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 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 315 309
Rank change year-on-year -143 -6 +21
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 406 426 657
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.87% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 2.11% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 315 196 176
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -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 30,817 20,183 24,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.41% 41.21% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 19,118 10,123 12,507
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,182 £36,925 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,350 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -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 23 September 2026.

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 23 September 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 -126 381 £70,000 -0.03% 516
UK excluding London -84 299 £62,500 - 284
Work from Home -13 125 £70,000 -12.50% 299
North of England -12 93 £53,250 -18.08% 69
London -118 91 £82,500 +13.79% 233
South East -56 81 £70,000 -17.65% 82
South West -68 58 £85,000 +6.25% 41
Midlands -36 54 £70,000 -12.50% 49
North West -2 52 £65,576 +5.77% 42
West Midlands -3 52 £70,000 -12.50% 29
Yorkshire -35 26 £50,000 -23.08% 19
East of England -39 19 £55,000 -4.35% 13
North East - 15 £47,000 - 9
Scotland +17 8 £77,500 +106.67% 21
Wales -92 6 £54,085 -1.66% 8
East Midlands -47 2 £68,750 +38.89% 20

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 31 (7.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.16%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.97%) Confluence
4 7 (1.72%) IIS
5 4 (0.99%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.49%) Weka
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 249 (61.33%) Azure
2 153 (37.68%) AWS
3 92 (22.66%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (21.18%) Entra ID
5 38 (9.36%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (9.36%) Serverless
6 37 (9.11%) GCP
7 35 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
7 35 (8.62%) Azure AKS
8 34 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (8.37%) PaaS
9 31 (7.64%) IaaS
10 30 (7.39%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 26 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (5.91%) GitHub
14 22 (5.42%) Amazon S3
15 21 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 106 (26.11%) Firewall
2 75 (18.47%) VPN
3 56 (13.79%) DNS
4 50 (12.32%) WAN
5 45 (11.08%) DHCP
5 45 (11.08%) Network Security
6 38 (9.36%) LAN
7 25 (6.16%) SD-WAN
7 25 (6.16%) Wireless
8 20 (4.93%) TCP/IP
9 14 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
10 13 (3.20%) Unified Communications
10 13 (3.20%) VLAN
11 12 (2.96%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (2.71%) Cisco Firepower
12 11 (2.71%) SAN
13 10 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (2.22%) BGP
15 8 (1.97%) IPv4
15 8 (1.97%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.20%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.96%) Spark SQL
5 8 (1.97%) Oracle Database
6 7 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.74%) Flink
9 2 (0.49%) Redis
9 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (4.93%) GitLab
2 16 (3.94%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.45%) Git
4 12 (2.96%) JIRA
5 8 (1.97%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.49%) rollup.js
6 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
General
1 95 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.07%) Finance
3 44 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.67%) Retail
6 19 (4.68%) Law
7 17 (4.19%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.69%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.45%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.72%) Banking
11 7 (1.72%) Marketing
12 6 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.23%) Automotive
13 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.23%) Electronics
14 4 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.99%) Local Government
15 2 (0.49%) Aviation
15 2 (0.49%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 69 (17.00%) Architect
2 59 (14.53%) Senior
3 58 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 52 (12.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 49 (12.07%) Lead
6 32 (7.88%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.90%) Network Engineer
8 24 (5.91%) Data Engineer
9 23 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (5.67%) Consultant
10 21 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (4.93%) Azure Architect
12 19 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.68%) Technical Architect
13 17 (4.19%) Cloud Consultant
13 17 (4.19%) IT Engineer
13 17 (4.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.94%) Support Engineer
15 15 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 14 (3.45%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (32.02%) Terraform
