Virtual Private Cloud Jobs with Work from Home Options

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 505 609
Rank change year-on-year -39 +104 -157
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 52 129 260
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.70% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 47 108 139
10th Percentile £40,350 £59,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,049 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £100,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.45% +3.57%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,869 18,408 39,711
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.93% 47.65% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,031 13,849 22,029
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,185 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +9.47%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%

Virtual Private Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Private Cloud trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud.

Virtual Private Cloud salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Private Cloud
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Virtual Private Cloud over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Virtual Private Cloud salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (17.31%) Confluence
2 6 (11.54%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (82.69%) Amazon EC2
3 37 (71.15%) Amazon S3
4 33 (63.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (59.62%) AWS Lambda
5 31 (59.62%) Serverless
6 28 (53.85%) Route 53
7 19 (36.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (32.69%) GitHub
9 16 (30.77%) GCP
10 13 (25.00%) Azure
10 13 (25.00%) CloudFront
11 10 (19.23%) Amazon ELB
11 10 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (11.54%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (11.54%) AWS CloudTrail
13 5 (9.62%) SaaS
14 4 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 4 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) Firewall
2 7 (13.46%) VPN
3 5 (9.62%) DNS
3 5 (9.62%) MQTT
3 5 (9.62%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (5.77%) HTTPS
4 3 (5.77%) SSL
5 1 (1.92%) HTTP
5 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (73.08%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (13.46%) MySQL
3 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (9.62%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) JIRA
2 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.54%) Bitbucket
3 6 (11.54%) GitLab
3 6 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (11.54%) Subversion
4 5 (9.62%) Git
5 4 (7.69%) Terragrunt
6 3 (5.77%) Burp Suite
6 3 (5.77%) Metasploit
6 3 (5.77%) sqlmap
General
1 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.69%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Law
5 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (57.69%) AWS Engineer
2 22 (42.31%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (36.54%) Senior
5 13 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (23.08%) Architect
6 12 (23.08%) AWS Architect
7 11 (21.15%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (19.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 8 (15.38%) AWS Solution Architect
9 8 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (13.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (13.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 7 (13.46%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (13.46%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) Node.js
2 5 (9.62%) CSS
2 5 (9.62%) GraphQL
2 5 (9.62%) gRPC
2 5 (9.62%) HTML
2 5 (9.62%) Knex.js
2 5 (9.62%) LEMP Stack
2 5 (9.62%) React
2 5 (9.62%) React Native
2 5 (9.62%) RESTful
2 5 (9.62%) Sequelize
3 4 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.77%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.92%) .NET
5 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.92%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.92%) Middleware
5 1 (1.92%) SAML
5 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (9.62%) IoT
3 5 (9.62%) Mobile App
4 4 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.77%) Robotics
6 1 (1.92%) Clustering
6 1 (1.92%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (34.62%) Linux
2 8 (15.38%) Windows
3 4 (7.69%) Unix
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.92%) CentOS
6 1 (1.92%) Debian
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.92%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (73.08%) DevOps
1 38 (73.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (44.23%) CI/CD
3 21 (40.38%) Containerisation
4 17 (32.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (26.92%) Computer Science
6 12 (23.08%) Data Protection
7 11 (21.15%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (17.31%) Data Migration
9 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
9 9 (17.31%) Migration
9 9 (17.31%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (15.38%) Fintech
11 7 (13.46%) Agile
11 7 (13.46%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (78.85%) Python
2 20 (38.46%) Bash
3 9 (17.31%) PowerShell
4 7 (13.46%) Java
5 5 (9.62%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.62%) JSX
5 5 (9.62%) R
5 5 (9.62%) Shell Script
5 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.77%) SQL
7 1 (1.92%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (44.23%) AWS Certification
2 15 (28.85%) Degree
3 14 (26.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 12 (23.08%) Security Cleared
6 10 (19.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) NIST
2 4 (7.69%) NCSC
3 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (55.77%) Docker
2 6 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (73.08%) Terraform
2 27 (51.92%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.54%) Packer
4 2 (3.85%) Ansible
5 1 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) Grafana
5 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.92%) Puppet
5 1 (1.92%) Rancher
5 1 (1.92%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Atlassian
1 6 (11.54%) VMware
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Google