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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 312 315
Rank change year-on-year -136 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 382 421 708
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.84% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 2.05% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 300 183 205
10th Percentile £37,450 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £47,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -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 28,271 20,584 27,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.95% 41.19% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17,699 10,408 15,565
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £30,868
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.09%
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 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.10% -8.99%

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 26 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 26 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 -111 359 £68,750 -1.85% 77
UK excluding London -67 289 £62,500 -3.85% 55
Work from Home +19 116 £70,000 -12.50% 35
North of England -1 95 £57,500 -11.54% 15
London -108 85 £82,500 +13.79% 21
South East -48 73 £70,000 -17.65% 21
North West +25 55 £65,000 +18.18% 5
South West -73 55 £62,500 -21.88% 10
Midlands -21 46 £70,000 -12.50% 8
West Midlands +1 45 £70,000 -12.50% 4
Yorkshire -37 25 £51,500 -20.77% 7
East of England -24 20 £50,500 -15.83% 2
North East - 15 £47,000 - 3
Scotland +9 8 £77,500 +67.57% 1
Wales -69 6 £54,085 -19.87%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East Midlands -34 1 £77,500 +56.57% 4
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 27 (7.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (6.28%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.09%) Confluence
4 5 (1.31%) IIS
5 4 (1.05%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.52%) Weka
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.26%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 241 (63.09%) Azure
2 142 (37.17%) AWS
3 93 (24.35%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (19.11%) Entra ID
5 36 (9.42%) Amazon EKS
6 34 (8.90%) GCP
7 31 (8.12%) Azure AKS
7 31 (8.12%) PaaS
7 31 (8.12%) Serverless
8 29 (7.59%) IaaS
9 27 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (5.24%) Amazon S3
13 19 (4.97%) SaaS
13 19 (4.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (3.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 95 (24.87%) Firewall
2 59 (15.45%) VPN
3 53 (13.87%) DNS
4 51 (13.35%) WAN
5 43 (11.26%) DHCP
5 43 (11.26%) Network Security
6 40 (10.47%) LAN
7 23 (6.02%) SD-WAN
8 19 (4.97%) Wireless
9 18 (4.71%) TCP/IP
10 13 (3.40%) Cisco Firepower
10 13 (3.40%) VLAN
11 12 (3.14%) Software-Defined Networking
12 11 (2.88%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (2.62%) BGP
13 10 (2.62%) SAN
13 10 (2.62%) Unified Communications
14 9 (2.36%) VoIP
14 9 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (2.09%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.40%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (2.09%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.57%) Spark SQL
6 3 (0.79%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.79%) Flink
6 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.52%) Power BI
7 2 (0.52%) 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 (6.28%) GitLab
2 18 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.45%) Git
4 12 (3.14%) JIRA
5 8 (2.09%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.52%) rollup.js
6 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 92 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.30%) Finance
3 34 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.54%) Retail
6 20 (5.24%) Law
7 17 (4.45%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.19%) Aerospace
9 14 (3.66%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.36%) Banking
10 9 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.09%) Marketing
12 7 (1.83%) Automotive
12 7 (1.83%) Electronics
13 5 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.05%) Local Government
15 2 (0.52%) Aviation
15 2 (0.52%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 62 (16.23%) Architect
2 56 (14.66%) Cloud Engineer
3 53 (13.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 51 (13.35%) Lead
5 43 (11.26%) Senior
6 26 (6.81%) Network Engineer
7 23 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.50%) Consultant
9 20 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.71%) IT Engineer
12 17 (4.45%) Analyst
12 17 (4.45%) Azure Architect
12 17 (4.45%) Support Engineer
13 15 (3.93%) Cloud Consultant
13 15 (3.93%) Data Engineer
13 15 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.40%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
14 13 (3.40%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (31.41%) Terraform
2 14 (3.66%) Kafka
