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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 401 508
Rank change year-on-year +1 +107 +25
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 271 331 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.62% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 1.67% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 194 109 167
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +6.15% -18.75%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -15.13%

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 20,714 19,813 21,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.98% 37.14% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10,389 9,275 15,708
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -4 230 £72,500 +3.57% 151
London +98 136 £87,500 +9.38% 26
UK excluding London -80 104 £62,500 +4.17% 139
Work from Home +40 87 £80,000 +26.98% 42
North of England -46 33 £63,076 -1.57% 28
South East -13 17 £70,000 +40.00% 48
North West -43 15 £62,647 -12.98% 15
Midlands +27 14 £63,076 - 16
East of England +10 14 £38,500 -35.83% 16
Yorkshire -11 13 £57,788 -2.88% 10
West Midlands +37 12 £71,538 - 5
Wales - 12 £55,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -1 9 - - 3
South West -15 6 £79,000 +21.54% 23
North East +3 5 £63,076 -1.57% 3
Scotland -10 3 £45,000 -18.18% 5
East Midlands - 2 £49,000 - 10

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 14 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.85%) Confluence
5 3 (1.11%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.74%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 181 (66.79%) Azure
2 103 (38.01%) AWS
3 56 (20.66%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (16.97%) Entra ID
5 35 (12.92%) Nutanix
6 28 (10.33%) GCP
7 26 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (7.75%) SaaS
9 20 (7.38%) Azure Sentinel
9 20 (7.38%) PaaS
10 17 (6.27%) Power Platform
11 15 (5.54%) IaaS
12 11 (4.06%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (4.06%) PowerApps
13 10 (3.69%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (3.69%) GitHub
14 8 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.95%) Serverless
15 7 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 51 (18.82%) DNS
2 42 (15.50%) DHCP
3 39 (14.39%) Firewall
4 31 (11.44%) VPN
5 16 (5.90%) Remote Desktop
6 13 (4.80%) WAN
7 12 (4.43%) Network Security
8 11 (4.06%) VoIP
8 11 (4.06%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (3.69%) LAN
10 9 (3.32%) Internet
10 9 (3.32%) TCP/IP
11 8 (2.95%) VLAN
12 7 (2.58%) BGP
13 6 (2.21%) SAN
14 5 (1.85%) SD-WAN
15 4 (1.48%) SSL
15 4 (1.48%) Unified Communications
16 2 (0.74%) HTTP
16 2 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.02%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (5.17%) MySQL
4 13 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (3.69%) Big Data
6 10 (3.69%) DataStage
6 10 (3.69%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.69%) Hadoop
6 10 (3.69%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.69%) Neo4j
6 10 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.69%) Pentaho
6 10 (3.69%) RDBMS
6 10 (3.69%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.85%) Power BI
8 4 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.48%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (9.23%) Octopus Deploy
2 21 (7.75%) TeamCity
3 12 (4.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.21%) JIRA
5 4 (1.48%) Git
5 4 (1.48%) GitLab
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 72 (26.57%) Finance
3 32 (11.81%) Law
4 27 (9.96%) Banking
5 25 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (7.75%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.06%) Retail
8 10 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.32%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.21%) Back Office
12 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.48%) Billing
14 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.74%) Automotive
15 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.74%) Legal
16 1 (0.37%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 43 (15.87%) Architect
2 30 (11.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (9.96%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (9.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (7.75%) Senior
5 19 (7.01%) Infrastructure Architect
6 15 (5.54%) Lead
7 13 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.06%) Administrator
8 11 (4.06%) Infrastructure Manager
8 11 (4.06%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.69%) Consultant
9 10 (3.69%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (3.32%) Cloud Consultant
10 9 (3.32%) IT Manager
10 9 (3.32%) IT Security Specialist
10 9 (3.32%) Security Specialist
11 8 (2.95%) Cloud Security Consultant
11 8 (2.95%) Digital Project Manager
11 8 (2.95%) Senior Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.07%) .NET
