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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 320 301
Rank change year-on-year -133 -19 +27
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 397 426 717
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.86% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.34% 2.09% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 316 188 182
10th Percentile £39,867 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,538 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.62% -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 29,619 20,428 25,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.09% 41.12% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18,609 10,249 13,475
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,925 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -118 374 £66,538 -8.22% 209
UK excluding London -67 300 £62,000 -4.62% 117
Work from Home -2 123 £70,000 -12.50% 110
North of England +11 96 £57,500 -11.54% 25
London -113 85 £83,250 +12.88% 104
South East -51 80 £70,000 -17.65% 42
South West -74 56 £85,000 +6.25% 13
North West +7 52 £65,288 -7.39% 14
Midlands -27 52 £70,000 -12.50% 22
West Midlands +5 50 £70,000 -12.50% 13
Yorkshire -39 28 £50,750 -21.92% 10
East of England -30 20 £50,500 -12.17% 5
North East - 16 £47,000 - 2
Scotland +15 8 £77,500 +106.67% 10
Wales -80 6 £54,085 -1.66%
East Midlands -47 2 £68,750 +38.89% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 31 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.30%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.02%) Confluence
4 6 (1.51%) IIS
5 4 (1.01%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.50%) Weka
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 244 (61.46%) Azure
2 155 (39.04%) AWS
3 95 (23.93%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (19.40%) Entra ID
5 38 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (9.57%) Serverless
6 36 (9.07%) GCP
7 33 (8.31%) Amazon EC2
8 31 (7.81%) Azure AKS
8 31 (7.81%) PaaS
9 30 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (7.30%) IaaS
11 28 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (5.29%) Amazon S3
14 20 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (4.79%) SaaS
16 16 (4.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 100 (25.19%) Firewall
2 67 (16.88%) VPN
3 54 (13.60%) DNS
4 51 (12.85%) WAN
5 45 (11.34%) Network Security
6 42 (10.58%) DHCP
7 39 (9.82%) LAN
8 24 (6.05%) SD-WAN
9 22 (5.54%) Wireless
10 19 (4.79%) TCP/IP
11 14 (3.53%) VLAN
12 13 (3.27%) Software-Defined Networking
13 12 (3.02%) Cisco Firepower
13 12 (3.02%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (3.02%) Unified Communications
14 10 (2.52%) BGP
14 10 (2.52%) SAN
14 10 (2.52%) VoIP
15 8 (2.02%) IPv4
15 8 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.02%) Spark SQL
4 10 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.02%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.76%) Flink
8 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.50%) Power BI
8 2 (0.50%) Redis
8 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.54%) GitLab
2 17 (4.28%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.78%) Git
4 12 (3.02%) JIRA
5 8 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.50%) rollup.js
6 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 93 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 48 (12.09%) Finance
3 43 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.79%) Retail
6 20 (5.04%) Law
7 16 (4.03%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.78%) Aerospace
8 15 (3.78%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.02%) Banking
11 7 (1.76%) Marketing
12 6 (1.51%) Automotive
12 6 (1.51%) Electronics
12 6 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Local Government
14 2 (0.50%) Aviation
14 2 (0.50%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 65 (16.37%) Architect
2 56 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 52 (13.10%) Cloud Engineer
3 52 (13.10%) Senior
4 49 (12.34%) Lead
5 27 (6.80%) Network Engineer
6 26 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (5.79%) Consultant
7 23 (5.79%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (4.79%) Azure Architect
11 18 (4.53%) IT Engineer
12 17 (4.28%) Cloud Consultant
12 17 (4.28%) Support Engineer
12 17 (4.28%) Technical Architect
13 16 (4.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.78%) Analyst
15 13 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.27%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (31.49%) Terraform
2 16 (4.03%) Kafka
3 14 (3.53%) .NET
4 12 (3.02%) ARM Templates
4 12 (3.02%) PySpark
5 10 (2.52%) Keycloak
6 7 (1.76%) XMPP
7 5 (1.26%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.26%) boto
7 5 (1.26%) YAML
8 3 (0.76%) OpenID
