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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 313 313
Rank change year-on-year -151 0 +18
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 404 425 617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.86% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 2.10% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 317 199 170
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £48,959 £52,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £76,131
90th Percentile £105,500 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -7.14%

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 31,542 20,279 23,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.66% 40.93% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19,376 10,163 11,791
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,819 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.56% -14.29% -4.55%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -129 378 £70,000 -3.45% 541
UK excluding London -98 290 £62,500 - 292
Work from Home -1 122 £70,000 -12.50% 310
London -122 97 £82,500 +10.00% 246
North of England -22 86 £52,500 -19.23% 73
South East -51 80 £70,000 -17.65% 82
Midlands -31 57 £73,750 -7.81% 43
South West -65 57 £85,000 +6.25% 48
West Midlands +6 55 £77,500 -3.13% 26
North West -4 46 £65,000 +44.44% 46
Yorkshire -31 25 £50,000 -23.08% 18
East of England -32 18 £50,500 -15.83% 17
North East - 15 £47,000 - 9
Scotland +5 8 £77,500 +106.67% 19
Wales -81 6 £54,085 -1.66% 7
East Midlands -44 2 £68,750 +38.89% 17

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 33 (8.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.19%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.98%) Confluence
4 7 (1.73%) IIS
5 4 (0.99%) SAS
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Weka
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 253 (62.62%) Azure
2 154 (38.12%) AWS
3 91 (22.52%) Entra ID
4 88 (21.78%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (9.41%) Serverless
6 37 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (8.66%) Amazon EC2
8 35 (8.66%) Azure AKS
8 35 (8.66%) GCP
9 33 (8.17%) PaaS
10 31 (7.67%) IaaS
11 30 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (7.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (7.18%) GitHub
13 23 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (5.45%) Amazon S3
15 21 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (5.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (4.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 106 (26.24%) Firewall
2 79 (19.55%) VPN
3 60 (14.85%) DNS
4 49 (12.13%) DHCP
5 47 (11.63%) WAN
6 46 (11.39%) Network Security
7 36 (8.91%) LAN
8 26 (6.44%) Wireless
9 25 (6.19%) SD-WAN
10 20 (4.95%) TCP/IP
11 13 (3.22%) Software-Defined Networking
11 13 (3.22%) Unified Communications
12 12 (2.97%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (2.97%) SAN
13 11 (2.72%) VLAN
14 9 (2.23%) BGP
14 9 (2.23%) Cisco Firepower
15 8 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (1.73%) IPv4
16 7 (1.73%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (4.21%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (3.71%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.97%) Spark SQL
5 8 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (1.73%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.99%) Flink
8 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.50%) Redis
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (4.46%) GitLab
2 15 (3.71%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.22%) Git
4 12 (2.97%) JIRA
5 7 (1.73%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.99%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.25%) rollup.js
General
1 97 (24.01%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.12%) Finance
3 44 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.95%) Retail
6 19 (4.70%) Law
7 16 (3.96%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.97%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.48%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.49%) Banking
11 6 (1.49%) Marketing
11 6 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.99%) Local Government
14 3 (0.74%) Automotive
14 3 (0.74%) Electronics
14 3 (0.74%) Legal
15 2 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 69 (17.08%) Architect
2 60 (14.85%) Senior
3 55 (13.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 49 (12.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 48 (11.88%) Lead
6 35 (8.66%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.93%) Network Engineer
8 26 (6.44%) Data Engineer
9 24 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (5.69%) Consultant
11 22 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (4.95%) Azure Architect
12 20 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.95%) Technical Architect
13 17 (4.21%) Cloud Consultant
13 17 (4.21%) IT Engineer
14 16 (3.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 15 (3.71%) Administrator
