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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 334 298
Rank change year-on-year -124 -36 +9
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 366 412 750
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.83% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 2.00% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 278 176 210
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £42,139
25th Percentile £50,539 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £84,813
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £99,526
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -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 27,777 20,627 27,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.12% 41.32% 33.03%
Number of salaries quoted 17,400 10,358 16,193
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,785 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,443 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 14 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 14 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 -108 341 £70,000 -0.03% 370
UK excluding London -64 275 £65,000 - 174
Work from Home +1 110 £70,000 -12.50% 169
North of England -5 89 £65,000 - 49
London -99 85 £85,000 +17.24% 207
South East -49 67 £70,000 -17.65% 66
South West -60 57 £61,500 -23.13% 26
North West +25 54 £65,000 +18.18% 29
Midlands -14 41 £67,500 -15.63% 9
West Midlands +2 40 £65,000 -18.75% 6
Yorkshire -41 21 £51,500 -20.77% 18
East of England -23 16 £43,000 -28.33% 7
North East - 14 £47,000 - 2
Scotland +9 8 £77,500 +67.57% 12
Wales -68 6 £54,085 -32.39% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -
East Midlands -39 1 £77,500 +55.00% 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 (7.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (6.28%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.19%) Confluence
4 5 (1.37%) IIS
5 4 (1.09%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.27%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 241 (65.85%) Azure
2 131 (35.79%) AWS
3 94 (25.68%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (19.40%) Entra ID
5 33 (9.02%) GCP
6 32 (8.74%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (8.20%) Azure AKS
8 29 (7.92%) IaaS
8 29 (7.92%) PaaS
9 27 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (6.28%) Nutanix
11 23 (6.28%) Serverless
12 18 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (4.92%) Amazon S3
12 18 (4.92%) SaaS
13 17 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 92 (25.14%) Firewall
2 52 (14.21%) DNS
3 51 (13.93%) VPN
4 49 (13.39%) WAN
5 42 (11.48%) DHCP
6 41 (11.20%) Network Security
7 40 (10.93%) LAN
8 18 (4.92%) SD-WAN
8 18 (4.92%) Wireless
9 16 (4.37%) VLAN
10 15 (4.10%) Cisco Firepower
10 15 (4.10%) TCP/IP
11 12 (3.28%) Software-Defined Networking
12 11 (3.01%) SAN
12 11 (3.01%) Unified Communications
12 11 (3.01%) WebEx
13 10 (2.73%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (2.73%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
14 9 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.55%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.19%) Oracle Database
5 7 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.82%) Flink
8 2 (0.55%) Power BI
8 2 (0.55%) Redis
8 2 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.27%) Big Data
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.27%) MySQL
9 1 (0.27%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.27%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.56%) GitLab
2 18 (4.92%) Git
2 18 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.28%) JIRA
4 8 (2.19%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.55%) rollup.js
5 2 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 93 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.57%) Finance
3 29 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.10%) Retail
5 20 (5.46%) Law
6 17 (4.64%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.37%) Aerospace
8 14 (3.83%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.01%) Banking
10 10 (2.73%) Marketing
11 9 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.91%) Automotive
12 7 (1.91%) Electronics
13 5 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.09%) Local Government
14 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 58 (15.85%) Architect
1 58 (15.85%) Cloud Engineer
2 57 (15.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 52 (14.21%) Lead
4 42 (11.48%) Senior
5 25 (6.83%) Network Engineer
6 20 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.64%) Analyst
8 17 (4.64%) Consultant
8 17 (4.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.37%) Azure Architect
9 16 (4.37%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
9 16 (4.37%) IT Engineer
10 15 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.10%) Support Engineer
11 13 (3.55%) Cloud Consultant
12 11 (3.01%) IT Support
12 11 (3.01%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.55%) Kafka
