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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 396 376
Rank change year-on-year -17 -20 -16
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 328 277 690
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.65% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 1.63% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 220 118 247
10th Percentile £36,250 £47,419 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% - -
75th Percentile £80,313 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £114,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% - -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 25,316 17,004 34,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.19% 40.11% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 13,134 9,197 23,009
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 £80,100 £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 30 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 30 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 -26 289 £65,576 -6.32% 96
UK excluding London -71 182 £63,076 -2.96% 70
London +28 118 £87,500 +7.69% 30
Work from Home +43 115 £65,576 -7.63% 45
North of England -68 61 £63,076 -12.38% 22
South East -27 44 £65,000 -23.53% 21
North West -44 33 £65,000 -9.71% 14
South West -65 25 £55,000 +15.79% 15
East of England -22 15 £27,000 -55.00% 2
Yorkshire -65 15 £63,076 -2.96% 4
Midlands -39 14 £62,538 -10.66% 6
West Midlands -18 13 £62,000 -11.43% 6
North East - 13 £63,076 - 4
Northern Ireland -29 12 - - 2
Scotland -18 6 £45,000 -18.18% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands -54 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 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.44%) Confluence
4 5 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.22%) Documentum
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 190 (57.93%) Azure
2 126 (38.41%) AWS
3 75 (22.87%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (18.29%) Nutanix
5 41 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 27 (8.23%) Power Platform
7 25 (7.62%) GCP
8 21 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (5.79%) PowerApps
10 16 (4.88%) SaaS
11 14 (4.27%) GitHub
12 13 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.66%) IaaS
13 12 (3.66%) PaaS
14 9 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.44%) Azure AKS
15 8 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 65 (19.82%) DNS
2 64 (19.51%) Firewall
3 56 (17.07%) DHCP
4 29 (8.84%) VPN
5 28 (8.54%) WAN
6 27 (8.23%) Remote Desktop
7 23 (7.01%) LAN
8 14 (4.27%) Network Security
9 12 (3.66%) TCP/IP
10 11 (3.35%) VLAN
10 11 (3.35%) VoIP
10 11 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (3.05%) Unified Communications
12 9 (2.74%) SAN
12 9 (2.74%) WebEx
13 8 (2.44%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (2.44%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (2.13%) BGP
15 5 (1.52%) Internet
15 5 (1.52%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.05%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.44%) Power BI
4 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (1.52%) Big Data
5 5 (1.52%) DataStage
5 5 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.52%) MySQL
5 5 (1.52%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.52%) Pentaho
5 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.52%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (4.27%) GitLab
2 12 (3.66%) Git
3 11 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.74%) JIRA
4 9 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.83%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.61%) rollup.js
General
1 100 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.63%) Finance
3 36 (10.98%) Retail
4 33 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.23%) Law
6 22 (6.71%) Banking
7 16 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.27%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.66%) Aerospace
9 12 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.05%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.74%) Automotive
12 8 (2.44%) Marketing
12 8 (2.44%) Telecoms
13 7 (2.13%) Back Office
13 7 (2.13%) Electronics
14 5 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.91%) Front Office
15 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (21.95%) Cloud Engineer
2 54 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 51 (15.55%) Senior
4 31 (9.45%) Architect
4 31 (9.45%) Lead
5 21 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (6.40%) Network Engineer
6 16 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (4.57%) Administrator
7 15 (4.57%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.27%) Consultant
8 14 (4.27%) Digital Project Manager
8 14 (4.27%) Senior Digital Project Manager
8 14 (4.27%) Senior Manager
8 14 (4.27%) Senior Project Manager
9 12 (3.66%) IT Security Specialist
9 12 (3.66%) Security Specialist
10 11 (3.35%) Analyst
10 11 (3.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.35%) .NET
2 9 (2.74%) XMPP
