.04% +22.50%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £641
90th Percentile - - £688
England median daily rate £550 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,445 1,960 2,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.82% 36.02% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,454 1,935
10th Percentile £263 £286 £185
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 42 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.02 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.72% +12.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.38 £42.44 £60.88
90th Percentile £45.21 £62.34 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the North of England

Virtual Private Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region 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
North West +19 18 £663 +6.00% 1
Yorkshire +16 8 £463 -12.32% 3
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (11.54%) Apache
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
2 1 (3.85%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (92.31%) Amazon EC2
3 22 (84.62%) Amazon S3
4 15 (57.69%) Route 53
5 8 (30.77%) Amazon ECR
5 8 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (30.77%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (26.92%) Serverless
7 4 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (15.38%) AWS KMS
8 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
9 2 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (3.85%) Azure
10 1 (3.85%) GCP
10 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) SSL
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (11.54%) MySQL
4 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (65.38%) GitLab
2 10 (38.46%) Git
3 8 (30.77%) webpack
4 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Junior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) Express.js
1 8 (30.77%) Node.js
1 8 (30.77%) React
1 8 (30.77%) Redux
2 2 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (3.85%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) CentOS
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
1 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 15 (57.69%) DevOps
3 13 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (30.77%) API Development
4 8 (30.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 8 (30.77%) Customer Engagement
4 8 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (30.77%) ETL
4 8 (30.77%) Front End Development
4 8 (30.77%) Full Stack Development
4 8 (30.77%) QA Automation
4 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 7 (26.92%) Agile
5 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (15.38%) Kanban
7 4 (15.38%) Refactoring
7 4 (15.38%) Scrum
7 4 (15.38%) Software Deployment
7 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Bash
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Go
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) SC Cleared
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 9 (34.62%) Terraform
3 5 (19.23%) Ansible
3 5 (19.23%) Packer
3 5 (19.23%) Puppet
4 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 4 (15.38%) Rancher
5 3 (11.54%) Grafana
6 1 (3.85%) Consul
6 1 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (3.85%) Graphite
6 1 (3.85%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.85%) Istio
6 1 (3.85%) linkerd
6 1 (3.85%) Podman
6 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Informatica
2 2 (7.69%) Sage
3 1 (3.85%) PagerDuty
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) VMware