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 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 323 306
Rank change year-on-year -133 -17 +25
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 405 424 669
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.86% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 2.09% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 317 194 181
10th Percentile £41,150 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.62% -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 30,669 20,297 25,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.39% 41.17% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 19,046 10,194 13,016
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,125 £36,925 £43,116
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

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 20 September 2026.

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 20 September 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 -135 381 £65,576 -9.55% 505
UK excluding London -85 300 £62,000 -4.62% 272
Work from Home -3 125 £70,000 -12.50% 274
North of England -22 95 £54,000 -16.92% 55
London -122 90 £80,000 +8.47% 234
South East -55 80 £70,000 -17.65% 87
South West -64 57 £85,000 +6.25% 39
Midlands -27 54 £70,000 -12.50% 49
North West +6 53 £65,000 -12.16% 35
West Midlands -10 52 £70,000 -12.50% 29
Yorkshire -33 27 £50,000 -23.08% 15
East of England -34 20 £50,500 -12.17% 12
North East - 15 £47,000 - 6
Scotland +19 8 £77,500 +106.67% 20
Wales -82 6 £54,085 -1.66% 8
East Midlands -49 2 £68,750 +38.89% 20

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 32 (7.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (6.42%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.98%) Confluence
4 7 (1.73%) IIS
5 4 (0.99%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.49%) Weka
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 248 (61.23%) Azure
2 151 (37.28%) AWS
3 94 (23.21%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (21.48%) Entra ID
5 39 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
6 38 (9.38%) Serverless
7 36 (8.89%) GCP
8 35 (8.64%) Azure AKS
9 34 (8.40%) Amazon EC2
9 34 (8.40%) PaaS
10 33 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (7.65%) IaaS
12 30 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (5.43%) Amazon S3
15 22 (5.43%) GitHub
16 21 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 20 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (4.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (25.93%) Firewall
2 74 (18.27%) VPN
3 55 (13.58%) DNS
4 50 (12.35%) WAN
5 44 (10.86%) DHCP
5 44 (10.86%) Network Security
6 38 (9.38%) LAN
7 24 (5.93%) SD-WAN
7 24 (5.93%) Wireless
8 20 (4.94%) TCP/IP
9 13 (3.21%) Software-Defined Networking
9 13 (3.21%) Unified Communications
9 13 (3.21%) VLAN
10 12 (2.96%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (2.72%) Cisco Firepower
11 11 (2.72%) SAN
12 9 (2.22%) BGP
12 9 (2.22%) VoIP
12 9 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (1.98%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.96%) Spark SQL
5 8 (1.98%) Oracle Database
6 7 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.74%) Flink
9 2 (0.49%) Redis
9 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (5.19%) GitLab
2 16 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.46%) Git
4 12 (2.96%) JIRA
5 8 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.49%) rollup.js
6 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
General
1 95 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 48 (11.85%) Finance
3 43 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.68%) Retail
6 19 (4.69%) Law
7 17 (4.20%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.46%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.73%) Banking
11 7 (1.73%) Marketing
12 6 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.23%) Automotive
13 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.23%) Electronics
14 4 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.99%) Local Government
15 2 (0.49%) Aviation
15 2 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 67 (16.54%) Architect
2 58 (14.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 58 (14.32%) Senior
3 51 (12.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (12.10%) Lead
5 32 (7.90%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (6.91%) Network Engineer
7 24 (5.93%) Data Engineer
8 23 (5.68%) Consultant
9 22 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (4.94%) Azure Architect
10 20 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (4.69%) Technical Architect
12 18 (4.44%) IT Engineer
12 18 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (4.20%) Cloud Consultant
13 17 (4.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.95%) Support Engineer
15 14 (3.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 13 (3.21%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (31.60%) Terraform
2 16 (3.95%) Kafka
