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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 319 303
Rank change year-on-year -120 -16 +16
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 389 425 713
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.85% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.37% 2.06% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 307 187 197
10th Percentile £37,300 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £47,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £94,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% 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 28,489 20,593 26,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.91% 41.12% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17,919 10,448 14,829
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% -7.27%

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 August 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 30 August 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 -113 366 £67,500 -3.64% 259
UK excluding London -67 295 £62,500 -3.85% 142
Work from Home -11 115 £70,000 -12.50% 131
North of England -3 96 £57,500 -11.54% 30
London -103 85 £82,500 +13.79% 136
South East -56 77 £70,000 -17.65% 56
South West -73 55 £62,500 -21.88% 16
North West +22 54 £65,288 +18.71% 14
Midlands -21 47 £70,000 -12.50% 23
West Midlands +3 46 £70,000 -12.50% 14
Yorkshire -36 26 £51,500 -20.77% 12
East of England -17 20 £50,500 -12.17% 8
North East - 16 £47,000 - 4
Scotland +6 8 £77,500 +67.57% 8
Wales -78 6 £54,085 -1.66%
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2
East Midlands -42 1 £77,500 +56.57% 9
Channel Islands - 1 £75,000 -

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 29 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.06%) Confluence
4 5 (1.29%) IIS
5 4 (1.03%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.51%) Weka
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.26%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 244 (62.72%) Azure
2 147 (37.79%) AWS
3 95 (24.42%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (19.28%) Entra ID
5 38 (9.77%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (9.25%) GCP
7 33 (8.48%) Serverless
8 31 (7.97%) Azure AKS
8 31 (7.97%) PaaS
9 29 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (7.46%) IaaS
10 28 (7.20%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (5.66%) Amazon S3
13 21 (5.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (4.88%) SaaS
16 15 (3.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 95 (24.42%) Firewall
2 60 (15.42%) VPN
3 54 (13.88%) DNS
4 51 (13.11%) WAN
5 43 (11.05%) DHCP
5 43 (11.05%) Network Security
6 40 (10.28%) LAN
7 23 (5.91%) SD-WAN
8 20 (5.14%) Wireless
9 18 (4.63%) TCP/IP
10 14 (3.60%) VLAN
11 13 (3.34%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (3.08%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (2.83%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (2.57%) BGP
14 10 (2.57%) SAN
14 10 (2.57%) Unified Communications
14 10 (2.57%) VoIP
15 9 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (2.06%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.34%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (2.06%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.54%) Spark SQL
6 3 (0.77%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.77%) Flink
6 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.51%) Power BI
7 2 (0.51%) Redis
8 1 (0.26%) Big Data
8 1 (0.26%) DataStage
8 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.26%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.26%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.26%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.17%) GitLab
2 18 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.37%) Git
4 12 (3.08%) JIRA
5 8 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.51%) rollup.js
6 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
General
1 94 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.08%) Finance
3 37 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.17%) Retail
6 22 (5.66%) Law
7 17 (4.37%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.11%) Aerospace
9 14 (3.60%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.31%) Banking
10 9 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.06%) Marketing
12 7 (1.80%) Automotive
12 7 (1.80%) Electronics
13 5 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.03%) Local Government
15 2 (0.51%) Aviation
15 2 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 62 (15.94%) Architect
2 58 (14.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 55 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 51 (13.11%) Lead
5 44 (11.31%) Senior
6 26 (6.68%) Network Engineer
7 23 (5.91%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (5.66%) Consultant
9 21 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (4.88%) IT Engineer
12 18 (4.63%) Support Engineer
13 17 (4.37%) Analyst
13 17 (4.37%) Azure Architect
14 16 (4.11%) Cloud Consultant
15 15 (3.86%) Data Engineer
15 15 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 14 (3.60%) IT Support
