Virtual Private Cloud Job Trends in England

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 543 725
Rank change year-on-year -62 +182 -40
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 77 71 88
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.52% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 42 48 78
10th Percentile £47,150 £51,750 £51,716
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,938 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.91% +11.85% -10.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Virtual Private Cloud falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,809 13,694 29,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.16% 37.47% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 12,861 10,202 24,177
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in England

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
London +8 46 £85,000 +7.59% 18
South West -46 10 £56,250 -37.50% 4
North of England -63 8 £65,000 +13.04% 5
East of England -32 7 £85,000 - 3
West Midlands -17 3 £49,000 -49.74% 2
North West -31 3 £75,000 +30.43% 3
Midlands -51 3 £49,000 -49.74% 2
South East -53 3 £60,000 -20.00% 9
Yorkshire - 3 £65,000 - 1
North East - 2 £47,500 - 1
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.90%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) Apache
2 2 (2.60%) IIS
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.30%) Drupal
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.30%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (61.04%) Amazon EC2
3 42 (54.55%) Amazon S3
4 33 (42.86%) Azure
5 30 (38.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 29 (37.66%) SaaS
7 27 (35.06%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (35.06%) Serverless
8 21 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (22.08%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (22.08%) AWS Direct Connect
10 16 (20.78%) GCP
11 15 (19.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (19.48%) GitHub
11 15 (19.48%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (18.18%) CloudFront
13 11 (14.29%) IaaS
13 11 (14.29%) PaaS
14 10 (12.99%) Datadog
14 10 (12.99%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (25.97%) VPN
2 19 (24.68%) BGP
3 17 (22.08%) Firewall
4 13 (16.88%) SD-WAN
4 13 (16.88%) WAN
5 12 (15.58%) MPLS
5 12 (15.58%) OSPF
6 11 (14.29%) VXLAN
7 10 (12.99%) LAN
8 9 (11.69%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (11.69%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (11.69%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (11.69%) IPsec
8 9 (11.69%) NetScaler
8 9 (11.69%) NX-OS
8 9 (11.69%) TCP/IP
8 9 (11.69%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (11.69%) WLAN
9 6 (7.79%) DNS
9 6 (7.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (48.05%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.39%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.90%) MySQL
3 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.30%) DB2
5 1 (1.30%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (16.88%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.49%) Git
3 4 (5.19%) Bitbucket
3 4 (5.19%) JIRA
4 3 (3.90%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.60%) GitLab
6 1 (1.30%) Gatling
6 1 (1.30%) git-flow
6 1 (1.30%) JMeter
6 1 (1.30%) Maven
6 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.30%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (31.17%) Finance
2 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Banking
4 9 (11.69%) Law
5 7 (9.09%) Retail
6 6 (7.79%) Back Office
6 6 (7.79%) Financial Institution
6 6 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (6.49%) Advertising
8 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.90%) Billing
9 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.90%) Legal
10 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (59.74%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (25.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (24.68%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (18.18%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (16.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 13 (16.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (16.88%) Network Engineer
7 12 (15.58%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (15.58%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 12 (15.58%) Python Engineer
7 12 (15.58%) Security Engineer
8 11 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (14.29%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 11 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
9 10 (12.99%) Network Operations Engineer
9 10 (12.99%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (11.69%) Cisco Engineer
10 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
10 9 (11.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) Loki
2 6 (7.79%) RESTful
3 4 (5.19%) YAML
4 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.60%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.30%) .NET
6 1 (1.30%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.30%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.30%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.30%) LangChain
6 1 (1.30%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.30%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.30%) LDAP
6 1 (1.30%) Memcached
6 1 (1.30%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.30%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.97%) Management Information System
2 16 (20.78%) Security Posture
3 13 (16.88%) Data Centre
4 11 (14.29%) Hedge funds
5 8 (10.39%) Cloud Native
6 7 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (6.49%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (3.90%) Blog
9 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (2.60%) PKI
10 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
10 2 (2.60%) Replication
11 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
11 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.68%) Linux
2 12 (15.58%) Unix
3 9 (11.69%) Windows
4 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (79.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 48 (62.34%) CI/CD
3 38 (49.35%) Cloud Security
4 37 (48.05%) DevOps
5 29 (37.66%) Observability
6 28 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (35.06%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (24.68%) Configuration Management
10 18 (23.38%) Infrastructure Automation
11 16 (20.78%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (18.18%) Containerisation
12 14 (18.18%) High Availability
12 14 (18.18%) Information Security
12 14 (18.18%) Runbook
12 14 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (16.88%) AI
13 13 (16.88%) Computer Science
14 12 (15.58%) Security Testing
14 12 (15.58%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 51 (66.23%) Python
2 43 (55.84%) Bash
3 11 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.79%) Go
4 6 (7.79%) Java
5 4 (5.19%) SQL
6 1 (1.30%) Groovy
6 1 (1.30%) PHP
6 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (29.87%) Degree
2 12 (15.58%) AWS Certification
3 11 (14.29%) CCSK
3 11 (14.29%) CISSP
3 11 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (10.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.49%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.30%) CCIE
8 1 (1.30%) CCNP
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.30%) PMP
8 1 (1.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) SOC 2
2 8 (10.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (7.79%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) NCSC
4 1 (1.30%) NIST
4 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (29.87%) Docker
2 6 (7.79%) iptables
3 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.60%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.60%) vSphere
4 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (81.82%) Terraform
2 22 (28.57%) Grafana
3 19 (24.68%) Kubernetes
4 18 (23.38%) Prometheus
5 15 (19.48%) Ansible
6 6 (7.79%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.49%) Puppet
8 3 (3.90%) Argo
8 3 (3.90%) Scalr
9 2 (2.60%) systemd
10 1 (1.30%) Consul
10 1 (1.30%) Packer
10 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (18.18%) Google
2 12 (15.58%) Cisco
3 11 (14.29%) Meraki
4 9 (11.69%) CheckPoint
4 9 (11.69%) Dynatrace
4 9 (11.69%) Fortinet
4 9 (11.69%) ServiceNow
4 9 (11.69%) SolarWinds
5 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.90%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.60%) Arista
6 2 (2.60%) Aruba
6 2 (2.60%) Juniper
6 2 (2.60%) VMware
7 1 (1.30%) IBM
7 1 (1.30%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle
7 1 (1.30%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.30%) Zscaler