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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 801 732 774
Rank change year-on-year -69 +42 -115
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 87 265 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.61% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 73 189 232
10th Percentile £44,300 £56,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,154
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.91% +0.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +6.84%

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 35,426 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.72% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,744 28,539 41,573
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 £96,250 £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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 14 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 8 May 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 -93 82 £67,500 -10.00% 40
Work from Home -7 54 £67,500 -6.90% 18
UK excluding London -45 51 £67,500 +3.85% 20
London -10 32 £75,000 -11.76% 21
South East +13 21 £67,500 +3.85% 3
Midlands -5 12 £58,500 -19.31% 8
West Midlands +13 11 £59,250 -18.28% 8
North of England +22 9 £60,000 -20.00% 5
North West -5 5 £40,000 -42.86% 5
South West -24 4 £55,000 -21.99% 3
North East - 4 £61,391 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East of England +4 2 £65,000 -
East Midlands -23 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 (14.94%) Confluence
2 7 (8.05%) nginx
3 2 (2.30%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (75.86%) Amazon EC2
3 57 (65.52%) Amazon S3
4 50 (57.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 44 (50.57%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (50.57%) Serverless
6 41 (47.13%) Route 53
7 26 (29.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (27.59%) GitHub
9 21 (24.14%) Azure
10 18 (20.69%) GCP
11 17 (19.54%) CloudFront
12 13 (14.94%) Amazon ELB
13 10 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (10.34%) AWS CloudTrail
15 7 (8.05%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (8.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 5 (5.75%) AWS CodeBuild
16 5 (5.75%) AWS Direct Connect
16 5 (5.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (27.59%) Firewall
2 17 (19.54%) DNS
3 16 (18.39%) VPN
4 10 (11.49%) Network Security
4 10 (11.49%) SSL
5 9 (10.34%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (9.20%) WAN
7 7 (8.05%) LAN
7 7 (8.05%) Wireless
8 6 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (5.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (5.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 5 (5.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (5.75%) Internet
9 5 (5.75%) MQTT
9 5 (5.75%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (5.75%) Unified Communications
9 5 (5.75%) VoIP
10 4 (4.60%) BGP
11 3 (3.45%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (57.47%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (13.79%) MySQL
3 7 (8.05%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.30%) Redis
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.94%) JIRA
3 11 (12.64%) Bitbucket
4 10 (11.49%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (11.49%) Subversion
5 9 (10.34%) GitLab
6 6 (6.90%) Git
7 4 (4.60%) Terragrunt
8 2 (2.30%) Burp Suite
8 2 (2.30%) git-flow
8 2 (2.30%) Metasploit
8 2 (2.30%) sqlmap
9 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
General
1 19 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.34%) Finance
4 7 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Law
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Electronics
7 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.30%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.15%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (49.43%) AWS Engineer
2 30 (34.48%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (31.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (27.59%) Senior
5 19 (21.84%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (19.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (18.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (17.24%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (16.09%) Architect
9 14 (16.09%) AWS Architect
10 13 (14.94%) Cloud Architect
11 12 (13.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (13.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 10 (11.49%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (11.49%) AWS Solution Architect
12 10 (11.49%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 10 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (11.49%) Network Engineer
12 10 (11.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 10 (11.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) LEMP Stack
2 6 (6.90%) Node.js
3 5 (5.75%) CSS
3 5 (5.75%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.75%) gRPC
3 5 (5.75%) HTML
3 5 (5.75%) Knex.js
3 5 (5.75%) React
3 5 (5.75%) React Native
3 5 (5.75%) RESTful
3 5 (5.75%) SAML
3 5 (5.75%) Sequelize
4 4 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.45%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.30%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.30%) LAMP
7 1 (1.15%) .NET
7 1 (1.15%) Middleware
7 1 (1.15%) Vue
7 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Data Centre
2 10 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (11.49%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (5.75%) IoT
3 5 (5.75%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.60%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.45%) PropTech
5 3 (3.45%) Robotics
6 2 (2.30%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.30%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.30%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (2.30%) PKI
6 2 (2.30%) Replication
6 2 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (31.03%) Linux
2 11 (12.64%) Windows
3 5 (5.75%) Unix
4 4 (4.60%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (4.60%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.45%) Debian
5 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.30%) Android
6 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.30%) Solaris
7 1 (1.15%) CentOS
7 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (63.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 46 (52.87%) DevOps
3 37 (42.53%) CI/CD
4 25 (28.74%) Containerisation
5 21 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure Automation
6 17 (19.54%) Migration
7 16 (18.39%) Computer Science
7 16 (18.39%) Data Migration
7 16 (18.39%) Infrastructure Management
7 16 (18.39%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (17.24%) Configuration Management
8 15 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (16.09%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (16.09%) Data Protection
10 12 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (12.64%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (12.64%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 56 (64.37%) Python
2 29 (33.33%) Bash
3 12 (13.79%) Java
4 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.90%) Shell Script
5 6 (6.90%) SQL
6 5 (5.75%) JSX
6 5 (5.75%) R
6 5 (5.75%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.30%) Go
7 2 (2.30%) PHP
8 1 (1.15%) C
Qualifications
1 27 (31.03%) AWS Certification
2 24 (27.59%) Security Cleared
3 21 (24.14%) SC Cleared
4 19 (21.84%) Degree
5 16 (18.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (18.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (13.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (12.64%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (8.05%) CCNP
9 4 (4.60%) CCNA
9 4 (4.60%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.30%) CCIE
12 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) NIST
2 7 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.05%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.60%) NCSC
4 3 (3.45%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 42 (48.28%) Docker
2 6 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (64.37%) Terraform
2 40 (45.98%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.24%) Ansible
4 10 (11.49%) Packer
5 7 (8.05%) Progress Chef
5 7 (8.05%) Puppet
5 7 (8.05%) Salt
6 1 (1.15%) Grafana
6 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Atlassian
2 9 (10.34%) Cisco
3 6 (6.90%) VMware
4 5 (5.75%) CheckPoint
4 5 (5.75%) F5
4 5 (5.75%) Forcepoint
4 5 (5.75%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.75%) SolarWinds
5 3 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle
6 1 (1.15%) Splunk