2 12 (3.28%) ARM Templates
3 11 (3.01%) XMPP
4 7 (1.91%) Keycloak
5 6 (1.64%) YAML
6 5 (1.37%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.37%) boto
7 3 (0.82%) OpenID
8 2 (0.55%) .NET
8 2 (0.55%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.55%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.55%) Loki
8 2 (0.55%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.55%) OAuth
8 2 (0.55%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.27%) SAML
9 1 (0.27%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.47%) Data Centre
2 30 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 28 (7.65%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.46%) Public Cloud
5 19 (5.19%) Security Posture
6 16 (4.37%) PKI
7 14 (3.83%) Replication
8 13 (3.55%) Private Cloud
9 11 (3.01%) FlexPod
9 11 (3.01%) Management Information System
9 11 (3.01%) Video Conferencing
10 10 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.91%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.91%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (1.91%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 128 (34.97%) Windows
2 108 (29.51%) Windows Server
3 64 (17.49%) Linux
4 7 (1.91%) Android
4 7 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.91%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.37%) VMS
6 4 (1.09%) CentOS
6 4 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.55%) AIX
7 2 (0.55%) Unix
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.27%) SUSE
8 1 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (33.61%) Infrastructure as Code
2 101 (27.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 100 (27.32%) CI/CD
4 92 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 84 (22.95%) DevOps
6 73 (19.95%) Cloud Security
7 72 (19.67%) ITIL
8 68 (18.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 62 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (15.30%) Migration
11 53 (14.48%) Agile
11 53 (14.48%) Roadmaps
12 52 (14.21%) Cybersecurity
13 47 (12.84%) Mentoring
14 40 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 36 (9.84%) Infrastructure Automation
16 35 (9.56%) High Availability
16 35 (9.56%) Technical Leadership
17 34 (9.29%) Analytics
17 34 (9.29%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 74 (20.22%) PowerShell
2 72 (19.67%) Python
3 35 (9.56%) Bash
4 31 (8.47%) Bicep
5 20 (5.46%) SQL
6 13 (3.55%) Go
7 11 (3.01%) Java
8 8 (2.19%) Clojure
9 4 (1.09%) C#
9 4 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.55%) C++
10 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.55%) Korn
11 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 73 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.29%) Azure Certification
4 31 (8.47%) DV Cleared
5 29 (7.92%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (7.38%) AWS Certification
7 23 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (5.74%) Degree
9 17 (4.64%) CCNP
10 16 (4.37%) ISTQB
11 12 (3.28%) CCNA
11 12 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 10 (2.73%) RHCE
12 10 (2.73%) RHCSA
13 8 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.19%) OSCP
14 7 (1.91%) CISSP
14 7 (1.91%) MCSE
15 6 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (1.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (6.28%) NIST
3 20 (5.46%) SLA
4 8 (2.19%) NCSC
5 6 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.64%) GDPR
5 6 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.64%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.09%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 106 (28.96%) Active Directory
2 82 (22.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (10.66%) Docker
4 28 (7.65%) Hyper-V
4 28 (7.65%) vSphere
5 16 (4.37%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (2.46%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (2.19%) Squid
8 7 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.82%) KVM
11 2 (0.55%) Firmware
11 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 116 (31.69%) Terraform
2 69 (18.85%) Ansible
3 62 (16.94%) Kubernetes
4 37 (10.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (4.92%) Grafana
6 11 (3.01%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (2.46%) SCCM
7 9 (2.46%) ZABBIX
8 8 (2.19%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.19%) Packer
8 8 (2.19%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.64%) Puppet
10 4 (1.09%) Nagios
10 4 (1.09%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.09%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.82%) Istio
11 3 (0.82%) linkerd
12 2 (0.55%) Argo
12 2 (0.55%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (40.44%) Microsoft
2 108 (29.51%) VMware
3 45 (12.30%) Cisco
4 26 (7.10%) Palo Alto
5 24 (6.56%) Splunk
6 22 (6.01%) Veeam
7 20 (5.46%) Red Hat
8 18 (4.92%) Fortinet
8 18 (4.92%) Oracle
9 13 (3.55%) Meraki
10 12 (3.28%) Google
11 11 (3.01%) Dell
12 9 (2.46%) Dell Compellent
12 9 (2.46%) HP
12 9 (2.46%) Nimble Storage
13 8 (2.19%) Commvault
13 8 (2.19%) IFS
13 8 (2.19%) NetApp
14 7 (1.91%) Tenable
15 6 (1.64%) Ubiquiti