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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 316 324
Rank change year-on-year -139 +8 +19
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 401 428 593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.86% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% 2.11% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 315 202 165
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £49,479 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.45% -1.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 31,628 20,323 23,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.83% 40.83% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 19,396 10,249 11,659
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -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 £51,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.44% -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 9 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 9 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 -125 375 £70,000 -3.45% 563
UK excluding London -88 288 £62,500 - 298
Work from Home 0 120 £70,000 -12.50% 322
London -116 95 £80,000 +3.23% 274
North of England -35 83 £52,500 -19.23% 79
South East -61 79 £70,000 -17.65% 75
Midlands -19 58 £70,000 -12.50% 43
South West -65 58 £85,000 +6.25% 52
West Midlands +1 56 £70,000 -12.50% 29
North West -1 44 £65,000 +4.84% 50
Yorkshire -33 25 £50,000 -23.08% 19
East of England -43 18 £50,500 -15.83% 17
North East - 14 £47,000 - 10
Scotland +17 8 £77,500 +106.67% 21
Wales -90 6 £54,085 -1.66% 8
East Midlands -48 2 £68,750 +38.89% 14

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 32 (7.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.23%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.00%) Confluence
4 6 (1.50%) IIS
5 4 (1.00%) 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%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (62.59%) Azure
2 153 (38.15%) AWS
3 92 (22.94%) Entra ID
4 87 (21.70%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (9.48%) Serverless
6 36 (8.98%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (8.98%) GCP
7 35 (8.73%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (8.48%) Azure AKS
8 34 (8.48%) PaaS
9 31 (7.73%) IaaS
10 30 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (6.98%) GitHub
13 23 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (5.49%) Amazon S3
15 21 (5.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 102 (25.44%) Firewall
2 79 (19.70%) VPN
3 55 (13.72%) DNS
4 46 (11.47%) DHCP
4 46 (11.47%) WAN
5 45 (11.22%) Network Security
6 36 (8.98%) LAN
7 26 (6.48%) Wireless
8 25 (6.23%) SD-WAN
9 19 (4.74%) TCP/IP
10 14 (3.49%) Software-Defined Networking
11 13 (3.24%) Unified Communications
12 12 (2.99%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (2.74%) VLAN
14 10 (2.49%) SAN
15 9 (2.24%) Cisco Firepower
16 8 (2.00%) BGP
16 8 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (1.75%) IPv4
17 7 (1.75%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (3.99%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.99%) Spark SQL
5 8 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (1.75%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.00%) Flink
8 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.50%) Redis
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (4.24%) GitLab
2 15 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.24%) Git
4 12 (2.99%) JIRA
5 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.00%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.25%) rollup.js
General
1 94 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 52 (12.97%) Finance
3 41 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.99%) Retail
6 19 (4.74%) Law
7 16 (3.99%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.99%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.49%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.50%) Banking
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
11 6 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Local Government
14 3 (0.75%) Automotive
14 3 (0.75%) Electronics
14 3 (0.75%) Legal
15 2 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 70 (17.46%) Architect
2 59 (14.71%) Senior
3 51 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (12.47%) Lead
5 49 (12.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (8.98%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.98%) Network Engineer
8 26 (6.48%) Data Engineer
9 24 (5.99%) Consultant
10 23 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (4.99%) Azure Architect
12 20 (4.99%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.99%) Technical Architect
13 18 (4.49%) Cloud Consultant
14 17 (4.24%) IT Engineer
15 16 (3.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 15 (3.74%) Administrator
17 14 (3.49%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
17 14 (3.49%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (32.17%) Terraform
