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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 408 403
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 317 238 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.57% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% 1.45% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 207 112 246
10th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -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 24,964 16,407 34,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.80% 39.42% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,816 9,150 22,981
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,487 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,555 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% -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 April 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 18 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 -22 277 £70,000 - 100
UK excluding London -41 171 £63,076 +0.92% 73
London +43 118 £87,500 -1.41% 37
Work from Home +35 106 £65,576 -8.91% 58
North of England -60 56 £63,076 -12.38% 21
South East -24 38 £65,000 -1.89% 28
North West -37 29 £65,000 -9.71% 14
South West -63 22 £55,000 +15.79% 11
East of England -30 16 £27,000 -55.00% 1
Midlands -28 15 £63,076 -9.89% 5
West Midlands -17 14 £63,076 -9.89% 3
Yorkshire -66 14 £63,076 -4.07% 5
Northern Ireland -28 13 - -
North East - 13 £63,076 - 2
Scotland -24 6 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £77,500 - 2

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 (6.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.21%) Confluence
4 5 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.26%) Documentum
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 188 (59.31%) Azure
2 125 (39.43%) AWS
3 74 (23.34%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (19.56%) Nutanix
5 43 (13.56%) Entra ID
6 26 (8.20%) Power Platform
7 22 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (6.31%) GCP
9 19 (5.99%) PowerApps
9 19 (5.99%) SaaS
10 16 (5.05%) GitHub
11 13 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.79%) IaaS
12 12 (3.79%) PaaS
13 10 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.84%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 68 (21.45%) DNS
2 61 (19.24%) Firewall
3 58 (18.30%) DHCP
4 30 (9.46%) VPN
5 28 (8.83%) Remote Desktop
6 24 (7.57%) WAN
7 21 (6.62%) LAN
8 14 (4.42%) TCP/IP
9 13 (4.10%) Network Security
9 13 (4.10%) VLAN
10 12 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (3.47%) VoIP
12 10 (3.15%) Unified Communications
13 9 (2.84%) WebEx
14 8 (2.52%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (2.52%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (2.52%) SAN
15 7 (2.21%) BGP
16 6 (1.89%) Internet
17 3 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.21%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.21%) Power BI
4 6 (1.89%) MySQL
4 6 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (1.58%) Big Data
5 5 (1.58%) DataStage
5 5 (1.58%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.58%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.58%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.58%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.58%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.58%) Pentaho
5 5 (1.58%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.58%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (4.10%) GitLab
2 11 (3.47%) Git
2 11 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.84%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (2.52%) JIRA
5 6 (1.89%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) rollup.js
General
1 104 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.83%) Finance
3 35 (11.04%) Retail
4 33 (10.41%) Public Sector
5 30 (9.46%) Law
6 25 (7.89%) Banking
7 15 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (3.79%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.47%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.15%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.84%) Back Office
12 8 (2.52%) Automotive
12 8 (2.52%) Marketing
12 8 (2.52%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.89%) Electronics
14 5 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.95%) Front Office
15 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (19.56%) Cloud Engineer
2 55 (17.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 50 (15.77%) Senior
4 33 (10.41%) Architect
5 27 (8.52%) Lead
6 21 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.05%) Administrator
8 15 (4.73%) Project Manager
8 15 (4.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.42%) Digital Project Manager
9 14 (4.42%) Senior Digital Project Manager
9 14 (4.42%) Senior Manager
9 14 (4.42%) Senior Project Manager
10 13 (4.10%) Consultant
10 13 (4.10%) IT Security Specialist
10 13 (4.10%) Security Specialist
11 11 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.47%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (3.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.10%) .NET
2 9 (2.84%) XMPP
3 6 (1.89%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.58%) OpenID
