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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 415 359
Rank change year-on-year -17 -56 +4
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 327 229 695
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.54% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 1.33% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 221 115 247
10th Percentile £36,250 £49,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £114,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -3.70% -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 25,377 17,257 34,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.08% 40.59% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 13,186 9,275 23,031
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +7 288 £65,576 -6.32% 125
UK excluding London -43 183 £63,076 -2.96% 86
Work from Home +52 115 £65,576 -8.91% 51
London +32 115 £85,000 +17.24% 43
North of England -37 61 £63,076 -12.38% 25
South East -15 44 £65,000 -23.53% 26
North West -5 33 £65,000 -9.71% 16
South West -65 25 £55,000 +15.79% 18
East of England -16 15 £27,000 -55.00% 2
Midlands -40 15 £62,000 -11.43% 12
Yorkshire -62 15 £63,076 -2.96% 5
West Midlands -15 14 £59,250 -15.36% 10
North East - 13 £63,076 - 4
Northern Ireland -22 12 - -
Scotland -18 6 £45,000 -18.18% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands -47 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 21 (6.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.28%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.45%) Confluence
4 5 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.22%) Documentum
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 190 (58.10%) Azure
2 124 (37.92%) AWS
3 75 (22.94%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (17.74%) Nutanix
5 41 (12.54%) Entra ID
6 27 (8.26%) Power Platform
7 23 (7.03%) GCP
8 21 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (5.81%) PowerApps
10 16 (4.89%) SaaS
11 14 (4.28%) GitHub
12 13 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (3.98%) PaaS
13 12 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.67%) IaaS
14 9 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.45%) Azure AKS
15 8 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 65 (19.88%) DNS
1 65 (19.88%) Firewall
2 56 (17.13%) DHCP
3 29 (8.87%) VPN
4 28 (8.56%) WAN
5 27 (8.26%) Remote Desktop
6 23 (7.03%) LAN
7 14 (4.28%) Network Security
8 12 (3.67%) TCP/IP
9 11 (3.36%) VLAN
9 11 (3.36%) VoIP
10 10 (3.06%) Unified Communications
10 10 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (2.75%) SAN
11 9 (2.75%) WebEx
12 8 (2.45%) BGP
12 8 (2.45%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (2.45%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (1.53%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.34%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.06%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.45%) Power BI
4 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (1.53%) Big Data
5 5 (1.53%) DataStage
5 5 (1.53%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.53%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.53%) MySQL
5 5 (1.53%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.53%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.53%) Pentaho
5 5 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.53%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.53%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (4.28%) GitLab
2 12 (3.67%) Git
3 11 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.75%) JIRA
4 9 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.83%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.61%) rollup.js
General
1 99 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.37%) Finance
3 36 (11.01%) Retail
4 33 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.95%) Law
6 22 (6.73%) Banking
7 16 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.28%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.67%) Aerospace
9 12 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.06%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.75%) Automotive
12 8 (2.45%) Marketing
12 8 (2.45%) Telecoms
13 7 (2.14%) Back Office
13 7 (2.14%) Electronics
14 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.92%) Front Office
15 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (22.02%) Cloud Engineer
2 53 (16.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 51 (15.60%) Senior
4 32 (9.79%) Architect
5 31 (9.48%) Lead
6 22 (6.73%) Network Engineer
7 21 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (4.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.59%) Administrator
9 15 (4.59%) Project Manager
10 14 (4.28%) Consultant
10 14 (4.28%) Digital Project Manager
10 14 (4.28%) Senior Digital Project Manager
10 14 (4.28%) Senior Manager
10 14 (4.28%) Senior Project Manager
11 12 (3.67%) IT Security Specialist
11 12 (3.67%) Security Specialist
12 11 (3.36%) Analyst
12 11 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (3.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.36%) .NET
2 9 (2.75%) XMPP
3 6 (1.83%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.53%) OpenID
5 4 (1.22%) YAML
6 3 (0.92%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.92%) Kafka
