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 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 354 371
Rank change year-on-year -72 +17 -25
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 341 362 741
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.81% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 1.89% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 250 134 263
10th Percentile £38,172 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £57,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,047 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +0.07% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £111,150 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,996 £66,250
% change year-on-year -11.97% +7.16% -5.36%

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 23,565 19,131 36,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.29% 42.95% 33.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14,989 9,043 23,519
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,800 £28,202
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -85 311 £65,000 -9.71% 76
UK excluding London -45 231 £62,500 -11.97% 65
Work from Home +43 123 £65,000 -18.75% 36
London -48 88 £79,000 +8.97% 22
North of England +2 84 £63,076 -12.38% 13
South East -52 52 £67,500 -20.59% 24
North West +21 49 £70,000 -2.77% 6
South West -73 37 £55,000 - 12
Midlands -18 29 £51,000 -34.19% 6
West Midlands +1 28 £47,500 -38.71% 4
Yorkshire -35 19 £63,076 -2.96% 7
North East - 16 £44,000 -
East of England -25 10 £38,250 -33.48% 7
Scotland +14 6 £45,000 -2.70% 2
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -47 2 £54,085 -32.39% 1
East Midlands -30 1 £77,500 - 2

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 25 (7.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.52%) Confluence
4 4 (1.17%) Documentum
4 4 (1.17%) IIS
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 209 (61.29%) Azure
2 118 (34.60%) AWS
3 78 (22.87%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (14.08%) Entra ID
5 44 (12.90%) Nutanix
6 28 (8.21%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (7.62%) PaaS
8 24 (7.04%) GCP
8 24 (7.04%) Power Platform
9 23 (6.74%) IaaS
10 22 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (6.16%) SaaS
12 17 (4.99%) Azure AKS
12 17 (4.99%) PowerApps
13 15 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (4.40%) GitHub
14 12 (3.52%) Serverless
15 10 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 74 (21.70%) Firewall
2 60 (17.60%) DNS
3 50 (14.66%) DHCP
4 39 (11.44%) WAN
5 31 (9.09%) LAN
6 30 (8.80%) VPN
7 22 (6.45%) Network Security
8 18 (5.28%) Remote Desktop
9 15 (4.40%) VLAN
10 13 (3.81%) TCP/IP
10 13 (3.81%) Wireless
11 11 (3.23%) SAN
12 10 (2.93%) BGP
12 10 (2.93%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.93%) Unified Communications
12 10 (2.93%) VoIP
12 10 (2.93%) WebEx
13 9 (2.64%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (2.64%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (2.64%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.35%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.76%) Power BI
4 5 (1.47%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.59%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.59%) Redis
7 1 (0.29%) Big Data
7 1 (0.29%) DataStage
7 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.29%) MySQL
7 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.29%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (6.16%) GitLab
2 18 (5.28%) Git
3 15 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.81%) JIRA
5 8 (2.35%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.47%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.59%) rollup.js
7 2 (0.59%) Terragrunt
General
1 95 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.66%) Finance
3 41 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 37 (10.85%) Retail
5 20 (5.87%) Law
6 16 (4.69%) Aerospace
6 16 (4.69%) Banking
7 14 (4.11%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.52%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.64%) Automotive
10 9 (2.64%) Marketing
11 7 (2.05%) Electronics
11 7 (2.05%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.47%) Back Office
12 5 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.59%) Aviation
13 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (19.65%) Cloud Engineer
2 56 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 48 (14.08%) Senior
4 46 (13.49%) Lead
5 37 (10.85%) Architect
6 27 (7.92%) Network Engineer
7 22 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (4.99%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
8 17 (4.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (4.69%) Analyst
9 16 (4.69%) Consultant
10 14 (4.11%) Administrator
10 14 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (4.11%) Digital Project Manager
10 14 (4.11%) Project Manager
10 14 (4.11%) Senior Digital Project Manager
10 14 (4.11%) Senior Manager
10 14 (4.11%) Senior Project Manager
11 13 (3.81%) Cloud Consultant
