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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 343 317
Rank change year-on-year -104 -26 +12
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 340 404 785
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.82% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 1.99% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 254 168 250
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,125 £42,238
25th Percentile £50,750 £56,125 £54,814
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,538 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £92,125 £100,000 £98,626
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%

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 25,983 20,255 30,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.85% 41.26% 33.69%
Number of salaries quoted 16,516 10,115 19,083
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +3.64% -14.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -124 315 £65,576 -6.32% 161
UK excluding London -56 252 £62,500 -3.85% 101
Work from Home +1 106 £70,000 -12.50% 75
North of England -5 80 £65,000 - 34
London -80 79 £82,500 +13.79% 68
South East -44 62 £70,000 -17.65% 37
South West -64 52 £60,500 -24.38% 15
North West +21 49 £70,000 +27.27% 21
Midlands -25 38 £65,000 -18.75% 6
West Midlands -9 37 £63,500 -20.63% 4
Yorkshire -38 19 £51,500 -20.77% 10
East of England -20 12 £28,750 -50.00% 3
North East - 12 £42,500 - 3
Scotland +17 6 £68,750 +48.65% 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -62 4 £55,000 -31.25% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East Midlands -39 1 £77,500 +55.00% 2

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 26 (7.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.35%) Confluence
4 5 (1.47%) IIS
5 4 (1.18%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 228 (67.06%) Azure
2 117 (34.41%) AWS
3 90 (26.47%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (19.12%) Entra ID
5 30 (8.82%) Nutanix
6 29 (8.53%) Amazon EKS
6 29 (8.53%) Azure AKS
7 27 (7.94%) GCP
7 27 (7.94%) IaaS
8 26 (7.65%) PaaS
9 25 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (5.29%) SaaS
11 17 (5.00%) Serverless
12 14 (4.12%) GitHub
13 10 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.94%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 90 (26.47%) Firewall
2 58 (17.06%) DNS
3 47 (13.82%) VPN
4 46 (13.53%) DHCP
5 45 (13.24%) WAN
6 38 (11.18%) LAN
6 38 (11.18%) Network Security
7 15 (4.41%) SD-WAN
7 15 (4.41%) VLAN
8 14 (4.12%) Cisco Firepower
8 14 (4.12%) TCP/IP
8 14 (4.12%) Wireless
9 12 (3.53%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (2.94%) SAN
10 10 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
10 10 (2.94%) Unified Communications
10 10 (2.94%) WebEx
11 9 (2.65%) BGP
11 9 (2.65%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (2.65%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.35%) Oracle Database
2 8 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.88%) Flink
6 2 (0.59%) Power BI
6 2 (0.59%) Redis
6 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.29%) Big Data
7 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.29%) MySQL
7 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.29%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (7.06%) GitLab
2 18 (5.29%) Git
2 18 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.53%) JIRA
4 8 (2.35%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.59%) rollup.js
5 2 (0.59%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 94 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.53%) Finance
3 31 (9.12%) Retail
4 28 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.00%) Law
7 15 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.12%) Aerospace
9 13 (3.82%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.53%) Banking
11 9 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.65%) Marketing
12 7 (2.06%) Automotive
12 7 (2.06%) Electronics
13 5 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.59%) Aviation
15 2 (0.59%) Back Office
15 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (16.47%) Cloud Engineer
2 54 (15.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 48 (14.12%) Architect
4 47 (13.82%) Lead
5 45 (13.24%) Senior
6 25 (7.35%) Network Engineer
7 19 (5.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.29%) Analyst
8 18 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (5.29%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
8 18 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (4.12%) IT Engineer
10 13 (3.82%) Azure Architect
10 13 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.82%) Support Engineer
11 12 (3.53%) Consultant
12 11 (3.24%) Administrator
12 11 (3.24%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 11 (3.24%) IT Manager