2 20 (4.99%) Kafka
3 13 (3.24%) ARM Templates
3 13 (3.24%) Keycloak
4 12 (2.99%) .NET
4 12 (2.99%) PySpark
5 6 (1.50%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.25%) boto
7 4 (1.00%) SAML
7 4 (1.00%) XMPP
8 3 (0.75%) YAML
9 2 (0.50%) Loki
9 2 (0.50%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.25%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.25%) Middleware
10 1 (0.25%) OAuth
10 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.25%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.22%) Data Centre
2 30 (7.48%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.48%) Private Cloud
4 24 (5.99%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.49%) Security Posture
6 17 (4.24%) PKI
7 16 (3.99%) Public Cloud
8 15 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (2.99%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.74%) Driving Licence
10 11 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
11 9 (2.24%) AI Agents
11 9 (2.24%) Replication
12 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (1.00%) FlexPod
14 4 (1.00%) TM Forum
14 4 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 124 (30.92%) Windows
2 101 (25.19%) Windows Server
3 67 (16.71%) Linux
4 11 (2.74%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.00%) VMS
8 3 (0.75%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.50%) AIX
9 2 (0.50%) CentOS
9 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.50%) Unix
10 1 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
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
1 136 (33.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (30.92%) CI/CD
3 106 (26.43%) DevOps
4 98 (24.44%) Cloud Security
5 96 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 95 (23.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 83 (20.70%) Migration
8 73 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (16.71%) Disaster Recovery
10 64 (15.96%) Analytics
11 63 (15.71%) Roadmaps
12 62 (15.46%) Agile
13 59 (14.71%) AI
14 58 (14.46%) Zero Trust
15 57 (14.21%) Mentoring
16 55 (13.72%) Cybersecurity
17 54 (13.47%) Decision-Making
18 51 (12.72%) ITIL
19 49 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
20 44 (10.97%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 80 (19.95%) PowerShell
1 80 (19.95%) Python
2 48 (11.97%) Bash
3 32 (7.98%) SQL
4 29 (7.23%) Bicep
5 25 (6.23%) Go
6 19 (4.74%) Java
7 12 (2.99%) C#
7 12 (2.99%) C++
7 12 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.75%) Clojure
9 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.50%) Korn
10 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 94 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 66 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 51 (12.72%) Azure Certification
4 40 (9.98%) AWS Certification
5 37 (9.23%) DV Cleared
6 28 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (5.99%) Degree
8 22 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (4.49%) CCNP
10 14 (3.49%) ISTQB
11 11 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (2.74%) CCNA
12 10 (2.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (2.24%) CISSP
13 9 (2.24%) RHCE
13 9 (2.24%) RHCSA
14 7 (1.75%) CCIE
14 7 (1.75%) OSCP
15 5 (1.25%) DBS Check
15 5 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (3.99%) NIST
2 16 (3.99%) SLA
3 13 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.00%) NCSC
5 7 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.25%) GDPR
6 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.00%) GRC
7 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 111 (27.68%) Active Directory
2 68 (16.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (9.98%) Docker
4 24 (5.99%) vSphere
5 22 (5.49%) Hyper-V
6 17 (4.24%) VMware NSX
7 16 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (1.75%) Squid
11 3 (0.75%) Firmware
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 74 (18.45%) Ansible
2 60 (14.96%) Kubernetes
3 42 (10.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (5.99%) Grafana
5 20 (4.99%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.74%) Puppet
7 13 (3.24%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.00%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.00%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.00%) ZABBIX
9 7 (1.75%) Packer
9 7 (1.75%) SCCM
9 7 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.25%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.75%) Istio
12 3 (0.75%) linkerd
12 3 (0.75%) Nagios
13 2 (0.50%) Argo
13 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 160 (39.90%) Microsoft
2 104 (25.94%) VMware
3 47 (11.72%) Cisco
4 26 (6.48%) Veeam
5 19 (4.74%) Palo Alto
6 16 (3.99%) Fortinet
6 16 (3.99%) Oracle
6 16 (3.99%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.99%) Splunk
7 13 (3.24%) Google
7 13 (3.24%) Meraki
8 9 (2.24%) Aruba
9 8 (2.00%) Citrix
9 8 (2.00%) NetApp
9 8 (2.00%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.75%) IFS
10 7 (1.75%) Tenable
11 6 (1.50%) EMC
11 6 (1.50%) Juniper
11 6 (1.50%) Zscaler