2 5 (1.85%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.48%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (1.48%) RESTful
4 3 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.74%) DPDK
5 2 (0.74%) eBPF
5 2 (0.74%) Middleware
5 2 (0.74%) OpenID
5 2 (0.74%) REST
5 2 (0.74%) Streamlit
6 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.37%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.37%) CSS
6 1 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.37%) Kafka
6 1 (0.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.97%) Data Centre
2 36 (13.28%) Legacy Systems
2 36 (13.28%) Public Cloud
3 25 (9.23%) Virtual Team
4 21 (7.75%) Cloud Native
5 17 (6.27%) Management Information System
5 17 (6.27%) Onboarding
6 16 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (5.17%) Private Cloud
8 13 (4.80%) Security Posture
9 10 (3.69%) Product Ownership
10 9 (3.32%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (3.32%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.95%) Driving Licence
12 7 (2.58%) iPad
13 6 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.48%) ARM Cortex
14 4 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
15 3 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 74 (27.31%) Windows
2 58 (21.40%) Windows Server
3 26 (9.59%) Linux
4 10 (3.69%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.58%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.11%) CentOS
7 3 (1.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.74%) Rocky
8 2 (0.74%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (26.20%) Infrastructure as Code
2 70 (25.83%) CI/CD
3 68 (25.09%) DevOps
4 61 (22.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (17.34%) Cybersecurity
6 47 (17.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 46 (16.97%) Cloud Security
8 45 (16.61%) ITIL
9 44 (16.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 42 (15.50%) Roadmaps
11 40 (14.76%) Agile
11 40 (14.76%) Analytics
11 40 (14.76%) Migration
12 35 (12.92%) AI
13 34 (12.55%) ITSM
13 34 (12.55%) Mentoring
14 32 (11.81%) Business Continuity
15 31 (11.44%) Vulnerability Management
16 29 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (24.35%) PowerShell
2 57 (21.03%) Python
3 47 (17.34%) SQL
4 17 (6.27%) Bicep
4 17 (6.27%) Java
5 8 (2.95%) Bash
5 8 (2.95%) VBA
6 5 (1.85%) Go
7 4 (1.48%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.11%) C#
8 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.74%) PHP
9 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.74%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 34 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.23%) Azure Certification
3 19 (7.01%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.27%) Degree
4 17 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.80%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.06%) CEH
6 11 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.32%) CISSP
8 8 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.58%) CISM
9 7 (2.58%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.48%) CCSP
11 4 (1.48%) CESG Certified Professional
11 4 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.11%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (11.07%) NIST
3 18 (6.64%) SLA
4 16 (5.90%) GDPR
5 12 (4.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (4.06%) ISO 22301
7 8 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (2.95%) PCI DSS
8 7 (2.58%) NCSC
8 7 (2.58%) QA
9 6 (2.21%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (1.11%) Basel III
11 3 (1.11%) COBIT
11 3 (1.11%) MiFID
12 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 61 (22.51%) Active Directory
2 40 (14.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (10.33%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.43%) Docker
5 7 (2.58%) Firmware
6 5 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.48%) KVM
7 4 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.48%) vSphere
8 2 (0.74%) NFS
8 2 (0.74%) QEMU
9 1 (0.37%) iptables
9 1 (0.37%) vCloud
9 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (27.31%) Terraform
2 28 (10.33%) Ansible
3 23 (8.49%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.06%) SCCM
5 9 (3.32%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.21%) Grafana
7 5 (1.85%) SCOM
8 3 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.11%) Autotask
9 2 (0.74%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.74%) Suricata
10 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 83 (30.63%) Microsoft
2 76 (28.04%) VMware
3 22 (8.12%) Dell
4 21 (7.75%) Cisco
5 17 (6.27%) Commvault
6 16 (5.90%) Dell Compellent
6 16 (5.90%) HP
6 16 (5.90%) Nimble Storage
6 16 (5.90%) Oracle
7 11 (4.06%) Juniper
8 10 (3.69%) Datto
8 10 (3.69%) Informatica
8 10 (3.69%) Talend
9 9 (3.32%) Apple
9 9 (3.32%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.32%) Splunk
10 8 (2.95%) Freshdesk
11 7 (2.58%) SAP
11 7 (2.58%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.21%) Veeam