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 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 343 296
Rank change year-on-year -114 -47 +11
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 352 408 775
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.82% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 1.98% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 264 173 219
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £50,750 £56,250 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £98,779
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 26,998 20,575 27,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.09% 41.45% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 17,065 10,357 16,705
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £56,121 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -2.40% -9.02%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -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 2 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 18 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 2 August 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 -121 325 £68,750 -5.17% 220
UK excluding London -59 265 £62,500 -3.85% 124
Work from Home +6 109 £70,000 -12.50% 95
North of England -3 84 £65,000 - 42
London -90 79 £84,500 +16.55% 101
South East -49 65 £70,000 -17.65% 47
South West -67 54 £60,500 -24.38% 18
North West +24 51 £70,000 +27.27% 23
Midlands -19 39 £63,500 -20.63% 8
West Midlands -12 38 £62,000 -22.50% 4
Yorkshire -42 19 £51,500 -20.77% 17
North East - 14 £44,000 - 2
East of England -31 12 £32,250 -46.25% 3
Scotland +11 8 £77,500 +67.57% 3
Wales -70 5 £55,000 -31.25% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
East Midlands -42 1 £77,500 +55.00% 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 27 (7.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.97%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.27%) Confluence
4 5 (1.42%) IIS
5 4 (1.14%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 237 (67.33%) Azure
2 126 (35.80%) AWS
3 93 (26.42%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (19.03%) Entra ID
5 30 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (8.52%) IaaS
6 29 (8.24%) Azure AKS
6 29 (8.24%) PaaS
7 28 (7.95%) GCP
7 28 (7.95%) Nutanix
8 27 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (5.40%) Serverless
11 18 (5.11%) SaaS
12 14 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (3.98%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.69%) GitHub
13 13 (3.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (25.85%) Firewall
2 57 (16.19%) DNS
3 48 (13.64%) VPN
3 48 (13.64%) WAN
4 45 (12.78%) DHCP
5 40 (11.36%) Network Security
6 39 (11.08%) LAN
7 17 (4.83%) SD-WAN
7 17 (4.83%) Wireless
8 16 (4.55%) VLAN
9 15 (4.26%) Cisco Firepower
10 13 (3.69%) TCP/IP
11 12 (3.41%) Remote Desktop
11 12 (3.41%) Software-Defined Networking
12 11 (3.13%) SAN
12 11 (3.13%) Unified Communications
12 11 (3.13%) WebEx
13 10 (2.84%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.27%) Oracle Database
2 8 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.85%) Flink
6 2 (0.57%) Power BI
6 2 (0.57%) Redis
6 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.28%) Big Data
7 1 (0.28%) DataStage
7 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.28%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.82%) GitLab
2 18 (5.11%) Git
2 18 (5.11%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.41%) JIRA
4 8 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.57%) rollup.js
5 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 95 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.07%) Finance
3 30 (8.52%) Retail
4 29 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (5.11%) Law
7 16 (4.55%) Aerospace
8 15 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 15 (4.26%) Telecoms
9 12 (3.41%) Banking
10 10 (2.84%) Marketing
11 9 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.99%) Automotive
12 7 (1.99%) Electronics
13 5 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.85%) Local Government
15 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (16.19%) Cloud Engineer
1 57 (16.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (15.06%) Architect
3 49 (13.92%) Lead
4 43 (12.22%) Senior
5 26 (7.39%) Network Engineer
6 19 (5.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.11%) Analyst
7 18 (5.11%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
8 17 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.98%) IT Engineer
11 13 (3.69%) Azure Architect
11 13 (3.69%) Consultant
11 13 (3.69%) Support Engineer
12 12 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Cloud Consultant
13 11 (3.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.41%) ARM Templates
2 11 (3.13%) Kafka
2 11 (3.13%) XMPP
3 6 (1.70%) YAML
