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 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 439 444
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 297 204 487
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.50% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 1.28% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 204 103 231
10th Percentile £37,000 £47,284 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £55,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,047 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.07% +0.07% -12.50%
75th Percentile £92,500 £96,125 £87,188
90th Percentile £100,875 £119,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.13% -7.69% -3.70%

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 23,534 15,886 32,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.14% 38.92% 36.38%
Number of salaries quoted 12,004 8,884 22,189
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £44,905 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £79,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,200 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 28 March 2026.

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 28 March 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 +27 258 £70,000 -2.77% 102
UK excluding London -32 147 £63,076 +5.13% 70
London +47 123 £90,000 - 39
Work from Home +27 98 £70,000 - 47
North of England -63 45 £63,076 -12.38% 26
South East -24 32 £67,500 +42.11% 26
North West -40 22 £65,000 -9.71% 16
East of England -28 17 £27,000 -55.00% 2
West Midlands +1 15 £63,076 +0.92% 1
Midlands -19 15 £63,076 +0.92% 2
South West -39 15 £52,500 +10.53% 11
Northern Ireland -23 13 - -
Yorkshire -60 12 £63,076 -2.96% 9
North East - 11 £63,076 - 1
Scotland -25 5 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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 20 (6.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.35%) Confluence
4 4 (1.35%) Documentum
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 187 (62.96%) Azure
2 110 (37.04%) AWS
3 70 (23.57%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (20.88%) Nutanix
5 42 (14.14%) Entra ID
6 25 (8.42%) Power Platform
7 19 (6.40%) GCP
7 19 (6.40%) PowerApps
7 19 (6.40%) SaaS
8 16 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (4.71%) GitHub
10 14 (4.71%) IaaS
10 14 (4.71%) PaaS
11 11 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 59 (19.87%) DNS
2 54 (18.18%) DHCP
3 49 (16.50%) Firewall
4 29 (9.76%) VPN
5 28 (9.43%) Remote Desktop
6 19 (6.40%) WAN
7 17 (5.72%) LAN
8 11 (3.70%) Network Security
8 11 (3.70%) VLAN
8 11 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (3.37%) VoIP
10 9 (3.03%) TCP/IP
11 8 (2.69%) Internet
12 7 (2.36%) SAN
12 7 (2.36%) Unified Communications
13 6 (2.02%) BGP
13 6 (2.02%) WebEx
14 5 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (1.68%) Cisco Firepower
15 3 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (2.36%) Power BI
4 6 (2.02%) MySQL
4 6 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (1.68%) Big Data
5 5 (1.68%) DataStage
5 5 (1.68%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.68%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.68%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.68%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.68%) Pentaho
5 5 (1.68%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.35%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 14 (4.71%) Octopus Deploy
2 11 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.03%) TeamCity
4 8 (2.69%) Git
5 5 (1.68%) GitLab
5 5 (1.68%) JIRA
General
1 96 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.84%) Finance
3 33 (11.11%) Law
4 27 (9.09%) Retail
5 25 (8.42%) Banking
6 23 (7.74%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.04%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.03%) Back Office
10 6 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.68%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.68%) Automotive
11 5 (1.68%) Marketing
12 4 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Electronics
13 3 (1.01%) Front Office
13 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 44 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 42 (14.14%) Senior
4 35 (11.78%) Architect
5 23 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.07%) Lead
7 15 (5.05%) Administrator
7 15 (5.05%) IT Security Specialist
7 15 (5.05%) Project Manager
7 15 (5.05%) Security Specialist
8 14 (4.71%) Digital Project Manager
8 14 (4.71%) Senior Digital Project Manager
8 14 (4.71%) Senior Manager
8 14 (4.71%) Senior Project Manager
9 13 (4.38%) Consultant
10 10 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (3.37%) Cloud Consultant
10 10 (3.37%) Infrastructure Architect
10 10 (3.37%) IT Manager
10 10 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.72%) .NET
2 6 (2.02%) XMPP
3 5 (1.68%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.35%) RESTful