3 12 (3.14%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.09%) .NET
4 8 (2.09%) Keycloak
4 8 (2.09%) XMPP
5 6 (1.57%) PySpark
5 6 (1.57%) YAML
6 5 (1.31%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.31%) boto
7 3 (0.79%) OpenID
8 2 (0.52%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.52%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.52%) Loki
8 2 (0.52%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.52%) OAuth
8 2 (0.52%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.26%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.16%) Data Centre
2 30 (7.85%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.54%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.71%) Private Cloud
4 18 (4.71%) Security Posture
5 17 (4.45%) Public Cloud
6 16 (4.19%) PKI
7 13 (3.40%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.36%) Replication
8 9 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.09%) FlexPod
9 8 (2.09%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (1.83%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.57%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 126 (32.98%) Windows
2 105 (27.49%) Windows Server
3 64 (16.75%) Linux
4 7 (1.83%) Android
4 7 (1.83%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.31%) VMS
7 4 (1.05%) CentOS
7 4 (1.05%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.05%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.52%) AIX
8 2 (0.52%) Unix
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Rocky
9 1 (0.26%) SUSE
9 1 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (33.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 110 (28.80%) CI/CD
3 101 (26.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 91 (23.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 87 (22.77%) DevOps
6 82 (21.47%) Cloud Security
7 71 (18.59%) ITIL
8 65 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (16.49%) Migration
10 62 (16.23%) Disaster Recovery
11 58 (15.18%) Agile
11 58 (15.18%) Roadmaps
12 53 (13.87%) Cybersecurity
12 53 (13.87%) Mentoring
13 46 (12.04%) Analytics
14 40 (10.47%) Infrastructure Automation
14 40 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 39 (10.21%) Zero Trust
16 38 (9.95%) AI
17 36 (9.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 73 (19.11%) Python
2 71 (18.59%) PowerShell
3 39 (10.21%) Bash
4 33 (8.64%) Bicep
5 27 (7.07%) SQL
6 16 (4.19%) Go
6 16 (4.19%) Java
7 9 (2.36%) C#
8 8 (2.09%) Clojure
9 7 (1.83%) C++
9 7 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.57%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.52%) Korn
13 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 78 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 39 (10.21%) Azure Certification
4 33 (8.64%) DV Cleared
5 30 (7.85%) AWS Certification
6 28 (7.33%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (5.50%) Degree
7 21 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (4.19%) CCNP
8 16 (4.19%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.14%) CCNA
10 10 (2.62%) RHCE
10 10 (2.62%) RHCSA
10 10 (2.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.09%) CISSP
12 8 (2.09%) OSCP
13 6 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.31%) DBS Check
14 5 (1.31%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (5.24%) NIST
3 18 (4.71%) SLA
4 8 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.09%) NCSC
5 7 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.57%) GDPR
6 6 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.57%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.52%) GRC
8 2 (0.52%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 107 (28.01%) Active Directory
2 75 (19.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (10.47%) Docker
4 28 (7.33%) Hyper-V
5 25 (6.54%) vSphere
6 16 (4.19%) VMware NSX
7 9 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.09%) Squid
9 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.79%) Firmware
13 1 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 69 (18.06%) Ansible
2 60 (15.71%) Kubernetes
3 36 (9.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (4.45%) Grafana
5 10 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.36%) FortiGate
6 9 (2.36%) SCCM
6 9 (2.36%) ZABBIX
7 8 (2.09%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (2.09%) Packer
8 7 (1.83%) Puppet
9 5 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.31%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.05%) Nagios
10 4 (1.05%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.79%) Istio
11 3 (0.79%) linkerd
12 2 (0.52%) Argo
12 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 154 (40.31%) Microsoft
2 103 (26.96%) VMware
3 44 (11.52%) Cisco
4 23 (6.02%) Palo Alto
5 21 (5.50%) Splunk
5 21 (5.50%) Veeam
6 18 (4.71%) Oracle
6 18 (4.71%) Red Hat
7 16 (4.19%) Fortinet
8 13 (3.40%) Meraki
9 12 (3.14%) Google
10 8 (2.09%) Dell
10 8 (2.09%) IFS
11 7 (1.83%) Aruba
11 7 (1.83%) NetApp
11 7 (1.83%) Tenable
12 6 (1.57%) Dell Compellent
12 6 (1.57%) HP
12 6 (1.57%) Nimble Storage
12 6 (1.57%) Ubiquiti