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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 359 371
Rank change year-on-year -73 +12 -23
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 329 346 723
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.79% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 1.85% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 233 122 255
10th Percentile £38,394 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,250 £56,250 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £78,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £113,625 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 25,141 18,692 35,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.98% 42.94% 34.51%
Number of salaries quoted 14,394 8,771 23,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,750 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,670 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +4.85% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,250 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.47% +2.00% -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 June 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 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 -72 298 £65,000 -7.21% 138
UK excluding London -50 217 £62,500 -10.71% 84
Work from Home +57 117 £65,288 -9.31% 75
London -29 88 £78,000 +11.35% 59
North of England +2 80 £65,000 -9.71% 26
South East -54 47 £65,000 -23.53% 18
North West +19 46 £70,000 -2.77% 16
South West -73 36 £55,000 +15.79% 19
Midlands -27 26 £54,500 -22.14% 10
West Midlands -19 25 £51,000 -27.14% 9
Yorkshire -54 17 £63,076 -2.96% 8
North East - 17 £44,000 - 2
East of England -24 9 £30,500 -46.96% 1
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 1
Scotland +3 6 £45,000 -2.70% 8
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands -27 1 £77,500 - 1

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 23 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.86%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.65%) Confluence
4 4 (1.22%) Documentum
4 4 (1.22%) IIS
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 200 (60.79%) Azure
2 117 (35.56%) AWS
3 78 (23.71%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (15.20%) Nutanix
5 45 (13.68%) Entra ID
6 28 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (7.60%) Power Platform
8 22 (6.69%) PaaS
9 21 (6.38%) GCP
10 20 (6.08%) SaaS
11 19 (5.78%) IaaS
12 18 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (5.47%) PowerApps
13 15 (4.56%) GitHub
14 14 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (3.95%) Azure AKS
16 10 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (2.74%) Serverless
18 8 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 68 (20.67%) Firewall
2 62 (18.84%) DNS
3 52 (15.81%) DHCP
4 35 (10.64%) WAN
5 28 (8.51%) LAN
6 25 (7.60%) VPN
7 23 (6.99%) Remote Desktop
8 18 (5.47%) Network Security
9 12 (3.65%) VLAN
10 11 (3.34%) Unified Communications
10 11 (3.34%) Wireless
11 10 (3.04%) TCP/IP
11 10 (3.04%) WebEx
12 9 (2.74%) BGP
12 9 (2.74%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (2.74%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (2.74%) SAN
12 9 (2.74%) Software-Defined Networking
12 9 (2.74%) VoIP
13 8 (2.43%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.43%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.82%) Power BI
3 6 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.61%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.30%) DataStage
8 1 (0.30%) Flink
8 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.30%) MySQL
8 1 (0.30%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (5.78%) GitLab
2 17 (5.17%) Git
3 13 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.65%) JIRA
5 9 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (2.43%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.82%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.61%) rollup.js
8 2 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 94 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.29%) Finance
3 38 (11.55%) Public Sector
3 38 (11.55%) Retail
4 22 (6.69%) Law
5 17 (5.17%) Banking
6 16 (4.86%) Aerospace
7 14 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (2.74%) Automotive
10 9 (2.74%) Marketing
10 9 (2.74%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.13%) Electronics
13 6 (1.82%) Back Office
14 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 72 (21.88%) Cloud Engineer
2 52 (15.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 48 (14.59%) Senior
4 41 (12.46%) Lead
5 34 (10.33%) Architect
6 26 (7.90%) Network Engineer
7 19 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (5.17%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
9 16 (4.86%) Consultant
9 16 (4.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.26%) Administrator
10 14 (4.26%) Analyst
10 14 (4.26%) Digital Project Manager
10 14 (4.26%) Project Manager
10 14 (4.26%) Senior Digital Project Manager
10 14 (4.26%) Senior Manager
10 14 (4.26%) Senior Project Manager
11 12 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (3.65%) Cloud Consultant