3 6 (1.83%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.52%) OpenID
5 4 (1.22%) YAML
6 3 (0.91%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.91%) Kafka
7 2 (0.61%) AWS CDK
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 (0.30%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.30%) JMS
8 1 (0.30%) Middleware
8 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.30%) RESTful
8 1 (0.30%) SAML
8 1 (0.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 29 (8.84%) Onboarding
3 25 (7.62%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.62%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (7.01%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.18%) Private Cloud
6 16 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.57%) Low-Code
8 14 (4.27%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (3.66%) Management Information System
10 11 (3.35%) Replication
11 9 (2.74%) FlexPod
11 9 (2.74%) PKI
11 9 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (2.13%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.83%) Blog
14 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 107 (32.62%) Windows
2 87 (26.52%) Windows Server
3 46 (14.02%) Linux
4 10 (3.05%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.13%) Android
6 5 (1.52%) CentOS
6 5 (1.52%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.30%) VMS
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.13%) Infrastructure as Code
2 82 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 79 (24.09%) CI/CD
4 73 (22.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 72 (21.95%) ITIL
6 70 (21.34%) DevOps
7 63 (19.21%) Agile
8 59 (17.99%) Mentoring
9 54 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (14.94%) Cybersecurity
11 48 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (14.33%) Coaching
13 45 (13.72%) Business Continuity
14 43 (13.11%) Cloud Security
15 41 (12.50%) High Availability
16 39 (11.89%) ITSM
17 36 (10.98%) Roadmaps
18 33 (10.06%) Storage Management
19 32 (9.76%) Migration
20 31 (9.45%) AI
Programming Languages
1 80 (24.39%) Python
2 73 (22.26%) PowerShell
3 32 (9.76%) SQL
4 21 (6.40%) Bicep
5 20 (6.10%) Bash
5 20 (6.10%) Java
6 14 (4.27%) VBA
7 9 (2.74%) Go
7 9 (2.74%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.44%) C#
9 6 (1.83%) Clojure
9 6 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.91%) C++
11 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.61%) PHP
11 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.01%) AWS Certification
3 21 (6.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.57%) Degree
7 13 (3.96%) CEH
8 12 (3.66%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.35%) SC Cleared
10 10 (3.05%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.44%) CCNA
11 8 (2.44%) CCNP
12 7 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.13%) MCSE
12 7 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.83%) CISSP
14 5 (1.52%) CISM
14 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.52%) OSCP
15 4 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (9.76%) SLA
3 30 (9.15%) NIST
4 13 (3.96%) ISO 22301
5 12 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (3.66%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.74%) GDPR
6 9 (2.74%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.52%) NCSC
9 4 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.91%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.91%) QA
11 2 (0.61%) Basel III
11 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.61%) MiFID
12 1 (0.30%) COBIT
12 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (24.39%) Active Directory
2 68 (20.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (10.06%) Hyper-V
4 19 (5.79%) Docker
5 18 (5.49%) vSphere
6 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 8 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (1.83%) KVM
8 4 (1.22%) Squid
8 4 (1.22%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.91%) Firmware
10 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.30%) iptables
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (27.74%) Terraform
2 54 (16.46%) Ansible
3 46 (14.02%) Kubernetes
4 32 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (6.10%) Grafana
6 10 (3.05%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.74%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (2.44%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.44%) SCCM
9 5 (1.52%) FortiGate
9 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.52%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.22%) Packer
11 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.61%) Nagios
11 2 (0.61%) Nessus
11 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 116 (35.37%) VMware
2 105 (32.01%) Microsoft
3 30 (9.15%) Cisco
3 30 (9.15%) Dell
4 28 (8.54%) HP
5 27 (8.23%) Dell Compellent
5 27 (8.23%) Nimble Storage
6 22 (6.71%) Splunk
7 21 (6.40%) Commvault
8 20 (6.10%) Oracle
9 16 (4.88%) Palo Alto
10 15 (4.57%) Veeam
11 14 (4.27%) Red Hat
12 12 (3.66%) Fortinet
12 12 (3.66%) ServiceNow
13 10 (3.05%) Juniper
14 7 (2.13%) SolarWinds
15 6 (1.83%) IFS
15 6 (1.83%) NetApp
15 6 (1.83%) Ubiquiti