Virtual Private Cloud Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Private Cloud skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Private Cloud over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) UK
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	711	856	918
Rank change year-on-year	+145	+62
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud	163	79	45
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.18%	0.080%	0.041%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.08%	0.68%	0.47%
Number of salaries quoted	131	66	40
Median salary	£56,250	£67,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-16.66%	+50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than	£38,000	£52,500	£41,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£85,000	£85,000	£65,500
UK excluding London median salary	£52,500	£52,500	£54,000
% change year-on-year	-	-2.77%

Virtual Private Cloud is in the cloud computing skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Cloud Computing Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	15145	11692	9481
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	17.03%	11.88%	8.66%
Number of salaries quoted	12551	9927	7709
Median salary	£52,500	£52,500	£50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£32,500	£31,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£75,000	£77,500
UK excluding London median salary	£47,000	£47,500	£45,000
% change year-on-year	-1.05%	+5.55%

Virtual Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Cloud Services category.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Salary trend for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 30 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 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+131	161	£57,500	-14.81%	15
London	+41	73	£82,500	+17.85%	8
South East	-	52	£52,500	-
City of London	+46	26	£85,000	-	2
Crawley	-	24	£53,750	-
West Sussex	-	24	£53,750	-
East of England	+10	21	£52,500	-	3
Hertfordshire	-	18	£55,000	-	1
Hatfield	-	17	£55,000	-	1
Westminster	0	13	£85,000	-
Oxfordshire	-	10	£35,000	-
South West	+1	9	£46,000	+6.97%	1
Berkshire	-	9	£38,000	-
Gloucestershire	-	9	£46,000	-
Oxford	-	9	£35,000	-
Cheltenham	-	7	£46,000	-
Surbiton	-	7	-	-	1
North West	-32	5	£44,500	-15.23%	1
Canary Wharf	-	4	£70,000	-
Wokingham	-	4	£38,000	-
Manchester	-30	3	£63,750	+21.42%
Surrey	-	3	£65,000	-
Norwich	-	3	£45,000	-	1
Twickenham	-	3	£47,500	-
Norfolk	-	3	£45,000	-	1
Chester	-	2	£30,750	-
Cheshire	-	2	£30,750	-
Buckinghamshire	-	2	£35,000	-
Middlesex	-	2	£37,500	-
East Midlands	+24	1	-	-	2

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Virtual Private Cloud.

1	249 (97.27%)	Amazon AWS
2	155 (60.55%)	Linux
3	146 (57.03%)	Amazon EC2
4	121 (47.27%)	Windows
5	120 (46.88%)	Amazon S3
6	118 (46.09%)	DevOps
7	104 (40.63%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	96 (37.50%)	Agile Software Development
9	92 (35.94%)	Amazon RDS
10	73 (28.52%)	Web Services
11	71 (27.73%)	DNS
12	69 (26.95%)	Python
13	64 (25.00%)	Java
13	64 (25.00%)	Active Directory
14	62 (24.22%)	Microsoft

15	60 (23.44%)	PowerShell
16	58 (22.66%)	Microsoft Azure
17	56 (21.88%)	Puppet
18	55 (21.48%)	Windows Server
19	53 (20.70%)	Amazon CloudWatch
19	53 (20.70%)	Firewall
20	52 (20.31%)	PaaS
21	51 (19.92%)	Ansible
22	50 (19.53%)	IaaS
22	50 (19.53%)	VMware
23	48 (18.75%)	Windows Server 2012
23	48 (18.75%)	Jenkins
24	46 (17.97%)	MySQL
25	44 (17.19%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
26	43 (16.80%)	Bash Shell

Virtual Private Cloud
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	31 (12.11%)	Apache
2	21 (8.20%)	Elasticsearch
3	18 (7.03%)	Confluence
4	16 (6.25%)	Skype for Business
5	15 (5.86%)	Tomcat
6	13 (5.08%)	nginx
7	10 (3.91%)	OpenStack
8	5 (1.95%)	MS Exchange
8	5 (1.95%)	SAS
9	4 (1.56%)	IIS
10	3 (1.17%)	Apache Spark
10	3 (1.17%)	SharePoint
11	2 (0.78%)	Apache Airflow
11	2 (0.78%)	Jetty
11	2 (0.78%)	Oracle Self-Service HR
12	1 (0.39%)	Drupal
12	1 (0.39%)	Exchange Server 2010
12	1 (0.39%)	JBoss
12	1 (0.39%)	Mule
12	1 (0.39%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	7 (2.73%)	Microsoft Office

