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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 360 477
Rank change year-on-year -21 +117 -37
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 52 30 24
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.23% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.65% 0.53% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 27 21 16
10th Percentile £64,000 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £70,625 £59,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +1.97% -10.59%
75th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 -
England median annual salary £66,124 £72,500 £71,000
% change year-on-year -8.79% +2.11% -5.33%

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 8,013 5,664 9,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.64% 45.60% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,371 4,026 7,417
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.69% -9.23%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -1 4 £105,000 +13.51% 1
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 1 (1.92%) Apache
1 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (63.46%) Amazon S3
2 33 (63.46%) Azure
3 29 (55.77%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (38.46%) Serverless
5 15 (28.85%) SaaS
6 14 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (23.08%) AWS Direct Connect
8 11 (21.15%) AWS CloudTrail
9 10 (19.23%) OCI
10 9 (17.31%) Amazon ELB
10 9 (17.31%) GCP
11 8 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (15.38%) GitHub
11 8 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (15.38%) Route 53
12 7 (13.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (13.46%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.69%) Firewall
2 15 (28.85%) VPN
3 13 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 13 (25.00%) WAN
4 12 (23.08%) BGP
4 12 (23.08%) MPLS
4 12 (23.08%) VXLAN
5 9 (17.31%) LAN
6 8 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (15.38%) IPsec
6 8 (15.38%) NetScaler
6 8 (15.38%) NX-OS
6 8 (15.38%) OSPF
6 8 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (15.38%) WLAN
7 5 (9.62%) DNS
7 5 (9.62%) TCP/IP
8 4 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.77%) Git
3 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.85%) GitLab
3 2 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) git-flow
4 1 (1.92%) Maven
4 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (26.92%) Finance
2 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Banking
5 4 (7.69%) Military
5 4 (7.69%) Retail
6 3 (5.77%) Back Office
6 3 (5.77%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.77%) Law
7 2 (3.85%) Advertising
7 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (48.08%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (26.92%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (23.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 12 (23.08%) Security Engineer
4 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (19.23%) Network Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Network Operations Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Python Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Firewall Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Network Architect
8 4 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) REST
2 4 (7.69%) Web Services
3 3 (5.77%) RESTful
4 2 (3.85%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.85%) Middleware
5 1 (1.92%) A2A Protocol
5 1 (1.92%) CrewAI
5 1 (1.92%) LangChain
5 1 (1.92%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.92%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 6 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 6 (11.54%) Security Posture
4 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (7.69%) Hedge funds
4 4 (7.69%) IVR
4 4 (7.69%) PKI
5 3 (5.77%) Blog
5 3 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Unix
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (3.85%) CentOS
2 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (44.23%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (40.38%) CI/CD
4 20 (38.46%) DevOps
5 17 (32.69%) Cloud Security
6 14 (26.92%) AI
6 14 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (23.08%) Information Security
7 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (23.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 12 (23.08%) Zero Trust
8 10 (19.23%) Observability
9 8 (15.38%) Business Continuity
9 8 (15.38%) Configuration Management
9 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (15.38%) DevSecOps
9 8 (15.38%) Migration
9 8 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
9 8 (15.38%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 25 (48.08%) Python
2 12 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (5.77%) Go
3 3 (5.77%) Java
3 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.85%) SQL
5 1 (1.92%) Groovy
5 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Degree
2 13 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (15.38%) Master's Degree
4 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.69%) CCSK
5 4 (7.69%) CISSP
5 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.92%) PMP
7 1 (1.92%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) GDPR
1 4 (7.69%) HIPAA
2 3 (5.77%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (75.00%) Terraform
2 8 (15.38%) Grafana
2 8 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.62%) Ansible
5 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Cisco
2 12 (23.08%) Meraki
3 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
4 10 (19.23%) Oracle
5 8 (15.38%) CheckPoint
5 8 (15.38%) Dynatrace
5 8 (15.38%) SolarWinds
6 6 (11.54%) Google
7 4 (7.69%) Arista
7 4 (7.69%) Aruba
7 4 (7.69%) Avaya
7 4 (7.69%) Fortinet
7 4 (7.69%) Genesys
7 4 (7.69%) Juniper
7 4 (7.69%) Palo Alto
7 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
7 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.85%) Red Hat