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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 617 826 707
Rank change year-on-year +209 -119 +42
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 92 86 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.083% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.24% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 55 72 186
10th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,625 £57,597 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,125 £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 15,281 35,941 42,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.80% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,069 26,912 27,490
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 £103,750 £96,225 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -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 30 May 2025.

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 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 +163 87 £72,500 +7.41% 236
UK excluding London +196 56 £72,500 +7.41% 221
Work from Home +103 37 £73,750 +7.27% 136
London +114 29 £77,500 +3.33% 44
South East +93 26 £62,500 -7.41% 77
Midlands +88 20 £72,500 - 44
West Midlands +60 20 £72,500 - 30
South West +107 5 £95,000 +72.73% 21
North of England +47 4 £60,000 - 48
North West +7 3 £60,000 +50.00% 24
Yorkshire - 1 £70,000 - 20
Wales - 1 £63,250 - 5
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 20 (21.74%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) nginx
3 1 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (72.83%) Amazon EC2
3 66 (71.74%) Amazon S3
4 36 (39.13%) Serverless
5 35 (38.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 31 (33.70%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (29.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (28.26%) AWS KMS
9 23 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (19.57%) Amazon ELB
11 17 (18.48%) Azure
12 16 (17.39%) Amazon Glacier
13 11 (11.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 11 (11.96%) Route 53
14 10 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (9.78%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (9.78%) GitHub
16 8 (8.70%) GCP
17 7 (7.61%) AWS Direct Connect
17 7 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (36.96%) Firewall
2 19 (20.65%) VPN
3 13 (14.13%) SSL
4 12 (13.04%) DNS
5 8 (8.70%) BGP
5 8 (8.70%) HTTP
6 7 (7.61%) FTP
6 7 (7.61%) IPsec
6 7 (7.61%) OSPF
6 7 (7.61%) SMTP
6 7 (7.61%) SSH
7 5 (5.43%) Internet
7 5 (5.43%) MQTT
7 5 (5.43%) Network Security
7 5 (5.43%) SMS
8 4 (4.35%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.35%) VoIP
9 3 (3.26%) LAN
9 3 (3.26%) WAN
9 3 (3.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (41.30%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.78%) Data Lake
4 8 (8.70%) MySQL
5 7 (7.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (7.61%) MongoDB
6 6 (6.52%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.17%) OLAP
9 2 (2.17%) OLTP
10 1 (1.09%) Big Data
10 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.09%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 29 (31.52%) Jenkins
2 19 (20.65%) Git
2 19 (20.65%) JIRA
3 18 (19.57%) Vagrant
4 9 (9.78%) GitLab
5 7 (7.61%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (5.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.17%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.48%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.96%) Finance
4 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.43%) Advertising
5 5 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.26%) Automotive
7 3 (3.26%) Banking
7 3 (3.26%) Electronics
8 1 (1.09%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Marketing
8 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (29.35%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (20.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (20.65%) Senior
3 17 (18.48%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (14.13%) Architect
6 12 (13.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (11.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 10 (10.87%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (9.78%) AWS Architect
10 8 (8.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 7 (7.61%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (7.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (7.61%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (7.61%) Development Manager
11 7 (7.61%) Java Development Manager
11 7 (7.61%) Network Engineer
11 7 (7.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 7 (7.61%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.30%) React
2 7 (7.61%) AWS CDK
2 7 (7.61%) Node.js
3 6 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.52%) YAML
4 5 (5.43%) GraphQL
4 5 (5.43%) gRPC
4 5 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (5.43%) React Native
4 5 (5.43%) RESTful
4 5 (5.43%) Sequelize
5 4 (4.35%) JSON
5 4 (4.35%) Kafka
6 3 (3.26%) Django
6 3 (3.26%) Flask
7 2 (2.17%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (2.17%) LDAP
7 2 (2.17%) Spring
8 1 (1.09%) boto
8 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.96%) Replication
3 9 (9.78%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.61%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.26%) IoT
6 3 (3.26%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.26%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.17%) Molecular Biology
7 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (40.22%) Linux
2 18 (19.57%) VMS
3 16 (17.39%) Windows
4 12 (13.04%) Ubuntu
5 8 (8.70%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (4.35%) Debian
7 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (58.70%) DevOps
2 35 (38.04%) Cloud Security
3 34 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (33.70%) CI/CD
5 29 (31.52%) Agile
6 25 (27.17%) Configuration Management
7 24 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (23.91%) Change Management
10 16 (17.39%) Software Engineering
11 15 (16.30%) Microservices
12 14 (15.22%) Patch Management
13 13 (14.13%) Containerisation
13 13 (14.13%) Key Management
14 12 (13.04%) Analytics
14 12 (13.04%) Mentoring
14 12 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (11.96%) Collaborative Culture
15 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure Automation
16 10 (10.87%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 48 (52.17%) Python
2 22 (23.91%) Java
3 20 (21.74%) PowerShell
4 18 (19.57%) Groovy
5 15 (16.30%) JavaScript
6 14 (15.22%) Bash
7 10 (10.87%) TypeScript
8 9 (9.78%) Perl
8 9 (9.78%) SQL
9 8 (8.70%) Shell Script
10 5 (5.43%) Go
11 3 (3.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 20 (21.74%) AWS Certification
4 10 (10.87%) Degree
5 7 (7.61%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.43%) CCNP
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.26%) CCIE
8 3 (3.26%) CCNA
8 3 (3.26%) CCSA
8 3 (3.26%) CCSE
9 2 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.09%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) QA
2 7 (7.61%) GDPR
3 5 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 4 (4.35%) SOC 2
5 3 (3.26%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.17%) NIST
6 2 (2.17%) SLA
7 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (40.22%) Docker
2 19 (20.65%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.96%) DFS Replication
4 8 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.17%) Dovecot
5 2 (2.17%) Postfix
5 2 (2.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 49 (53.26%) Terraform
2 27 (29.35%) Ansible
3 23 (25.00%) Grafana
4 22 (23.91%) Prometheus
5 21 (22.83%) Kubernetes
6 9 (9.78%) Nessus
6 9 (9.78%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.26%) Nagios
7 3 (3.26%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.17%) Argo
8 2 (2.17%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.09%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) ServiceNow
2 16 (17.39%) Juniper
3 12 (13.04%) Cisco
4 8 (8.70%) Google
4 8 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.26%) CheckPoint
5 3 (3.26%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.26%) Fortinet
5 3 (3.26%) Meraki
5 3 (3.26%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.17%) Hitachi
6 2 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.17%) Sawtooth Software
6 2 (2.17%) Splunk
7 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.09%) New Relic
7 1 (1.09%) Qualys
7 1 (1.09%) SAP
7 1 (1.09%) YouTube