Business Applications
1	2 (0.78%)	SAP ERP
2	1 (0.39%)	Dynamics CRM
2	1 (0.39%)	Remedy ITSM

Cloud Services
1	249 (97.27%)	Amazon AWS
2	146 (57.03%)	Amazon EC2
3	120 (46.88%)	Amazon S3
4	104 (40.63%)	AWS CloudFormation
5	58 (22.66%)	Microsoft Azure
6	53 (20.70%)	Amazon CloudWatch
7	52 (20.31%)	PaaS
8	50 (19.53%)	IaaS
9	44 (17.19%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10	43 (16.80%)	SaaS
11	42 (16.41%)	Amazon ELB
12	34 (13.28%)	Route 53
13	32 (12.50%)	Amazon SQS
14	30 (11.72%)	AWS Lambda
14	30 (11.72%)	Office 365
15	20 (7.81%)	Amazon Glacier
16	18 (7.03%)	AWS CloudTrail
17	16 (6.25%)	Amazon ElastiCache
18	13 (5.08%)	CloudFront
19	12 (4.69%)	GitHub

Communications & Networking
1	71 (27.73%)	DNS
2	53 (20.70%)	Firewall
3	39 (15.23%)	TCP/IP
4	38 (14.84%)	VLAN
5	33 (12.89%)	DHCP
5	33 (12.89%)	VPN
6	32 (12.50%)	WAN
7	26 (10.16%)	LAN
8	22 (8.59%)	IPsec
9	17 (6.64%)	Internet
9	17 (6.64%)	LDAP
10	16 (6.25%)	Network Security
11	15 (5.86%)	Cisco Nexus
11	15 (5.86%)	SAN
11	15 (5.86%)	Wireless
12	14 (5.47%)	Wi-Fi
13	13 (5.08%)	HSRP
13	13 (5.08%)	PBX
13	13 (5.08%)	PSTN
13	13 (5.08%)	Skype

Database & Business Intelligence
1	92 (35.94%)	Amazon RDS
2	46 (17.97%)	MySQL
3	25 (9.77%)	SQL Server
4	18 (7.03%)	Amazon DynamoDB
5	16 (6.25%)	Amazon Redshift
6	15 (5.86%)	PostgreSQL
7	14 (5.47%)	NoSQL
8	12 (4.69%)	MongoDB
9	7 (2.73%)	Apache Cassandra
9	7 (2.73%)	Relational Database
10	5 (1.95%)	Azure SQL Database
10	5 (1.95%)	Text Mining
11	4 (1.56%)	Informix
11	4 (1.56%)	Redis
12	3 (1.17%)	Big Data
12	3 (1.17%)	Data Warehouse
12	3 (1.17%)	Endeca
12	3 (1.17%)	Hadoop
12	3 (1.17%)	Oracle Database
12	3 (1.17%)	SQL Server 2008

Development Applications
1	48 (18.75%)	Jenkins
2	38 (14.84%)	Git (software)
3	27 (10.55%)	JIRA
4	17 (6.64%)	TeamCity
5	13 (5.08%)	Atlassian Bamboo
5	13 (5.08%)	Maven
5	13 (5.08%)	Vagrant
6	8 (3.13%)	Bitbucket
6	8 (3.13%)	Visual Studio
7	7 (2.73%)	Sonatype Nexus
7	7 (2.73%)	Subversion
8	6 (2.34%)	Artifactory
8	6 (2.34%)	TestNG
9	5 (1.95%)	Ant
9	5 (1.95%)	Cucumber
9	5 (1.95%)	IntelliJ
9	5 (1.95%)	Mocha
9	5 (1.95%)	Selenium
10	4 (1.56%)	HP UFT
10	4 (1.56%)	LoadRunner

