Virtual Private Cloud Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 819 696 748
Rank change year-on-year -123 +52 -80
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 88 254 570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.62% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 73 188 220
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £48,400
25th Percentile £57,597 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +13.45%

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 36,095 40,721 82,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.39% 43.02% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,995 27,249 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Private Cloud in the UK

Virtual Private Cloud
Top 12 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 1 June 2024. 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 -124 84 £67,500 -10.00% 33
UK excluding London -64 57 £67,500 +3.85% 18
Work from Home -31 52 £67,500 -3.57% 15
London -9 28 £75,000 -11.76% 16
South East -11 22 £67,500 +3.85% 2
West Midlands -6 20 £72,500 +20.83% 7
Midlands -15 20 £72,500 +20.83% 7
North of England +17 9 £60,000 -20.00% 3
North West -14 5 £40,000 -44.83%
North East - 4 £61,391 -
South West -28 3 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - -

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 10 (11.36%) Confluence
2 8 (9.09%) nginx
3 2 (2.27%) Apache
3 2 (2.27%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) AWS
2 68 (77.27%) Amazon EC2
3 60 (68.18%) Amazon S3
4 52 (59.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (55.68%) AWS Lambda
5 49 (55.68%) Serverless
6 33 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (36.36%) Route 53
8 21 (23.86%) GitHub
9 18 (20.45%) AWS CloudTrail
9 18 (20.45%) Azure
10 16 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 16 (18.18%) GCP
11 15 (17.05%) CloudFront
12 12 (13.64%) Amazon ELB
13 10 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (7.95%) SaaS
15 6 (6.82%) Amazon ECR
15 6 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (6.82%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 21 (23.86%) Firewall
2 16 (18.18%) DNS
3 15 (17.05%) VPN
4 9 (10.23%) SSL
4 9 (10.23%) WAN
5 8 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
5 8 (9.09%) Network Security
6 6 (6.82%) LAN
6 6 (6.82%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (6.82%) Wireless
7 5 (5.68%) MQTT
7 5 (5.68%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (4.55%) Internet
8 4 (4.55%) Unified Communications
8 4 (4.55%) VoIP
9 3 (3.41%) HTTPS
10 2 (2.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (10.23%) MySQL
3 7 (7.95%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.27%) Redis
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) JIRA
2 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 8 (9.09%) GitLab
4 7 (7.95%) Git
4 7 (7.95%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (7.95%) Subversion
5 4 (4.55%) Burp Suite
5 4 (4.55%) Terragrunt
6 3 (3.41%) Metasploit
6 3 (3.41%) sqlmap
7 2 (2.27%) git-flow
General
1 19 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Law
7 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Electronics
7 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.27%) Retail
8 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (54.55%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (31.82%) Cloud Engineer
3 25 (28.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (27.27%) Senior
5 17 (19.32%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (17.05%) Architect
7 15 (17.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (17.05%) Security Engineer
8 14 (15.91%) AWS Architect
9 13 (14.77%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 10 (11.36%) AWS Solution Architect
11 10 (11.36%) Network Engineer
11 10 (11.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 10 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Architect
12 9 (10.23%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
12 9 (10.23%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.95%) LEMP Stack
2 6 (6.82%) Node.js
3 5 (5.68%) CSS
3 5 (5.68%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.68%) gRPC
3 5 (5.68%) HTML
3 5 (5.68%) Knex.js
3 5 (5.68%) React
3 5 (5.68%) React Native
3 5 (5.68%) RESTful
3 5 (5.68%) Sequelize
4 4 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.41%) AWS SAM
6 2 (2.27%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.27%) LAMP
6 2 (2.27%) SAML
7 1 (1.14%) .NET
7 1 (1.14%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.14%) Middleware
7 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 11 (12.50%) PropTech
2 7 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.95%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.68%) IoT
3 5 (5.68%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.41%) Clustering
5 3 (3.41%) Robotics
6 2 (2.27%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.27%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (2.27%) PKI
6 2 (2.27%) Replication
6 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (26.14%) Linux
2 12 (13.64%) Windows
3 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.55%) Unix
5 3 (3.41%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (3.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.27%) Android
6 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.14%) CentOS
7 1 (1.14%) Debian
7 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (64.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 48 (54.55%) DevOps
3 29 (32.95%) CI/CD
4 23 (26.14%) Containerisation
5 22 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 16 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 15 (17.05%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (17.05%) Threat Modelling
8 14 (15.91%) Data Protection
8 14 (15.91%) Incident Response
8 14 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (14.77%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (14.77%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (13.64%) DevSecOps
10 12 (13.64%) Migration
11 11 (12.50%) Cloud Security
11 11 (12.50%) Data Migration
11 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (68.18%) Python
2 25 (28.41%) Bash
3 12 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.23%) Java
5 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.68%) JSX
5 5 (5.68%) R
5 5 (5.68%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.68%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.41%) SQL
7 1 (1.14%) C
7 1 (1.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (40.91%) AWS Certification
2 20 (22.73%) SC Cleared
2 20 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 18 (20.45%) Degree
4 16 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (17.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (13.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (6.82%) CCNP
9 4 (4.55%) CCNA
9 4 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.27%) CCIE
12 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.32%) NIST
2 16 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.82%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.55%) NCSC
5 3 (3.41%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 33 (37.50%) Docker
2 6 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (56.82%) Terraform
2 33 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.09%) Ansible
4 7 (7.95%) Packer
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.27%) Puppet
5 2 (2.27%) Salt
6 1 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.14%) Grafana
6 1 (1.14%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.14%) Nmap
6 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.14%) Rancher
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (9.09%) Cisco
2 7 (7.95%) Atlassian
3 6 (6.82%) VMware
4 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.55%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.55%) F5
5 4 (4.55%) Forcepoint
5 4 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.41%) Google
7 1 (1.14%) Oracle