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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 310 335
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 +306
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 427 684 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.88% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 2.72% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 193 181 439
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,238 £52,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 20,297 25,121 24,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.04% 32.16% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,195 13,124 17,790
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £43,116 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £104,800 £108,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 15 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 18 September 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 -18 404 £72,500 +3.57% 135
UK excluding London -75 243 £65,000 -7.14% 82
London +100 148 £72,500 - 78
South East -28 89 £85,000 +44.68% 24
Work from Home +20 88 £80,000 +45.45% 41
South West +64 51 £80,000 +6.67% 16
North of England -98 45 £65,000 +44.44% 17
Midlands -5 33 £80,000 +14.29% 7
North West -100 23 £86,750 +92.78% 11
Yorkshire +31 22 £65,000 -7.14% 4
East of England -12 20 £57,500 -17.86% 12
Wales +35 19 £55,000 - 6
East Midlands -21 16 £49,500 +14.68% 4
West Midlands +42 15 £80,000 +14.29% 3
Scotland +22 2 £37,500 -50.00% 5

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.17%) Confluence
5 3 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.23%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (6.79%) Oracle SCM
2 7 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 208 (48.71%) Azure
2 109 (25.53%) AWS
3 64 (14.99%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (9.60%) Entra ID
6 34 (7.96%) OCI
7 28 (6.56%) GCP
7 28 (6.56%) SaaS
8 21 (4.92%) IaaS
9 20 (4.68%) PaaS
10 19 (4.45%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (4.22%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (3.28%) Serverless
13 10 (2.34%) GitHub
14 8 (1.87%) Azure Stack
14 8 (1.87%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.87%) Power Platform
15 7 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.43%) DNS
2 28 (6.56%) Firewall
2 28 (6.56%) WAN
3 27 (6.32%) LAN
4 25 (5.85%) VPN
5 20 (4.68%) DHCP
6 14 (3.28%) Network Security
7 13 (3.04%) TCP/IP
8 9 (2.11%) VLAN
9 8 (1.87%) VoIP
10 7 (1.64%) SAN
11 6 (1.41%) NAS
12 5 (1.17%) BGP
12 5 (1.17%) SSL
12 5 (1.17%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.70%) OSPF
13 3 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.47%) VSAN
14 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.15%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.92%) MongoDB
3 18 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.28%) DB2
6 11 (2.58%) MySQL
6 11 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.64%) Oracle ODI
7 7 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.41%) Big Data
8 6 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.41%) DataStage
8 6 (1.41%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.41%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.41%) Neo4j
8 6 (1.41%) Pentaho
8 6 (1.41%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (2.58%) Octopus Deploy
1 11 (2.58%) TeamCity
2 10 (2.34%) Git
3 7 (1.64%) GitLab
4 6 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.17%) JIRA
6 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.23%) JUnit
6 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 133 (31.15%) Public Sector
2 121 (28.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 86 (20.14%) Social Skills
4 54 (12.65%) Finance
5 20 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (3.51%) Banking
7 13 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.58%) Law
9 8 (1.87%) Back Office
10 5 (1.17%) Billing
10 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.17%) Retail
10 5 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Danish Language
12 2 (0.47%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.47%) Finnish Language
12 2 (0.47%) French Language
12 2 (0.47%) Icelandic Language
12 2 (0.47%) Norwegian Language
Job Titles
1 88 (20.61%) Senior
2 79 (18.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 56 (13.11%) Azure Engineer
4 53 (12.41%) Consultant
5 45 (10.54%) Oracle Consultant
6 40 (9.37%) Architect
7 38 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 36 (8.43%) Lead
9 34 (7.96%) Java Engineer
9 34 (7.96%) Senior Java Engineer
10 33 (7.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (6.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (4.92%) Developer
13 18 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 17 (3.98%) Oracle Developer
15 16 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 16 (3.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 16 (3.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.92%) .NET
