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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 795 717 770
Rank change year-on-year -78 +53 -93
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Private Cloud 89 262 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.61% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 74 192 229
10th Percentile £45,325 £56,250 £47,250
25th Percentile £57,597 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £107,500 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

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 35,437 42,898 78,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 43.13% 48.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26,650 28,186 41,598
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 20 May 2024.

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 20 May 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 -82 84 £67,500 -10.00% 37
Work from Home +10 54 £67,500 -6.90% 20
UK excluding London -41 53 £67,500 +3.85% 22
London -22 32 £75,000 -11.76% 17
South East +8 21 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands +18 16 £72,500 +9.43% 7
Midlands -12 16 £72,500 +9.43% 7
North of England +18 9 £60,000 -20.00% 4
North West -12 5 £40,000 -42.86% 2
North East - 4 £61,391 -
South West -22 3 £55,000 -21.99% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East of England -3 1 £65,000 -

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 13 (14.61%) Confluence
2 7 (7.87%) nginx
3 2 (2.25%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (75.28%) Amazon EC2
3 59 (66.29%) Amazon S3
4 52 (58.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (51.69%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (51.69%) Serverless
6 37 (41.57%) Route 53
7 30 (33.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (26.97%) GitHub
9 20 (22.47%) Azure
10 17 (19.10%) GCP
11 16 (17.98%) CloudFront
12 14 (15.73%) AWS CloudTrail
13 13 (14.61%) Amazon ELB
14 12 (13.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (11.24%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (6.74%) Amazon ECR
16 6 (6.74%) SaaS
17 5 (5.62%) AWS Direct Connect
18 4 (4.49%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 23 (25.84%) Firewall
2 18 (20.22%) DNS
3 16 (17.98%) VPN
4 10 (11.24%) SSL
5 9 (10.11%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (10.11%) Network Security
5 9 (10.11%) WAN
6 7 (7.87%) LAN
6 7 (7.87%) Wireless
7 6 (6.74%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (5.62%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (5.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 5 (5.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (5.62%) Internet
8 5 (5.62%) MQTT
8 5 (5.62%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (5.62%) Unified Communications
8 5 (5.62%) VoIP
9 3 (3.37%) BGP
9 3 (3.37%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (60.67%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (12.36%) MySQL
3 7 (7.87%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.25%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.25%) Redis
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) JIRA
2 12 (13.48%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.36%) Bitbucket
4 10 (11.24%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (11.24%) Subversion
5 8 (8.99%) GitLab
6 6 (6.74%) Git
7 4 (4.49%) Burp Suite
7 4 (4.49%) Terragrunt
8 3 (3.37%) Metasploit
8 3 (3.37%) sqlmap
9 2 (2.25%) git-flow
General
1 19 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.11%) Finance
4 7 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Law
7 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Electronics
7 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
7 2 (2.25%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (52.81%) AWS Engineer
2 30 (33.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (30.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (26.97%) Senior
5 20 (22.47%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (19.10%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (17.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (16.85%) Architect
9 14 (15.73%) AWS Architect
9 14 (15.73%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (14.61%) Cloud Architect
11 12 (13.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (13.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (12.36%) Security Engineer
13 10 (11.24%) Automation Engineer
13 10 (11.24%) AWS Solution Architect
13 10 (11.24%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 10 (11.24%) Network Engineer
13 10 (11.24%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 10 (11.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.87%) LEMP Stack
2 6 (6.74%) Node.js
3 5 (5.62%) CSS
3 5 (5.62%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.62%) gRPC
3 5 (5.62%) HTML
3 5 (5.62%) Knex.js
3 5 (5.62%) React
3 5 (5.62%) React Native
3 5 (5.62%) RESTful
3 5 (5.62%) SAML
3 5 (5.62%) Sequelize
4 3 (3.37%) AWS SAM
4 3 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.25%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.25%) LAMP
6 1 (1.12%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.12%) Middleware
6 1 (1.12%) Vue
6 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Data Centre
2 10 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (11.24%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (7.87%) PropTech
4 5 (5.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (5.62%) IoT
4 5 (5.62%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.62%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.37%) Robotics
7 2 (2.25%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.25%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.25%) Molecular Biology
7 2 (2.25%) PKI
7 2 (2.25%) Replication
7 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.12%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 25 (28.09%) Linux
2 12 (13.48%) Windows
3 5 (5.62%) Unix
4 4 (4.49%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.37%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.25%) Android
6 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.25%) Debian
6 2 (2.25%) Solaris
7 1 (1.12%) CentOS
7 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (64.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 46 (51.69%) DevOps
3 34 (38.20%) CI/CD
4 23 (25.84%) Containerisation
5 21 (23.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (19.10%) Root Cause Analysis
7 16 (17.98%) Computer Science
7 16 (17.98%) Infrastructure Automation
7 16 (17.98%) Migration
8 15 (16.85%) Data Migration
8 15 (16.85%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (16.85%) Infrastructure Management
9 14 (15.73%) Data Protection
9 14 (15.73%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (14.61%) Configuration Management
10 13 (14.61%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (12.36%) Network Monitoring
12 11 (12.36%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 59 (66.29%) Python
2 27 (30.34%) Bash
3 12 (13.48%) Java
4 10 (11.24%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.74%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.62%) JSX
6 5 (5.62%) R
6 5 (5.62%) SQL
6 5 (5.62%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.25%) PHP
8 1 (1.12%) C
8 1 (1.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (34.83%) AWS Certification
2 21 (23.60%) Security Cleared
3 20 (22.47%) SC Cleared
4 18 (20.22%) Degree
5 16 (17.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (16.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (13.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (12.36%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (7.87%) CCNP
10 4 (4.49%) CCNA
10 4 (4.49%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
11 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (2.25%) CCIE
13 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.61%) NIST
2 12 (13.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (7.87%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.49%) NCSC
5 3 (3.37%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 39 (43.82%) Docker
2 6 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (59.55%) Terraform
2 37 (41.57%) Kubernetes
3 12 (13.48%) Ansible
4 10 (11.24%) Packer
5 6 (6.74%) Progress Chef
5 6 (6.74%) Puppet
5 6 (6.74%) Salt
6 1 (1.12%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.12%) Nmap
6 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (11.24%) Atlassian
2 9 (10.11%) Cisco
3 6 (6.74%) VMware
4 5 (5.62%) CheckPoint
4 5 (5.62%) F5
4 5 (5.62%) Forcepoint
4 5 (5.62%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.62%) SolarWinds
5 3 (3.37%) Google
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle