Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Private Cloud skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 802 702 799
Rank change year-on-year -100 +97 -138
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 94 274 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.61% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 81 193 245
10th Percentile £48,750 £56,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £107,500 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +9.65%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -63 87 £67,500 -10.00% 31
Work from Home +14 56 £67,500 -6.90% 18
UK excluding London -16 55 £65,000 - 13
London -8 34 £75,000 -11.76% 20
South East +30 22 £67,500 +3.85% 4
Midlands -1 12 £57,500 -20.69% 4
West Midlands +28 11 £58,000 -20.00% 4
North of England +33 10 £60,000 -20.00% 2
North West +1 5 £40,000 -46.67% 2
South West +1 5 £55,000 -21.99% 2
North East - 4 £61,391 -
East of England +6 3 £65,000 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Yorkshire +82 1 £62,500 -16.67%
East Midlands -25 1 £57,500 -

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 13 (13.83%) Confluence
2 7 (7.45%) nginx
3 2 (2.13%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 93 (98.94%) AWS
2 71 (75.53%) Amazon EC2
3 61 (64.89%) Amazon S3
4 53 (56.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (47.87%) AWS Lambda
5 45 (47.87%) Serverless
6 43 (45.74%) Route 53
7 29 (30.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (25.53%) Azure
8 24 (25.53%) GitHub
9 19 (20.21%) GCP
10 18 (19.15%) CloudFront
11 13 (13.83%) Amazon ELB
12 9 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (8.51%) AWS CloudTrail
14 7 (7.45%) Amazon ECR
14 7 (7.45%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (6.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 6 (6.38%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 25 (26.60%) Firewall
2 17 (18.09%) VPN
3 16 (17.02%) DNS
4 10 (10.64%) Network Security
4 10 (10.64%) SSL
5 9 (9.57%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (7.45%) LAN
6 7 (7.45%) WAN
6 7 (7.45%) Wireless
7 6 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (5.32%) BGP
8 5 (5.32%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (5.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 5 (5.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (5.32%) Internet
8 5 (5.32%) MQTT
8 5 (5.32%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (5.32%) Unified Communications
8 5 (5.32%) VoIP
9 3 (3.19%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (56.38%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (13.83%) MySQL
3 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.13%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.13%) Redis
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (19.15%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.83%) JIRA
3 12 (12.77%) GitLab
4 11 (11.70%) Bitbucket
5 10 (10.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (10.64%) Subversion
6 6 (6.38%) Git
7 4 (4.26%) Terragrunt
8 2 (2.13%) Burp Suite
8 2 (2.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.13%) git-flow
8 2 (2.13%) Metasploit
8 2 (2.13%) sqlmap
General
1 21 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.57%) Finance
4 7 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Law
6 3 (3.19%) Tech for Good
7 2 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Electronics
7 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (44.68%) AWS Engineer
2 30 (31.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (28.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (27.66%) Senior
5 19 (20.21%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (18.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (18.09%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (17.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (14.89%) Architect
8 14 (14.89%) AWS Architect
9 13 (13.83%) Cloud Architect
9 13 (13.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (12.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 12 (12.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (10.64%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (10.64%) AWS Solution Architect
11 10 (10.64%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 10 (10.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 10 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (9.57%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.45%) LEMP Stack
2 6 (6.38%) Node.js
3 5 (5.32%) CSS
3 5 (5.32%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (5.32%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.32%) gRPC
3 5 (5.32%) HTML
3 5 (5.32%) Knex.js
3 5 (5.32%) React
3 5 (5.32%) React Native
3 5 (5.32%) RESTful
3 5 (5.32%) SAML
3 5 (5.32%) Sequelize
4 3 (3.19%) AWS SAM
5 2 (2.13%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.13%) LAMP
6 1 (1.06%) .NET
6 1 (1.06%) Middleware
6 1 (1.06%) Vue
6 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (5.32%) IoT
3 5 (5.32%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.19%) Robotics
6 2 (2.13%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.13%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.13%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.13%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (2.13%) PKI
6 2 (2.13%) PropTech
6 2 (2.13%) Replication
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (32.98%) Linux
2 12 (12.77%) Windows
3 5 (5.32%) Ubuntu
3 5 (5.32%) Unix
4 4 (4.26%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (4.26%) Debian
5 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.13%) Android
6 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.13%) Solaris
7 1 (1.06%) CentOS
7 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (64.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 51 (54.26%) DevOps
3 43 (45.74%) CI/CD
4 29 (30.85%) Containerisation
5 21 (22.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure Automation
6 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (19.15%) Computer Science
7 18 (19.15%) Infrastructure Management
8 17 (18.09%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (18.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (18.09%) Migration
8 17 (18.09%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (17.02%) Configuration Management
9 16 (17.02%) Data Migration
9 16 (17.02%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (14.89%) Data Protection
11 12 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (12.77%) Fintech
12 11 (11.70%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (62.77%) Python
2 31 (32.98%) Bash
3 12 (12.77%) Java
4 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.45%) SQL
6 6 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.38%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.32%) JSX
7 5 (5.32%) R
7 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.19%) Go
9 2 (2.13%) PHP
10 1 (1.06%) C
Qualifications
1 27 (28.72%) AWS Certification
2 25 (26.60%) Security Cleared
3 21 (22.34%) Degree
3 21 (22.34%) SC Cleared
4 18 (19.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (18.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (13.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (11.70%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (7.45%) CCNP
9 4 (4.26%) CCNA
9 4 (4.26%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
10 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.13%) CCIE
12 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) NIST
1 7 (7.45%) PCI DSS
2 6 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.26%) NCSC
4 3 (3.19%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 47 (50.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (67.02%) Terraform
2 47 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 17 (18.09%) Ansible
4 10 (10.64%) Packer
5 7 (7.45%) Progress Chef
5 7 (7.45%) Puppet
5 7 (7.45%) Salt
6 3 (3.19%) Grafana
6 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.06%) Opsgenie
7 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (10.64%) Atlassian
2 9 (9.57%) Cisco
3 6 (6.38%) VMware
4 5 (5.32%) CheckPoint
4 5 (5.32%) F5
4 5 (5.32%) Forcepoint
4 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.32%) SolarWinds
5 3 (3.19%) Google
6 2 (2.13%) Splunk
7 1 (1.06%) Oracle
7 1 (1.06%) PagerDuty