12 11 (3.24%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.53%) ARM Templates
2 11 (3.24%) Kafka
3 10 (2.94%) XMPP
4 6 (1.76%) YAML
5 5 (1.47%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.47%) boto
5 5 (1.47%) Keycloak
6 3 (0.88%) OpenID
7 2 (0.59%) .NET
7 2 (0.59%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.59%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.59%) OAuth
7 2 (0.59%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.59%) WAMP
8 1 (0.29%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.29%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.29%) Loki
8 1 (0.29%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.12%) Data Centre
3 26 (7.65%) Onboarding
4 21 (6.18%) Public Cloud
5 19 (5.59%) Security Posture
6 17 (5.00%) PKI
7 16 (4.71%) Private Cloud
8 12 (3.53%) Replication
9 10 (2.94%) FlexPod
9 10 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.65%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (1.76%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.76%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 129 (37.94%) Windows
2 109 (32.06%) Windows Server
3 61 (17.94%) Linux
4 10 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.06%) Android
5 7 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.47%) VMS
7 4 (1.18%) CentOS
7 4 (1.18%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (31.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 92 (27.06%) CI/CD
3 88 (25.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 79 (23.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 77 (22.65%) DevOps
6 75 (22.06%) ITIL
7 62 (18.24%) Cloud Security
7 62 (18.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 55 (16.18%) Agile
8 55 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (14.71%) Roadmaps
10 46 (13.53%) Cybersecurity
11 45 (13.24%) Migration
12 40 (11.76%) Mentoring
13 37 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (9.41%) High Availability
15 30 (8.82%) Business Continuity
15 30 (8.82%) Containerisation
15 30 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
16 28 (8.24%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (21.47%) PowerShell
2 64 (18.82%) Python
3 29 (8.53%) Bash
3 29 (8.53%) Bicep
4 24 (7.06%) SQL
5 14 (4.12%) Go
6 13 (3.82%) Java
7 8 (2.35%) Clojure
8 4 (1.18%) C#
8 4 (1.18%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.59%) C++
9 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 58 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.41%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.24%) Azure Certification
3 28 (8.24%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (7.06%) AWS Certification
6 23 (6.76%) DV Cleared
7 20 (5.88%) Degree
8 16 (4.71%) CCNP
8 16 (4.71%) ISTQB
9 13 (3.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (3.53%) CCNA
11 9 (2.65%) MCSE
12 8 (2.35%) OSCP
12 8 (2.35%) RHCE
12 8 (2.35%) RHCSA
13 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.47%) CEH
14 5 (1.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (7.06%) NIST
2 24 (7.06%) SLA
3 8 (2.35%) NCSC
3 8 (2.35%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.35%) SOC 2
4 6 (1.76%) GDPR
5 5 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.47%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 110 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 79 (23.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (9.12%) Docker
4 29 (8.53%) Hyper-V
5 25 (7.35%) vSphere
6 15 (4.41%) VMware NSX
7 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 9 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (2.35%) Squid
9 5 (1.47%) KVM
10 4 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 107 (31.47%) Terraform
2 64 (18.82%) Ansible
3 60 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 36 (10.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (5.59%) Grafana
6 10 (2.94%) Cisco CUCM
6 10 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.65%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.65%) ZABBIX
8 8 (2.35%) Packer
8 8 (2.35%) SCCM
9 5 (1.47%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.18%) Nagios
10 4 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.18%) Puppet
10 4 (1.18%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.88%) Istio
11 3 (0.88%) linkerd
12 2 (0.59%) Nessus
12 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (41.47%) Microsoft
2 109 (32.06%) VMware
3 42 (12.35%) Cisco
4 25 (7.35%) Palo Alto
5 24 (7.06%) Splunk
6 22 (6.47%) Veeam
7 18 (5.29%) Oracle
8 17 (5.00%) Red Hat
9 16 (4.71%) Fortinet
10 13 (3.82%) Dell
10 13 (3.82%) HP
11 12 (3.53%) Dell Compellent
11 12 (3.53%) Nimble Storage
12 11 (3.24%) Meraki
13 10 (2.94%) Google
14 9 (2.65%) Commvault
15 8 (2.35%) IFS
16 7 (2.06%) NetApp
17 6 (1.76%) TP-LINK
17 6 (1.76%) Ubiquiti