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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 342 336
Rank change year-on-year -94 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 353 399 790
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.81% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.37% 1.98% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 265 165 275
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,500 £42,238
25th Percentile £50,750 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,375
90th Percentile £92,000 £100,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,788 £65,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -3.40% -1.89% -5.36%

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 25,710 20,142 33,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.88% 41.08% 33.77%
Number of salaries quoted 16,406 10,000 20,929
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -109 328 £65,576 -6.38% 81
UK excluding London -61 255 £62,788 -3.40% 63
Work from Home +27 116 £65,576 -18.03% 39
London -62 87 £82,500 +13.79% 25
North of England -14 82 £65,000 - 22
South East -48 62 £70,000 -17.65% 20
South West -62 49 £60,000 -25.00% 10
North West +27 48 £70,000 -2.77% 15
Midlands -23 38 £62,538 -21.83% 6
West Midlands +3 37 £62,000 -22.50% 3
Yorkshire -37 21 £57,500 -11.54% 5
East of England -16 14 £28,750 -50.00% 1
North East - 13 £42,500 - 2
Scotland +15 6 £68,750 +48.65% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -58 4 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East Midlands -28 1 £77,500 +55.00% 3

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 (7.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.95%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.83%) Confluence
4 5 (1.42%) IIS
5 4 (1.13%) SAS
6 2 (0.57%) Documentum
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 230 (65.16%) Azure
2 119 (33.71%) AWS
3 95 (26.91%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (18.98%) Entra ID
5 32 (9.07%) Nutanix
6 28 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (7.93%) PaaS
7 27 (7.65%) Azure AKS
7 27 (7.65%) GCP
7 27 (7.65%) IaaS
8 24 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (5.95%) SaaS
10 18 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (4.53%) Serverless
12 14 (3.97%) GitHub
12 14 (3.97%) Power Platform
13 10 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.83%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 91 (25.78%) Firewall
2 60 (17.00%) DNS
3 48 (13.60%) DHCP
4 47 (13.31%) VPN
5 45 (12.75%) WAN
6 38 (10.76%) LAN
7 37 (10.48%) Network Security
8 16 (4.53%) VLAN
9 15 (4.25%) Wireless
10 14 (3.97%) SD-WAN
10 14 (3.97%) TCP/IP
11 13 (3.68%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (3.40%) Remote Desktop
13 10 (2.83%) SAN
13 10 (2.83%) Software-Defined Networking
13 10 (2.83%) Unified Communications
13 10 (2.83%) VoIP
13 10 (2.83%) WebEx
14 9 (2.55%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 7 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.85%) Power BI
7 2 (0.57%) Flink
7 2 (0.57%) Redis
7 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.28%) Big Data
8 1 (0.28%) DataStage
8 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.28%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (6.23%) GitLab
2 17 (4.82%) Git
2 17 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.97%) JIRA
4 8 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.57%) rollup.js
5 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 99 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 48 (13.60%) Finance
3 34 (9.63%) Public Sector
4 33 (9.35%) Retail
5 17 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.82%) Law
6 15 (4.25%) Aerospace
6 15 (4.25%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.97%) Banking
8 13 (3.68%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.55%) Marketing
11 7 (1.98%) Automotive
11 7 (1.98%) Electronics
12 5 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.42%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.85%) Back Office
13 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.57%) Aviation
14 2 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (16.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 55 (15.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 52 (14.73%) Senior
4 49 (13.88%) Architect
4 49 (13.88%) Lead
5 25 (7.08%) Network Engineer
6 19 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (5.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.10%) Analyst
7 18 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (5.10%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
8 14 (3.97%) Consultant
8 14 (3.97%) IT Engineer
8 14 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (3.68%) Azure Architect
9 13 (3.68%) Support Engineer
10 12 (3.40%) Administrator
10 12 (3.40%) IT Support
11 11 (3.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 11 (3.12%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.40%) ARM Templates
2 10 (2.83%) XMPP
3 9 (2.55%) Kafka
