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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 346 363
Rank change year-on-year -73 +17 -20
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 371 377 756
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.80% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 1.92% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 270 151 269
10th Percentile £36,925 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,500 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,047 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +0.07% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £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 24,924 19,646 35,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.78% 41.57% 33.68%
Number of salaries quoted 15,954 9,587 22,998
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,265
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% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.54% - -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 July 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 3 July 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 -67 341 £65,000 -9.71% 124
UK excluding London -37 255 £62,500 -7.41% 83
Work from Home +39 127 £65,288 -18.39% 54
London -48 95 £80,000 +10.34% 54
North of England +2 86 £63,076 -12.38% 23
South East -52 60 £70,000 -17.65% 31
North West +16 48 £70,000 -2.77% 15
South West -72 45 £57,500 -28.13% 13
Midlands -12 36 £62,000 -22.50% 4
West Midlands +2 35 £62,000 -22.50% 2
Yorkshire -36 22 £60,288 -7.25% 8
North East - 16 £44,000 -
East of England -13 14 £32,250 -43.91% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 4
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland +15 4 £60,000 +29.73% 4
Wales -42 4 £55,000 -31.25% 1
East Midlands -26 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 27 (7.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.23%) Confluence
4 5 (1.35%) IIS
5 4 (1.08%) Documentum
6 3 (0.81%) SAS
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 232 (62.53%) Azure
2 131 (35.31%) AWS
3 92 (24.80%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (16.98%) Entra ID
5 41 (11.05%) Nutanix
6 29 (7.82%) Amazon EKS
6 29 (7.82%) PaaS
7 27 (7.28%) GCP
8 26 (7.01%) IaaS
9 25 (6.74%) Azure AKS
10 23 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (6.20%) Power Platform
10 23 (6.20%) SaaS
11 17 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (4.58%) GitHub
12 16 (4.31%) PowerApps
13 14 (3.77%) Serverless
14 11 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 90 (24.26%) Firewall
2 65 (17.52%) DNS
3 53 (14.29%) DHCP
4 45 (12.13%) VPN
5 44 (11.86%) WAN
6 36 (9.70%) LAN
7 33 (8.89%) Network Security
8 18 (4.85%) Remote Desktop
9 16 (4.31%) VLAN
10 15 (4.04%) Wireless
11 14 (3.77%) TCP/IP
12 13 (3.50%) SD-WAN
13 11 (2.96%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (2.96%) SAN
14 10 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (2.70%) Unified Communications
14 10 (2.70%) VoIP
14 10 (2.70%) WebEx
15 9 (2.43%) Cisco ASA
15 9 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.16%) Oracle Database
3 7 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.35%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.35%) Power BI
5 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.54%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.54%) Flink
6 2 (0.54%) Redis
6 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.27%) Big Data
7 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.27%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.27%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 22 (5.93%) GitLab
2 18 (4.85%) Git
3 17 (4.58%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.04%) JIRA
5 8 (2.16%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.54%) rollup.js
7 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 111 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.56%) Finance
3 43 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 36 (9.70%) Retail
5 17 (4.58%) Law
6 16 (4.31%) Aerospace
7 15 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.04%) Banking
8 14 (3.77%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.50%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.43%) Automotive
11 9 (2.43%) Marketing
12 7 (1.89%) Electronics
13 6 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.62%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.08%) Back Office
14 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.54%) Local Government
15 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (17.79%) Cloud Engineer
2 58 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 58 (15.63%) Senior
3 49 (13.21%) Lead
4 48 (12.94%) Architect
5 25 (6.74%) Network Engineer
6 20 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (5.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (4.85%) Analyst
8 18 (4.85%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
9 16 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (4.31%) Consultant
10 14 (3.77%) Administrator
10 14 (3.77%) Digital Project Manager
10 14 (3.77%) IT Engineer
10 14 (3.77%) Project Manager
10 14 (3.77%) Senior Digital Project Manager
