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 24 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 361 467
Rank change year-on-year -31 +106 +145
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 275 464 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.69% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 2.05% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 209 169 181
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,238 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,231 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,772 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £88,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -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 19,005 22,649 19,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 33.46% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10,625 11,118 14,903
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,579 £33,717
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 -31 246 £80,000 +18.08% 102
London +94 144 £87,500 +20.69% 47
UK excluding London -100 108 £62,500 +4.17% 77
Work from Home +35 89 £80,000 +33.33% 46
North of England -62 35 £57,250 +27.22% 8
Wales +33 21 £55,000 -
Midlands +73 18 £80,000 +100.00% 7
East of England +19 18 £62,500 +4.17% 4
North West -35 18 £56,000 +24.44% 6
Yorkshire +12 17 £58,750 -7.11% 2
West Midlands +62 15 £80,000 +113.33% 5
South East -31 15 £78,500 +57.00% 41
South West -13 12 £80,000 +6.67% 15
Northern Ireland +5 4 - -
East Midlands +33 3 £49,500 +14.68% 2
Scotland -6 1 £37,500 -31.82% 4

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 (7.64%) SharePoint
2 20 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.45%) Confluence
5 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 188 (68.36%) Azure
2 99 (36.00%) AWS
3 71 (25.82%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (18.55%) Entra ID
5 27 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (8.73%) Azure Sentinel
6 24 (8.73%) GCP
6 24 (8.73%) SaaS
7 20 (7.27%) PaaS
8 19 (6.91%) IaaS
9 17 (6.18%) Nutanix
10 12 (4.36%) Serverless
11 11 (4.00%) GitHub
12 8 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.91%) Azure Stack
12 8 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.91%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.55%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 43 (15.64%) DNS
2 41 (14.91%) Firewall
3 35 (12.73%) VPN
4 31 (11.27%) DHCP
5 23 (8.36%) WAN
6 21 (7.64%) LAN
7 16 (5.82%) Network Security
8 14 (5.09%) TCP/IP
9 13 (4.73%) VLAN
9 13 (4.73%) VoIP
10 11 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (2.91%) BGP
11 8 (2.91%) Internet
11 8 (2.91%) SAN
12 6 (2.18%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.82%) Unified Communications
14 4 (1.45%) NAS
14 4 (1.45%) SSL
15 3 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.64%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (4.73%) MySQL
4 8 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.91%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (2.55%) Big Data
5 7 (2.55%) DataStage
5 7 (2.55%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.55%) Hadoop
5 7 (2.55%) Neo4j
5 7 (2.55%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.55%) Pentaho
5 7 (2.55%) RDBMS
5 7 (2.55%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.45%) Metadata
7 3 (1.09%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (7.27%) Octopus Deploy
2 18 (6.55%) TeamCity
3 10 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.55%) Git
5 6 (2.18%) GitLab
6 5 (1.82%) JIRA
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 72 (26.18%) Finance
3 28 (10.18%) Banking
4 24 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.36%) Law
6 19 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.55%) Back Office
8 7 (2.55%) Retail
9 6 (2.18%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.82%) Billing
11 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Legal
14 1 (0.36%) Front Office
14 1 (0.36%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 46 (16.73%) Architect
2 40 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (10.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (9.45%) Lead
5 21 (7.64%) Senior
6 20 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (6.91%) Infrastructure Architect
8 14 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.36%) Infrastructure Manager
10 10 (3.64%) Administrator
10 10 (3.64%) IT Engineer
10 10 (3.64%) IT Manager
10 10 (3.64%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (2.91%) 1st Line Support
12 8 (2.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.18%) .NET
2 9 (3.27%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.45%) RESTful
5 4 (1.45%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.09%) PySpark
7 2 (0.73%) DPDK
7 2 (0.73%) eBPF
7 2 (0.73%) Kafka
