Hybrid Cloud Job Trends in the South West

Hybrid Cloud
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 110 180
Rank change year-on-year -74 +70 +18
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 56 56 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.62% 1.61% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.68% 4.59% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 40 13 44
10th Percentile £47,750 £39,250 £35,534
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £88,000 - £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £80,800 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,047 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.07% +0.07% -

All Generic Skills
South West

Hybrid Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,087 1,221 2,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 22.99% 35.03% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 722 1,393
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,638 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,750 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Hybrid Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend in the South West

Hybrid Cloud
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hybrid Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the South West over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the South West

Hybrid Cloud
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hybrid Cloud within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
Gloucestershire -52 41 £85,000 +6.25% 7
Devon - 8 £55,000 -
Wiltshire - 3 £60,000 - 4
Somerset -33 1 £38,979 -2.55% 1
Bristol -36 1 £41,500 -12.63% 1
Cornwall - 1 £52,500 -
Dorset - 1 £62,500 -
Hybrid Cloud
England

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 25 (44.64%) Azure
2 24 (42.86%) AWS
3 15 (26.79%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (19.64%) Azure AKS
4 11 (19.64%) Entra ID
5 8 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 7 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (10.71%) Serverless
8 5 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (8.93%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (5.36%) GitHub
11 2 (3.57%) GCP
12 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.79%) Amazon ELB
12 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.64%) LAN
1 11 (19.64%) VLAN
1 11 (19.64%) WAN
2 10 (17.86%) Firewall
2 10 (17.86%) Network Security
2 10 (17.86%) Unified Communications
2 10 (17.86%) VPN
2 10 (17.86%) WebEx
3 9 (16.07%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (16.07%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (10.71%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (7.14%) IPv4
6 2 (3.57%) DHCP
6 2 (3.57%) DNS
6 2 (3.57%) NGN
6 2 (3.57%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.79%) Wireless
7 1 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 7 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.36%) Flink
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.79%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Git
2 7 (12.50%) GitLab
2 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 4 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 17 (30.36%) Retail
2 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Manufacturing
3 10 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 10 (17.86%) Telecoms
4 9 (16.07%) Banking
4 9 (16.07%) Marketing
5 8 (14.29%) Aerospace
5 8 (14.29%) Finance
6 3 (5.36%) Automotive
6 3 (5.36%) Electronics
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Lead
2 9 (16.07%) Architect
3 8 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 8 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Senior
3 8 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 8 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 7 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Kafka Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Collaboration Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Network Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.86%) Kafka
1 10 (17.86%) XMPP
2 7 (12.50%) Keycloak
3 4 (7.14%) boto
4 1 (1.79%) Node.js
4 1 (1.79%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Onboarding
2 10 (17.86%) FlexPod
2 10 (17.86%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (12.50%) Replication
4 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.36%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.79%) Apple TV
6 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.93%) Windows
2 16 (28.57%) Linux
3 15 (26.79%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (33.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 18 (32.14%) DevSecOps
5 15 (26.79%) Agile
5 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 14 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (23.21%) Test Automation
8 12 (21.43%) DevOps
8 12 (21.43%) ITIL
9 11 (19.64%) Analytics
9 11 (19.64%) Event-Driven
10 10 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (17.86%) Cloud Security
11 9 (16.07%) Data Management
11 9 (16.07%) ERP
11 9 (16.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (16.07%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (37.50%) Python
2 8 (14.29%) Bicep
2 8 (14.29%) Clojure
3 7 (12.50%) Go
4 5 (8.93%) Bash
4 5 (8.93%) Java
5 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.57%) SQL
7 1 (1.79%) C#
7 1 (1.79%) C++
7 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 17 (30.36%) DV Cleared
2 17 (30.36%) SC Cleared
3 12 (21.43%) ISTQB
4 7 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 6 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (8.93%) AWS Certification
6 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (7.14%) CCNA
7 4 (7.14%) OSCP
7 4 (7.14%) RHCE
7 4 (7.14%) RHCSA
8 2 (3.57%) CCIE
8 2 (3.57%) CCNP
8 2 (3.57%) Degree
8 2 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (30.36%) Active Directory
3 11 (19.64%) Docker
3 11 (19.64%) vSphere
4 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (10.71%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (10.71%) VMware NSX
5 4 (7.14%) Squid
6 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (50.00%) Terraform
2 22 (39.29%) Ansible
3 19 (33.93%) Kubernetes
4 10 (17.86%) Cisco CUCM
4 10 (17.86%) Grafana
5 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (7.14%) Packer
5 4 (7.14%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.79%) Autotask
Vendors
1 28 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (39.29%) VMware
3 14 (25.00%) Cisco
3 14 (25.00%) Splunk
4 12 (21.43%) Oracle
5 10 (17.86%) Fortinet
5 10 (17.86%) Palo Alto
6 8 (14.29%) IFS
7 7 (12.50%) NetApp
8 4 (7.14%) Red Hat
9 3 (5.36%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.79%) Apple
10 1 (1.79%) Meraki
10 1 (1.79%) Sage