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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 401 369
Rank change year-on-year -30 -32 +1
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 327 255 686
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.60% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 1.51% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 218 115 245
10th Percentile £36,250 £47,338 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,125 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,538 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -
75th Percentile £81,438 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £115,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -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 25,325 16,897 34,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.28% 39.93% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,080 9,221 22,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 17 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 April 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 -24 286 £67,500 -3.57% 112
UK excluding London -59 179 £63,076 +0.92% 86
London +32 119 £87,500 +6.06% 36
Work from Home +35 115 £65,576 -6.32% 55
North of England -54 60 £63,076 -12.38% 27
South East -27 43 £65,000 -1.89% 24
North West -39 32 £65,288 -9.31% 18
South West -68 24 £55,000 +15.79% 17
East of England -22 15 £27,000 -55.00% 2
Yorkshire -61 15 £63,076 -2.96% 4
Northern Ireland -26 13 - - 2
Midlands -36 13 £63,076 -9.89% 7
North East - 13 £63,076 - 5
West Midlands -16 12 £59,788 -14.59% 7
Scotland -20 6 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands -47 1 £77,500 -

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 (6.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.28%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.45%) Confluence
4 5 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.22%) Documentum
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 189 (57.80%) Azure
2 126 (38.53%) AWS
3 75 (22.94%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (18.65%) Nutanix
5 42 (12.84%) Entra ID
6 26 (7.95%) Power Platform
7 23 (7.03%) GCP
8 20 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (5.81%) PowerApps
10 16 (4.89%) SaaS
11 14 (4.28%) GitHub
12 12 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.67%) IaaS
12 12 (3.67%) PaaS
13 11 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 66 (20.18%) DNS
2 64 (19.57%) Firewall
3 57 (17.43%) DHCP
4 29 (8.87%) VPN
5 28 (8.56%) Remote Desktop
5 28 (8.56%) WAN
6 23 (7.03%) LAN
7 13 (3.98%) Network Security
8 12 (3.67%) TCP/IP
9 11 (3.36%) VLAN
9 11 (3.36%) VoIP
9 11 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (3.06%) Unified Communications
11 9 (2.75%) SAN
11 9 (2.75%) WebEx
12 8 (2.45%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (2.45%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (2.14%) BGP
14 5 (1.53%) Internet
14 5 (1.53%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.06%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.14%) Power BI
5 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (1.53%) Big Data
6 5 (1.53%) DataStage
6 5 (1.53%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.53%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.53%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.53%) MySQL
6 5 (1.53%) Neo4j
6 5 (1.53%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.53%) Pentaho
6 5 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.53%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.53%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.61%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 14 (4.28%) GitLab
2 12 (3.67%) Git
3 11 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.75%) JIRA
4 9 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.83%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.61%) rollup.js
General
1 100 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.68%) Finance
3 36 (11.01%) Retail
4 33 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.26%) Law
6 22 (6.73%) Banking
7 16 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.28%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.67%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.06%) Financial Institution
10 10 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.75%) Automotive
12 8 (2.45%) Marketing
12 8 (2.45%) Telecoms
13 7 (2.14%) Back Office
13 7 (2.14%) Electronics
14 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.92%) Front Office
15 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (22.02%) Cloud Engineer
2 54 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 51 (15.60%) Senior
4 31 (9.48%) Architect
4 31 (9.48%) Lead
5 21 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (6.42%) Network Engineer
6 16 (4.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (4.59%) Administrator
7 15 (4.59%) Consultant
7 15 (4.59%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.28%) Digital Project Manager
8 14 (4.28%) Senior Digital Project Manager
8 14 (4.28%) Senior Manager
8 14 (4.28%) Senior Project Manager
9 12 (3.67%) IT Security Specialist
9 12 (3.67%) Security Specialist
10 11 (3.36%) Cloud Consultant
10 11 (3.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.36%) .NET
2 9 (2.75%) XMPP