3 13 (3.21%) ARM Templates
4 12 (2.96%) .NET
4 12 (2.96%) PySpark
5 11 (2.72%) Keycloak
6 6 (1.48%) XMPP
7 5 (1.23%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.23%) boto
8 4 (0.99%) SAML
8 4 (0.99%) YAML
9 2 (0.49%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.49%) Loki
9 2 (0.49%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.49%) OpenID
9 2 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.25%) Node.js
10 1 (0.25%) OAuth
10 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.37%) Data Centre
2 29 (7.16%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 25 (6.17%) Private Cloud
4 17 (4.20%) Security Posture
5 16 (3.95%) PKI
6 15 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (3.46%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.72%) Driving Licence
9 9 (2.22%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.98%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.73%) Replication
12 6 (1.48%) FlexPod
12 6 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 126 (31.11%) Windows
2 104 (25.68%) Windows Server
3 75 (18.52%) Linux
4 8 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.23%) Android
6 5 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.23%) VMS
7 4 (0.99%) CentOS
7 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.49%) AIX
8 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.49%) Unix
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Rocky
9 1 (0.25%) SUSE
9 1 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (33.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 120 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 103 (25.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 98 (24.20%) DevOps
5 95 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 93 (22.96%) Cloud Security
7 77 (19.01%) Migration
7 77 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (16.30%) Agile
9 64 (15.80%) Roadmaps
10 62 (15.31%) ITIL
11 60 (14.81%) Analytics
12 59 (14.57%) Disaster Recovery
13 58 (14.32%) Mentoring
14 56 (13.83%) Cybersecurity
15 53 (13.09%) Decision-Making
16 51 (12.59%) Zero Trust
17 50 (12.35%) AI
18 42 (10.37%) Infrastructure Automation
19 41 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 80 (19.75%) Python
3 49 (12.10%) Bash
4 35 (8.64%) SQL
5 32 (7.90%) Bicep
6 23 (5.68%) Go
7 21 (5.19%) Java
8 13 (3.21%) C#
8 13 (3.21%) C++
8 13 (3.21%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.98%) Clojure
10 6 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.49%) Korn
13 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 87 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 58 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.85%) Azure Certification
4 38 (9.38%) AWS Certification
5 37 (9.14%) DV Cleared
6 29 (7.16%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (5.19%) Degree
7 21 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (4.20%) CCNP
9 16 (3.95%) ISTQB
10 12 (2.96%) CCNA
11 11 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.47%) RHCE
12 10 (2.47%) RHCSA
12 10 (2.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (2.22%) CISSP
14 8 (1.98%) OSCP
15 6 (1.48%) CCIE
16 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
16 5 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (4.44%) NIST
3 14 (3.46%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.46%) SLA
4 9 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.98%) NCSC
6 6 (1.48%) GDPR
6 6 (1.48%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.99%) GRC
9 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 107 (26.42%) Active Directory
2 73 (18.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (10.62%) Docker
4 25 (6.17%) Hyper-V
5 24 (5.93%) vSphere
6 17 (4.20%) VMware NSX
7 13 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.98%) Squid
9 8 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.74%) Firmware
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 76 (18.77%) Ansible
2 64 (15.80%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (5.68%) Grafana
5 18 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.47%) Puppet
7 9 (2.22%) SCCM
7 9 (2.22%) ZABBIX
8 8 (1.98%) FortiGate
8 8 (1.98%) Packer
8 8 (1.98%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.98%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.48%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (1.48%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.99%) Nagios
12 3 (0.74%) Istio
12 3 (0.74%) linkerd
13 2 (0.49%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.49%) Podman
Vendors
1 165 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 107 (26.42%) VMware
3 46 (11.36%) Cisco
4 24 (5.93%) Veeam
5 21 (5.19%) Palo Alto
6 19 (4.69%) Splunk
7 17 (4.20%) Oracle
7 17 (4.20%) Red Hat
8 16 (3.95%) Fortinet
9 13 (3.21%) Google
9 13 (3.21%) Meraki
10 8 (1.98%) Aruba
10 8 (1.98%) IFS
10 8 (1.98%) NetApp
11 7 (1.73%) Tenable
12 6 (1.48%) EMC
12 6 (1.48%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.23%) Citrix
13 5 (1.23%) Juniper
13 5 (1.23%) SolarWinds