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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 428 440
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +19
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 305 208 489
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.51% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 1.31% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 207 105 234
10th Percentile £36,700 £46,642 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.63%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.13% -7.69% -2.59%

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 23,843 15,870 33,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.63% 38.78% 36.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12,239 8,989 22,525
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,000 £28,141
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 4 April 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 4 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 +8 266 £70,000 -0.07% 102
UK excluding London -42 158 £63,076 +5.13% 70
London +31 120 £90,000 - 39
Work from Home +33 101 £67,788 -3.16% 47
North of England -66 51 £63,076 -12.38% 26
South East -20 35 £65,000 +44.44% 26
North West -41 27 £65,000 -9.71% 16
South West -33 18 £53,750 +13.16% 11
East of England -24 16 £27,000 -55.00% 2
West Midlands -5 15 £63,076 +0.92% 1
Midlands -35 15 £63,076 +0.92% 2
Northern Ireland -28 13 - -
Yorkshire -54 13 £63,076 -2.96% 9
North East - 11 £63,076 - 1
Scotland -27 5 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Channel Islands - 5 £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 22 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.31%) Confluence
4 4 (1.31%) Documentum
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 187 (61.31%) Azure
2 115 (37.70%) AWS
3 71 (23.28%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (20.66%) Nutanix
5 41 (13.44%) Entra ID
6 26 (8.52%) Power Platform
7 20 (6.56%) GCP
8 19 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (6.23%) PowerApps
8 19 (6.23%) SaaS
9 16 (5.25%) GitHub
10 14 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.26%) IaaS
11 13 (4.26%) PaaS
12 10 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.95%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 59 (19.34%) DNS
2 53 (17.38%) DHCP
2 53 (17.38%) Firewall
3 29 (9.51%) VPN
4 28 (9.18%) Remote Desktop
5 20 (6.56%) WAN
6 18 (5.90%) LAN
7 12 (3.93%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (3.61%) VLAN
9 10 (3.28%) Network Security
9 10 (3.28%) TCP/IP
9 10 (3.28%) VoIP
10 8 (2.62%) SAN
10 8 (2.62%) Unified Communications
11 7 (2.30%) WebEx
12 6 (1.97%) BGP
12 6 (1.97%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.97%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (1.97%) Internet
13 3 (0.98%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.54%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (2.30%) Power BI
5 6 (1.97%) MySQL
5 6 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (1.64%) Big Data
6 5 (1.64%) DataStage
6 5 (1.64%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.64%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.64%) Neo4j
6 5 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.64%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.64%) Pentaho
6 5 (1.64%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (4.26%) Octopus Deploy
2 10 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.62%) Git
3 8 (2.62%) TeamCity
4 7 (2.30%) GitLab
5 5 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 99 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.07%) Finance
3 33 (10.82%) Law
4 31 (10.16%) Retail
5 26 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 25 (8.20%) Banking
7 12 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.93%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.95%) Back Office
10 7 (2.30%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.97%) Marketing
11 6 (1.97%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.64%) Automotive
12 5 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.98%) Electronics
14 3 (0.98%) Front Office
14 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (19.02%) Cloud Engineer
2 47 (15.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 44 (14.43%) Senior
4 36 (11.80%) Architect
5 23 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (7.21%) Lead
7 16 (5.25%) Administrator
8 15 (4.92%) IT Security Specialist
8 15 (4.92%) Project Manager
8 15 (4.92%) Security Specialist
9 14 (4.59%) Digital Project Manager
9 14 (4.59%) Senior Digital Project Manager
9 14 (4.59%) Senior Manager
9 14 (4.59%) Senior Project Manager
10 12 (3.93%) Consultant
11 11 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.28%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
12 10 (3.28%) IT Manager
12 10 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.92%) .NET
2 7 (2.30%) XMPP
3 5 (1.64%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.31%) RESTful
4 4 (1.31%) YAML
5 3 (0.98%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.98%) OpenID