General
1	29 (11.33%)	Finance
2	23 (8.98%)	Telecoms
3	18 (7.03%)	Advertising
4	10 (3.91%)	Retail
5	6 (2.34%)	Marketing
6	5 (1.95%)	Music Industry
7	2 (0.78%)	Banking
7	2 (0.78%)	Investment Banking
8	1 (0.39%)	Digital Economy
8	1 (0.39%)	Financial Institution
8	1 (0.39%)	Legal
8	1 (0.39%)	Manufacturing
8	1 (0.39%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	72 (28.13%)	Cloud Engineer
2	71 (27.73%)	AWS Engineer
3	67 (26.17%)	DevOps Engineer
4	45 (17.58%)	Architect
4	45 (17.58%)	AWS DevOps
5	42 (16.41%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
6	35 (13.67%)	Linux Engineer
7	33 (12.89%)	Solutions Architect
8	26 (10.16%)	Senior Architect
9	21 (8.20%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
9	21 (8.20%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
10	20 (7.81%)	Senior Solutions Architect
11	19 (7.42%)	Systems Engineer
12	16 (6.25%)	Network Engineer
13	15 (5.86%)	Office 365 Engineer
14	14 (5.47%)	Analyst
14	14 (5.47%)	Consultant
15	13 (5.08%)	Administrator
16	12 (4.69%)	Cloud Architect
16	12 (4.69%)	Deployment Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	73 (28.52%)	Web Services
2	22 (8.59%)	LAMP
3	21 (8.20%)	.NET
4	13 (5.08%)	LEMP Stack
5	12 (4.69%)	Node.js
5	12 (4.69%)	RESTful
6	11 (4.30%)	Elastic Stack
7	10 (3.91%)	ASP.NET
8	9 (3.52%)	boto
8	9 (3.52%)	HTML
8	9 (3.52%)	Memcached
8	9 (3.52%)	SOAP
9	8 (3.13%)	CSS
9	8 (3.13%)	WAP
10	7 (2.73%)	AngularJS
10	7 (2.73%)	JSON
10	7 (2.73%)	REST
11	5 (1.95%)	Natural Language Processing
11	5 (1.95%)	PhoneGap
11	5 (1.95%)	Spring

Miscellaneous
1	35 (13.67%)	Data Centre
2	26 (10.16%)	Mobile App
3	25 (9.77%)	Analytical Skills
4	22 (8.59%)	Enterprise Software
5	21 (8.20%)	Greenfield Project
6	20 (7.81%)	PlayStation
6	20 (7.81%)	Streaming Video
6	20 (7.81%)	Xbox
7	14 (5.47%)	Computer Science
8	12 (4.69%)	BYOD
8	12 (4.69%)	Linux Command Line
8	12 (4.69%)	PKI
9	10 (3.91%)	Fat Client
9	10 (3.91%)	Thin Client
10	9 (3.52%)	Public Cloud
11	8 (3.13%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
12	5 (1.95%)	Replication
13	4 (1.56%)	Management Information System
14	3 (1.17%)	Hybrid Cloud
14	3 (1.17%)	User Experience

Operating Systems
1	155 (60.55%)	Linux
2	121 (47.27%)	Windows
3	55 (21.48%)	Windows Server
4	48 (18.75%)	Windows Server 2012
5	30 (11.72%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	29 (11.33%)	Windows Server 2008
7	27 (10.55%)	Ubuntu
8	26 (10.16%)	CentOS
9	21 (8.20%)	Android
9	21 (8.20%)	Apple iOS
10	20 (7.81%)	Windows Phone
11	18 (7.03%)	Debian
12	6 (2.34%)	Windows Server 2003
13	4 (1.56%)	Mac OS X
13	4 (1.56%)	Unix
13	4 (1.56%)	Windows 10
13	4 (1.56%)	Windows 7
14	3 (1.17%)	Oracle Linux
14	3 (1.17%)	Solaris
14	3 (1.17%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	118 (46.09%)	DevOps
2	96 (37.50%)	Agile Software Development
3	37 (14.45%)	Continuous Integration
3	37 (14.45%)	ITIL
4	35 (13.67%)	Configuration Management
5	28 (10.94%)	Waterfall
6	25 (9.77%)	Test Automation
7	24 (9.38%)	Migration
8	23 (8.98%)	High Availability
8	23 (8.98%)	SDLC
9	21 (8.20%)	SOA
9	21 (8.20%)	UML
10	18 (7.03%)	E-Commerce
11	17 (6.64%)	Network Design
11	17 (6.64%)	Open Source
12	16 (6.25%)	Auto-Scaling
12	16 (6.25%)	Continuous Improvement
12	16 (6.25%)	Load Balancing
12	16 (6.25%)	Scrum
13	15 (5.86%)	Task Automation

