Virtual Private Cloud Job Trends in the Midlands

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 187 276
Rank change year-on-year -77 +89 -28
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 5 49 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.034% 0.85% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 2.75% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3 25 19
10th Percentile £42,750 - £56,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £71,250 £63,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% - +20.83%
75th Percentile £61,250 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile - - £74,000
England median annual salary £63,750 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.07% - -3.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,326 1,785 2,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.88% 30.80% 27.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,225 1,427 2,192
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,650 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -5.24% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -7.69%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
West Midlands -68 5 £57,500 -20.69% 1
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (20.00%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) CloudOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Documentum Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) OpenText
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle