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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 440 485
Rank change year-on-year +28 +45 +22
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 298 245 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.53% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 1.39% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 211 109 209
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,446 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.15%
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £109,150 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +5.13% -4.43% -6.99%

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 22,730 17,681 28,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.48% 38.58% 36.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,551 8,660 20,584
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,525 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +4 256 £70,000 -1.40% 106
London +77 135 £87,500 -2.78% 40
UK excluding London -46 133 £63,076 +5.13% 79
Work from Home +36 102 £70,000 +0.72% 45
North of England -65 40 £63,076 -12.38% 22
South East -19 26 £67,500 +3.85% 40
North West -39 19 £63,076 -12.38% 12
Midlands -1 16 £63,076 -9.89% 5
East of England -6 16 £27,000 -55.00% 3
West Midlands +10 15 £63,076 -9.89% 5
Yorkshire -45 12 £63,076 -2.96% 10
Northern Ireland -20 11 - -
South West -24 10 £52,500 -12.50% 7
North East -7 9 £63,076 -1.57%
Scotland -14 5 £45,000 -18.18% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales - 4 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 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 17 (5.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.68%) Confluence
5 4 (1.34%) Documentum
6 3 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 193 (64.77%) Azure
2 103 (34.56%) AWS
3 65 (21.81%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (18.12%) Nutanix
5 46 (15.44%) Entra ID
6 24 (8.05%) GCP
6 24 (8.05%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (6.71%) PaaS
9 19 (6.38%) IaaS
9 19 (6.38%) PowerApps
9 19 (6.38%) SaaS
10 15 (5.03%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (4.70%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (4.70%) GitHub
12 12 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 63 (21.14%) DNS
2 54 (18.12%) DHCP
3 52 (17.45%) Firewall
4 36 (12.08%) VPN
5 22 (7.38%) Remote Desktop
6 17 (5.70%) WAN
7 14 (4.70%) LAN
8 11 (3.69%) Network Security
8 11 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (3.36%) Internet
9 10 (3.36%) VLAN
10 8 (2.68%) SAN
10 8 (2.68%) TCP/IP
11 7 (2.35%) VoIP
12 5 (1.68%) BGP
12 5 (1.68%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.68%) Unified Communications
13 4 (1.34%) WebEx
14 3 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.74%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.68%) MySQL
4 8 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (2.35%) Big Data
5 7 (2.35%) DataStage
5 7 (2.35%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.35%) Hadoop
5 7 (2.35%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.35%) Neo4j
5 7 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.35%) Pentaho
5 7 (2.35%) RDBMS
5 7 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.01%) Power BI
7 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.34%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (6.71%) Octopus Deploy
2 15 (5.03%) TeamCity
3 10 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.01%) JIRA
5 5 (1.68%) Git
6 1 (0.34%) GitLab
6 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (33.89%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.46%) Finance
3 37 (12.42%) Law
4 27 (9.06%) Banking
5 25 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 24 (8.05%) Retail
7 21 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.69%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.02%) Back Office
10 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Marketing
14 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.67%) Automotive
14 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.67%) Legal
14 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 45 (15.10%) Cloud Engineer
2 44 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 43 (14.43%) Senior
4 39 (13.09%) Architect
5 27 (9.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.04%) Lead
7 16 (5.37%) Project Manager
8 15 (5.03%) Administrator
9 14 (4.70%) Digital Project Manager
9 14 (4.70%) IT Security Specialist
9 14 (4.70%) Security Specialist
9 14 (4.70%) Senior Digital Project Manager
9 14 (4.70%) Senior Manager
9 14 (4.70%) Senior Project Manager
10 12 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.03%) Consultant
10 12 (4.03%) Infrastructure Architect
10 12 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.69%) Infrastructure Manager
11 11 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.72%) .NET
