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 29 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 396 373
Rank change year-on-year -17 -23 -16
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 328 267 688
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.63% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 1.57% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 219 116 245
10th Percentile £36,250 £47,365 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,063 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% - -
75th Percentile £81,375 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £115,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -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 25,308 16,993 34,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.21% 40.12% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,109 9,188 22,923
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -20 288 £66,538 -4.95% 92
UK excluding London -62 181 £63,076 +0.92% 70
London +19 119 £87,500 +7.69% 26
Work from Home +37 115 £65,576 -6.32% 42
North of England -50 60 £63,076 -12.38% 23
South East -27 44 £65,000 -1.89% 19
North West -44 32 £65,288 -9.31% 14
South West -61 25 £55,000 +15.79% 14
East of England -16 15 £27,000 -55.00% 2
Yorkshire -61 15 £63,076 -2.96% 4
Northern Ireland -25 13 - - 2
Midlands -34 13 £63,076 -9.89% 6
North East - 13 £63,076 - 5
West Midlands -27 12 £59,788 -14.59% 6
Scotland -23 6 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands -52 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 21 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.44%) Confluence
4 5 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.22%) Documentum
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 190 (57.93%) Azure
2 126 (38.41%) AWS
3 76 (23.17%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (18.60%) Nutanix
5 42 (12.80%) Entra ID
6 27 (8.23%) Power Platform
7 23 (7.01%) GCP
8 20 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (5.79%) PowerApps
10 16 (4.88%) SaaS
11 14 (4.27%) GitHub
12 12 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.66%) IaaS
12 12 (3.66%) PaaS
13 11 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 66 (20.12%) DNS
2 64 (19.51%) Firewall
3 57 (17.38%) DHCP
4 29 (8.84%) VPN
5 28 (8.54%) Remote Desktop
5 28 (8.54%) WAN
6 23 (7.01%) LAN
7 14 (4.27%) Network Security
8 12 (3.66%) TCP/IP
9 11 (3.35%) VLAN
9 11 (3.35%) VoIP
9 11 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (3.05%) Unified Communications
11 9 (2.74%) SAN
11 9 (2.74%) WebEx
12 8 (2.44%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (2.44%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (2.13%) BGP
14 5 (1.52%) Internet
14 5 (1.52%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.05%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.44%) Power BI
4 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (1.52%) Big Data
5 5 (1.52%) DataStage
5 5 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.52%) MySQL
5 5 (1.52%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.52%) Pentaho
5 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.52%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 14 (4.27%) GitLab
2 12 (3.66%) Git
3 11 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.74%) JIRA
4 9 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.83%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.61%) rollup.js
General
1 101 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.33%) Finance
3 36 (10.98%) Retail
4 33 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.23%) Law
6 22 (6.71%) Banking
7 16 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.27%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.66%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (3.05%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.74%) Automotive
13 8 (2.44%) Marketing
13 8 (2.44%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.13%) Back Office
14 7 (2.13%) Electronics
15 5 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.91%) Front Office
16 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (21.95%) Cloud Engineer
2 54 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 51 (15.55%) Senior
4 31 (9.45%) Architect
4 31 (9.45%) Lead
5 21 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (6.40%) Network Engineer
6 16 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (4.57%) Administrator
7 15 (4.57%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.27%) Consultant
8 14 (4.27%) Digital Project Manager
8 14 (4.27%) Senior Digital Project Manager
8 14 (4.27%) Senior Manager
8 14 (4.27%) Senior Project Manager
9 12 (3.66%) IT Security Specialist
9 12 (3.66%) Security Specialist
10 11 (3.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (3.05%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.35%) .NET
2 9 (2.74%) XMPP
3 6 (1.83%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.52%) OpenID
5 4 (1.22%) YAML
6 3 (0.91%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.61%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.61%) Kafka
