Hybrid Cloud Job Trends

Hybrid Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 367 475
Rank change year-on-year -19 +108 +131
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 275 445 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.70% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.47% 2.00% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 207 157 178
10th Percentile £38,200 £42,238 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.00% -10.71%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,704 22,197 19,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.47% 34.73% 38.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10,508 10,874 14,559
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,426
25th Percentile £36,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,218 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,531
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. 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 -24 244 £78,500 +13.77% 107
London +110 147 £90,000 +24.14% 50
UK excluding London -103 103 £62,250 +3.75% 88
Work from Home +22 85 £80,000 +33.33% 63
North of England -57 30 £51,250 +13.89% 25
Wales +29 21 £55,000 - 1
East of England +18 19 £62,500 +4.17% 3
Midlands +53 18 £80,000 +92.39% 8
North West -30 17 £56,000 +24.44% 10
West Midlands +54 15 £80,000 +100.00% 6
South East -34 14 £78,500 +57.00% 35
Yorkshire -1 13 £51,250 -8.89% 11
South West -21 12 £80,000 +6.67% 12
Northern Ireland +1 4 - -
East Midlands +25 3 £49,500 +14.68% 1
Scotland -7 1 £37,500 -31.82% 7

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 21 (7.64%) SharePoint
2 20 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.45%) Confluence
5 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 190 (69.09%) Azure
2 102 (37.09%) AWS
3 71 (25.82%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (18.91%) Entra ID
5 27 (9.82%) GCP
6 26 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 24 (8.73%) SaaS
9 19 (6.91%) PaaS
10 18 (6.55%) IaaS
10 18 (6.55%) Nutanix
11 12 (4.36%) Serverless
12 10 (3.64%) GitHub
13 9 (3.27%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.91%) Azure Stack
14 8 (2.91%) Power Platform
15 6 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (2.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (16.00%) DNS
2 41 (14.91%) Firewall
3 34 (12.36%) VPN
4 32 (11.64%) DHCP
5 18 (6.55%) WAN
6 16 (5.82%) LAN
6 16 (5.82%) Network Security
7 14 (5.09%) TCP/IP
8 13 (4.73%) VoIP
9 12 (4.36%) VLAN
9 12 (4.36%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (3.27%) Internet
11 8 (2.91%) BGP
11 8 (2.91%) SAN
12 6 (2.18%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.82%) Unified Communications
14 4 (1.45%) NAS
14 4 (1.45%) SSL
15 2 (0.73%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.36%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 15 (5.45%) MySQL
4 10 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (3.27%) Big Data
5 9 (3.27%) DataStage
5 9 (3.27%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.27%) Hadoop
5 9 (3.27%) Neo4j
5 9 (3.27%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.27%) Pentaho
5 9 (3.27%) RDBMS
5 9 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.45%) Metadata
6 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (7.27%) Octopus Deploy
2 18 (6.55%) TeamCity
3 11 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.18%) Git
4 6 (2.18%) GitLab
5 5 (1.82%) JIRA
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 76 (27.64%) Finance
3 29 (10.55%) Banking
4 26 (9.45%) Law
5 24 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 22 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.55%) Back Office
8 7 (2.55%) Retail
9 6 (2.18%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.82%) Billing
11 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.73%) Legal
14 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Front Office
14 1 (0.36%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 47 (17.09%) Architect
2 39 (14.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (10.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (7.27%) Infrastructure Architect
4 20 (7.27%) Lead
4 20 (7.27%) Senior
5 19 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.73%) Infrastructure Manager
8 11 (4.00%) Administrator
8 11 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) IT Manager
9 10 (3.64%) IT Engineer
9 10 (3.64%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (2.91%) 1st Line Support
11 8 (2.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.91%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.18%) .NET
2 9 (3.27%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.45%) RESTful
5 4 (1.45%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.09%) PySpark
7 2 (0.73%) DPDK
7 2 (0.73%) eBPF
7 2 (0.73%) Kafka
7 2 (0.73%) Middleware