17 13 (3.34%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (31.62%) Terraform
2 14 (3.60%) Kafka
3 12 (3.08%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.06%) .NET
4 8 (2.06%) Keycloak
4 8 (2.06%) XMPP
5 6 (1.54%) PySpark
5 6 (1.54%) YAML
6 5 (1.29%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.29%) boto
7 3 (0.77%) OpenID
8 2 (0.51%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.51%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.51%) Loki
8 2 (0.51%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.51%) OAuth
8 2 (0.51%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.26%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.25%) Data Centre
2 30 (7.71%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.43%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.88%) Private Cloud
4 19 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 18 (4.63%) Security Posture
6 16 (4.11%) PKI
7 15 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.31%) Replication
8 9 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.06%) Driving Licence
9 8 (2.06%) FlexPod
9 8 (2.06%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.54%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 126 (32.39%) Windows
2 106 (27.25%) Windows Server
3 65 (16.71%) Linux
4 7 (1.80%) Android
4 7 (1.80%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.29%) VMS
7 4 (1.03%) CentOS
7 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.03%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.77%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.51%) AIX
9 2 (0.51%) Unix
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.26%) Rocky
10 1 (0.26%) SUSE
10 1 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (33.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 112 (28.79%) CI/CD
3 103 (26.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 94 (24.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 90 (23.14%) DevOps
6 85 (21.85%) Cloud Security
7 73 (18.77%) ITIL
8 68 (17.48%) Migration
9 67 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (15.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 59 (15.17%) Roadmaps
12 58 (14.91%) Agile
13 57 (14.65%) Cybersecurity
14 54 (13.88%) Mentoring
15 46 (11.83%) Analytics
16 42 (10.80%) Infrastructure Automation
17 41 (10.54%) Zero Trust
18 40 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 39 (10.03%) AI
20 38 (9.77%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.28%) Python
2 72 (18.51%) PowerShell
3 41 (10.54%) Bash
4 32 (8.23%) Bicep
5 27 (6.94%) SQL
6 16 (4.11%) Go
6 16 (4.11%) Java
7 9 (2.31%) C#
8 8 (2.06%) Clojure
9 7 (1.80%) C++
9 7 (1.80%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.51%) Korn
13 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 79 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.85%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.77%) Azure Certification
4 34 (8.74%) DV Cleared
5 30 (7.71%) AWS Certification
6 28 (7.20%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (5.40%) Degree
7 21 (5.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (4.11%) CCNP
8 16 (4.11%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.08%) CCNA
10 10 (2.57%) RHCE
10 10 (2.57%) RHCSA
10 10 (2.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.06%) CISSP
12 8 (2.06%) OSCP
13 6 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.29%) DBS Check
14 5 (1.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (5.14%) NIST
3 18 (4.63%) SLA
4 8 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.06%) NCSC
5 6 (1.54%) GDPR
5 6 (1.54%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.54%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.77%) GRC
8 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.51%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 108 (27.76%) Active Directory
2 76 (19.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (10.80%) Docker
4 29 (7.46%) Hyper-V
5 24 (6.17%) vSphere
6 16 (4.11%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.06%) Squid
9 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.77%) Firmware
12 1 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 70 (17.99%) Ansible
2 61 (15.68%) Kubernetes
3 38 (9.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (4.37%) Grafana
5 10 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.31%) FortiGate
6 9 (2.31%) SCCM
6 9 (2.31%) ZABBIX
7 8 (2.06%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (2.06%) Packer
8 7 (1.80%) Puppet
9 5 (1.29%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.03%) Nagios
10 4 (1.03%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.77%) Istio
11 3 (0.77%) linkerd
11 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.51%) Argo
12 2 (0.51%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 156 (40.10%) Microsoft
2 104 (26.74%) VMware
3 44 (11.31%) Cisco
4 23 (5.91%) Palo Alto
5 21 (5.40%) Splunk
5 21 (5.40%) Veeam
6 18 (4.63%) Oracle
6 18 (4.63%) Red Hat
7 16 (4.11%) Fortinet
8 13 (3.34%) Google
8 13 (3.34%) Meraki
9 8 (2.06%) Dell
9 8 (2.06%) IFS
10 7 (1.80%) Aruba
10 7 (1.80%) NetApp
10 7 (1.80%) Tenable
11 6 (1.54%) Dell Compellent
11 6 (1.54%) Nimble Storage
11 6 (1.54%) TP-LINK
11 6 (1.54%) Ubiquiti