2 19 (4.45%) React
3 12 (2.81%) AngularJS
3 12 (2.81%) ARM Templates
3 12 (2.81%) Backbone.js
3 12 (2.81%) Bootstrap
3 12 (2.81%) Ember.js
3 12 (2.81%) jQuery
4 7 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.70%) Middleware
6 3 (0.70%) PySpark
7 2 (0.47%) DPDK
7 2 (0.47%) eBPF
7 2 (0.47%) EDI
7 2 (0.47%) Kafka
7 2 (0.47%) Node.js
8 1 (0.23%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 101 (23.65%) e-Learning
2 54 (12.65%) Data Centre
3 27 (6.32%) Cloud Native
4 25 (5.85%) Public Cloud
5 24 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (4.68%) Onboarding
7 19 (4.45%) Data Structures
8 16 (3.75%) Virtual Team
9 14 (3.28%) Security Posture
10 13 (3.04%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.81%) Algorithms
12 9 (2.11%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (1.41%) Driving Licence
14 6 (1.41%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.41%) Product Ownership
15 5 (1.17%) Social Media
16 4 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
17 3 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 90 (21.08%) Windows
2 64 (14.99%) Linux
3 50 (11.71%) Windows Server
4 24 (5.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (3.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (2.81%) Android
6 12 (2.81%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.87%) Rocky
8 7 (1.64%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.64%) Unix
9 5 (1.17%) CentOS
10 4 (0.94%) HPUX
10 4 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.94%) Solaris
10 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (37.24%) Artificial Intelligence
2 145 (33.96%) DevOps
3 114 (26.70%) Agile
4 112 (26.23%) Mentoring
5 101 (23.65%) Coaching
6 77 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (16.63%) Migration
8 67 (15.69%) Containerisation
9 63 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 59 (13.82%) CI/CD
11 46 (10.77%) ITIL
12 45 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 45 (10.54%) SDLC
13 42 (9.84%) Roadmaps
14 41 (9.60%) Presales
15 40 (9.37%) Test Automation
16 34 (7.96%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
18 27 (6.32%) High Availability
19 26 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 58 (13.58%) SQL
2 57 (13.35%) Python
3 49 (11.48%) PowerShell
4 42 (9.84%) Java
5 20 (4.68%) C#
6 12 (2.81%) Bash
7 8 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.64%) Bicep
8 7 (1.64%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.70%) PHP
9 3 (0.70%) R
9 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.47%) Go
10 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.23%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.23%) COBOL
11 1 (0.23%) REXX
Qualifications
1 38 (8.90%) Azure Certification
2 34 (7.96%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.32%) Degree
4 26 (6.09%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.45%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.34%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.87%) CISSP
10 8 (1.87%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.94%) CCNP
11 4 (0.94%) CISA
11 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.94%) CISM
11 4 (0.94%) CRISC
11 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.94%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.70%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (5.15%) NIST
3 17 (3.98%) GDPR
4 13 (3.04%) QA
5 6 (1.41%) NCSC
6 5 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.94%) PMO
8 3 (0.70%) SLA
9 2 (0.47%) COBIT
9 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.47%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 50 (11.71%) Active Directory
2 39 (9.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (7.26%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.75%) Docker
5 9 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.64%) NFS
6 7 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.94%) vSphere
8 2 (0.47%) KVM
8 2 (0.47%) QEMU
8 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.23%) Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 87 (20.37%) Terraform
2 53 (12.41%) Ansible
3 48 (11.24%) Kubernetes
4 23 (5.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.11%) SCOM
7 8 (1.87%) SCCM
8 7 (1.64%) Grafana
9 5 (1.17%) Autotask
10 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 4 (0.94%) WSUS
11 2 (0.47%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.47%) Puppet
11 2 (0.47%) Suricata
11 2 (0.47%) VxRail
11 2 (0.47%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.23%) Argo
12 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 159 (37.24%) IBM
2 120 (28.10%) Red Hat
3 99 (23.19%) Microsoft
4 88 (20.61%) Oracle
5 50 (11.71%) VMware
6 40 (9.37%) Cisco
7 17 (3.98%) Palo Alto
8 16 (3.75%) Fortinet
9 14 (3.28%) Aruba
9 14 (3.28%) Dell
10 13 (3.04%) Google
10 13 (3.04%) Mellanox
10 13 (3.04%) NVIDIA
11 9 (2.11%) Commvault
11 9 (2.11%) SAP
12 8 (1.87%) Datto
13 6 (1.41%) Acronis
13 6 (1.41%) Informatica
13 6 (1.41%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.41%) Talend