Programming Languages
1	69 (26.95%)	Python
2	64 (25.00%)	Java
3	60 (23.44%)	PowerShell
4	43 (16.80%)	Bash Shell
5	32 (12.50%)	PHP
6	31 (12.11%)	JavaScript
7	30 (11.72%)	SQL
8	28 (10.94%)	Ruby
9	27 (10.55%)	Perl
10	20 (7.81%)	Objective-C
11	19 (7.42%)	Shell Script
12	13 (5.08%)	C#
13	8 (3.13%)	VBScript
14	5 (1.95%)	AWK
14	5 (1.95%)	C++
15	2 (0.78%)	C
15	2 (0.78%)	Groovy
15	2 (0.78%)	Scala
16	1 (0.39%)	Go
16	1 (0.39%)	VB

Qualifications
1	24 (9.38%)	Degree
2	17 (6.64%)	ITIL Certification
3	13 (5.08%)	Cisco Certification
3	13 (5.08%)	CISSP
4	12 (4.69%)	CISM
5	11 (4.30%)	CCNP
5	11 (4.30%)	CISA
6	10 (3.91%)	Computer Science Degree
7	9 (3.52%)	GSLC
7	9 (3.52%)	Microsoft Certification
8	8 (3.13%)	CCIE
8	8 (3.13%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9	7 (2.73%)	MCSE
10	6 (2.34%)	AWS Certification
11	5 (1.95%)	MCP
11	5 (1.95%)	MCSA
12	3 (1.17%)	CCMSE
12	3 (1.17%)	CCSA
12	3 (1.17%)	CCSE
12	3 (1.17%)	JNCIE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	14 (5.47%)	ISO/IEC 27001
1	14 (5.47%)	PCI DSS
2	9 (3.52%)	COBIT
2	9 (3.52%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
2	9 (3.52%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3	8 (3.13%)	QA
4	5 (1.95%)	SLA
5	1 (0.39%)	FISMA
5	1 (0.39%)	GDPR
5	1 (0.39%)	NIST 800
5	1 (0.39%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	64 (25.00%)	Active Directory
2	38 (14.84%)	Docker
3	37 (14.45%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	21 (8.20%)	Hyper-V
5	13 (5.08%)	vSphere
6	10 (3.91%)	VMware ESXi
7	9 (3.52%)	Varnish
7	9 (3.52%)	Virtual Machines
8	6 (2.34%)	LXC
9	5 (1.95%)	Virtual Servers
9	5 (1.95%)	VirtualBox
9	5 (1.95%)	VMware Workstation
9	5 (1.95%)	Xen
10	3 (1.17%)	Apache ZooKeeper
10	3 (1.17%)	vCloud
10	3 (1.17%)	XenApp
11	1 (0.39%)	KVM
11	1 (0.39%)	VMware Server

Systems Management
1	56 (21.88%)	Puppet
2	51 (19.92%)	Ansible
3	35 (13.67%)	Opscode Chef
4	28 (10.94%)	Terraform
5	16 (6.25%)	SCOM
6	15 (5.86%)	SCCM
7	14 (5.47%)	Nagios
8	9 (3.52%)	Nmap
8	9 (3.52%)	vCenter Server
9	8 (3.13%)	Kubernetes
9	8 (3.13%)	WSUS
10	6 (2.34%)	Kibana
11	5 (1.95%)	ZABBIX
12	4 (1.56%)	logstash
13	3 (1.17%)	Grafana
13	3 (1.17%)	HAProxy
13	3 (1.17%)	Norton AntiVirus
13	3 (1.17%)	Packer
13	3 (1.17%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
14	2 (0.78%)	Oracle ZFS

Vendors
1	62 (24.22%)	Microsoft
2	50 (19.53%)	VMware
3	36 (14.06%)	Cisco
4	25 (9.77%)	Citrix
5	18 (7.03%)	CheckPoint
6	15 (5.86%)	HP
7	12 (4.69%)	Oracle
8	11 (4.30%)	Google
9	9 (3.52%)	Atlassian
9	9 (3.52%)	NetApp
10	7 (2.73%)	F5
10	7 (2.73%)	New Relic
10	7 (2.73%)	Red Hat
11	6 (2.34%)	AppDynamics
11	6 (2.34%)	Juniper
11	6 (2.34%)	Palo Alto
12	5 (1.95%)	Avaya
12	5 (1.95%)	EMC
12	5 (1.95%)	SaltStack
13	4 (1.56%)	Meraki