7 2 (0.61%) OAuth
7 2 (0.61%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.61%) REST
7 2 (0.61%) Streamlit
7 2 (0.61%) WAMP
8 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.30%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.30%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.30%) JMS
8 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.30%) RESTful
8 1 (0.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.80%) Public Cloud
2 29 (8.84%) Onboarding
3 25 (7.62%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.62%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (6.71%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.18%) Private Cloud
6 16 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.57%) Low-Code
8 14 (4.27%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (3.66%) Management Information System
10 11 (3.35%) Replication
11 9 (2.74%) FlexPod
11 9 (2.74%) PKI
11 9 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (2.13%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.83%) Blog
14 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 107 (32.62%) Windows
2 87 (26.52%) Windows Server
3 45 (13.72%) Linux
4 10 (3.05%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.13%) Android
6 5 (1.52%) CentOS
6 5 (1.52%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.30%) VMS
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 82 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 78 (23.78%) CI/CD
4 74 (22.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 74 (22.56%) ITIL
5 69 (21.04%) DevOps
6 63 (19.21%) Agile
7 60 (18.29%) Mentoring
8 54 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (14.94%) Cybersecurity
10 48 (14.63%) Coaching
11 46 (14.02%) Business Continuity
12 43 (13.11%) Cloud Security
13 42 (12.80%) High Availability
14 40 (12.20%) ITSM
15 35 (10.67%) Roadmaps
16 34 (10.37%) Storage Management
17 33 (10.06%) Migration
18 31 (9.45%) AI
Programming Languages
1 79 (24.09%) Python
2 72 (21.95%) PowerShell
3 32 (9.76%) SQL
4 20 (6.10%) Bash
4 20 (6.10%) Bicep
4 20 (6.10%) Java
5 14 (4.27%) VBA
6 9 (2.74%) Go
6 9 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.44%) C#
8 6 (1.83%) Clojure
8 6 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.91%) C++
10 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.61%) PHP
10 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.01%) AWS Certification
3 21 (6.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.57%) Degree
7 13 (3.96%) CEH
8 12 (3.66%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.35%) SC Cleared
10 10 (3.05%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.44%) CCNA
11 8 (2.44%) CCNP
12 7 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.13%) MCSE
12 7 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.83%) CISSP
14 5 (1.52%) CISM
14 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.52%) OSCP
15 4 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (10.06%) SLA
3 30 (9.15%) NIST
4 13 (3.96%) ISO 22301
5 12 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (3.66%) PCI DSS
6 10 (3.05%) GDPR
7 9 (2.74%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.52%) NCSC
10 4 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.91%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.91%) QA
12 2 (0.61%) Basel III
12 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.61%) MiFID
13 1 (0.30%) COBIT
13 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (24.70%) Active Directory
2 69 (21.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (10.37%) Hyper-V
4 19 (5.79%) Docker
5 18 (5.49%) vSphere
6 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 8 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (1.83%) KVM
8 4 (1.22%) Squid
8 4 (1.22%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.91%) Firmware
10 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.30%) iptables
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (27.44%) Terraform
2 54 (16.46%) Ansible
3 46 (14.02%) Kubernetes
4 32 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (6.10%) Grafana
6 10 (3.05%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.74%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (2.44%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.44%) SCCM
9 5 (1.52%) FortiGate
9 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.52%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.22%) Packer
11 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.61%) Nagios
12 2 (0.61%) Nessus
13 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 117 (35.67%) VMware
2 106 (32.32%) Microsoft
3 31 (9.45%) Dell
4 30 (9.15%) Cisco
5 29 (8.84%) HP
6 28 (8.54%) Dell Compellent
6 28 (8.54%) Nimble Storage
7 22 (6.71%) Splunk
8 21 (6.40%) Commvault
9 20 (6.10%) Oracle
10 16 (4.88%) Palo Alto
11 15 (4.57%) Veeam
12 14 (4.27%) Red Hat
13 12 (3.66%) Fortinet
13 12 (3.66%) ServiceNow
14 10 (3.05%) Juniper
15 7 (2.13%) SolarWinds
16 6 (1.83%) IFS
16 6 (1.83%) NetApp
16 6 (1.83%) Ubiquiti