Virtual Private Cloud Jobs

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Virtual Private Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 823 709
Rank change year-on-year +205 -114 +39
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 93 87 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.085% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.24% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 56 72 187
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,275 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,813 £57,597 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £92,813 £75,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% -3.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,983 35,672 42,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.40% 34.92% 43.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9,875 26,806 27,789
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% +4.76%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Salary trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
England +164 87 £76,250 +12.96% 273
UK excluding London +197 56 £72,500 +7.41% 229
Work from Home +106 39 £73,750 +9.26% 157
London +120 30 £78,750 +5.00% 77
South East +95 26 £62,500 -7.41% 71
West Midlands +65 18 £72,500 - 30
Midlands +61 18 £72,500 - 44
South West +120 5 £95,000 +72.73% 20
North of England +36 4 £60,000 - 53
North West -1 3 £60,000 +50.00% 29
Wales - 2 £63,250 - 4
East of England - 1 £85,000 - 25
Yorkshire - 1 £70,000 - 20
Scotland - 1 £37,500 - 6

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (19.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.15%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.15%) nginx
3 1 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.08%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.08%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (70.97%) Amazon EC2
2 66 (70.97%) Amazon S3
3 38 (40.86%) Serverless
4 35 (37.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 33 (35.48%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (31.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (25.81%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (25.81%) AWS KMS
8 17 (18.28%) Azure
9 16 (17.20%) Amazon ELB
10 14 (15.05%) Amazon Glacier
11 11 (11.83%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (11.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 11 (11.83%) Route 53
12 9 (9.68%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (9.68%) GitHub
13 8 (8.60%) GCP
14 7 (7.53%) AWS Direct Connect
14 7 (7.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (35.48%) Firewall
2 19 (20.43%) VPN
3 13 (13.98%) SSL
4 12 (12.90%) DNS
5 8 (8.60%) BGP
5 8 (8.60%) HTTP
6 7 (7.53%) FTP
6 7 (7.53%) IPsec
6 7 (7.53%) OSPF
6 7 (7.53%) SMTP
6 7 (7.53%) SSH
7 5 (5.38%) Internet
7 5 (5.38%) MQTT
7 5 (5.38%) Network Security
7 5 (5.38%) SMS
8 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.30%) VoIP
9 3 (3.23%) MPLS
9 3 (3.23%) WAN
9 3 (3.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (39.78%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.68%) Data Lake
4 8 (8.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (8.60%) MySQL
5 7 (7.53%) MongoDB
6 6 (6.45%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.23%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.15%) Big Data
9 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.15%) OLAP
9 2 (2.15%) OLTP
10 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.08%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.08%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 27 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 17 (18.28%) Git
2 17 (18.28%) JIRA
3 16 (17.20%) Vagrant
4 9 (9.68%) GitLab
5 7 (7.53%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (5.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.15%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.83%) Finance
4 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.38%) Advertising
5 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.23%) Automotive
7 3 (3.23%) Banking
7 3 (3.23%) Electronics
8 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.08%) Law
8 1 (1.08%) Marketing
8 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (27.96%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (20.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (20.43%) Senior
3 18 (19.35%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (16.13%) Architect
5 14 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (13.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 12 (12.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 11 (11.83%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (10.75%) AWS Architect
9 10 (10.75%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (8.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 7 (7.53%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (7.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (7.53%) Development Manager
11 7 (7.53%) Java Development Manager
11 7 (7.53%) Network Engineer
11 7 (7.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 5 (5.38%) Developer
12 5 (5.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.13%) React
2 8 (8.60%) AWS CDK
3 7 (7.53%) Node.js
4 6 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (6.45%) YAML
5 5 (5.38%) GraphQL
5 5 (5.38%) gRPC
5 5 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (5.38%) React Native
5 5 (5.38%) RESTful
5 5 (5.38%) Sequelize
6 4 (4.30%) JSON
6 4 (4.30%) Kafka
7 3 (3.23%) Django
7 3 (3.23%) Flask
8 2 (2.15%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (2.15%) LDAP
8 2 (2.15%) Spring
9 1 (1.08%) HTML
9 1 (1.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.68%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.68%) Replication
3 7 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.23%) IoT
5 3 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.15%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.08%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 35 (37.63%) Linux
2 16 (17.20%) VMS
3 14 (15.05%) Windows
4 12 (12.90%) Ubuntu
5 8 (8.60%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (4.30%) Debian
7 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (58.06%) DevOps
2 36 (38.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (35.48%) Cloud Security
4 32 (34.41%) CI/CD
5 29 (31.18%) Agile
6 24 (25.81%) Platform Engineering
7 23 (24.73%) Configuration Management
7 23 (24.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (21.51%) Change Management
9 16 (17.20%) Software Engineering
10 15 (16.13%) Containerisation
10 15 (16.13%) Microservices
11 14 (15.05%) Mentoring
11 14 (15.05%) Patch Management
12 13 (13.98%) Analytics
12 13 (13.98%) Key Management
12 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (12.90%) Collaborative Culture
14 11 (11.83%) Data Analytics
14 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (51.61%) Python
2 23 (24.73%) Java
3 18 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 16 (17.20%) Groovy
5 15 (16.13%) JavaScript
6 14 (15.05%) Bash
7 10 (10.75%) TypeScript
8 9 (9.68%) Perl
8 9 (9.68%) SQL
9 8 (8.60%) Shell Script
10 5 (5.38%) Go
11 3 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.73%) SC Cleared
3 22 (23.66%) AWS Certification
4 11 (11.83%) Degree
5 7 (7.53%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.38%) CCNP
8 4 (4.30%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.23%) CCIE
9 3 (3.23%) CCNA
9 3 (3.23%) CCSA
9 3 (3.23%) CCSE
10 2 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (1.08%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) QA
2 7 (7.53%) GDPR
3 5 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.30%) HIPAA
4 4 (4.30%) SOC 2
5 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.15%) NIST
6 2 (2.15%) SLA
7 1 (1.08%) NCSC
7 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (41.94%) Docker
2 17 (18.28%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.68%) DFS Replication
4 8 (8.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (8.60%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.15%) Dovecot
5 2 (2.15%) Postfix
5 2 (2.15%) Squid
Systems Management
1 48 (51.61%) Terraform
2 25 (26.88%) Ansible
3 23 (24.73%) Kubernetes
4 21 (22.58%) Grafana
5 20 (21.51%) Prometheus
6 9 (9.68%) Nessus
6 9 (9.68%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.23%) Nagios
7 3 (3.23%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.15%) Argo
8 2 (2.15%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.08%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (17.20%) ServiceNow
2 14 (15.05%) Juniper
3 12 (12.90%) Cisco
4 9 (9.68%) Microsoft
5 8 (8.60%) Google
6 3 (3.23%) CheckPoint
6 3 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.23%) Meraki
6 3 (3.23%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.15%) Hitachi
7 2 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.15%) Sawtooth Software
7 2 (2.15%) Splunk
8 1 (1.08%) Adobe
8 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.08%) New Relic
8 1 (1.08%) Qualys
8 1 (1.08%) SAP