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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 331 300
Rank change year-on-year -127 -31 +3
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 367 415 744
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.83% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 2.01% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 284 180 206
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £49,740 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £103,737
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% 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 27,933 20,678 27,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.08% 41.21% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 17,515 10,431 15,927
10th Percentile £31,083 £28,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -103 344 £70,000 -0.07% 125
UK excluding London -66 277 £62,500 -3.85% 95
Work from Home -20 108 £70,000 -12.50% 55
North of England -12 91 £57,500 -11.54% 23
London -100 85 £85,000 +17.24% 40
South East -60 68 £70,000 -17.65% 39
South West -74 56 £61,500 -23.13% 16
North West +14 54 £65,000 +18.18% 10
Midlands -15 41 £67,500 -15.63% 11
West Midlands +9 40 £65,000 -18.75% 6
Yorkshire -33 23 £51,500 -20.77% 11
East of England -22 17 £46,000 -23.33% 3
North East - 14 £47,000 - 2
Scotland +6 8 £77,500 +67.57% 4
Wales -71 6 £54,085 -19.87% 1
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East Midlands -33 1 £77,500 +55.00% 5

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 27 (7.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (6.54%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.18%) Confluence
4 5 (1.36%) IIS
5 4 (1.09%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.27%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 238 (64.85%) Azure
2 130 (35.42%) AWS
3 95 (25.89%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (19.62%) Entra ID
5 35 (9.54%) Amazon EKS
6 33 (8.99%) GCP
7 30 (8.17%) Azure AKS
8 29 (7.90%) IaaS
8 29 (7.90%) PaaS
9 27 (7.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (6.81%) Serverless
11 20 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (5.45%) Amazon S3
12 19 (5.18%) Nutanix
12 19 (5.18%) SaaS
12 19 (5.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 92 (25.07%) Firewall
2 52 (14.17%) VPN
3 49 (13.35%) DNS
4 48 (13.08%) WAN
5 41 (11.17%) Network Security
6 39 (10.63%) DHCP
6 39 (10.63%) LAN
7 18 (4.90%) SD-WAN
7 18 (4.90%) Wireless
8 15 (4.09%) TCP/IP
8 15 (4.09%) VLAN
9 14 (3.81%) Cisco Firepower
10 12 (3.27%) Software-Defined Networking
11 11 (3.00%) SAN
12 10 (2.72%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (2.72%) Unified Communications
12 10 (2.72%) WebEx
13 9 (2.45%) BGP
13 9 (2.45%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.54%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.18%) Oracle Database
5 7 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.82%) Flink
7 3 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.54%) Power BI
8 2 (0.54%) Redis
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.27%) Big Data
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.27%) MySQL
9 1 (0.27%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.27%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.54%) GitLab
2 19 (5.18%) Git
3 18 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.27%) JIRA
5 8 (2.18%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.54%) rollup.js
6 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 90 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.53%) Finance
3 28 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (7.63%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.08%) Retail
5 21 (5.72%) Law
6 17 (4.63%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.36%) Aerospace
8 14 (3.81%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.72%) Banking
10 9 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.45%) Marketing
11 7 (1.91%) Automotive
11 7 (1.91%) Electronics
12 5 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Local Government
13 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Legal
14 2 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (16.08%) Architect
2 57 (15.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 56 (15.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 52 (14.17%) Lead
5 43 (11.72%) Senior
6 25 (6.81%) Network Engineer
7 20 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (4.63%) Analyst
10 17 (4.63%) Consultant
10 17 (4.63%) IT Engineer
10 17 (4.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (4.36%) Azure Architect
11 16 (4.36%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
11 16 (4.36%) Support Engineer
12 15 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.54%) Cloud Consultant
14 12 (3.27%) IT Support
15 11 (3.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.54%) Kafka
2 12 (3.27%) ARM Templates
3 10 (2.72%) XMPP
4 7 (1.91%) Keycloak
5 6 (1.63%) YAML
6 5 (1.36%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.36%) boto
7 3 (0.82%) OpenID
8 2 (0.54%) .NET
8 2 (0.54%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.54%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.54%) Loki
8 2 (0.54%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.54%) OAuth
8 2 (0.54%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.27%) SAML
9 1 (0.27%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.45%) Data Centre
2 30 (8.17%) Cloud Native
3 28 (7.63%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.18%) Security Posture
5 16 (4.36%) PKI
5 16 (4.36%) Public Cloud
6 14 (3.81%) Private Cloud
7 13 (3.54%) Replication
8 12 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (3.00%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.72%) FlexPod
10 10 (2.72%) Video Conferencing
11 9 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.91%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.91%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (1.91%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 125 (34.06%) Windows
2 105 (28.61%) Windows Server
3 64 (17.44%) Linux
4 7 (1.91%) Android
4 7 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.91%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.36%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.36%) VMS
6 4 (1.09%) CentOS
6 4 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.54%) AIX
7 2 (0.54%) Unix
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.27%) SUSE
8 1 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (33.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 104 (28.34%) CI/CD
3 102 (27.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 94 (25.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 87 (23.71%) DevOps
6 76 (20.71%) Cloud Security
7 71 (19.35%) ITIL
8 64 (17.44%) Disaster Recovery
8 64 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (15.80%) Migration
10 54 (14.71%) Roadmaps
11 53 (14.44%) Agile
12 51 (13.90%) Cybersecurity
13 44 (11.99%) Mentoring
14 40 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 39 (10.63%) Infrastructure Automation
16 36 (9.81%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (9.54%) Analytics
17 35 (9.54%) Identity Management
18 33 (8.99%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 74 (20.16%) PowerShell
1 74 (20.16%) Python
2 38 (10.35%) Bash
3 31 (8.45%) Bicep
4 21 (5.72%) SQL
5 14 (3.81%) Go
6 11 (3.00%) Java
7 8 (2.18%) Clojure
8 4 (1.09%) C#
8 4 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.09%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.54%) C++
9 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.54%) Korn
10 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 74 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 46 (12.53%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.26%) Azure Certification
4 31 (8.45%) DV Cleared
5 29 (7.90%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (7.63%) AWS Certification
7 24 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (5.72%) Degree
9 17 (4.63%) CCNP
10 16 (4.36%) ISTQB
11 12 (3.27%) CCNA
11 12 (3.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 10 (2.72%) RHCE
12 10 (2.72%) RHCSA
13 8 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.18%) OSCP
14 7 (1.91%) CISSP
14 7 (1.91%) MCSE
15 6 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (1.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (5.99%) NIST
3 17 (4.63%) SLA
4 8 (2.18%) NCSC
5 7 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.63%) GDPR
6 6 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.63%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.82%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 104 (28.34%) Active Directory
2 78 (21.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (11.17%) Docker
4 27 (7.36%) vSphere
5 25 (6.81%) Hyper-V
6 16 (4.36%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 8 (2.18%) Squid
7 8 (2.18%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.82%) KVM
11 2 (0.54%) Firmware
11 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 119 (32.43%) Terraform
2 70 (19.07%) Ansible
3 63 (17.17%) Kubernetes
4 38 (10.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (4.90%) Grafana
6 10 (2.72%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (2.45%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.45%) SCCM
7 9 (2.45%) ZABBIX
8 8 (2.18%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.18%) Packer
9 7 (1.91%) Puppet
10 5 (1.36%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.09%) Nagios
11 4 (1.09%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.82%) Istio
12 3 (0.82%) linkerd
12 3 (0.82%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.54%) Argo
13 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 150 (40.87%) Microsoft
2 105 (28.61%) VMware
3 45 (12.26%) Cisco
4 25 (6.81%) Palo Alto
5 23 (6.27%) Splunk
6 22 (5.99%) Veeam
7 20 (5.45%) Red Hat
8 18 (4.90%) Oracle
9 17 (4.63%) Fortinet
10 13 (3.54%) Meraki
11 12 (3.27%) Google
12 8 (2.18%) Dell
12 8 (2.18%) IFS
13 7 (1.91%) Commvault
13 7 (1.91%) NetApp
13 7 (1.91%) Tenable
14 6 (1.63%) Aruba
14 6 (1.63%) HP
14 6 (1.63%) TP-LINK
14 6 (1.63%) Ubiquiti