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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 346 369
Rank change year-on-year -79 +23 -28
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 368 374 750
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.81% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 1.92% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 268 147 266
10th Percentile £36,775 £52,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,125 £60,500 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £86,406
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% -

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 24,762 19,440 35,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.73% 41.87% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 15,849 9,402 23,012
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +4.55% -14.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,401
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 30 June 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 June 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 -80 339 £65,000 -7.21% 92
UK excluding London -40 252 £62,500 -7.41% 72
Work from Home +28 126 £65,000 -14.47% 41
London -50 95 £80,000 +10.34% 38
North of England -18 86 £63,076 -12.38% 19
South East -51 60 £70,000 -17.65% 27
North West +23 48 £70,000 -2.77% 12
South West -69 43 £55,000 -18.52% 7
Midlands -27 34 £59,250 -24.76% 7
West Midlands 0 33 £56,500 -28.25% 4
Yorkshire -33 22 £60,288 -7.25% 7
North East - 16 £44,000 -
East of England -20 14 £32,250 -43.91% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 4
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -49 4 £55,000 -31.25% 1
Scotland +14 3 £60,000 +29.73% 5
East Midlands -39 1 £77,500 - 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 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.26%) Confluence
4 5 (1.36%) IIS
5 4 (1.09%) Documentum
6 3 (0.82%) SAS
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 229 (62.23%) Azure
2 130 (35.33%) AWS
3 92 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (16.85%) Entra ID
5 41 (11.14%) Nutanix
6 29 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (7.61%) PaaS
8 26 (7.07%) GCP
9 25 (6.79%) IaaS
10 24 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (6.25%) Azure AKS
11 23 (6.25%) Power Platform
12 22 (5.98%) SaaS
13 17 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.35%) GitHub
14 16 (4.35%) PowerApps
15 14 (3.80%) Serverless
16 10 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 89 (24.18%) Firewall
2 65 (17.66%) DNS
3 54 (14.67%) DHCP
4 44 (11.96%) WAN
5 43 (11.68%) VPN
6 36 (9.78%) LAN
7 32 (8.70%) Network Security
8 18 (4.89%) Remote Desktop
9 16 (4.35%) VLAN
10 15 (4.08%) Wireless
11 14 (3.80%) TCP/IP
12 13 (3.53%) SD-WAN
13 11 (2.99%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (2.99%) SAN
14 10 (2.72%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (2.72%) Unified Communications
14 10 (2.72%) VoIP
14 10 (2.72%) WebEx
15 9 (2.45%) Cisco ASA
15 9 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.17%) Oracle Database
3 7 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.36%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.36%) Power BI
5 4 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.54%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.54%) Flink
7 2 (0.54%) Redis
8 1 (0.27%) Big Data
8 1 (0.27%) DataStage
8 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.27%) MySQL
8 1 (0.27%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.98%) GitLab
2 18 (4.89%) Git
3 17 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.08%) JIRA
5 8 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.54%) rollup.js
8 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 111 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.67%) Finance
3 43 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 36 (9.78%) Retail
5 17 (4.62%) Law
6 16 (4.35%) Aerospace
7 15 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.08%) Banking
8 14 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.53%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.45%) Automotive
11 9 (2.45%) Marketing
12 7 (1.90%) Electronics
13 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.09%) Back Office
14 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.54%) Front Office
15 2 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 66 (17.93%) Cloud Engineer
2 58 (15.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 57 (15.49%) Senior
4 49 (13.32%) Lead
5 46 (12.50%) Architect
6 25 (6.79%) Network Engineer
7 22 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (5.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (4.89%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
10 17 (4.62%) Analyst
11 16 (4.35%) Consultant
12 15 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Administrator
13 14 (3.80%) Digital Project Manager
13 14 (3.80%) IT Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.80%) Senior Digital Project Manager
13 14 (3.80%) Senior Manager
13 14 (3.80%) Senior Project Manager
14 13 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.26%) ARM Templates