12 11 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.93%) XMPP
2 9 (2.64%) ARM Templates
3 8 (2.35%) .NET
4 6 (1.76%) YAML
5 5 (1.47%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.47%) boto
6 4 (1.17%) Kafka
7 3 (0.88%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.88%) OpenID
8 2 (0.59%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.59%) OAuth
8 2 (0.59%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.59%) Streamlit
8 2 (0.59%) WAMP
9 1 (0.29%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.29%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.29%) Loki
9 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.29%) SAML
9 1 (0.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.50%) Public Cloud
3 26 (7.62%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (7.33%) Onboarding
5 19 (5.57%) Data Centre
6 16 (4.69%) Private Cloud
7 15 (4.40%) Low-Code
8 14 (4.11%) Legacy Applications
8 14 (4.11%) PKI
9 13 (3.81%) Security Posture
10 12 (3.52%) Replication
11 10 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (2.93%) FlexPod
11 10 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.93%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (2.64%) Management Information System
13 7 (2.05%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (2.05%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.47%) Blog
14 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (36.07%) Windows
2 104 (30.50%) Windows Server
3 61 (17.89%) Linux
4 7 (2.05%) Android
4 7 (2.05%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.47%) CentOS
5 5 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.17%) VMS
6 4 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (29.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 88 (25.81%) CI/CD
3 86 (25.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 82 (24.05%) ITIL
5 77 (22.58%) DevOps
6 75 (21.99%) Agile
7 64 (18.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 59 (17.30%) Mentoring
9 57 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (13.49%) Cloud Security
11 46 (13.49%) Roadmaps
12 44 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
13 42 (12.32%) Migration
14 40 (11.73%) Coaching
15 35 (10.26%) High Availability
16 34 (9.97%) AI
16 34 (9.97%) Business Continuity
17 29 (8.50%) ITSM
18 28 (8.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 74 (21.70%) PowerShell
2 67 (19.65%) Python
3 28 (8.21%) SQL
4 26 (7.62%) Bash
5 24 (7.04%) Bicep
6 17 (4.99%) Java
7 14 (4.11%) VBA
8 11 (3.23%) Go
9 8 (2.35%) Clojure
9 8 (2.35%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.05%) C#
11 3 (0.88%) C++
11 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.50%) AWS Certification
3 26 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (7.33%) Azure Certification
5 22 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (6.45%) Degree
6 17 (4.99%) SC Cleared
7 16 (4.69%) ISTQB
8 11 (3.23%) CCNA
9 10 (2.93%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (2.64%) CCNP
10 9 (2.64%) MCSE
11 8 (2.35%) CEH
11 8 (2.35%) OSCP
11 8 (2.35%) RHCE
11 8 (2.35%) RHCSA
12 7 (2.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (1.76%) CISSP
14 5 (1.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (7.62%) SLA
3 25 (7.33%) NIST
4 11 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 10 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.35%) ISO 22301
7 7 (2.05%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.76%) GDPR
9 5 (1.47%) NCSC
10 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.59%) QA
13 1 (0.29%) COBIT
13 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 77 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (9.68%) Hyper-V
4 26 (7.62%) Docker
5 25 (7.33%) vSphere
6 9 (2.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (2.64%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (2.64%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.35%) Squid
8 5 (1.47%) KVM
9 4 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.29%) iptables
Systems Management
1 102 (29.91%) Terraform
2 58 (17.01%) Ansible
3 55 (16.13%) Kubernetes
4 32 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (6.74%) Grafana
6 14 (4.11%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.93%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (2.64%) ZABBIX
9 8 (2.35%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.35%) Packer
9 8 (2.35%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.05%) SCCM
11 4 (1.17%) Nagios
11 4 (1.17%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.59%) Istio
13 2 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.59%) linkerd
13 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (39.30%) Microsoft
2 113 (33.14%) VMware
3 36 (10.56%) Cisco
4 23 (6.74%) Splunk
4 23 (6.74%) Veeam
5 20 (5.87%) Dell
6 19 (5.57%) HP
7 18 (5.28%) Dell Compellent
7 18 (5.28%) Nimble Storage
7 18 (5.28%) Oracle
7 18 (5.28%) Red Hat
8 16 (4.69%) Palo Alto
9 14 (4.11%) Commvault
9 14 (4.11%) Fortinet
10 9 (2.64%) Google
10 9 (2.64%) Meraki
11 8 (2.35%) IFS
11 8 (2.35%) ServiceNow
12 7 (2.05%) NetApp
12 7 (2.05%) SolarWinds