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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 361 476
Rank change year-on-year -36 +115 +120
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 275 435 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.70% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.37% 1.99% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 205 152 177
10th Percentile £39,700 £42,238 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £65,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% +1.15% -14.23%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.00% -12.12%

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 20,104 21,861 19,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 35.19% 38.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,526 10,793 14,491
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £33,210
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,877 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% -4.00% -0.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 15 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 9 December 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 -28 244 £78,500 +13.77% 253
London +110 148 £88,750 +22.41% 81
UK excluding London -92 102 £62,250 +3.75% 190
Work from Home +17 83 £80,000 +33.33% 150
North of England -57 30 £51,250 +13.89% 51
Wales - 20 £55,000 - 3
East of England +16 19 £62,500 +4.17% 16
Midlands +39 17 £80,000 +92.39% 46
North West -36 17 £56,000 +24.44% 22
West Midlands +36 14 £80,000 +100.00% 21
South East -23 14 £78,500 +57.00% 34
Yorkshire -8 13 £51,250 -8.89% 25
South West -16 11 £80,000 +6.67% 31
Northern Ireland 0 5 - - 1
East Midlands +16 3 £49,500 +14.68% 23

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 20 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 20 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.45%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 190 (69.09%) Azure
2 103 (37.45%) AWS
3 71 (25.82%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (18.91%) Entra ID
5 29 (10.55%) GCP
6 26 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (8.73%) Azure Sentinel
7 24 (8.73%) SaaS
8 19 (6.91%) Nutanix
8 19 (6.91%) PaaS
9 18 (6.55%) IaaS
10 12 (4.36%) Serverless
11 11 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (3.27%) GitHub
12 9 (3.27%) Power Platform
13 8 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (2.55%) Azure Stack
15 6 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (2.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 45 (16.36%) DNS
2 41 (14.91%) Firewall
3 34 (12.36%) DHCP
3 34 (12.36%) VPN
4 17 (6.18%) WAN
5 15 (5.45%) LAN
5 15 (5.45%) Network Security
6 13 (4.73%) TCP/IP
6 13 (4.73%) VoIP
7 12 (4.36%) VLAN
7 12 (4.36%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (3.27%) Internet
9 8 (2.91%) BGP
9 8 (2.91%) SAN
10 7 (2.55%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.82%) Unified Communications
12 4 (1.45%) NAS
12 4 (1.45%) SSL
13 2 (0.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.09%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (6.18%) MySQL
4 12 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.36%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 11 (4.00%) Big Data
5 11 (4.00%) DataStage
5 11 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 11 (4.00%) Neo4j
5 11 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.00%) Pentaho
5 11 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 11 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.45%) Metadata
6 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (7.27%) Octopus Deploy
2 18 (6.55%) TeamCity
3 11 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.18%) GitLab
5 5 (1.82%) Git
5 5 (1.82%) JIRA
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 78 (28.36%) Finance
3 29 (10.55%) Banking
4 28 (10.18%) Law
5 24 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (8.36%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.55%) Back Office
8 7 (2.55%) Retail
9 6 (2.18%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.82%) Billing
11 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.73%) Legal
14 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Front Office
14 1 (0.36%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 47 (17.09%) Architect
2 38 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (10.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (7.27%) Infrastructure Architect
5 19 (6.91%) Lead
5 19 (6.91%) Senior
6 14 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.73%) Infrastructure Manager
8 11 (4.00%) Administrator
8 11 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) IT Manager
8 11 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
9 10 (3.64%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.27%) IT Engineer
11 8 (2.91%) 1st Line Support
11 8 (2.91%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Linux Administrator
12 7 (2.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.18%) .NET
2 9 (3.27%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.45%) RESTful