10 14 (3.77%) Senior Manager
10 14 (3.77%) Senior Project Manager
10 14 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.23%) ARM Templates
2 10 (2.70%) XMPP
3 7 (1.89%) Kafka
4 6 (1.62%) YAML
5 5 (1.35%) .NET
5 5 (1.35%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.35%) boto
6 3 (0.81%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.81%) OpenID
7 2 (0.54%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.54%) Keycloak
7 2 (0.54%) OAuth
7 2 (0.54%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.54%) Streamlit
7 2 (0.54%) WAMP
8 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.27%) Loki
8 1 (0.27%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.09%) Public Cloud
3 28 (7.55%) Onboarding
4 27 (7.28%) Data Centre
5 23 (6.20%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (5.12%) Security Posture
7 18 (4.85%) PKI
8 17 (4.58%) Private Cloud
9 15 (4.04%) Low-Code
10 14 (3.77%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (3.23%) Replication
11 12 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (2.70%) FlexPod
12 10 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
13 9 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (2.43%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
14 7 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (1.62%) Driving Licence
16 5 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 135 (36.39%) Windows
2 113 (30.46%) Windows Server
3 66 (17.79%) Linux
4 10 (2.70%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.89%) Android
6 6 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.35%) CentOS
7 5 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.35%) VMS
8 4 (1.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (29.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 92 (24.80%) CI/CD
3 90 (24.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 83 (22.37%) ITIL
5 82 (22.10%) DevOps
6 78 (21.02%) Agile
7 74 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (17.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 62 (16.71%) Mentoring
10 61 (16.44%) Cloud Security
11 57 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (14.82%) Roadmaps
13 51 (13.75%) Migration
14 48 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
15 40 (10.78%) Coaching
16 37 (9.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 36 (9.70%) Business Continuity
17 36 (9.70%) High Availability
18 33 (8.89%) AI
19 30 (8.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (21.29%) PowerShell
2 70 (18.87%) Python
3 28 (7.55%) Bash
4 27 (7.28%) SQL
5 26 (7.01%) Bicep
6 16 (4.31%) Java
7 14 (3.77%) VBA
8 13 (3.50%) Go
9 8 (2.16%) Clojure
10 7 (1.89%) C#
10 7 (1.89%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.81%) C++
12 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 54 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.63%) AWS Certification
3 27 (7.28%) Azure Certification
4 26 (7.01%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (7.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (6.47%) Degree
5 24 (6.47%) SC Cleared
6 17 (4.58%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.31%) ISTQB
8 13 (3.50%) CCNP
9 12 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.23%) CCNA
10 10 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (2.43%) MCSE
12 8 (2.16%) OSCP
12 8 (2.16%) RHCE
12 8 (2.16%) RHCSA
12 8 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (1.62%) CEH
13 6 (1.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (7.82%) SLA
3 28 (7.55%) NIST
4 10 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.70%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.89%) GDPR
6 7 (1.89%) NCSC
7 6 (1.62%) ISO 22301
8 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.81%) 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 (30.19%) Active Directory
2 83 (22.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (9.43%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.28%) Docker
5 26 (7.01%) vSphere
6 12 (3.23%) VMware NSX
7 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 9 (2.43%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (2.16%) Squid
9 5 (1.35%) KVM
10 4 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 108 (29.11%) Terraform
2 64 (17.25%) Ansible
3 59 (15.90%) Kubernetes
4 36 (9.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (5.66%) Grafana
6 12 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.70%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (2.43%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.43%) SCCM
8 9 (2.43%) ZABBIX
9 8 (2.16%) Packer
9 8 (2.16%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.08%) Nagios
10 4 (1.08%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.54%) Istio
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
1 152 (40.97%) Microsoft
2 118 (31.81%) VMware
3 41 (11.05%) Cisco
4 26 (7.01%) Splunk
5 25 (6.74%) Veeam
6 22 (5.93%) Palo Alto
7 20 (5.39%) Dell
8 19 (5.12%) HP
9 18 (4.85%) Dell Compellent
9 18 (4.85%) Nimble Storage
9 18 (4.85%) Oracle
9 18 (4.85%) Red Hat
10 16 (4.31%) Fortinet
11 12 (3.23%) Commvault
11 12 (3.23%) Meraki
12 10 (2.70%) Google
13 8 (2.16%) IFS
13 8 (2.16%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.89%) NetApp
14 7 (1.89%) SolarWinds