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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 354 372
Rank change year-on-year -66 +18 -25
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 344 363 741
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.81% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 1.89% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 254 136 263
10th Percentile £38,468 £51,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £57,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,024 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +0.03% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £90,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,250 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,996 £66,250
% change year-on-year -11.97% +7.16% -5.36%

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 23,750 19,210 36,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.36% 42.95% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 15,126 9,085 23,595
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,598
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.71% - -9.09%

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 18 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 18 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 18 June 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
England -93 314 £65,000 -7.21% 117
UK excluding London -47 236 £62,500 -11.97% 76
Work from Home +42 124 £65,000 -9.71% 69
London -50 86 £80,000 +10.34% 52
North of England +1 85 £63,076 -12.38% 12
South East -48 53 £68,750 -19.12% 25
North West +35 49 £70,000 -2.77% 5
South West -71 39 £55,000 - 14
Midlands -19 31 £55,500 -28.39% 10
West Midlands +3 30 £54,500 -29.68% 9
Yorkshire -39 20 £63,076 -2.96% 7
North East - 16 £44,000 -
East of England -21 10 £38,250 -33.48% 7
Scotland +15 6 £45,000 -2.70% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -45 2 £54,085 -32.39% 1
East Midlands -36 1 £77,500 - 1

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 25 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.49%) Confluence
4 4 (1.16%) Documentum
4 4 (1.16%) IIS
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 211 (61.34%) Azure
2 119 (34.59%) AWS
3 80 (23.26%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (15.12%) Entra ID
5 42 (12.21%) Nutanix
6 29 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (7.85%) PaaS
8 24 (6.98%) GCP
8 24 (6.98%) IaaS
8 24 (6.98%) Power Platform
9 22 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (6.10%) SaaS
11 20 (5.81%) Azure AKS
12 17 (4.94%) PowerApps
13 16 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (4.65%) GitHub
14 13 (3.78%) Serverless
15 10 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 77 (22.38%) Firewall
2 60 (17.44%) DNS
3 50 (14.53%) DHCP
4 40 (11.63%) WAN
5 33 (9.59%) VPN
6 32 (9.30%) LAN
7 25 (7.27%) Network Security
8 18 (5.23%) Remote Desktop
9 15 (4.36%) VLAN
10 14 (4.07%) Wireless
11 13 (3.78%) TCP/IP
12 11 (3.20%) SAN
12 11 (3.20%) SD-WAN
13 10 (2.91%) BGP
13 10 (2.91%) Unified Communications
13 10 (2.91%) VoIP
13 10 (2.91%) WebEx
14 9 (2.62%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (2.62%) Cisco Firepower
14 9 (2.62%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.33%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.74%) Power BI
4 5 (1.45%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.58%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.58%) Flink
7 2 (0.58%) Redis
8 1 (0.29%) Big Data
8 1 (0.29%) DataStage
8 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.29%) MySQL
8 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.29%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (6.40%) GitLab
2 18 (5.23%) Git
3 16 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.78%) JIRA
5 8 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.58%) rollup.js
8 2 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 98 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.53%) Finance
3 41 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 36 (10.47%) Retail
5 18 (5.23%) Law
6 16 (4.65%) Aerospace
7 15 (4.36%) Banking
8 14 (4.07%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (3.78%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.62%) Automotive
11 9 (2.62%) Marketing
12 7 (2.03%) Electronics
13 6 (1.74%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.16%) Back Office
15 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.58%) Front Office
16 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (19.48%) Cloud Engineer
2 55 (15.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 49 (14.24%) Senior
4 48 (13.95%) Lead
5 40 (11.63%) Architect
6 27 (7.85%) Network Engineer
7 22 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (4.94%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
8 17 (4.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (4.65%) Analyst
9 16 (4.65%) Consultant
10 14 (4.07%) Administrator
10 14 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (4.07%) Digital Project Manager
10 14 (4.07%) Project Manager
10 14 (4.07%) Senior Digital Project Manager
