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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 388 501
Rank change year-on-year -12 +113 +42
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 252 348 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.65% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.24% 1.75% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 181 114 167
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,028 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.15% -18.75%
75th Percentile £92,500 £84,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.44% -12.14%

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 20,345 19,868 20,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.31% 37.15% 36.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,183 9,316 14,895
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,628 £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 £83,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £53,000
% change year-on-year -13.31% +3.38% -3.64%

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 12 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 12 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 -13 212 £75,000 +7.14% 146
London +94 132 £90,000 +12.50% 29
UK excluding London -94 95 £57,500 -4.17% 132
Work from Home +21 77 £83,750 +34.00% 40
North of England -56 26 £57,250 -10.66% 27
South East -28 15 £78,500 +57.00% 41
Midlands +26 14 £80,000 - 17
East of England +13 14 £41,000 -31.67% 16
Wales - 14 £55,000 - 5
North West -30 13 £62,500 +2.47% 13
West Midlands +26 11 £80,000 - 4
Yorkshire -12 10 £30,000 -49.58% 11
Northern Ireland -5 9 - - 3
South West -13 6 £79,500 +13.57% 22
North East 0 3 - - 3
Scotland -13 3 £45,000 -18.18% 4
East Midlands - 3 £49,500 - 12

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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.40%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 180 (71.43%) Azure
2 93 (36.90%) AWS
3 59 (23.41%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (19.05%) Entra ID
5 32 (12.70%) Nutanix
6 27 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (10.71%) GCP
7 22 (8.73%) Azure Sentinel
8 17 (6.75%) PaaS
9 16 (6.35%) SaaS
10 14 (5.56%) IaaS
11 10 (3.97%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (3.57%) GitHub
13 8 (3.17%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.17%) Serverless
14 7 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 51 (20.24%) DNS
2 42 (16.67%) DHCP
3 38 (15.08%) Firewall
4 29 (11.51%) VPN
5 16 (6.35%) Remote Desktop
6 14 (5.56%) WAN
7 12 (4.76%) Network Security
8 11 (4.37%) LAN
8 11 (4.37%) VoIP
8 11 (4.37%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (3.97%) TCP/IP
10 9 (3.57%) Internet
11 8 (3.17%) VLAN
12 7 (2.78%) BGP
13 5 (1.98%) SAN
13 5 (1.98%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.59%) SSL
14 4 (1.59%) Unified Communications
15 2 (0.79%) HTTP
15 2 (0.79%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (5.56%) MySQL
4 11 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.97%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (3.97%) Big Data
5 10 (3.97%) DataStage
5 10 (3.97%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.97%) Hadoop
5 10 (3.97%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.97%) Neo4j
5 10 (3.97%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.97%) Pentaho
5 10 (3.97%) RDBMS
5 10 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.59%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.19%) Power BI
8 2 (0.79%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (9.92%) Octopus Deploy
2 22 (8.73%) TeamCity
3 12 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.59%) Git
4 4 (1.59%) GitLab
4 4 (1.59%) JIRA
5 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 97 (38.49%) Social Skills
2 70 (27.78%) Finance
3 31 (12.30%) Law
4 26 (10.32%) Banking
5 24 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.17%) Retail
9 5 (1.98%) Back Office
9 5 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Billing
10 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Legal
13 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Front Office
13 1 (0.40%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 37 (14.68%) Architect
2 29 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (10.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (7.54%) Infrastructure Architect
6 16 (6.35%) Lead
7 12 (4.76%) Senior
7 12 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.37%) Infrastructure Manager
9 10 (3.97%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (3.57%) Administrator
10 9 (3.57%) IT Manager
10 9 (3.57%) IT Security Specialist
10 9 (3.57%) Security Specialist
11 8 (3.17%) 1st Line Support
11 8 (3.17%) Consultant
12 7 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.78%) Cloud Consultant