7 2 (0.73%) Middleware
7 2 (0.73%) OpenID
8 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.36%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.36%) CSS
8 1 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.36%) HTML
8 1 (0.36%) JMS
8 1 (0.36%) Node.js
8 1 (0.36%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 63 (22.91%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.45%) Public Cloud
3 25 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (8.36%) Virtual Team
5 20 (7.27%) Cloud Native
6 19 (6.91%) Onboarding
6 19 (6.91%) Security Posture
7 12 (4.36%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (3.27%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.91%) Driving Licence
11 7 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.55%) iPad
11 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.82%) e-Learning
13 5 (1.82%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.82%) Social Media
14 4 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
15 3 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 87 (31.64%) Windows
2 62 (22.55%) Windows Server
3 42 (15.27%) Linux
4 17 (6.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (5.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (3.27%) Windows 10
7 8 (2.91%) Mac OS
7 8 (2.91%) Rocky
8 5 (1.82%) CentOS
8 5 (1.82%) Unix
9 3 (1.09%) HPUX
9 3 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (1.09%) Solaris
10 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (27.64%) DevOps
2 74 (26.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (22.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 62 (22.55%) CI/CD
5 57 (20.73%) Migration
6 53 (19.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 43 (15.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 43 (15.64%) ITIL
7 43 (15.64%) Roadmaps
8 41 (14.91%) Cloud Security
8 41 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (13.82%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (12.36%) AI
11 32 (11.64%) Analytics
12 31 (11.27%) Vulnerability Management
13 30 (10.91%) Containerisation
14 28 (10.18%) Agile
15 26 (9.45%) Root Cause Analysis
16 25 (9.09%) ITSM
16 25 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (23.27%) PowerShell
2 61 (22.18%) Python
3 50 (18.18%) SQL
4 12 (4.36%) Bicep
4 12 (4.36%) Java
5 8 (2.91%) Bash
6 7 (2.55%) C#
7 4 (1.45%) Go
7 4 (1.45%) PHP
8 3 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.73%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 35 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.27%) Azure Certification
3 26 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.55%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.55%) Degree
5 17 (6.18%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.27%) CISSP
9 8 (2.91%) CEH
9 8 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (2.18%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.82%) CCNP
11 5 (1.82%) CISM
12 4 (1.45%) CCNA
12 4 (1.45%) CISA
12 4 (1.45%) GCIH
12 4 (1.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (11.64%) NIST
3 22 (8.00%) GDPR
4 8 (2.91%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.91%) QA
5 7 (2.55%) ISO 22301
5 7 (2.55%) SLA
6 5 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.82%) NCSC
7 3 (1.09%) Basel III
7 3 (1.09%) MiFID
7 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.73%) COBIT
8 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 63 (22.91%) Active Directory
2 44 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (11.64%) Hyper-V
4 15 (5.45%) Docker
5 6 (2.18%) Firmware
5 6 (2.18%) NFS
6 5 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.82%) vSphere
7 4 (1.45%) KVM
7 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.73%) QEMU
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) vCloud
9 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (29.82%) Terraform
2 41 (14.91%) Ansible
3 36 (13.09%) Kubernetes
4 24 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (5.09%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.64%) SCCM
7 8 (2.91%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.55%) SCOM
9 5 (1.82%) Autotask
9 5 (1.82%) Grafana
10 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.73%) Suricata
10 2 (0.73%) WSUS
11 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.36%) Nagios
11 1 (0.36%) Nessus
11 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.36%) VxRail
11 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 69 (25.09%) VMware
3 33 (12.00%) Cisco
4 23 (8.36%) Oracle
5 18 (6.55%) Commvault
5 18 (6.55%) Dell
6 15 (5.45%) Palo Alto
7 12 (4.36%) Datto
8 11 (4.00%) Red Hat
9 10 (3.64%) Fortinet
10 9 (3.27%) Apple
10 9 (3.27%) Juniper
10 9 (3.27%) SAP
11 8 (2.91%) HP
12 7 (2.55%) Aruba
12 7 (2.55%) IBM
12 7 (2.55%) Informatica
12 7 (2.55%) ServiceNow
12 7 (2.55%) Splunk
12 7 (2.55%) Talend