10 14 (4.07%) Senior Manager
10 14 (4.07%) Senior Project Manager
11 13 (3.78%) Cloud Consultant
12 11 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.91%) ARM Templates
1 10 (2.91%) XMPP
2 7 (2.03%) .NET
3 6 (1.74%) YAML
4 5 (1.45%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.45%) boto
4 5 (1.45%) Kafka
5 3 (0.87%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.87%) OpenID
6 2 (0.58%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.58%) OAuth
6 2 (0.58%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.58%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.58%) WAMP
7 1 (0.29%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.29%) Loki
7 1 (0.29%) Node.js
7 1 (0.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.43%) Public Cloud
3 25 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (7.27%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.52%) Data Centre
5 16 (4.65%) Private Cloud
6 15 (4.36%) Low-Code
6 15 (4.36%) PKI
7 14 (4.07%) Legacy Applications
7 14 (4.07%) Security Posture
8 12 (3.49%) Replication
9 10 (2.91%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.91%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (2.62%) Management Information System
11 7 (2.03%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.16%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 125 (36.34%) Windows
2 105 (30.52%) Windows Server
3 62 (18.02%) Linux
4 7 (2.03%) Android
4 7 (2.03%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.45%) CentOS
5 5 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.45%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.45%) VMS
6 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (29.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 90 (26.16%) CI/CD
3 84 (24.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 81 (23.55%) ITIL
5 78 (22.67%) DevOps
6 76 (22.09%) Agile
7 63 (18.31%) Disaster Recovery
8 60 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (17.15%) Mentoring
10 54 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (14.24%) Cloud Security
12 48 (13.95%) Roadmaps
13 44 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
13 44 (12.79%) Migration
14 40 (11.63%) Coaching
15 35 (10.17%) High Availability
16 34 (9.88%) AI
16 34 (9.88%) Business Continuity
17 30 (8.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 28 (8.14%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 74 (21.51%) PowerShell
2 67 (19.48%) Python
3 28 (8.14%) SQL
4 26 (7.56%) Bash
4 26 (7.56%) Bicep
5 16 (4.65%) Java
6 14 (4.07%) VBA
7 11 (3.20%) Go
8 8 (2.33%) Clojure
8 8 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.03%) C#
10 3 (0.87%) C++
10 3 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.72%) AWS Certification
3 26 (7.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (7.27%) Azure Certification
5 23 (6.69%) Degree
6 22 (6.40%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (5.23%) SC Cleared
8 16 (4.65%) ISTQB
9 11 (3.20%) CCNA
9 11 (3.20%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.62%) CCNP
11 9 (2.62%) MCSE
12 8 (2.33%) OSCP
12 8 (2.33%) RHCE
12 8 (2.33%) RHCSA
13 7 (2.03%) CEH
13 7 (2.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (1.74%) CISSP
14 6 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (7.56%) SLA
3 25 (7.27%) NIST
4 10 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (2.91%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.03%) ISO 22301
5 7 (2.03%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.74%) GDPR
7 5 (1.45%) NCSC
8 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.58%) QA
11 1 (0.29%) COBIT
11 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 101 (29.36%) Active Directory
2 78 (22.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (9.59%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.85%) Docker
5 25 (7.27%) vSphere
6 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (2.62%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (2.62%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.33%) Squid
8 5 (1.45%) KVM
9 4 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.29%) iptables
Systems Management
1 104 (30.23%) Terraform
2 60 (17.44%) Ansible
3 57 (16.57%) Kubernetes
4 33 (9.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (6.69%) Grafana
6 14 (4.07%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.91%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (2.62%) ZABBIX
9 8 (2.33%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.33%) Packer
9 8 (2.33%) Proxmox
9 8 (2.33%) SCCM
10 4 (1.16%) Nagios
10 4 (1.16%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.58%) linkerd
12 2 (0.58%) Nessus
12 2 (0.58%) Puppet
12 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 137 (39.83%) Microsoft
2 112 (32.56%) VMware
3 36 (10.47%) Cisco
4 23 (6.69%) Splunk
5 22 (6.40%) Veeam
6 20 (5.81%) Dell
7 19 (5.52%) HP
8 18 (5.23%) Dell Compellent
8 18 (5.23%) Nimble Storage
8 18 (5.23%) Oracle
8 18 (5.23%) Red Hat
9 17 (4.94%) Palo Alto
10 15 (4.36%) Fortinet
11 13 (3.78%) Commvault
12 10 (2.91%) Meraki
13 9 (2.62%) Google
14 8 (2.33%) IFS
14 8 (2.33%) ServiceNow
15 7 (2.03%) NetApp
16 6 (1.74%) SolarWinds