15 15 (3.71%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (31.93%) Terraform
2 20 (4.95%) Kafka
3 13 (3.22%) ARM Templates
3 13 (3.22%) Keycloak
4 12 (2.97%) .NET
4 12 (2.97%) PySpark
5 6 (1.49%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.24%) boto
6 5 (1.24%) SAML
7 4 (0.99%) XMPP
8 3 (0.74%) OpenID
9 2 (0.50%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.50%) Loki
9 2 (0.50%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.50%) OAuth
9 2 (0.50%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.50%) YAML
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.40%) Data Centre
2 29 (7.18%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.44%) Private Cloud
4 23 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.46%) Security Posture
6 17 (4.21%) PKI
6 17 (4.21%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.71%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.97%) Enterprise Storage
9 11 (2.72%) Driving Licence
9 11 (2.72%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.23%) Replication
11 8 (1.98%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.99%) FlexPod
14 4 (0.99%) TM Forum
14 4 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 129 (31.93%) Windows
2 104 (25.74%) Windows Server
3 72 (17.82%) Linux
4 10 (2.48%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.99%) VMS
8 3 (0.74%) CentOS
9 2 (0.50%) AIX
9 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.50%) Unix
10 1 (0.25%) Android
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Rocky
10 1 (0.25%) SUSE
10 1 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (33.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (30.69%) CI/CD
3 105 (25.99%) DevOps
4 100 (24.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 99 (24.50%) Cloud Security
6 96 (23.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 84 (20.79%) Migration
8 77 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (16.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 64 (15.84%) Agile
10 64 (15.84%) Analytics
10 64 (15.84%) Roadmaps
11 59 (14.60%) Mentoring
12 58 (14.36%) AI
13 56 (13.86%) Zero Trust
14 55 (13.61%) Cybersecurity
15 54 (13.37%) ITIL
16 53 (13.12%) Decision-Making
17 47 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
18 44 (10.89%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 82 (20.30%) PowerShell
1 82 (20.30%) Python
2 48 (11.88%) Bash
3 34 (8.42%) SQL
4 31 (7.67%) Bicep
5 25 (6.19%) Go
6 19 (4.70%) Java
7 12 (2.97%) C#
7 12 (2.97%) C++
7 12 (2.97%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.73%) Clojure
9 6 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 90 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 63 (15.59%) SC Cleared
3 52 (12.87%) Azure Certification
4 40 (9.90%) AWS Certification
5 37 (9.16%) DV Cleared
6 27 (6.68%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (5.45%) Degree
7 22 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (4.21%) CCNP
9 14 (3.47%) ISTQB
10 11 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (2.72%) CCNA
11 10 (2.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 9 (2.23%) CISSP
12 9 (2.23%) RHCE
12 9 (2.23%) RHCSA
13 7 (1.73%) OSCP
14 6 (1.49%) CCIE
15 5 (1.24%) DBS Check
15 5 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.21%) NIST
3 15 (3.71%) SLA
4 13 (3.22%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.98%) NCSC
6 7 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.49%) GDPR
7 6 (1.49%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.24%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.99%) GRC
10 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 112 (27.72%) Active Directory
2 72 (17.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (10.15%) Docker
4 25 (6.19%) vSphere
5 24 (5.94%) Hyper-V
6 16 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (3.96%) VMware NSX
7 11 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (1.73%) Squid
10 3 (0.74%) Firmware
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 75 (18.56%) Ansible
2 60 (14.85%) Kubernetes
3 42 (10.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (5.94%) Grafana
5 20 (4.95%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.71%) Puppet
7 13 (3.22%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.98%) FortiGate
8 8 (1.98%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.98%) SCCM
8 8 (1.98%) ZABBIX
9 7 (1.73%) Packer
9 7 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.49%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.99%) Nagios
12 3 (0.74%) Istio
12 3 (0.74%) linkerd
13 2 (0.50%) Argo
13 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 163 (40.35%) Microsoft
2 107 (26.49%) VMware
3 45 (11.14%) Cisco
4 26 (6.44%) Veeam
5 19 (4.70%) Palo Alto
6 16 (3.96%) Fortinet
6 16 (3.96%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.96%) Splunk
7 15 (3.71%) Oracle
8 13 (3.22%) Google
8 13 (3.22%) Meraki
9 9 (2.23%) Aruba
9 9 (2.23%) Citrix
10 8 (1.98%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.73%) IFS
11 7 (1.73%) NetApp
11 7 (1.73%) Tenable
11 7 (1.73%) Zscaler
12 6 (1.49%) Juniper
12 6 (1.49%) Zerto