5 4 (1.26%) RESTful
5 4 (1.26%) YAML
6 3 (0.95%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.63%) Kafka
7 2 (0.63%) Middleware
7 2 (0.63%) OAuth
7 2 (0.63%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.63%) REST
7 2 (0.63%) Streamlit
7 2 (0.63%) WAMP
8 1 (0.32%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.32%) CSS
8 1 (0.32%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.32%) JMS
8 1 (0.32%) SOAP
8 1 (0.32%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.56%) Public Cloud
2 28 (8.83%) Data Centre
2 28 (8.83%) Onboarding
3 26 (8.20%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (7.89%) Cloud Native
5 18 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.05%) Private Cloud
7 15 (4.73%) Legacy Applications
7 15 (4.73%) Low-Code
8 12 (3.79%) Management Information System
9 11 (3.47%) Replication
10 10 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.84%) FlexPod
11 9 (2.84%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (2.21%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (2.21%) PKI
12 7 (2.21%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.89%) Blog
13 6 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 104 (32.81%) Windows
2 84 (26.50%) Windows Server
3 43 (13.56%) Linux
4 11 (3.47%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.21%) Android
6 6 (1.89%) CentOS
6 6 (1.89%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (29.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 83 (26.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 77 (24.29%) CI/CD
4 76 (23.97%) Disaster Recovery
5 70 (22.08%) ITIL
6 68 (21.45%) DevOps
7 62 (19.56%) Mentoring
8 60 (18.93%) Agile
9 54 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (15.14%) Coaching
12 47 (14.83%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (14.20%) Business Continuity
14 43 (13.56%) Cloud Security
14 43 (13.56%) ITSM
15 38 (11.99%) High Availability
15 38 (11.99%) Roadmaps
16 34 (10.73%) Migration
16 34 (10.73%) Storage Management
17 31 (9.78%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (25.24%) Python
2 72 (22.71%) PowerShell
3 32 (10.09%) SQL
4 21 (6.62%) Java
5 20 (6.31%) Bash
5 20 (6.31%) Bicep
6 14 (4.42%) VBA
7 11 (3.47%) Go
8 10 (3.15%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.84%) C#
10 6 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.95%) C++
11 3 (0.95%) Clojure
11 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.63%) PHP
12 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.26%) AWS Certification
3 18 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.05%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.42%) CEH
6 14 (4.42%) Degree
7 13 (4.10%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.79%) SC Cleared
9 8 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.21%) CCNP
10 7 (2.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (1.89%) CISSP
11 6 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.89%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.89%) MCSE
12 5 (1.58%) CCNA
12 5 (1.58%) CISM
13 4 (1.26%) CCSP
13 4 (1.26%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (10.09%) SLA
3 30 (9.46%) NIST
4 14 (4.42%) ISO 22301
5 13 (4.10%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (3.47%) SOC 2
8 9 (2.84%) GDPR
9 6 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.58%) NCSC
11 4 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (1.26%) QA
12 2 (0.63%) Basel III
12 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.63%) MiFID
13 1 (0.32%) COBIT
13 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (25.24%) Active Directory
2 69 (21.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (10.73%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.36%) Docker
4 17 (5.36%) vSphere
5 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 8 (2.52%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (2.21%) KVM
7 4 (1.26%) Firmware
8 3 (0.95%) Squid
8 3 (0.95%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.32%) iptables
10 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (29.02%) Terraform
2 54 (17.03%) Ansible
3 44 (13.88%) Kubernetes
4 34 (10.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (6.31%) Grafana
6 10 (3.15%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.84%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (2.84%) SCCM
8 8 (2.52%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.58%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.26%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.95%) Packer
11 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.95%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.63%) Nessus
13 1 (0.32%) Nagios
13 1 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 116 (36.59%) VMware
2 102 (32.18%) Microsoft
3 31 (9.78%) Dell
4 29 (9.15%) HP
5 28 (8.83%) Cisco
5 28 (8.83%) Dell Compellent
5 28 (8.83%) Nimble Storage
6 22 (6.94%) Commvault
7 21 (6.62%) Splunk
8 16 (5.05%) Oracle
9 15 (4.73%) Palo Alto
10 14 (4.42%) Veeam
11 13 (4.10%) Red Hat
12 12 (3.79%) Fortinet
12 12 (3.79%) ServiceNow
13 9 (2.84%) Juniper
14 7 (2.21%) Freshdesk
15 6 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (1.89%) TP-LINK
15 6 (1.89%) Ubiquiti