6 2 (0.66%) Kafka
6 2 (0.66%) Middleware
6 2 (0.66%) REST
6 2 (0.66%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.66%) WAMP
7 1 (0.33%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.33%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.33%) CSS
7 1 (0.33%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.33%) OAuth
7 1 (0.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.10%) Public Cloud
2 30 (9.84%) Data Centre
3 28 (9.18%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (8.52%) Onboarding
5 23 (7.54%) Cloud Native
6 18 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.92%) Legacy Applications
7 15 (4.92%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.92%) Private Cloud
8 12 (3.93%) Management Information System
9 11 (3.61%) Replication
10 9 (2.95%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (2.30%) FlexPod
12 7 (2.30%) Security Posture
12 7 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (1.97%) Blog
13 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Storage
13 6 (1.97%) PKI
14 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (30.49%) Windows
2 74 (24.26%) Windows Server
3 35 (11.48%) Linux
4 11 (3.61%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.97%) Android
5 6 (1.97%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.64%) CentOS
6 5 (1.64%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.33%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (26.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 78 (25.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 74 (24.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 69 (22.62%) CI/CD
4 69 (22.62%) DevOps
5 63 (20.66%) ITIL
6 58 (19.02%) Mentoring
7 53 (17.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (16.39%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (15.74%) Agile
10 47 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (15.08%) Business Continuity
12 45 (14.75%) Coaching
13 44 (14.43%) Cloud Security
14 43 (14.10%) ITSM
15 41 (13.44%) Roadmaps
16 34 (11.15%) High Availability
16 34 (11.15%) Storage Management
17 31 (10.16%) Migration
17 31 (10.16%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (24.59%) Python
2 70 (22.95%) PowerShell
3 31 (10.16%) SQL
4 19 (6.23%) Bicep
5 18 (5.90%) Java
6 16 (5.25%) Bash
7 14 (4.59%) VBA
8 11 (3.61%) Go
9 10 (3.28%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.95%) C#
11 5 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.98%) C++
12 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.66%) PHP
13 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.33%) Clojure
14 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.56%) AWS Certification
3 17 (5.57%) CEH
4 16 (5.25%) Azure Certification
4 16 (5.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (4.92%) Degree
6 14 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.26%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.61%) SC Cleared
9 8 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.97%) CCNP
10 6 (1.97%) CISSP
10 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.97%) MCSE
10 6 (1.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.64%) CISM
11 5 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.31%) CCSP
12 4 (1.31%) CITP
12 4 (1.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (10.82%) SLA
3 32 (10.49%) NIST
4 17 (5.57%) ISO 22301
5 13 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (3.93%) PCI DSS
7 10 (3.28%) SOC 2
8 9 (2.95%) GDPR
9 7 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.64%) NCSC
11 4 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (1.31%) QA
12 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.66%) Basel III
13 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.66%) MiFID
14 1 (0.33%) COBIT
14 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (23.61%) Active Directory
2 60 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (10.49%) Hyper-V
4 13 (4.26%) vSphere
5 11 (3.61%) Docker
6 8 (2.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 8 (2.62%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (2.30%) KVM
8 4 (1.31%) Firmware
9 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 82 (26.89%) Terraform
2 45 (14.75%) Ansible
3 35 (11.48%) Kubernetes
4 33 (10.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (5.90%) Grafana
6 10 (3.28%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.62%) Proxmox
7 8 (2.62%) SCCM
8 7 (2.30%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.31%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.98%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.66%) Nessus
12 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 112 (36.72%) VMware
2 95 (31.15%) Microsoft
3 30 (9.84%) Dell
4 29 (9.51%) HP
5 28 (9.18%) Dell Compellent
5 28 (9.18%) Nimble Storage
6 26 (8.52%) Cisco
7 25 (8.20%) Commvault
8 16 (5.25%) Splunk
9 13 (4.26%) Palo Alto
9 13 (4.26%) Veeam
10 11 (3.61%) Oracle
10 11 (3.61%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.28%) Fortinet
12 9 (2.95%) Juniper
12 9 (2.95%) Red Hat
13 7 (2.30%) Freshdesk
14 6 (1.97%) NetApp
15 5 (1.64%) Citrix
15 5 (1.64%) Informatica