2 16 (3.94%) Kafka
3 13 (3.20%) ARM Templates
4 12 (2.96%) .NET
4 12 (2.96%) PySpark
5 11 (2.71%) Keycloak
6 6 (1.48%) 802.1X
6 6 (1.48%) XMPP
7 5 (1.23%) boto
8 4 (0.99%) SAML
9 3 (0.74%) YAML
10 2 (0.49%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.49%) Loki
10 2 (0.49%) ModSecurity
10 2 (0.49%) OpenID
10 2 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.25%) Node.js
11 1 (0.25%) OAuth
11 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.34%) Data Centre
2 30 (7.39%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.40%) Private Cloud
4 24 (5.91%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.19%) Security Posture
6 16 (3.94%) PKI
7 15 (3.69%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (3.69%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.71%) Driving Licence
9 10 (2.46%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.97%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.97%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.72%) Replication
13 6 (1.48%) FlexPod
13 6 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
15 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 126 (31.03%) Windows
2 103 (25.37%) Windows Server
3 74 (18.23%) Linux
4 9 (2.22%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.23%) VMS
7 4 (0.99%) Android
7 4 (0.99%) CentOS
7 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.49%) AIX
8 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.49%) Unix
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Rocky
9 1 (0.25%) SUSE
9 1 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (33.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 123 (30.30%) CI/CD
3 104 (25.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 100 (24.63%) DevOps
5 97 (23.89%) Cloud Security
6 94 (23.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 79 (19.46%) Migration
8 78 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (16.50%) Agile
10 66 (16.26%) Roadmaps
11 62 (15.27%) Analytics
12 59 (14.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 59 (14.53%) ITIL
12 59 (14.53%) Mentoring
13 56 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
14 53 (13.05%) AI
14 53 (13.05%) Zero Trust
15 52 (12.81%) Decision-Making
16 45 (11.08%) Infrastructure Automation
17 42 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 80 (19.70%) PowerShell
1 80 (19.70%) Python
2 49 (12.07%) Bash
3 35 (8.62%) SQL
4 33 (8.13%) Bicep
5 23 (5.67%) Go
6 21 (5.17%) Java
7 13 (3.20%) C#
7 13 (3.20%) C++
7 13 (3.20%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.97%) Clojure
9 6 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.49%) Korn
12 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 89 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 59 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 50 (12.32%) Azure Certification
4 40 (9.85%) AWS Certification
5 37 (9.11%) DV Cleared
6 28 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (5.17%) Degree
8 20 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (4.19%) CCNP
10 16 (3.94%) ISTQB
11 12 (2.96%) CCNA
12 11 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.46%) RHCE
13 10 (2.46%) RHCSA
13 10 (2.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (2.22%) CISSP
15 8 (1.97%) OSCP
16 6 (1.48%) CCIE
17 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
17 5 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.19%) NIST
3 14 (3.45%) SLA
4 13 (3.20%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.97%) NCSC
6 7 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.48%) GDPR
7 6 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.99%) GRC
10 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 106 (26.11%) Active Directory
2 72 (17.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (10.59%) Docker
4 25 (6.16%) Hyper-V
5 24 (5.91%) vSphere
6 17 (4.19%) VMware NSX
7 13 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.97%) Squid
9 8 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.74%) Firmware
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 76 (18.72%) Ansible
2 64 (15.76%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (6.16%) Grafana
5 19 (4.68%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.46%) Puppet
7 9 (2.22%) ZABBIX
8 8 (1.97%) FortiGate
8 8 (1.97%) Packer
8 8 (1.97%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.97%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.97%) SCCM
9 6 (1.48%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (1.48%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.99%) Nagios
12 3 (0.74%) Istio
12 3 (0.74%) linkerd
13 2 (0.49%) Argo
13 2 (0.49%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 163 (40.15%) Microsoft
2 105 (25.86%) VMware
3 45 (11.08%) Cisco
4 24 (5.91%) Veeam
5 21 (5.17%) Palo Alto
6 19 (4.68%) Splunk
7 17 (4.19%) Fortinet
7 17 (4.19%) Oracle
7 17 (4.19%) Red Hat
8 14 (3.45%) Google
9 13 (3.20%) Meraki
10 9 (2.22%) Aruba
11 8 (1.97%) IFS
11 8 (1.97%) NetApp
12 7 (1.72%) Tenable
13 6 (1.48%) EMC
13 6 (1.48%) Juniper
13 6 (1.48%) Zscaler
14 5 (1.23%) Citrix
14 5 (1.23%) SolarWinds