2 5 (1.68%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.34%) RESTful
3 4 (1.34%) XMPP
4 2 (0.67%) DPDK
4 2 (0.67%) eBPF
4 2 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.67%) Middleware
4 2 (0.67%) OpenID
4 2 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.67%) REST
4 2 (0.67%) Streamlit
4 2 (0.67%) WAMP
5 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.34%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.34%) CSS
5 1 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.34%) Kafka
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.09%) Data Centre
2 37 (12.42%) Public Cloud
3 34 (11.41%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (8.72%) Onboarding
5 23 (7.72%) Cloud Native
6 17 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (5.37%) Private Cloud
7 16 (5.37%) Virtual Team
8 15 (5.03%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (5.03%) Low-Code
9 14 (4.70%) Management Information System
10 10 (3.36%) Replication
11 8 (2.68%) Security Posture
11 8 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (2.35%) Driving Licence
12 7 (2.35%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (2.35%) Product Ownership
13 6 (2.01%) Blog
14 5 (1.68%) iPad
15 4 (1.34%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 86 (28.86%) Windows
2 72 (24.16%) Windows Server
3 28 (9.40%) Linux
4 13 (4.36%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.35%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.34%) CentOS
6 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
2 75 (25.17%) CI/CD
3 74 (24.83%) DevOps
4 73 (24.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 67 (22.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 58 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 54 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (17.45%) ITIL
9 49 (16.44%) Mentoring
10 48 (16.11%) Cybersecurity
11 46 (15.44%) Cloud Security
12 44 (14.77%) Agile
13 42 (14.09%) Roadmaps
14 40 (13.42%) ITSM
15 37 (12.42%) Business Continuity
15 37 (12.42%) Coaching
16 36 (12.08%) AI
17 35 (11.74%) Analytics
17 35 (11.74%) Migration
18 33 (11.07%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (26.51%) PowerShell
2 71 (23.83%) Python
3 37 (12.42%) SQL
4 23 (7.72%) Bicep
5 19 (6.38%) Java
6 14 (4.70%) Bash
6 14 (4.70%) VBA
7 10 (3.36%) Go
8 9 (3.02%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.01%) C#
10 4 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.67%) C++
12 2 (0.67%) PHP
12 2 (0.67%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.67%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (10.07%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.72%) Azure Certification
3 20 (6.71%) AWS Certification
3 20 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (5.70%) Degree
5 16 (5.37%) CEH
6 14 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.36%) SC Cleared
8 11 (3.69%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.35%) CCNP
10 7 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.01%) CISSP
11 6 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (1.68%) CISM
12 5 (1.68%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.68%) MCSE
13 4 (1.34%) CCSP
13 4 (1.34%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (9.73%) NIST
3 27 (9.06%) SLA
4 16 (5.37%) ISO 22301
5 13 (4.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (4.03%) GDPR
7 11 (3.69%) PCI DSS
8 9 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (3.02%) SOC 2
9 6 (2.01%) NCSC
10 5 (1.68%) QA
11 4 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (1.01%) Basel III
12 3 (1.01%) MiFID
13 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 73 (24.50%) Active Directory
2 53 (17.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (10.07%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.03%) vSphere
5 10 (3.36%) Docker
6 9 (3.02%) KVM
7 7 (2.35%) Firmware
8 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.67%) QEMU
11 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 84 (28.19%) Terraform
2 36 (12.08%) Ansible
3 32 (10.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (9.40%) Kubernetes
5 15 (5.03%) Grafana
6 12 (4.03%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.03%) SCCM
7 7 (2.35%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.68%) SCOM
9 4 (1.34%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.01%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.67%) VxRail
12 1 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 103 (34.56%) VMware
2 92 (30.87%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.39%) Dell
4 24 (8.05%) Cisco
5 23 (7.72%) Commvault
5 23 (7.72%) HP
6 22 (7.38%) Dell Compellent
6 22 (7.38%) Nimble Storage
7 14 (4.70%) Veeam
8 13 (4.36%) Palo Alto
8 13 (4.36%) Splunk
9 12 (4.03%) Oracle
10 11 (3.69%) Juniper
10 11 (3.69%) ServiceNow
11 9 (3.02%) Freshdesk
12 8 (2.68%) Red Hat
13 7 (2.35%) Fortinet
13 7 (2.35%) Informatica
13 7 (2.35%) Talend
14 5 (1.68%) Pega