9 2 (0.50%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.50%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.50%) Loki
9 2 (0.50%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.50%) OAuth
9 2 (0.50%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.25%) Entity Framework
10 1 (0.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.82%) Data Centre
2 29 (7.30%) Cloud Native
3 24 (6.05%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.54%) Private Cloud
5 17 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 17 (4.28%) Security Posture
6 16 (4.03%) PKI
7 15 (3.78%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.52%) Driving Licence
9 9 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.76%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.76%) FlexPod
11 7 (1.76%) Replication
11 7 (1.76%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.51%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 124 (31.23%) Windows
2 104 (26.20%) Windows Server
3 69 (17.38%) Linux
4 7 (1.76%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (1.51%) Android
6 5 (1.26%) VMS
7 4 (1.01%) CentOS
7 4 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.50%) AIX
9 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.50%) Unix
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
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (32.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 116 (29.22%) CI/CD
3 101 (25.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 92 (23.17%) DevOps
5 91 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 87 (21.91%) Cloud Security
7 73 (18.39%) Migration
8 69 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (17.13%) ITIL
10 63 (15.87%) Agile
11 62 (15.62%) Roadmaps
12 58 (14.61%) Cybersecurity
12 58 (14.61%) Disaster Recovery
12 58 (14.61%) Mentoring
13 57 (14.36%) Analytics
14 47 (11.84%) Decision-Making
14 47 (11.84%) Zero Trust
15 45 (11.34%) AI
16 43 (10.83%) Infrastructure Automation
17 40 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 76 (19.14%) Python
2 75 (18.89%) PowerShell
3 43 (10.83%) Bash
4 31 (7.81%) Bicep
4 31 (7.81%) SQL
5 21 (5.29%) Java
6 20 (5.04%) Go
7 15 (3.78%) C#
8 13 (3.27%) C++
8 13 (3.27%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.02%) Clojure
10 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.50%) Korn
13 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 85 (21.41%) Security Cleared
2 56 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 42 (10.58%) Azure Certification
4 37 (9.32%) DV Cleared
5 34 (8.56%) AWS Certification
6 29 (7.30%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (5.04%) Degree
8 19 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (4.28%) CCNP
10 16 (4.03%) ISTQB
11 12 (3.02%) CCNA
12 10 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.52%) RHCE
12 10 (2.52%) RHCSA
12 10 (2.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (2.27%) CISSP
14 8 (2.02%) OSCP
15 6 (1.51%) CCIE
15 6 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (1.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (4.79%) NIST
3 15 (3.78%) SLA
4 14 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.02%) NCSC
7 6 (1.51%) GDPR
7 6 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.51%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.01%) GRC
9 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.25%) PMO
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 107 (26.95%) Active Directory
2 76 (19.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (10.08%) Docker
4 28 (7.05%) Hyper-V
5 23 (5.79%) vSphere
6 17 (4.28%) VMware NSX
7 11 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.02%) Squid
8 8 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (1.26%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.76%) Firmware
12 1 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 71 (17.88%) Ansible
2 59 (14.86%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (4.79%) Grafana
5 13 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.27%) SCCM
6 9 (2.27%) ZABBIX
7 8 (2.02%) FortiGate
7 8 (2.02%) Packer
7 8 (2.02%) Puppet
8 7 (1.76%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (1.51%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.51%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.26%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.01%) Nagios
12 3 (0.76%) Istio
12 3 (0.76%) linkerd
13 2 (0.50%) Argo
13 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 160 (40.30%) Microsoft
2 108 (27.20%) VMware
3 47 (11.84%) Cisco
4 22 (5.54%) Palo Alto
4 22 (5.54%) Veeam
5 20 (5.04%) Splunk
6 17 (4.28%) Oracle
6 17 (4.28%) Red Hat
7 16 (4.03%) Fortinet
8 13 (3.27%) Google
8 13 (3.27%) Meraki
9 8 (2.02%) Aruba
9 8 (2.02%) IFS
9 8 (2.02%) NetApp
10 7 (1.76%) Tenable
11 6 (1.51%) Juniper
11 6 (1.51%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.26%) Dell
12 5 (1.26%) EMC
12 5 (1.26%) Ubiquiti