Hybrid Cloud Job Trends

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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 366 458
Rank change year-on-year -4 +92 +153
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 318 457 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.67% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 2.06% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 206 164 186
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,238 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,173 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -10.34%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £85,000 £98,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -10.71%

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 19,890 22,220 20,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.55% 32.69% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 10,756 10,761 15,210
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 16 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 November 2025. 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 -1 290 £80,000 +15.94% 221
London +105 152 £88,750 +22.41% 120
UK excluding London -80 138 £62,500 +4.17% 124
Work from Home +12 90 £80,000 +39.13% 86
North of England -62 37 £52,500 +16.67% 7
South East -22 31 £84,125 +68.25% 62
South West +1 22 £80,000 +6.67% 20
Wales +27 21 £55,000 -
East of England +14 21 £62,500 +2.04% 17
North West -36 19 £56,000 +24.44% 5
Midlands +63 18 £80,000 +100.00% 13
Yorkshire +6 18 £52,500 -17.00% 1
West Midlands +44 15 £80,000 +113.33% 8
East Midlands +23 3 £49,500 +14.68% 5
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 3
Scotland -17 2 £37,500 -31.82% 5

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 (7.23%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.57%) Confluence
5 3 (0.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.89%) Oracle SCM
3 5 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 192 (60.38%) Azure
2 104 (32.70%) AWS
3 70 (22.01%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (16.04%) Entra ID
5 31 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (8.18%) SaaS
7 25 (7.86%) Azure Sentinel
8 24 (7.55%) GCP
9 21 (6.60%) PaaS
10 20 (6.29%) IaaS
11 13 (4.09%) Nutanix
11 13 (4.09%) Serverless
12 12 (3.77%) GitHub
13 11 (3.46%) OCI
14 8 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.52%) Azure Stack
14 8 (2.52%) Power Platform
15 7 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 41 (12.89%) DNS
2 38 (11.95%) Firewall
3 35 (11.01%) VPN
4 28 (8.81%) DHCP
5 23 (7.23%) WAN
6 21 (6.60%) LAN
7 16 (5.03%) Network Security
8 15 (4.72%) TCP/IP
9 13 (4.09%) VLAN
9 13 (4.09%) VoIP
10 10 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (2.52%) BGP
11 8 (2.52%) SAN
12 7 (2.20%) Internet
13 5 (1.57%) Unified Communications
14 4 (1.26%) NAS
14 4 (1.26%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (1.26%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.26%) SSL
15 3 (0.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (4.09%) MySQL
4 11 (3.46%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.83%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.20%) Big Data
8 7 (2.20%) DataStage
8 7 (2.20%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.20%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.20%) Neo4j
8 7 (2.20%) Pentaho
8 7 (2.20%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.57%) Metadata
10 3 (0.94%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (6.29%) Octopus Deploy
2 18 (5.66%) TeamCity
3 9 (2.83%) Git
3 9 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.20%) GitLab
5 6 (1.89%) JIRA
6 1 (0.31%) JUnit
6 1 (0.31%) Selenium
6 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 70 (22.01%) Finance
3 60 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 43 (13.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (8.18%) Banking
6 22 (6.92%) Law
7 19 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.83%) Back Office
9 7 (2.20%) Retail
10 6 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.57%) Billing
12 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Legal
15 1 (0.31%) Front Office
15 1 (0.31%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 51 (16.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (15.09%) Architect
3 39 (12.26%) Senior
4 37 (11.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (8.81%) Lead
6 19 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (5.66%) Infrastructure Architect
8 14 (4.40%) Consultant
8 14 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (3.46%) Infrastructure Manager
9 11 (3.46%) Security Architect
10 10 (3.14%) Administrator
10 10 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.14%) IT Engineer
11 9 (2.83%) IT Manager
11 9 (2.83%) Java Engineer
11 9 (2.83%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 9 (2.83%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.75%) .NET
2 9 (2.83%) ARM Templates
3 6 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (1.89%) React