3 6 (1.83%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.53%) OpenID
5 4 (1.22%) YAML
6 3 (0.92%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.61%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.61%) Kafka
7 2 (0.61%) OAuth
7 2 (0.61%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.61%) REST
7 2 (0.61%) Streamlit
7 2 (0.61%) WAMP
8 1 (0.31%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.31%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.31%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.31%) JMS
8 1 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.31%) RESTful
8 1 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.84%) Public Cloud
2 29 (8.87%) Onboarding
3 25 (7.65%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.65%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (6.73%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.20%) Private Cloud
6 16 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.59%) Low-Code
8 14 (4.28%) Legacy Applications
9 11 (3.36%) Management Information System
9 11 (3.36%) Replication
10 9 (2.75%) FlexPod
10 9 (2.75%) PKI
10 9 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (2.14%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (2.14%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (2.14%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.83%) Blog
13 5 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 107 (32.72%) Windows
2 87 (26.61%) Windows Server
3 45 (13.76%) Linux
4 10 (3.06%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.14%) Android
6 5 (1.53%) CentOS
6 5 (1.53%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.53%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (26.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 82 (25.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 79 (24.16%) CI/CD
4 74 (22.63%) Disaster Recovery
5 73 (22.32%) ITIL
6 69 (21.10%) DevOps
7 63 (19.27%) Agile
8 60 (18.35%) Mentoring
9 54 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (14.68%) Coaching
11 48 (14.68%) Cybersecurity
12 47 (14.37%) Business Continuity
13 44 (13.46%) Cloud Security
14 42 (12.84%) High Availability
15 40 (12.23%) ITSM
16 34 (10.40%) Storage Management
17 33 (10.09%) Migration
17 33 (10.09%) Roadmaps
18 31 (9.48%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 79 (24.16%) Python
2 72 (22.02%) PowerShell
3 31 (9.48%) SQL
4 20 (6.12%) Bash
4 20 (6.12%) Bicep
4 20 (6.12%) Java
5 14 (4.28%) VBA
6 9 (2.75%) Go
6 9 (2.75%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.45%) C#
8 6 (1.83%) Clojure
8 6 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.92%) C++
10 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.61%) PHP
10 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.03%) AWS Certification
3 21 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (4.89%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.28%) Degree
7 13 (3.98%) CEH
8 12 (3.67%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.36%) SC Cleared
10 10 (3.06%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.45%) CCNA
11 8 (2.45%) CCNP
12 7 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.14%) CISSP
12 7 (2.14%) MCSE
12 7 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.83%) CISM
14 5 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.53%) CCSP
14 5 (1.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (10.09%) SLA
3 31 (9.48%) NIST
4 13 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (3.98%) ISO 22301
5 12 (3.67%) PCI DSS
6 10 (3.06%) GDPR
7 9 (2.75%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (1.83%) NCSC
10 5 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.92%) QA
12 2 (0.61%) Basel III
12 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.61%) MiFID
13 1 (0.31%) COBIT
13 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (24.77%) Active Directory
2 69 (21.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (10.40%) Hyper-V
4 19 (5.81%) Docker
5 18 (5.50%) vSphere
6 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 8 (2.45%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (1.83%) KVM
8 4 (1.22%) Squid
8 4 (1.22%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.92%) Firmware
10 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.31%) iptables
11 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (27.52%) Terraform
2 54 (16.51%) Ansible
3 46 (14.07%) Kubernetes
4 32 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (6.12%) Grafana
6 10 (3.06%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.75%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (2.45%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.45%) SCCM
9 5 (1.53%) FortiGate
9 5 (1.53%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.53%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.22%) Packer
11 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.61%) Nagios
12 2 (0.61%) Nessus
13 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 117 (35.78%) VMware
2 104 (31.80%) Microsoft
3 31 (9.48%) Dell
4 30 (9.17%) Cisco
5 29 (8.87%) HP
6 28 (8.56%) Dell Compellent
6 28 (8.56%) Nimble Storage
7 22 (6.73%) Splunk
8 21 (6.42%) Commvault
9 20 (6.12%) Oracle
10 16 (4.89%) Palo Alto
11 15 (4.59%) Veeam
12 14 (4.28%) Red Hat
13 12 (3.67%) Fortinet
13 12 (3.67%) ServiceNow
14 10 (3.06%) Juniper
15 7 (2.14%) SolarWinds
16 6 (1.83%) IFS
16 6 (1.83%) NetApp
16 6 (1.83%) Ubiquiti