4 5 (1.42%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.42%) boto
4 5 (1.42%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.85%) OpenID
6 2 (0.57%) .NET
6 2 (0.57%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.57%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.57%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.57%) OAuth
6 2 (0.57%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.57%) WAMP
7 1 (0.28%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.28%) Loki
7 1 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.28%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 32 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 27 (7.67%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 19 (5.40%) Security Posture
6 17 (4.83%) PKI
7 15 (4.26%) Private Cloud
7 15 (4.26%) Replication
8 11 (3.13%) FlexPod
8 11 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
9 10 (2.84%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.99%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (1.99%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.70%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 133 (37.78%) Windows
2 112 (31.82%) Windows Server
3 63 (17.90%) Linux
4 9 (2.56%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.99%) Android
5 7 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.42%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.42%) VMS
7 4 (1.14%) CentOS
7 4 (1.14%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.28%) SUSE
8 1 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 93 (26.42%) CI/CD
3 91 (25.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 86 (24.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 78 (22.16%) DevOps
6 77 (21.88%) ITIL
7 68 (19.32%) Disaster Recovery
8 67 (19.03%) Cloud Security
9 58 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (15.63%) Agile
11 53 (15.06%) Roadmaps
12 50 (14.20%) Migration
13 47 (13.35%) Cybersecurity
14 46 (13.07%) Mentoring
15 39 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 35 (9.94%) Business Continuity
17 34 (9.66%) High Availability
18 33 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
19 32 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
20 30 (8.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 74 (21.02%) PowerShell
2 66 (18.75%) Python
3 31 (8.81%) Bash
4 29 (8.24%) Bicep
5 24 (6.82%) SQL
6 13 (3.69%) Go
7 12 (3.41%) Java
8 8 (2.27%) Clojure
9 4 (1.14%) C#
9 4 (1.14%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.57%) C++
10 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 62 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 36 (10.23%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.52%) Azure Certification
3 30 (8.52%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (7.95%) AWS Certification
5 25 (7.10%) DV Cleared
5 25 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (5.97%) Degree
7 18 (5.11%) CCNP
8 16 (4.55%) ISTQB
9 14 (3.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (3.41%) CCNA
11 9 (2.56%) MCSE
12 8 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.27%) OSCP
12 8 (2.27%) RHCE
12 8 (2.27%) RHCSA
13 7 (1.99%) CISSP
13 7 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (6.53%) NIST
2 23 (6.53%) SLA
3 8 (2.27%) NCSC
4 7 (1.99%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.99%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.70%) GDPR
6 4 (1.14%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 109 (30.97%) Active Directory
2 83 (23.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (9.38%) Docker
4 29 (8.24%) Hyper-V
5 27 (7.67%) vSphere
6 16 (4.55%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 10 (2.84%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (2.27%) Squid
9 5 (1.42%) KVM
9 5 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (30.68%) Terraform
2 65 (18.47%) Ansible
3 59 (16.76%) Kubernetes
4 37 (10.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (5.40%) Grafana
6 11 (3.13%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (2.56%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.56%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.56%) SCCM
7 9 (2.56%) ZABBIX
8 8 (2.27%) Packer
9 4 (1.14%) Nagios
9 4 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.14%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.14%) Puppet
10 3 (0.85%) Istio
10 3 (0.85%) linkerd
10 3 (0.85%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 109 (30.97%) VMware
3 44 (12.50%) Cisco
4 26 (7.39%) Palo Alto
5 24 (6.82%) Splunk
5 24 (6.82%) Veeam
6 19 (5.40%) Oracle
7 18 (5.11%) Fortinet
8 17 (4.83%) Red Hat
9 14 (3.98%) Dell
10 13 (3.69%) HP
10 13 (3.69%) Meraki
11 12 (3.41%) Dell Compellent
11 12 (3.41%) Nimble Storage
12 11 (3.13%) Google
13 8 (2.27%) Commvault
13 8 (2.27%) IFS
13 8 (2.27%) NetApp
14 7 (1.99%) Zerto
15 6 (1.70%) Ubiquiti