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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 345 362
Rank change year-on-year -75 +17 -15
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 359 371 748
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.81% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.47% 1.91% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 261 144 264
10th Percentile £37,000 £51,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,750 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,024 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +0.03% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £87,031
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,750 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 24,468 19,381 35,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.69% 42.55% 33.77%
Number of salaries quoted 15,640 9,305 23,095
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,430 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% - -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 27 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 27 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 -97 331 £65,000 -7.21% 90
UK excluding London -40 246 £62,500 -10.71% 71
Work from Home +43 126 £65,000 -14.47% 39
London -51 92 £80,000 +10.34% 36
North of England +10 86 £63,076 -12.38% 17
South East -58 57 £67,500 -20.59% 28
North West +26 48 £70,000 -2.77% 9
South West -62 43 £55,000 -18.52% 9
Midlands -22 34 £59,250 -24.76% 6
West Midlands +7 33 £56,500 -28.25% 4
Yorkshire -37 22 £60,288 -7.25% 8
North East - 16 £44,000 -
East of England -20 12 £32,250 -43.91% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland +12 3 £60,000 +29.73% 5
Wales -49 3 £55,000 -31.25% 1
East Midlands -36 1 £77,500 - 2

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 27 (7.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.34%) Confluence
4 5 (1.39%) IIS
5 4 (1.11%) Documentum
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 224 (62.40%) Azure
2 127 (35.38%) AWS
3 89 (24.79%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (16.71%) Entra ID
5 41 (11.42%) Nutanix
6 29 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (7.80%) PaaS
8 26 (7.24%) GCP
9 25 (6.96%) IaaS
10 23 (6.41%) Azure AKS
10 23 (6.41%) Power Platform
11 22 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (6.13%) SaaS
12 17 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (4.46%) GitHub
13 16 (4.46%) PowerApps
14 14 (3.90%) Serverless
15 10 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 85 (23.68%) Firewall
2 64 (17.83%) DNS
3 53 (14.76%) DHCP
4 43 (11.98%) WAN
5 41 (11.42%) VPN
6 35 (9.75%) LAN
7 30 (8.36%) Network Security
8 18 (5.01%) Remote Desktop
9 16 (4.46%) VLAN
10 15 (4.18%) Wireless
11 14 (3.90%) TCP/IP
12 12 (3.34%) SD-WAN
13 11 (3.06%) SAN
14 10 (2.79%) Cisco Firepower
14 10 (2.79%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (2.79%) Unified Communications
14 10 (2.79%) VoIP
14 10 (2.79%) WebEx
15 9 (2.51%) Cisco ASA
15 9 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.57%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.23%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.39%) Power BI
5 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.56%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.56%) Flink
7 2 (0.56%) Redis
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.28%) DataStage
8 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.28%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (6.13%) GitLab
2 18 (5.01%) Git
3 17 (4.74%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.90%) JIRA
5 8 (2.23%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.84%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.56%) rollup.js
8 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 107 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.76%) Finance
3 42 (11.70%) Public Sector
4 36 (10.03%) Retail
5 17 (4.74%) Law
6 16 (4.46%) Aerospace
7 15 (4.18%) Banking
8 14 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.90%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.62%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.51%) Automotive
11 9 (2.51%) Marketing
12 7 (1.95%) Electronics
13 6 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.11%) Back Office
14 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.56%) Aviation
15 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (18.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 58 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 55 (15.32%) Senior
4 49 (13.65%) Lead
5 44 (12.26%) Architect
6 25 (6.96%) Network Engineer
7 21 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (5.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (5.01%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
10 17 (4.74%) Analyst
11 16 (4.46%) Consultant
12 15 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (3.90%) Administrator
13 14 (3.90%) Digital Project Manager
13 14 (3.90%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.90%) Senior Digital Project Manager
13 14 (3.90%) Senior Manager
13 14 (3.90%) Senior Project Manager
14 13 (3.62%) IT Engineer
14 13 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.34%) ARM Templates