2 10 (2.72%) XMPP
3 6 (1.63%) .NET
3 6 (1.63%) Kafka
3 6 (1.63%) YAML
4 5 (1.36%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.36%) boto
5 3 (0.82%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.82%) OpenID
6 2 (0.54%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.54%) OAuth
6 2 (0.54%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.54%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.54%) WAMP
7 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.27%) Loki
7 1 (0.27%) Node.js
7 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.27%) REST
7 1 (0.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.51%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.15%) Public Cloud
3 28 (7.61%) Onboarding
4 26 (7.07%) Data Centre
5 24 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (4.89%) PKI
6 18 (4.89%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.35%) Private Cloud
8 15 (4.08%) Low-Code
9 14 (3.80%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (3.26%) Replication
10 12 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.72%) FlexPod
11 10 (2.72%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (2.45%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
14 6 (1.63%) Driving Licence
15 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 136 (36.96%) Windows
2 114 (30.98%) Windows Server
3 66 (17.93%) Linux
4 10 (2.72%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.90%) Android
6 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.36%) CentOS
7 5 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.36%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.36%) VMS
8 4 (1.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (29.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 92 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 89 (24.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 83 (22.55%) ITIL
5 82 (22.28%) DevOps
6 78 (21.20%) Agile
7 72 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 65 (17.66%) Disaster Recovery
9 61 (16.58%) Mentoring
10 58 (15.76%) Cloud Security
10 58 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (14.95%) Roadmaps
12 50 (13.59%) Migration
13 47 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
14 40 (10.87%) Coaching
15 36 (9.78%) High Availability
15 36 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 35 (9.51%) Business Continuity
17 34 (9.24%) AI
18 30 (8.15%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (21.47%) PowerShell
2 68 (18.48%) Python
3 28 (7.61%) Bash
3 28 (7.61%) SQL
4 26 (7.07%) Bicep
5 16 (4.35%) Java
6 14 (3.80%) VBA
7 12 (3.26%) Go
8 8 (2.17%) Clojure
9 7 (1.90%) C#
9 7 (1.90%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.82%) C++
10 3 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 26 (7.07%) Azure Certification
3 26 (7.07%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (6.52%) Degree
5 22 (5.98%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.35%) ISTQB
7 15 (4.08%) DV Cleared
8 13 (3.53%) CCNP
9 12 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.26%) CCNA
10 10 (2.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (2.45%) MCSE
12 8 (2.17%) OSCP
12 8 (2.17%) RHCE
12 8 (2.17%) RHCSA
12 8 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (1.63%) CEH
13 6 (1.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (7.88%) SLA
3 27 (7.34%) NIST
4 10 (2.72%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.72%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.90%) GDPR
6 7 (1.90%) NCSC
7 6 (1.63%) ISO 22301
8 4 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.54%) QA
11 1 (0.27%) COBIT
11 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 112 (30.43%) Active Directory
2 82 (22.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (9.51%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.34%) Docker
5 26 (7.07%) vSphere
6 12 (3.26%) VMware NSX
7 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 9 (2.45%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (2.17%) Squid
9 5 (1.36%) KVM
10 4 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 108 (29.35%) Terraform
2 64 (17.39%) Ansible
3 58 (15.76%) Kubernetes
4 37 (10.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (5.98%) Grafana
6 13 (3.53%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.72%) Cisco CUCM
7 10 (2.72%) SCCM
8 9 (2.45%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.45%) ZABBIX
9 8 (2.17%) Packer
9 8 (2.17%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.09%) Nagios
10 4 (1.09%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.54%) linkerd
11 2 (0.54%) Nessus
11 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.54%) Puppet
11 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 151 (41.03%) Microsoft
2 117 (31.79%) VMware
3 41 (11.14%) Cisco
4 26 (7.07%) Splunk
5 24 (6.52%) Veeam
6 22 (5.98%) Palo Alto
7 20 (5.43%) Dell
8 19 (5.16%) HP
9 18 (4.89%) Dell Compellent
9 18 (4.89%) Nimble Storage
9 18 (4.89%) Oracle
9 18 (4.89%) Red Hat
10 16 (4.35%) Fortinet
11 12 (3.26%) Commvault
11 12 (3.26%) Meraki
12 9 (2.45%) Google
13 8 (2.17%) IFS
13 8 (2.17%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.90%) NetApp
14 7 (1.90%) SolarWinds