Virtual Private Cloud Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 484 675
Rank change year-on-year -93 +191 -61
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 47 74 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.22% 0.070%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.80% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 45 38 46
10th Percentile £46,550 £57,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £92,875 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17,551 9,212 22,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.53% 27.26% 30.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11,368 6,409 16,558
10th Percentile £29,962 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Virtual Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
North of England -21 19 £65,000 +8.33% 20
South East -37 11 £60,000 -27.27% 11
North West -5 8 £69,874 +16.46% 11
South West -60 8 £52,500 -41.67% 6
North East - 8 £52,000 - 4
West Midlands -61 6 £53,750 -25.86% 3
Midlands -63 6 £53,750 -25.86% 6
Yorkshire -31 3 £65,000 -7.14% 5
East of England - 3 £62,500 - 3
Virtual Private Cloud
UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (4.26%) IIS
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Documentum
2 1 (2.13%) Drupal
2 1 (2.13%) nginx
2 1 (2.13%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (70.21%) Amazon EC2
3 27 (57.45%) Amazon S3
4 16 (34.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (29.79%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (27.66%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (27.66%) Azure
6 13 (27.66%) Serverless
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (12.77%) CloudFront
9 4 (8.51%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (8.51%) Datadog
9 4 (8.51%) GitHub
9 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (6.38%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
10 3 (6.38%) GCP
10 3 (6.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) Firewall
1 5 (10.64%) Network Security
2 3 (6.38%) BGP
2 3 (6.38%) Internet
2 3 (6.38%) IPsec
2 3 (6.38%) SD-WAN
2 3 (6.38%) SSH
2 3 (6.38%) SSL
2 3 (6.38%) VLAN
2 3 (6.38%) VPN
2 3 (6.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (44.68%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (12.77%) MySQL
4 5 (10.64%) GIS
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.13%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (2.13%) Redis
8 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
1 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.38%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (4.26%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) Gatling
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) JMeter
4 1 (2.13%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
1 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.38%) Finance
2 3 (6.38%) Law
2 3 (6.38%) Legal
3 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Advertising
4 1 (2.13%) Banking
4 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (29.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Senior
4 9 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (12.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Developer
7 4 (8.51%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Support Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Administrator
8 3 (6.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (6.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (6.38%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) .NET
2 5 (10.64%) .NET Core
2 5 (10.64%) Ajax
2 5 (10.64%) boto
2 5 (10.64%) CSS
2 5 (10.64%) Flask
2 5 (10.64%) HTML
2 5 (10.64%) Jinja
2 5 (10.64%) jQuery
2 5 (10.64%) Loki
2 5 (10.64%) OpenLayers
2 5 (10.64%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (8.51%) Node.js
4 3 (6.38%) CSS3
4 3 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.38%) HTML5
4 3 (6.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (6.38%) YAML
5 2 (4.26%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Algorithms
1 5 (10.64%) Onboarding
1 5 (10.64%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.38%) Replication
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Linux
2 6 (12.77%) Windows
3 3 (6.38%) AIX
3 3 (6.38%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (70.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 27 (57.45%) CI/CD
3 24 (51.06%) DevOps
4 19 (40.43%) Containerisation
5 15 (31.91%) Observability
6 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (19.15%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (17.02%) Migration
9 7 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (12.77%) Cloud Security
10 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (12.77%) Mentoring
11 5 (10.64%) Configuration Management
11 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (10.64%) Test Automation
12 4 (8.51%) GitOps
12 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (8.51%) Secrets Management
12 4 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) Python
2 18 (38.30%) Bash
3 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.77%) SQL
5 2 (4.26%) Go
5 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) PHP
5 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.38%) SLA
1 3 (6.38%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (51.06%) Docker
2 6 (12.77%) iptables
3 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (70.21%) Terraform
2 24 (51.06%) Kubernetes
3 14 (29.79%) Grafana
3 14 (29.79%) Prometheus
4 13 (27.66%) Ansible
5 6 (12.77%) Progress Chef
5 6 (12.77%) Puppet
6 3 (6.38%) Argo
6 3 (6.38%) Netcool
6 3 (6.38%) Scalr
6 3 (6.38%) systemd
7 2 (4.26%) Istio
7 2 (4.26%) linkerd
8 1 (2.13%) Consul
8 1 (2.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle
2 3 (6.38%) Google
2 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.38%) Snow
2 3 (6.38%) SolarWinds
2 3 (6.38%) VMware
3 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.13%) OpenText
3 1 (2.13%) TOWER Software