Virtual Private Cloud Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 242 365
Rank change year-on-year -40 +123 -3
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 7 28 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.049% 0.36% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 1.32% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 19
10th Percentile £48,000 £50,500 £65,750
25th Percentile £52,750 £52,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £77,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +15.19% -10.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,705 2,124 5,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.79% 27.49% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,214 1,367 4,019
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +7.83% -11.54%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the South East

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the South East

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Hampshire -25 7 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Virtual Private Cloud
England

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Datadog
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) BGP
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
1 2 (28.57%) IPsec
1 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Loki
1 3 (42.86%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (42.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) API Management
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 3 (42.86%) Scalr
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Netcool
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
1 2 (28.57%) Snow
1 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds