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 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 358 368
Rank change year-on-year -76 +10 -19
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 333 357 732
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.81% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 1.88% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 238 126 258
10th Percentile £38,023 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,500 £56,250 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,047 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +0.07% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £113,125 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,996 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.97% +9.22% -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 23,131 19,034 35,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.16% 43.02% 34.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14,609 8,931 23,338
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,116
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -84 304 £65,000 -9.71% 94
UK excluding London -68 223 £62,500 -11.97% 73
Work from Home +49 121 £65,288 -14.09% 52
London -65 87 £78,000 +7.59% 31
North of England -6 82 £65,000 -9.71% 17
North West +30 48 £70,000 -2.77% 8
South East -56 48 £65,000 -23.53% 27
South West -55 37 £55,000 +7.32% 11
Midlands -16 29 £54,500 -26.10% 8
West Midlands -1 28 £51,000 -30.85% 8
Yorkshire -48 18 £63,076 -2.96% 8
North East - 16 £44,000 - 1
East of England -14 9 £30,500 -46.96% 4
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 2
Scotland +11 6 £45,000 -2.70% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands -36 1 £77,500 -

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 23 (6.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.80%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.60%) Confluence
4 4 (1.20%) Documentum
4 4 (1.20%) IIS
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 204 (61.26%) Azure
2 117 (35.14%) AWS
3 78 (23.42%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (13.81%) Entra ID
4 46 (13.81%) Nutanix
5 28 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (7.51%) Power Platform
7 24 (7.21%) PaaS
8 22 (6.61%) GCP
9 21 (6.31%) IaaS
9 21 (6.31%) SaaS
10 20 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (5.41%) PowerApps
12 15 (4.50%) Azure AKS
12 15 (4.50%) GitHub
13 14 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.30%) Serverless
15 10 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 71 (21.32%) Firewall
2 59 (17.72%) DNS
3 49 (14.71%) DHCP
4 38 (11.41%) WAN
5 30 (9.01%) LAN
6 27 (8.11%) VPN
7 21 (6.31%) Network Security
8 20 (6.01%) Remote Desktop
9 13 (3.90%) VLAN
9 13 (3.90%) Wireless
10 11 (3.30%) TCP/IP
11 10 (3.00%) SAN
11 10 (3.00%) Unified Communications
11 10 (3.00%) VoIP
11 10 (3.00%) WebEx
12 9 (2.70%) BGP
12 9 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (2.70%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (2.70%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.40%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.80%) Power BI
4 5 (1.50%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.60%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.30%) DataStage
8 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.30%) MySQL
8 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.30%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (6.01%) GitLab
2 17 (5.11%) Git
3 14 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.60%) JIRA
5 8 (2.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.50%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.60%) rollup.js
7 2 (0.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 94 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.41%) Finance
3 39 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.41%) Retail
5 21 (6.31%) Law
6 17 (5.11%) Banking
7 16 (4.80%) Aerospace
8 14 (4.20%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (3.60%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (2.70%) Automotive
12 9 (2.70%) Marketing
13 8 (2.40%) Financial Institution
14 7 (2.10%) Electronics
15 6 (1.80%) Back Office
16 5 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.60%) Front Office
17 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (20.72%) Cloud Engineer
2 54 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 48 (14.41%) Senior
4 44 (13.21%) Lead
5 35 (10.51%) Architect
6 26 (7.81%) Network Engineer
7 20 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.41%) Consultant
9 17 (5.11%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
10 16 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.50%) Analyst
12 14 (4.20%) Administrator
12 14 (4.20%) Cloud Consultant
12 14 (4.20%) Digital Project Manager
12 14 (4.20%) Project Manager
12 14 (4.20%) Senior Digital Project Manager
12 14 (4.20%) Senior Manager
12 14 (4.20%) Senior Project Manager
13 13 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.00%) XMPP
2 8 (2.40%) .NET
2 8 (2.40%) ARM Templates
3 5 (1.50%) boto
3 5 (1.50%) YAML
4 4 (1.20%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.20%) Kafka
5 3 (0.90%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.90%) OpenID
6 2 (0.60%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.60%) OAuth
6 2 (0.60%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.60%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.60%) WAMP
7 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.30%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.30%) Node.js
7 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.30%) REST
7 1 (0.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.31%) Public Cloud
2 28 (8.41%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.81%) Legacy Systems
3 26 (7.81%) Onboarding
4 18 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 16 (4.80%) Private Cloud
6 15 (4.50%) Low-Code
7 14 (4.20%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (3.90%) PKI
9 12 (3.60%) Replication
10 11 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (3.30%) Security Posture
11 10 (3.00%) FlexPod
11 10 (3.00%) Management Information System
11 10 (3.00%) Video Conferencing
12 8 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (2.10%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (2.10%) Renewable Energy
14 6 (1.80%) Blog
15 5 (1.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 118 (35.44%) Windows
2 101 (30.33%) Windows Server
3 57 (17.12%) Linux
4 7 (2.10%) Android
4 7 (2.10%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.50%) CentOS
5 5 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (28.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 84 (25.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 84 (25.23%) ITIL
3 83 (24.92%) CI/CD
4 75 (22.52%) Agile
5 74 (22.22%) DevOps
6 63 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 59 (17.72%) Mentoring
8 53 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (13.51%) Cloud Security
11 44 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
12 42 (12.61%) Roadmaps
13 41 (12.31%) Coaching
14 40 (12.01%) Migration
15 36 (10.81%) Business Continuity
15 36 (10.81%) High Availability
16 34 (10.21%) AI
17 30 (9.01%) ITSM
18 27 (8.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (21.32%) PowerShell
2 65 (19.52%) Python
3 27 (8.11%) SQL
4 23 (6.91%) Bash
4 23 (6.91%) Bicep
5 18 (5.41%) Java
6 14 (4.20%) VBA
7 10 (3.00%) Go
8 8 (2.40%) Clojure
8 8 (2.40%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.10%) C#
10 3 (0.90%) C++
10 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.11%) AWS Certification
2 27 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (7.21%) Azure Certification
4 21 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (6.31%) Degree
5 16 (4.80%) ISTQB
6 14 (4.20%) SC Cleared
7 11 (3.30%) CCNA
8 10 (3.00%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.70%) MCSE
10 8 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.40%) CCNP
10 8 (2.40%) CEH
10 8 (2.40%) OSCP
10 8 (2.40%) RHCE
10 8 (2.40%) RHCSA
11 7 (2.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (1.80%) CISSP
13 5 (1.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (8.11%) SLA
3 24 (7.21%) NIST
4 11 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (3.30%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.40%) ISO 22301
5 8 (2.40%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.80%) GDPR
7 5 (1.50%) NCSC
8 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.60%) QA
11 1 (0.30%) COBIT
11 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (28.53%) Active Directory
2 76 (22.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (9.91%) Hyper-V
4 25 (7.51%) Docker
5 24 (7.21%) vSphere
6 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (2.70%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.40%) Squid
8 5 (1.50%) KVM
9 4 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 99 (29.73%) Terraform
2 57 (17.12%) Ansible
3 52 (15.62%) Kubernetes
4 32 (9.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (6.31%) Grafana
6 12 (3.60%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.00%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (2.70%) ZABBIX
9 8 (2.40%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.40%) Packer
9 8 (2.40%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.10%) SCCM
11 4 (1.20%) Nagios
11 4 (1.20%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.60%) Nessus
13 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 132 (39.64%) Microsoft
2 112 (33.63%) VMware
3 34 (10.21%) Cisco
4 23 (6.91%) Splunk
5 22 (6.61%) Dell
5 22 (6.61%) Veeam
6 21 (6.31%) HP
7 20 (6.01%) Dell Compellent
7 20 (6.01%) Nimble Storage
8 18 (5.41%) Oracle
8 18 (5.41%) Red Hat
9 16 (4.80%) Palo Alto
10 14 (4.20%) Commvault
10 14 (4.20%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.70%) Meraki
12 8 (2.40%) Google
12 8 (2.40%) IFS
12 8 (2.40%) ServiceNow
13 7 (2.10%) NetApp
13 7 (2.10%) SolarWinds