2 10 (2.79%) XMPP
3 6 (1.67%) .NET
3 6 (1.67%) Kafka
3 6 (1.67%) YAML
4 5 (1.39%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.39%) boto
5 3 (0.84%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.84%) OpenID
6 2 (0.56%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.56%) OAuth
6 2 (0.56%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.56%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.56%) WAMP
7 1 (0.28%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.28%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.28%) Loki
7 1 (0.28%) Node.js
7 1 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.08%) Public Cloud
3 27 (7.52%) Onboarding
4 24 (6.69%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (6.13%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.74%) PKI
6 17 (4.74%) Security Posture
7 15 (4.18%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.18%) Private Cloud
8 14 (3.90%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (3.34%) Replication
10 11 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.79%) FlexPod
11 10 (2.79%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (2.51%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.95%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (1.95%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.39%) Driving Licence
14 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 133 (37.05%) Windows
2 112 (31.20%) Windows Server
3 64 (17.83%) Linux
4 9 (2.51%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.95%) Android
6 5 (1.39%) CentOS
6 5 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.39%) VMS
6 5 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (29.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 91 (25.35%) CI/CD
3 88 (24.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 83 (23.12%) ITIL
5 79 (22.01%) DevOps
6 77 (21.45%) Agile
7 66 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 65 (18.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 61 (16.99%) Mentoring
10 56 (15.60%) Cloud Security
10 56 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (14.76%) Roadmaps
12 48 (13.37%) Migration
13 45 (12.53%) Cybersecurity
14 40 (11.14%) Coaching
15 36 (10.03%) High Availability
16 35 (9.75%) Business Continuity
17 34 (9.47%) AI
17 34 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 29 (8.08%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 77 (21.45%) PowerShell
2 68 (18.94%) Python
3 28 (7.80%) SQL
4 27 (7.52%) Bash
5 26 (7.24%) Bicep
6 16 (4.46%) Java
7 14 (3.90%) VBA
8 12 (3.34%) Go
9 8 (2.23%) Clojure
10 7 (1.95%) C#
10 7 (1.95%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.84%) C++
11 3 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.64%) AWS Certification
3 26 (7.24%) Azure Certification
3 26 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (6.96%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (6.69%) Degree
6 21 (5.85%) SC Cleared
7 16 (4.46%) ISTQB
8 14 (3.90%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.34%) CCNA
9 12 (3.34%) CCNP
10 11 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.51%) MCSE
11 9 (2.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 8 (2.23%) OSCP
12 8 (2.23%) RHCE
12 8 (2.23%) RHCSA
13 7 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (1.67%) CEH
14 6 (1.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (7.80%) SLA
3 26 (7.24%) NIST
4 10 (2.79%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.51%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.95%) GDPR
7 6 (1.67%) ISO 22301
7 6 (1.67%) NCSC
8 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.56%) QA
11 1 (0.28%) COBIT
11 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 110 (30.64%) Active Directory
2 82 (22.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (9.75%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.52%) Docker
5 26 (7.24%) vSphere
6 11 (3.06%) VMware NSX
7 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 9 (2.51%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (2.23%) Squid
9 5 (1.39%) KVM
10 4 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 108 (30.08%) Terraform
2 63 (17.55%) Ansible
3 58 (16.16%) Kubernetes
4 36 (10.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (6.13%) Grafana
6 13 (3.62%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.79%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (2.51%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.51%) SCCM
8 9 (2.51%) ZABBIX
9 8 (2.23%) Packer
9 8 (2.23%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.11%) Nagios
10 4 (1.11%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.56%) Istio
11 2 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.56%) Nessus
11 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 147 (40.95%) Microsoft
2 116 (32.31%) VMware
3 40 (11.14%) Cisco
4 25 (6.96%) Splunk
5 24 (6.69%) Veeam
6 20 (5.57%) Dell
6 20 (5.57%) Palo Alto
7 19 (5.29%) HP
8 18 (5.01%) Dell Compellent
8 18 (5.01%) Nimble Storage
8 18 (5.01%) Oracle
8 18 (5.01%) Red Hat
9 16 (4.46%) Fortinet
10 12 (3.34%) Commvault
10 12 (3.34%) Meraki
11 9 (2.51%) Google
12 8 (2.23%) IFS
12 8 (2.23%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.95%) NetApp
13 7 (1.95%) SolarWinds