Hybrid Cloud Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Hybrid Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 336 265
Rank change year-on-year -61 -71 +59
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 255 239 671
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.71% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 1.80% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 202 69 216
10th Percentile £34,000 £44,500 £42,238
25th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £54,548
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,788 £65,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -1.89% -5.36%
75th Percentile £73,250 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16,570 13,253 22,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.05% 39.22% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10,921 6,051 13,587
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,733 £26,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £35,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,497 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.73% +4.55% -14.10%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Hybrid Cloud
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hybrid Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London

Hybrid Cloud
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hybrid Cloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
North of England -14 82 £65,000 - 23
South East -48 62 £70,000 -17.65% 21
South West -62 49 £60,000 -25.00% 10
North West +27 48 £70,000 -2.77% 15
Midlands -23 38 £62,538 -21.83% 5
West Midlands +3 37 £62,000 -22.50% 3
Yorkshire -37 21 £57,500 -11.54% 6
East of England -16 14 £28,750 -50.00% 1
North East - 13 £42,500 - 2
Scotland +15 6 £68,750 +48.65% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -58 4 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East Midlands -28 1 £77,500 +55.00% 2
Hybrid Cloud
UK

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (8.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (8.24%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.96%) IIS
4 4 (1.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 159 (62.35%) Azure
2 76 (29.80%) AWS
3 75 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (20.39%) Entra ID
5 25 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (9.02%) Azure AKS
6 23 (9.02%) Nutanix
7 22 (8.63%) IaaS
8 21 (8.24%) PaaS
9 20 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (5.88%) GCP
10 15 (5.88%) Serverless
11 13 (5.10%) SaaS
12 12 (4.71%) GitHub
13 11 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.31%) Power Platform
14 10 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 63 (24.71%) Firewall
2 48 (18.82%) DNS
3 39 (15.29%) DHCP
4 33 (12.94%) VPN
5 32 (12.55%) WAN
6 28 (10.98%) LAN
7 23 (9.02%) Network Security
8 15 (5.88%) VLAN
9 13 (5.10%) Cisco Firepower
10 12 (4.71%) Remote Desktop
10 12 (4.71%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.92%) Unified Communications
11 10 (3.92%) WebEx
11 10 (3.92%) Wireless
12 9 (3.53%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (3.14%) SAN
13 8 (3.14%) TCP/IP
13 8 (3.14%) VoIP
14 6 (2.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.14%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.78%) Flink
7 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.39%) Power BI
7 1 (0.39%) Redis
7 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (5.88%) GitLab
2 11 (4.31%) Git
3 9 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.57%) JIRA
5 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 75 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.16%) Public Sector
3 29 (11.37%) Retail
4 25 (9.80%) Finance
5 13 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.31%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.53%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.53%) Banking
7 9 (3.53%) Marketing
8 8 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.75%) Law
10 5 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.18%) Automotive
11 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Electronics
11 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Local Government
13 1 (0.39%) Aviation
13 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 42 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 39 (15.29%) Senior
4 34 (13.33%) Lead
5 32 (12.55%) Architect
6 16 (6.27%) Analyst
7 15 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 14 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (5.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.10%) Support Engineer
10 12 (4.71%) Azure Architect
10 12 (4.71%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
10 12 (4.71%) IT Engineer
10 12 (4.71%) IT Support
11 11 (4.31%) Administrator
11 11 (4.31%) IT Manager
11 11 (4.31%) Support Analyst
12 10 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.92%) XMPP
2 9 (3.53%) ARM Templates
3 8 (3.14%) Kafka
4 5 (1.96%) boto
4 5 (1.96%) YAML
5 4 (1.57%) Keycloak
6 2 (0.78%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.78%) WAMP
7 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.39%) Loki
7 1 (0.39%) Node.js
7 1 (0.39%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.41%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.10%) Private Cloud
5 12 (4.71%) Replication
6 11 (4.31%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.92%) FlexPod
7 10 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.14%) PKI
9 6 (2.35%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.35%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.35%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.18%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 101 (39.61%) Windows
2 89 (34.90%) Windows Server
3 36 (14.12%) Linux
4 11 (4.31%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.75%) Android
6 5 (1.96%) VMS
7 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.78%) CentOS
8 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 66 (25.88%) ITIL
3 63 (24.71%) CI/CD
4 58 (22.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 55 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (19.22%) DevOps
7 46 (18.04%) Agile
8 44 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (16.47%) Disaster Recovery
10 39 (15.29%) Cloud Security
11 36 (14.12%) Mentoring
12 30 (11.76%) Roadmaps
13 29 (11.37%) Cybersecurity
13 29 (11.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (10.59%) Migration
15 25 (9.80%) Coaching
16 24 (9.41%) High Availability
16 24 (9.41%) Infrastructure Automation
17 21 (8.24%) Business Continuity
18 20 (7.84%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.69%) PowerShell
1 40 (15.69%) Python
2 21 (8.24%) Bicep
2 21 (8.24%) SQL
3 17 (6.67%) Bash
4 12 (4.71%) Go
5 8 (3.14%) Clojure
6 6 (2.35%) VBA
7 5 (1.96%) Java
8 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.78%) C#
10 1 (0.39%) C++
10 1 (0.39%) PHP
10 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.63%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.84%) Azure Certification
4 19 (7.45%) Degree
5 18 (7.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (6.27%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.71%) AWS Certification
7 12 (4.71%) CCNP
7 12 (4.71%) ISTQB
8 11 (4.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (2.75%) MCSE
10 5 (1.96%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.57%) CCNA
11 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.57%) OSCP
11 4 (1.57%) RHCE
11 4 (1.57%) RHCSA
12 3 (1.18%) A+ Certification
12 3 (1.18%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.02%) SLA
2 18 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.75%) NIST
4 6 (2.35%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.96%) NCSC
6 3 (1.18%) GDPR
7 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 86 (33.73%) Active Directory
2 69 (27.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (10.98%) Hyper-V
4 18 (7.06%) Docker
5 16 (6.27%) vSphere
6 10 (3.92%) VMware NSX
7 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 9 (3.53%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.96%) KVM
9 4 (1.57%) Squid
9 4 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 74 (29.02%) Terraform
2 47 (18.43%) Ansible
3 38 (14.90%) Kubernetes
4 25 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (7.45%) Grafana
6 10 (3.92%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (3.53%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.35%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.57%) Packer
9 4 (1.57%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.18%) Nagios
10 3 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.18%) Puppet
11 2 (0.78%) Istio
11 2 (0.78%) linkerd
11 2 (0.78%) Nessus
11 2 (0.78%) SCCM
12 1 (0.39%) Argo
12 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 117 (45.88%) Microsoft
2 80 (31.37%) VMware
3 32 (12.55%) Cisco
4 17 (6.67%) Veeam
5 15 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 14 (5.49%) Palo Alto
6 14 (5.49%) Splunk
7 13 (5.10%) HP
7 13 (5.10%) Oracle
8 12 (4.71%) Dell
8 12 (4.71%) Dell Compellent
8 12 (4.71%) Nimble Storage
9 8 (3.14%) IFS
9 8 (3.14%) Meraki
10 7 (2.75%) Freshdesk
10 7 (2.75%) NetApp
11 6 (2.35%) Red Hat
11 6 (2.35%) TP-LINK
11 6 (2.35%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.96%) Zerto