12 11 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.04%) XMPP
2 9 (2.74%) .NET
3 7 (2.13%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.22%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.22%) boto
4 4 (1.22%) Kafka
4 4 (1.22%) YAML
5 3 (0.91%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.91%) OpenID
6 2 (0.61%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.61%) OAuth
6 2 (0.61%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.61%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.61%) WAMP
7 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.30%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.30%) REST
7 1 (0.30%) SAML
7 1 (0.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.33%) Public Cloud
2 27 (8.21%) Legacy Systems
3 26 (7.90%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.90%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.17%) Data Centre
5 16 (4.86%) Private Cloud
6 15 (4.56%) Low-Code
7 14 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (3.95%) PKI
9 12 (3.65%) Replication
10 11 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (3.04%) FlexPod
11 10 (3.04%) Management Information System
11 10 (3.04%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (2.74%) Security Posture
13 8 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
14 7 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (2.13%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.82%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 118 (35.87%) Windows
2 101 (30.70%) Windows Server
3 52 (15.81%) Linux
4 7 (2.13%) Android
4 7 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.52%) CentOS
5 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.91%) VMS
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 85 (25.84%) ITIL
3 83 (25.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 81 (24.62%) CI/CD
5 74 (22.49%) Agile
6 72 (21.88%) DevOps
7 67 (20.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 60 (18.24%) Mentoring
9 54 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (13.98%) Cybersecurity
12 44 (13.37%) Coaching
13 43 (13.07%) Cloud Security
14 39 (11.85%) Business Continuity
14 39 (11.85%) High Availability
14 39 (11.85%) Roadmaps
15 38 (11.55%) Migration
16 35 (10.64%) AI
17 32 (9.73%) ITSM
18 30 (9.12%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (21.28%) PowerShell
2 61 (18.54%) Python
3 26 (7.90%) SQL
4 22 (6.69%) Bicep
5 20 (6.08%) Bash
6 18 (5.47%) Java
7 14 (4.26%) VBA
8 9 (2.74%) Go
9 8 (2.43%) Clojure
9 8 (2.43%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.13%) C#
11 3 (0.91%) C++
11 3 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (11.55%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 26 (7.90%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.69%) Azure Certification
5 21 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (5.47%) Degree
7 16 (4.86%) ISTQB
8 12 (3.65%) SC Cleared
9 11 (3.34%) CCNA
10 9 (2.74%) CEH
10 9 (2.74%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.74%) MCSE
11 8 (2.43%) CCNP
11 8 (2.43%) OSCP
11 8 (2.43%) RHCE
11 8 (2.43%) RHCSA
12 7 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.82%) CISSP
14 5 (1.52%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (9.12%) SLA
3 25 (7.60%) NIST
4 11 (3.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (3.34%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.74%) ISO 22301
6 8 (2.43%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.82%) GDPR
8 5 (1.52%) NCSC
9 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.61%) QA
12 1 (0.30%) COBIT
12 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (29.18%) Active Directory
2 78 (23.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (10.94%) Hyper-V
4 24 (7.29%) Docker
4 24 (7.29%) vSphere
5 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 9 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (2.74%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.43%) Squid
7 5 (1.52%) KVM
8 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 97 (29.48%) Terraform
2 57 (17.33%) Ansible
3 50 (15.20%) Kubernetes
4 33 (10.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (6.38%) Grafana
6 11 (3.34%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.04%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (2.74%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.74%) ZABBIX
9 8 (2.43%) Packer
9 8 (2.43%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.13%) SCCM
11 4 (1.22%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.91%) Nagios
13 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.61%) Nessus
13 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.30%) Autotask
14 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 127 (38.60%) Microsoft
2 114 (34.65%) VMware
3 32 (9.73%) Cisco
4 25 (7.60%) Dell
5 24 (7.29%) HP
6 23 (6.99%) Dell Compellent
6 23 (6.99%) Nimble Storage
7 22 (6.69%) Splunk
7 22 (6.69%) Veeam
8 18 (5.47%) Oracle
8 18 (5.47%) Red Hat
9 16 (4.86%) Palo Alto
10 14 (4.26%) Commvault
11 12 (3.65%) Fortinet
12 8 (2.43%) Google
12 8 (2.43%) IFS
12 8 (2.43%) ServiceNow
13 7 (2.13%) Meraki
13 7 (2.13%) NetApp
13 7 (2.13%) SolarWinds