Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK

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 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 636 695 770
Rank change year-on-year +59 +75 -199
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 91 426 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.78% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 83 155 263
10th Percentile £49,000 £44,850 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,988 £60,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £104,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £67,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -9.26% +27.36% -3.64%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,975 54,604 60,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.66% 43.21% 46.73%
Number of salaries quoted 18,185 36,102 42,496
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,575 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%

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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 13 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 30 November 2023. 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 +26 82 £68,750 -5.17% 44
UK excluding London +180 44 £61,250 -9.26% 23
London +43 38 £77,500 -6.06% 23
Work from Home +153 34 £62,500 -10.71% 17
South West +71 13 £55,000 -24.14% 7
South East +137 11 £65,000 -3.70% 5
North of England +134 10 £62,500 -7.41% 5
Yorkshire +78 7 £62,500 -7.41%
Midlands +123 5 £60,000 -9.43% 2
East of England +117 5 £65,000 -5.45% 4
West Midlands +132 4 £60,000 +11.63% 1
North West +98 3 £50,250 -42.57% 5
East Midlands +50 1 £57,500 -17.86% 1

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 3 (3.30%) Apache
1 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) nginx
3 1 (1.10%) WildFly
3 1 (1.10%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 89 (97.80%) AWS
2 67 (73.63%) Amazon EC2
3 47 (51.65%) Amazon S3
4 42 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 32 (35.16%) Route 53
7 27 (29.67%) Azure
8 25 (27.47%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (25.27%) Serverless
10 19 (20.88%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (17.58%) AWS CodeBuild
12 14 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (13.19%) CloudFront
14 11 (12.09%) Amazon ELB
14 11 (12.09%) AWS KMS
15 10 (10.99%) GitHub
16 8 (8.79%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (7.69%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
17 7 (7.69%) GCP
18 6 (6.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.38%) DNS
1 14 (15.38%) Firewall
2 11 (12.09%) VPN
3 10 (10.99%) Network Security
4 6 (6.59%) LAN
4 6 (6.59%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.59%) WAN
5 4 (4.40%) HTTP
5 4 (4.40%) Internet
6 3 (3.30%) BGP
6 3 (3.30%) FTP
6 3 (3.30%) IPv6
6 3 (3.30%) SMTP
7 2 (2.20%) SSH
7 2 (2.20%) SSL
7 2 (2.20%) VLAN
7 2 (2.20%) Wireless
8 1 (1.10%) IPv4
8 1 (1.10%) SAN
8 1 (1.10%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (40.66%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (18.68%) MySQL
3 10 (10.99%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.79%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 7 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.59%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.20%) Redis
11 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.10%) Apache Ignite
11 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (34.07%) Jenkins
2 20 (21.98%) GitLab
3 13 (14.29%) CircleCI
4 11 (12.09%) Git
5 10 (10.99%) Bitbucket
6 7 (7.69%) SonarQube
7 6 (6.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (4.40%) JIRA
8 4 (4.40%) Subversion
8 4 (4.40%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.20%) Maven
9 2 (2.20%) Vagrant
10 1 (1.10%) git-flow
10 1 (1.10%) Gradle
10 1 (1.10%) PHPUnit
10 1 (1.10%) Snyk
General
1 12 (13.19%) Banking
2 10 (10.99%) Retail
2 10 (10.99%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Finance
4 4 (4.40%) Health Technology
5 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Billing
5 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.10%) Aviation
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Law
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.10%) Publishing
7 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (40.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (25.27%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (18.68%) Senior
4 16 (17.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (13.19%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (12.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (9.89%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (9.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) Developer
12 5 (5.49%) Administrator
12 5 (5.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 5 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (5.49%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 5 (5.49%) Site Engineer
12 5 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 4 (4.40%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.49%) YAML
3 3 (3.30%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.30%) Django
3 3 (3.30%) Kafka
3 3 (3.30%) REST
3 3 (3.30%) SAML
4 2 (2.20%) JSON
5 1 (1.10%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.10%) CSS
5 1 (1.10%) HTML
5 1 (1.10%) Java EE
5 1 (1.10%) jQuery
5 1 (1.10%) LAMP
5 1 (1.10%) Laravel
5 1 (1.10%) Node.js
5 1 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.10%) RESTful
5 1 (1.10%) Swagger
5 1 (1.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.30%) Derivative
3 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.20%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.10%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (48.35%) Linux
2 20 (21.98%) Windows
3 15 (16.48%) Ubuntu
4 14 (15.38%) Debian
5 7 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.40%) Unix
7 3 (3.30%) CentOS
7 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.20%) VMS
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (61.54%) DevOps
2 49 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 33 (36.26%) Configuration Management
5 30 (32.97%) Containerisation
6 16 (17.58%) Auto-Scaling
7 15 (16.48%) Agile
8 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 11 (12.09%) DevSecOps
10 11 (12.09%) Load Balancing
11 10 (10.99%) Computer Science
11 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (10.99%) Migration
12 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (9.89%) Microservices
12 9 (9.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 54 (59.34%) Python
2 29 (31.87%) Bash
3 16 (17.58%) Java
4 13 (14.29%) SQL
5 10 (10.99%) PowerShell
6 8 (8.79%) Shell Script
7 7 (7.69%) Ruby
8 5 (5.49%) Go
8 5 (5.49%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.40%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.30%) C#
10 3 (3.30%) Perl
11 2 (2.20%) Groovy
11 2 (2.20%) PHP
12 1 (1.10%) C++
12 1 (1.10%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 16 (17.58%) AWS Certification
1 16 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.29%) Degree
3 9 (9.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (6.59%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (47.25%) Docker
2 12 (13.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.10%) NFS
5 1 (1.10%) Shibboleth
5 1 (1.10%) Varnish
5 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (76.92%) Terraform
2 45 (49.45%) Kubernetes
3 33 (36.26%) Ansible
4 16 (17.58%) Grafana
4 16 (17.58%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.79%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (6.59%) Puppet
7 5 (5.49%) Packer
8 4 (4.40%) Salt
9 3 (3.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (3.30%) Nagios
10 2 (2.20%) Istio
10 2 (2.20%) Kustomize
10 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.10%) Opsgenie
11 1 (1.10%) Rancher
11 1 (1.10%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.10%) vRealize
11 1 (1.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Splunk
2 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Oracle
4 6 (6.59%) VMware
5 4 (4.40%) Cisco
6 3 (3.30%) Aruba
7 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.20%) Google
7 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.10%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (1.10%) Black Duck
8 1 (1.10%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.10%) Confluent
8 1 (1.10%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.10%) Dell
8 1 (1.10%) EMC
8 1 (1.10%) NetApp
8 1 (1.10%) Okta
8 1 (1.10%) Red Hat