4 6 (1.70%) YAML
5 5 (1.42%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.42%) boto
6 4 (1.13%) Keycloak
7 3 (0.85%) .NET
7 3 (0.85%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.85%) OpenID
8 2 (0.57%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.57%) OAuth
8 2 (0.57%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.57%) WAMP
9 1 (0.28%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.28%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.28%) Loki
9 1 (0.28%) Node.js
9 1 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.07%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.78%) Data Centre
3 27 (7.65%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.95%) Public Cloud
5 19 (5.38%) Security Posture
6 18 (5.10%) PKI
7 16 (4.53%) Private Cloud
8 12 (3.40%) Replication
9 11 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.83%) FlexPod
10 10 (2.83%) Video Conferencing
11 9 (2.55%) Management Information System
12 8 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.98%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (1.98%) Renewable Energy
14 6 (1.70%) Driving Licence
14 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 132 (37.39%) Windows
2 110 (31.16%) Windows Server
3 64 (18.13%) Linux
4 11 (3.12%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.98%) Android
5 7 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.42%) VMS
7 4 (1.13%) CentOS
7 4 (1.13%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (30.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 91 (25.78%) CI/CD
3 90 (25.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 81 (22.95%) DevOps
5 80 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 76 (21.53%) ITIL
7 65 (18.41%) Agile
8 63 (17.85%) Disaster Recovery
9 61 (17.28%) Cloud Security
10 58 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (14.73%) Roadmaps
12 50 (14.16%) Migration
13 48 (13.60%) Cybersecurity
14 47 (13.31%) Mentoring
15 38 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 32 (9.07%) High Availability
17 30 (8.50%) Business Continuity
17 30 (8.50%) Infrastructure Automation
18 29 (8.22%) Analytics
18 29 (8.22%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (21.81%) PowerShell
2 68 (19.26%) Python
3 29 (8.22%) Bash
4 28 (7.93%) Bicep
5 24 (6.80%) SQL
6 15 (4.25%) Java
7 13 (3.68%) Go
8 8 (2.27%) Clojure
9 7 (1.98%) C#
10 6 (1.70%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.70%) VBA
11 4 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.85%) C++
13 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 56 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.50%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.93%) AWS Certification
3 28 (7.93%) Azure Certification
4 27 (7.65%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (7.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (5.95%) Degree
6 21 (5.95%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.53%) ISTQB
8 15 (4.25%) CCNP
9 12 (3.40%) CCNA
9 12 (3.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (2.55%) MCSE
11 8 (2.27%) OSCP
11 8 (2.27%) RHCE
11 8 (2.27%) RHCSA
12 7 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (1.70%) CEH
14 5 (1.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (7.37%) NIST
3 25 (7.08%) SLA
4 9 (2.55%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.55%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.98%) GDPR
5 7 (1.98%) NCSC
6 6 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.70%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.28%) QA
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 112 (31.73%) Active Directory
2 79 (22.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (8.22%) Docker
3 29 (8.22%) Hyper-V
4 26 (7.37%) vSphere
5 14 (3.97%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (2.55%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (2.27%) Squid
8 5 (1.42%) KVM
9 4 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 107 (30.31%) Terraform
2 64 (18.13%) Ansible
3 59 (16.71%) Kubernetes
4 38 (10.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (5.38%) Grafana
6 10 (2.83%) Cisco CUCM
6 10 (2.83%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.55%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.55%) SCCM
7 9 (2.55%) ZABBIX
8 8 (2.27%) Packer
9 6 (1.70%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.13%) Nagios
10 4 (1.13%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.85%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.85%) Puppet
12 2 (0.57%) Istio
12 2 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.57%) linkerd
12 2 (0.57%) Nessus
Vendors
1 147 (41.64%) Microsoft
2 111 (31.44%) VMware
3 41 (11.61%) Cisco
4 24 (6.80%) Palo Alto
4 24 (6.80%) Splunk
5 23 (6.52%) Veeam
6 18 (5.10%) Oracle
7 17 (4.82%) Red Hat
8 16 (4.53%) Fortinet
9 14 (3.97%) Dell
10 13 (3.68%) HP
11 12 (3.40%) Dell Compellent
11 12 (3.40%) Meraki
11 12 (3.40%) Nimble Storage
12 11 (3.12%) Commvault
13 10 (2.83%) Google
14 8 (2.27%) IFS
15 7 (1.98%) Freshdesk
15 7 (1.98%) NetApp
16 6 (1.70%) Ubiquiti