7 2 (0.61%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.61%) OAuth
7 2 (0.61%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.61%) REST
7 2 (0.61%) Streamlit
7 2 (0.61%) WAMP
8 1 (0.31%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.31%) JMS
8 1 (0.31%) Middleware
8 1 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.31%) RESTful
8 1 (0.31%) SAML
8 1 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.54%) Public Cloud
2 29 (8.87%) Onboarding
3 26 (7.95%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (7.65%) Data Centre
5 23 (7.03%) Cloud Native
6 17 (5.20%) Private Cloud
7 16 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (4.59%) Low-Code
9 14 (4.28%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (3.67%) Management Information System
11 11 (3.36%) Replication
12 9 (2.75%) FlexPod
12 9 (2.75%) PKI
12 9 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
13 7 (2.14%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (2.14%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (2.14%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.83%) Blog
15 5 (1.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 107 (32.72%) Windows
2 87 (26.61%) Windows Server
3 46 (14.07%) Linux
4 10 (3.06%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.14%) Android
6 5 (1.53%) CentOS
6 5 (1.53%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.53%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (27.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 81 (24.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 79 (24.16%) CI/CD
4 72 (22.02%) ITIL
5 71 (21.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 70 (21.41%) DevOps
7 64 (19.57%) Agile
8 59 (18.04%) Mentoring
9 54 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (14.37%) Coaching
11 47 (14.37%) Cybersecurity
12 43 (13.15%) Business Continuity
12 43 (13.15%) Cloud Security
13 40 (12.23%) High Availability
14 39 (11.93%) ITSM
15 37 (11.31%) Roadmaps
16 33 (10.09%) Storage Management
17 32 (9.79%) AI
17 32 (9.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 77 (23.55%) Python
2 71 (21.71%) PowerShell
3 32 (9.79%) SQL
4 22 (6.73%) Bicep
5 20 (6.12%) Bash
5 20 (6.12%) Java
6 14 (4.28%) VBA
7 9 (2.75%) Go
7 9 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.45%) C#
9 6 (1.83%) Clojure
9 6 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.92%) C++
11 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.61%) PHP
11 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (11.31%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.03%) AWS Certification
3 21 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (4.89%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.59%) Degree
7 12 (3.67%) CEH
7 12 (3.67%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.36%) SC Cleared
9 10 (3.06%) ISTQB
10 8 (2.45%) CCNA
10 8 (2.45%) CCNP
11 7 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.14%) MCSE
11 7 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (1.83%) CISSP
13 5 (1.53%) CISM
13 5 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.53%) OSCP
14 4 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (9.79%) SLA
3 27 (8.26%) NIST
4 12 (3.67%) ISO 22301
5 11 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (3.36%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.75%) SOC 2
7 8 (2.45%) GDPR
8 5 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.53%) NCSC
9 4 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.92%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.92%) QA
11 2 (0.61%) Basel III
11 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.61%) MiFID
12 1 (0.31%) COBIT
12 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (24.77%) Active Directory
2 68 (20.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (10.09%) Hyper-V
4 20 (6.12%) Docker
5 18 (5.50%) vSphere
6 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 8 (2.45%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (1.83%) KVM
8 4 (1.22%) Squid
8 4 (1.22%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.92%) Firmware
10 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.31%) iptables
11 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (28.13%) Terraform
2 54 (16.51%) Ansible
3 47 (14.37%) Kubernetes
4 32 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (6.12%) Grafana
6 10 (3.06%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.75%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (2.45%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.45%) SCCM
9 6 (1.83%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.53%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.53%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.22%) Packer
12 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.61%) Nagios
12 2 (0.61%) Nessus
12 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 114 (34.86%) VMware
2 104 (31.80%) Microsoft
3 31 (9.48%) Cisco
4 30 (9.17%) Dell
5 28 (8.56%) HP
6 27 (8.26%) Dell Compellent
6 27 (8.26%) Nimble Storage
7 22 (6.73%) Splunk
8 20 (6.12%) Oracle
9 19 (5.81%) Commvault
10 17 (5.20%) Palo Alto
11 15 (4.59%) Veeam
12 14 (4.28%) Red Hat
13 12 (3.67%) Fortinet
13 12 (3.67%) ServiceNow
14 10 (3.06%) Juniper
15 7 (2.14%) SolarWinds
16 6 (1.83%) IFS
16 6 (1.83%) NetApp
16 6 (1.83%) Ubiquiti