4 4 (1.26%) RESTful
4 4 (1.26%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (0.94%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.94%) Kafka
5 3 (0.94%) Middleware
5 3 (0.94%) PySpark
6 2 (0.63%) Backbone.js
6 2 (0.63%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.63%) DPDK
6 2 (0.63%) eBPF
6 2 (0.63%) Ember.js
6 2 (0.63%) jQuery
6 2 (0.63%) Node.js
7 1 (0.31%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.50%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.06%) e-Learning
3 26 (8.18%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (7.86%) Cloud Native
5 24 (7.55%) Public Cloud
6 23 (7.23%) Virtual Team
7 20 (6.29%) Security Posture
8 19 (5.97%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.77%) Management Information System
10 10 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (2.52%) Driving Licence
11 8 (2.52%) Private Cloud
12 7 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (2.20%) iPad
12 7 (2.20%) Operational Technology
12 7 (2.20%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.57%) Social Media
15 3 (0.94%) Algorithms
15 3 (0.94%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 85 (26.73%) Windows
2 58 (18.24%) Windows Server
3 46 (14.47%) Linux
4 19 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (5.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.83%) Mac OS
7 8 (2.52%) Rocky
7 8 (2.52%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.89%) CentOS
8 6 (1.89%) Unix
9 4 (1.26%) HPUX
9 4 (1.26%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (1.26%) Solaris
10 2 (0.63%) Android
10 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.39%) DevOps
2 74 (23.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 71 (22.33%) AI
4 63 (19.81%) CI/CD
4 63 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (19.50%) Migration
6 56 (17.61%) Agile
7 50 (15.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 45 (14.15%) Containerisation
9 44 (13.84%) Mentoring
9 44 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (13.52%) ITIL
10 43 (13.52%) Roadmaps
11 41 (12.89%) Disaster Recovery
12 40 (12.58%) Cloud Security
13 37 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
14 34 (10.69%) Coaching
15 31 (9.75%) Analytics
16 28 (8.81%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (8.81%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (18.87%) PowerShell
2 59 (18.55%) Python
3 52 (16.35%) SQL
4 22 (6.92%) Java
5 11 (3.46%) Bicep
6 10 (3.14%) C#
7 8 (2.52%) Bash
8 6 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.57%) Go
10 4 (1.26%) PHP
11 3 (0.94%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 35 (11.01%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.06%) Azure Certification
3 27 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.97%) Degree
5 18 (5.66%) AWS Certification
6 16 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.83%) CISSP
10 8 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (2.20%) CEH
12 6 (1.89%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.57%) CCNP
13 5 (1.57%) CISM
13 5 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.26%) CCNA
14 4 (1.26%) CISA
14 4 (1.26%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (14.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (9.75%) NIST
3 24 (7.55%) GDPR
4 12 (3.77%) QA
5 8 (2.52%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.89%) ISO 22301
6 6 (1.89%) NCSC
7 5 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.57%) SLA
8 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.63%) Basel III
9 2 (0.63%) COBIT
9 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.63%) MiFID
9 2 (0.63%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.63%) PMO
10 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 61 (19.18%) Active Directory
2 43 (13.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (9.43%) Hyper-V
4 14 (4.40%) Docker
5 7 (2.20%) NFS
6 5 (1.57%) Firmware
6 5 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.26%) KVM
7 4 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.63%) QEMU
10 1 (0.31%) vCloud
10 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 85 (26.73%) Terraform
2 42 (13.21%) Ansible
3 38 (11.95%) Kubernetes
4 24 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.83%) SCCM
7 7 (2.20%) SCOM
8 6 (1.89%) Grafana
9 5 (1.57%) Autotask
10 2 (0.63%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.63%) Suricata
10 2 (0.63%) WSUS
11 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.31%) Nagios
11 1 (0.31%) Nessus
11 1 (0.31%) VxRail
11 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (28.93%) Microsoft
2 64 (20.13%) VMware
3 52 (16.35%) IBM
4 43 (13.52%) Red Hat
5 35 (11.01%) Cisco
6 31 (9.75%) Oracle
7 17 (5.35%) Commvault
8 16 (5.03%) Dell
9 15 (4.72%) Palo Alto
10 12 (3.77%) Datto
11 11 (3.46%) Fortinet
12 9 (2.83%) Apple
12 9 (2.83%) SAP
13 8 (2.52%) Juniper
13 8 (2.52%) ServiceNow
14 7 (2.20%) Aruba
14 7 (2.20%) Freshdesk
14 7 (2.20%) HP
14 7 (2.20%) Informatica
14 7 (2.20%) Talend