5 4 (1.45%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.09%) PySpark
7 2 (0.73%) DPDK
7 2 (0.73%) eBPF
7 2 (0.73%) Kafka
7 2 (0.73%) Middleware
7 2 (0.73%) OpenID
8 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.36%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.36%) CSS
8 1 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.36%) HTML
8 1 (0.36%) JMS
8 1 (0.36%) Node.js
8 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 63 (22.91%) Data Centre
2 27 (9.82%) Public Cloud
3 25 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (8.36%) Virtual Team
5 20 (7.27%) Cloud Native
6 18 (6.55%) Security Posture
7 17 (6.18%) Management Information System
7 17 (6.18%) Onboarding
8 14 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (4.00%) Product Ownership
10 9 (3.27%) Private Cloud
11 8 (2.91%) Driving Licence
12 7 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (2.55%) iPad
13 6 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.82%) e-Learning
14 5 (1.82%) Operational Technology
14 5 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (1.82%) Social Media
15 4 (1.45%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 83 (30.18%) Windows
2 61 (22.18%) Windows Server
3 36 (13.09%) Linux
4 14 (5.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (4.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (3.27%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.55%) Mac OS
7 7 (2.55%) Rocky
8 4 (1.45%) CentOS
8 4 (1.45%) Unix
9 2 (0.73%) HPUX
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.73%) Solaris
9 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (26.91%) DevOps
2 69 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (24.36%) CI/CD
3 67 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 53 (19.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 52 (18.91%) Migration
6 44 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (15.64%) Cloud Security
7 43 (15.64%) Roadmaps
8 42 (15.27%) Disaster Recovery
9 41 (14.91%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (14.18%) ITIL
11 38 (13.82%) Analytics
12 35 (12.73%) AI
13 32 (11.64%) Vulnerability Management
14 31 (11.27%) Agile
15 29 (10.55%) Containerisation
16 28 (10.18%) Collaborative Culture
17 27 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
18 26 (9.45%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 66 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 62 (22.55%) Python
3 54 (19.64%) SQL
4 16 (5.82%) Java
5 13 (4.73%) Bicep
6 7 (2.55%) Bash
6 7 (2.55%) C#
7 4 (1.45%) Go
7 4 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.45%) PHP
8 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.73%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 34 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.55%) Azure Certification
3 24 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.55%) AWS Certification
5 16 (5.82%) Degree
5 16 (5.82%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.64%) CISSP
8 9 (3.27%) CEH
8 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.55%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (2.18%) CISM
10 6 (2.18%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.45%) CCNP
12 4 (1.45%) CISA
12 4 (1.45%) CRISC
12 4 (1.45%) GCIH
12 4 (1.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (11.64%) NIST
3 21 (7.64%) GDPR
4 8 (2.91%) ISO 22301
4 8 (2.91%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.91%) QA
4 8 (2.91%) SLA
5 6 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (2.18%) NCSC
6 3 (1.09%) Basel III
6 3 (1.09%) MiFID
6 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.73%) COBIT
7 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (22.91%) Active Directory
2 41 (14.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (11.64%) Hyper-V
4 15 (5.45%) Docker
5 7 (2.55%) Firmware
6 5 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.82%) vSphere
7 4 (1.45%) KVM
7 4 (1.45%) NFS
7 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.73%) QEMU
9 1 (0.36%) vCloud
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (27.27%) Terraform
2 33 (12.00%) Ansible
3 32 (11.64%) Kubernetes
4 24 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.73%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (4.00%) SCCM
7 8 (2.91%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.55%) SCOM
9 5 (1.82%) Autotask
9 5 (1.82%) Grafana
10 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.73%) Suricata
10 2 (0.73%) WSUS
11 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.36%) Nagios
11 1 (0.36%) Nessus
11 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 85 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 67 (24.36%) VMware
3 27 (9.82%) Oracle
4 24 (8.73%) Cisco
5 18 (6.55%) Dell
6 16 (5.82%) Commvault
7 12 (4.36%) Datto
8 11 (4.00%) Informatica
8 11 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 11 (4.00%) Talend
9 10 (3.64%) Juniper
9 10 (3.64%) Palo Alto
10 9 (3.27%) Apple
10 9 (3.27%) SAP
11 8 (2.91%) HP
11 8 (2.91%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.91%) Splunk
12 7 (2.55%) Dell Compellent
12 7 (2.55%) IBM
12 7 (2.55%) Nimble Storage