Virtual Private Cloud Job Trends in London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 392 399
Rank change year-on-year +60 +7 +41
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 42 36 44
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 0.51% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 21 17 35
10th Percentile £51,500 £63,000 £63,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +5.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £79,125
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,000 £97,600
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,795 7,025 8,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.09% 45.28% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,764 4,482 7,052
10th Percentile £37,375 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in London

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
East London - 6 £85,000 -
Central London +42 5 £70,000 -3.78% 4
South London - 3 - -
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 6 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 6 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (57.14%) Amazon S3
4 18 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (42.86%) Azure
4 18 (42.86%) Serverless
5 17 (40.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (38.10%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (38.10%) SaaS
7 10 (23.81%) GCP
7 10 (23.81%) Route 53
8 9 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (21.43%) AWS Direct Connect
9 7 (16.67%) IaaS
9 7 (16.67%) PaaS
10 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (9.52%) GitHub
11 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.19%) VPN
2 9 (21.43%) BGP
3 7 (16.67%) Firewall
4 6 (14.29%) MPLS
4 6 (14.29%) OSPF
4 6 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 6 (14.29%) SSL
4 6 (14.29%) WAN
5 5 (11.90%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (11.90%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (11.90%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (11.90%) DNS
5 5 (11.90%) IPsec
5 5 (11.90%) LAN
5 5 (11.90%) NetScaler
5 5 (11.90%) NX-OS
5 5 (11.90%) TCP/IP
5 5 (11.90%) VXLAN
5 5 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (11.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (52.38%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
3 6 (14.29%) DB2
3 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) Subversion
3 2 (4.76%) Vagrant
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 20 (47.62%) Finance
2 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
3 11 (26.19%) Banking
4 6 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (9.52%) Law
6 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.14%) Back Office
6 3 (7.14%) Financial Institution
6 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (7.14%) Retail
7 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Cloud Automation Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Python Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Security Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Applications Support
6 6 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Senior
6 6 (14.29%) Support Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Consultant
7 5 (11.90%) Network Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) LAPP Stack
1 6 (14.29%) LDAP
1 6 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (9.52%) RESTful
3 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.76%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 10 (23.81%) Security Posture
3 8 (19.05%) Cloud Native
3 8 (19.05%) Data Centre
4 7 (16.67%) Hedge funds
5 6 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Linux
1 13 (30.95%) Unix
2 8 (19.05%) Windows
3 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 13 (30.95%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (21.43%) Configuration Management
7 9 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (21.43%) Process Improvement
8 8 (19.05%) AI
8 8 (19.05%) DevOps
8 8 (19.05%) Information Security
9 7 (16.67%) Change Management
9 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 7 (16.67%) Cryptography
9 7 (16.67%) Observability
9 7 (16.67%) Red Team
9 7 (16.67%) Security Testing
9 7 (16.67%) Tech Ops
9 7 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) Bash
3 5 (11.90%) Java
4 4 (9.52%) Go
5 2 (4.76%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) Groovy
5 2 (4.76%) Perl
5 2 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Degree
2 16 (38.10%) AWS Certification
3 7 (16.67%) CCSK
3 7 (16.67%) CISSP
3 7 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.38%) CCIE
7 1 (2.38%) CCNP
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (14.29%) SLA
3 5 (11.90%) SOC 2
4 4 (9.52%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.76%) GDPR
5 2 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) vCloud
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (71.43%) Terraform
2 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.52%) Grafana
4 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.76%) Ansible
5 2 (4.76%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Google
2 6 (14.29%) Cisco
2 6 (14.29%) IBM
2 6 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 6 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.90%) CheckPoint
3 5 (11.90%) Dynatrace
3 5 (11.90%) Fortinet
3 5 (11.90%) Meraki
3 5 (11.90%) SolarWinds
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.38%) VMware
5 1 (2.38%) Zscaler