5 3 (1.01%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.01%) OpenID
5 3 (1.01%) YAML
6 2 (0.67%) Kafka
6 2 (0.67%) Middleware
6 2 (0.67%) REST
6 2 (0.67%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.67%) WAMP
7 1 (0.34%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.34%) CSS
7 1 (0.34%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.34%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.48%) Public Cloud
2 31 (10.44%) Data Centre
3 28 (9.43%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (8.42%) Onboarding
5 22 (7.41%) Cloud Native
6 18 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (5.05%) Legacy Applications
7 15 (5.05%) Low-Code
8 13 (4.38%) Private Cloud
9 12 (4.04%) Management Information System
10 11 (3.70%) Replication
11 10 (3.37%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.69%) Security Posture
13 7 (2.36%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (2.02%) Blog
14 6 (2.02%) FlexPod
14 6 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
15 5 (1.68%) Driving Licence
15 5 (1.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 92 (30.98%) Windows
2 74 (24.92%) Windows Server
3 33 (11.11%) Linux
4 12 (4.04%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.36%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.68%) CentOS
6 5 (1.68%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.35%) Android
7 4 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (25.93%) Disaster Recovery
1 77 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 70 (23.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 68 (22.90%) DevOps
4 66 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 59 (19.87%) ITIL
6 57 (19.19%) Mentoring
7 52 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (16.50%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (15.15%) Business Continuity
9 45 (15.15%) Cloud Security
9 45 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (14.81%) Coaching
10 44 (14.81%) ITSM
11 42 (14.14%) Agile
12 40 (13.47%) Roadmaps
13 34 (11.45%) High Availability
13 34 (11.45%) Storage Management
14 32 (10.77%) Vulnerability Management
15 31 (10.44%) AI
Programming Languages
1 71 (23.91%) Python
2 69 (23.23%) PowerShell
3 30 (10.10%) SQL
4 18 (6.06%) Bicep
5 17 (5.72%) Java
6 14 (4.71%) Bash
6 14 (4.71%) VBA
7 10 (3.37%) Go
8 9 (3.03%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.69%) C#
10 5 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.67%) C++
12 2 (0.67%) PHP
12 2 (0.67%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 17 (5.72%) CEH
4 16 (5.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (5.05%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.05%) Degree
6 14 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.37%) SC Cleared
9 8 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.02%) CCNP
10 6 (2.02%) CISSP
10 6 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.02%) MCSE
10 6 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.68%) CISM
11 5 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.35%) CITP
12 4 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (11.11%) SLA
3 31 (10.44%) NIST
4 17 (5.72%) ISO 22301
5 14 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.70%) PCI DSS
7 10 (3.37%) GDPR
7 10 (3.37%) SOC 2
8 8 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.68%) NCSC
9 5 (1.68%) QA
10 4 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.67%) Basel III
12 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.67%) MiFID
13 1 (0.34%) COBIT
13 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (24.58%) Active Directory
2 58 (19.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (10.77%) Hyper-V
4 14 (4.71%) vSphere
5 10 (3.37%) Docker
6 8 (2.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 8 (2.69%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (2.36%) KVM
8 5 (1.68%) Firmware
9 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 78 (26.26%) Terraform
2 40 (13.47%) Ansible
3 33 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (10.10%) Kubernetes
5 16 (5.39%) Grafana
6 10 (3.37%) SCCM
7 9 (3.03%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.36%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.02%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.35%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.01%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.67%) Nessus
12 2 (0.67%) VxRail
13 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 108 (36.36%) VMware
2 93 (31.31%) Microsoft
3 31 (10.44%) Dell
4 29 (9.76%) HP
5 28 (9.43%) Dell Compellent
5 28 (9.43%) Nimble Storage
6 26 (8.75%) Cisco
7 25 (8.42%) Commvault
8 15 (5.05%) Splunk
9 14 (4.71%) Veeam
10 13 (4.38%) Palo Alto
11 11 (3.70%) ServiceNow
12 10 (3.37%) Juniper
12 10 (3.37%) Oracle
13 9 (3.03%) Fortinet
13 9 (3.03%) Red Hat
14 8 (2.69%) Freshdesk
15 6 (2.02%) Citrix
15 6 (2.02%) NetApp
16 5 (1.68%) Informatica