Virtual Private Cloud Jobs with Work from Home Options

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 529 609
Rank change year-on-year -6 +80 -167
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 54 132 237
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.66% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 49 110 144
10th Percentile £41,300 - £40,000
25th Percentile £57,597 £62,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +5.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £82,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £103,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,601 19,859 36,141
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.24% 47.88% 52.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11,951 14,546 21,658
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,000 £37,478
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Virtual Private Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Private Cloud trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Virtual Private Cloud salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Virtual Private Cloud salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (22.22%) Confluence
2 5 (9.26%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (83.33%) Amazon EC2
3 37 (68.52%) Amazon S3
4 34 (62.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 33 (61.11%) Route 53
6 30 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (55.56%) Serverless
7 20 (37.04%) GitHub
8 18 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (33.33%) GCP
9 16 (29.63%) Azure
10 14 (25.93%) CloudFront
11 10 (18.52%) Amazon ELB
11 10 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (9.26%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (9.26%) AWS CloudTrail
12 5 (9.26%) SaaS
13 4 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (7.41%) AWS CodeBuild
13 4 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.37%) Firewall
2 9 (16.67%) VPN
3 8 (14.81%) DNS
4 5 (9.26%) MQTT
4 5 (9.26%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (5.56%) HTTPS
5 3 (5.56%) SSL
6 2 (3.70%) BGP
7 1 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (70.37%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (18.52%) MySQL
3 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) JIRA
2 10 (18.52%) Jenkins
3 9 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 9 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (16.67%) Subversion
4 6 (11.11%) GitLab
5 4 (7.41%) Git
5 4 (7.41%) Terragrunt
6 2 (3.70%) Burp Suite
6 2 (3.70%) Metasploit
6 2 (3.70%) sqlmap
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.41%) Finance
4 3 (5.56%) Law
5 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (59.26%) AWS Engineer
2 24 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (42.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (35.19%) Senior
5 16 (29.63%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (24.07%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (24.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (22.22%) Architect
7 12 (22.22%) AWS Architect
8 11 (20.37%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 11 (20.37%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (20.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (20.37%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (18.52%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (18.52%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 8 (14.81%) AWS Solution Architect
10 8 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (12.96%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (12.96%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) Node.js
2 5 (9.26%) CSS
2 5 (9.26%) GraphQL
2 5 (9.26%) gRPC
2 5 (9.26%) HTML
2 5 (9.26%) Knex.js
2 5 (9.26%) LEMP Stack
2 5 (9.26%) React
2 5 (9.26%) React Native
2 5 (9.26%) RESTful
2 5 (9.26%) Sequelize
3 4 (7.41%) SAML
4 3 (5.56%) AWS SAM
4 3 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.85%) .NET
5 1 (1.85%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.85%) Middleware
5 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 9 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.26%) IoT
2 5 (9.26%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.56%) Robotics
5 2 (3.70%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (35.19%) Linux
2 9 (16.67%) Windows
3 5 (9.26%) Unix
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.70%) Debian
5 2 (3.70%) Solaris
6 1 (1.85%) CentOS
6 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 36 (66.67%) DevOps
3 27 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 21 (38.89%) Containerisation
5 17 (31.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (25.93%) Computer Science
7 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (22.22%) Data Migration
8 12 (22.22%) Data Protection
8 12 (22.22%) Migration
9 11 (20.37%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (20.37%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (18.52%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure Management
10 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 9 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (12.96%) Agile
13 7 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 41 (75.93%) Python
2 20 (37.04%) Bash
3 10 (18.52%) Java
4 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 6 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 6 (11.11%) SQL
6 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
6 5 (9.26%) JSX
6 5 (9.26%) R
6 5 (9.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.85%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) AWS Certification
2 15 (27.78%) Degree
3 14 (25.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
4 13 (24.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (22.22%) SC Cleared
6 10 (18.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) NIST
2 4 (7.41%) NCSC
3 3 (5.56%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (62.96%) Docker
2 6 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (75.93%) Terraform
2 30 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 9 (16.67%) Packer
4 6 (11.11%) Ansible
5 4 (7.41%) Progress Chef
5 4 (7.41%) Puppet
5 4 (7.41%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 6 (11.11%) VMware
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.56%) Google