12 7 (2.78%) IT Infrastructure Manager
12 7 (2.78%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.30%) .NET
2 6 (2.38%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (1.59%) RESTful
4 3 (1.19%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.79%) DPDK
5 2 (0.79%) eBPF
5 2 (0.79%) Middleware
5 2 (0.79%) OpenID
6 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.40%) CSS
6 1 (0.40%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.40%) HTML
6 1 (0.40%) JMS
6 1 (0.40%) Kafka
6 1 (0.40%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.65%) Data Centre
2 35 (13.89%) Public Cloud
3 27 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (10.32%) Virtual Team
5 19 (7.54%) Cloud Native
6 17 (6.75%) Management Information System
6 17 (6.75%) Onboarding
7 15 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (5.95%) Security Posture
8 11 (4.37%) Private Cloud
9 10 (3.97%) Product Ownership
10 8 (3.17%) Driving Licence
11 7 (2.78%) iPad
12 5 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.59%) ARM Cortex
13 4 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.19%) Social Media
15 2 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
15 2 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 81 (32.14%) Windows
2 62 (24.60%) Windows Server
3 26 (10.32%) Linux
4 10 (3.97%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.78%) Mac OS
6 7 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.19%) Rocky
8 2 (0.79%) CentOS
8 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.79%) Unix
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 64 (25.40%) CI/CD
2 64 (25.40%) DevOps
3 60 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 50 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (18.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 46 (18.25%) ITIL
7 45 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
8 44 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 42 (16.67%) Cloud Security
10 38 (15.08%) Migration
11 37 (14.68%) Roadmaps
12 36 (14.29%) Analytics
13 32 (12.70%) AI
13 32 (12.70%) ITSM
13 32 (12.70%) Vulnerability Management
14 29 (11.51%) Business Continuity
15 27 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
15 27 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (10.32%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 67 (26.59%) PowerShell
2 51 (20.24%) Python
3 47 (18.65%) SQL
4 16 (6.35%) Bicep
4 16 (6.35%) Java
5 6 (2.38%) Bash
6 4 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.19%) C#
7 3 (1.19%) Go
7 3 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.79%) PHP
8 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.79%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 29 (11.51%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.13%) Azure Certification
3 18 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.56%) Degree
5 12 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.37%) CEH
7 10 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.17%) CISSP
10 6 (2.38%) CISM
11 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.19%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (1.19%) GCIH
13 3 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (11.90%) NIST
3 18 (7.14%) GDPR
3 18 (7.14%) SLA
4 11 (4.37%) ISO 22301
5 10 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.78%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.38%) NCSC
7 6 (2.38%) QA
8 5 (1.98%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.19%) Basel III
9 3 (1.19%) MiFID
10 2 (0.79%) COBIT
10 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 64 (25.40%) Active Directory
2 42 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (11.90%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.76%) Docker
5 7 (2.78%) Firmware
6 5 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.98%) vSphere
7 4 (1.59%) KVM
7 4 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.19%) NFS
9 2 (0.79%) QEMU
10 1 (0.40%) iptables
10 1 (0.40%) vCloud
10 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (29.37%) Terraform
2 28 (11.11%) Ansible
3 23 (9.13%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.37%) SCCM
4 11 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.98%) SCOM
7 4 (1.59%) Grafana
8 3 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.19%) Autotask
9 2 (0.79%) Suricata
10 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.40%) VxRail
Vendors
1 75 (29.76%) Microsoft
2 73 (28.97%) VMware
3 23 (9.13%) Dell
4 21 (8.33%) Cisco
5 18 (7.14%) Commvault
6 16 (6.35%) Dell Compellent
6 16 (6.35%) HP
6 16 (6.35%) Nimble Storage
6 16 (6.35%) Oracle
7 11 (4.37%) Juniper
8 10 (3.97%) Datto
8 10 (3.97%) Informatica
8 10 (3.97%) Talend
9 9 (3.57%) Apple
9 9 (3.57%) Palo Alto
10 8 (3.17%) Freshdesk
11 7 (2.78%) Splunk
12 6 (2.38%) SAP
13 5 (1.98%) Intel
14 4 (1.59%) Adobe