7 2 (0.73%) OpenID
8 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.36%) CSS
8 1 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.36%) HTML
8 1 (0.36%) JMS
8 1 (0.36%) React
8 1 (0.36%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 64 (23.27%) Data Centre
2 27 (9.82%) Public Cloud
3 25 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (8.36%) Virtual Team
5 20 (7.27%) Cloud Native
6 19 (6.91%) Security Posture
7 18 (6.55%) Onboarding
8 15 (5.45%) Management Information System
9 12 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (3.27%) Private Cloud
10 9 (3.27%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.91%) Driving Licence
12 7 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (2.55%) iPad
13 6 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.82%) e-Learning
14 5 (1.82%) Operational Technology
14 5 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (1.82%) Social Media
15 4 (1.45%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 85 (30.91%) Windows
2 61 (22.18%) Windows Server
3 39 (14.18%) Linux
4 15 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (3.27%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.91%) Rocky
7 7 (2.55%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.45%) CentOS
8 4 (1.45%) Unix
9 2 (0.73%) HPUX
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.73%) Solaris
9 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (26.91%) DevOps
2 70 (25.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 65 (23.64%) CI/CD
5 54 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 54 (19.64%) Migration
6 44 (16.00%) Cloud Security
7 43 (15.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 43 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (14.91%) Roadmaps
9 40 (14.55%) Cybersecurity
9 40 (14.55%) ITIL
10 36 (13.09%) Analytics
11 34 (12.36%) AI
12 33 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
13 30 (10.91%) Containerisation
14 29 (10.55%) Agile
15 26 (9.45%) Collaborative Culture
15 26 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (9.09%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 65 (23.64%) PowerShell
2 59 (21.45%) Python
3 52 (18.91%) SQL
4 14 (5.09%) Java
5 13 (4.73%) Bicep
6 7 (2.55%) Bash
6 7 (2.55%) C#
7 4 (1.45%) Go
7 4 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.45%) PHP
8 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.73%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 35 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.91%) Azure Certification
3 25 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.55%) AWS Certification
5 17 (6.18%) DV Cleared
6 16 (5.82%) Degree
7 13 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.64%) CISSP
9 9 (3.27%) CEH
9 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.18%) CISM
11 6 (2.18%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.45%) CCNP
13 4 (1.45%) CISA
13 4 (1.45%) CRISC
13 4 (1.45%) GCIH
13 4 (1.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (12.00%) NIST
3 22 (8.00%) GDPR
4 8 (2.91%) ISO 22301
4 8 (2.91%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.91%) QA
5 7 (2.55%) SLA
6 6 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.18%) NCSC
7 3 (1.09%) Basel III
7 3 (1.09%) MiFID
7 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.73%) COBIT
8 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
System Software
1 62 (22.55%) Active Directory
2 42 (15.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (11.64%) Hyper-V
4 15 (5.45%) Docker
5 7 (2.55%) Firmware
6 5 (1.82%) NFS
6 5 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.82%) vSphere
7 4 (1.45%) KVM
7 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.73%) QEMU
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) vCloud
9 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (28.00%) Terraform
2 35 (12.73%) Ansible
3 34 (12.36%) Kubernetes
4 24 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (5.09%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (4.00%) SCCM
7 8 (2.91%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.55%) SCOM
9 5 (1.82%) Autotask
9 5 (1.82%) Grafana
10 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.73%) Suricata
10 2 (0.73%) WSUS
11 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.36%) Nagios
11 1 (0.36%) Nessus
11 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.36%) VxRail
11 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 68 (24.73%) VMware
3 26 (9.45%) Cisco
4 25 (9.09%) Oracle
5 18 (6.55%) Dell
6 17 (6.18%) Commvault
7 12 (4.36%) Datto
8 11 (4.00%) Red Hat
9 10 (3.64%) Juniper
9 10 (3.64%) Palo Alto
10 9 (3.27%) Apple
10 9 (3.27%) Informatica
10 9 (3.27%) SAP
10 9 (3.27%) Talend
11 8 (2.91%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.91%) Splunk
12 7 (2.55%) Freshdesk
12 7 (2.55%) HP
12 7 (2.55%) IBM
13 6 (2.18%) Dell Compellent