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 19 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 403 498
Rank change year-on-year +15 +95 +27
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 268 331 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.62% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 1.68% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 192 112 166
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +6.15% -18.75%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -15.13%

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 20,610 19,755 21,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 37.19% 36.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,316 9,215 15,843
10th Percentile £27,850 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,286
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -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 19 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 17 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 19 January 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 -5 228 £72,500 +3.57% 138
London +91 134 £90,000 +12.50% 26
UK excluding London -66 104 £62,500 +4.17% 126
Work from Home +47 86 £80,000 +24.84% 69
North of England -44 33 £63,076 -3.39% 24
South East -10 17 £70,000 +40.00% 46
North West -46 15 £62,647 -12.98% 14
Midlands +31 14 £63,076 - 12
East of England +16 14 £38,500 -35.83% 16
Yorkshire -16 13 £57,788 -2.88% 7
West Midlands +35 12 £71,538 - 6
Wales - 12 £55,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -2 9 - - 3
South West -17 6 £79,000 +21.54% 20
North East +5 5 £63,076 -1.57% 3
Scotland -17 3 £45,000 -18.18% 5
East Midlands - 2 £49,000 - 6

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 14 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.73%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.49%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.75%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 178 (66.42%) Azure
2 100 (37.31%) AWS
3 55 (20.52%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (16.79%) Entra ID
5 35 (13.06%) Nutanix
6 28 (10.45%) GCP
7 26 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (7.46%) Azure Sentinel
9 19 (7.09%) PaaS
9 19 (7.09%) SaaS
10 17 (6.34%) Power Platform
11 14 (5.22%) IaaS
12 11 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (4.10%) PowerApps
13 10 (3.73%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (3.73%) GitHub
14 8 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (2.61%) Serverless
16 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 50 (18.66%) DNS
2 41 (15.30%) DHCP
3 38 (14.18%) Firewall
4 30 (11.19%) VPN
5 16 (5.97%) Remote Desktop
6 12 (4.48%) Network Security
6 12 (4.48%) WAN
7 11 (4.10%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (3.73%) VoIP
9 9 (3.36%) Internet
9 9 (3.36%) LAN
10 8 (2.99%) TCP/IP
11 7 (2.61%) BGP
11 7 (2.61%) VLAN
12 6 (2.24%) SAN
13 5 (1.87%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.49%) SSL
15 3 (1.12%) Unified Communications
16 2 (0.75%) HTTP
16 2 (0.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.18%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (4.85%) MySQL
4 11 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (3.73%) Big Data
5 10 (3.73%) DataStage
5 10 (3.73%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.73%) Hadoop
5 10 (3.73%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.73%) Neo4j
5 10 (3.73%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.73%) Pentaho
5 10 (3.73%) RDBMS
5 10 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.87%) Power BI
7 4 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.49%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (9.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 21 (7.84%) TeamCity
3 12 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.87%) JIRA
5 4 (1.49%) Git
5 4 (1.49%) GitLab
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 71 (26.49%) Finance
3 32 (11.94%) Law
4 27 (10.07%) Banking
5 25 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (7.46%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.73%) Retail
8 9 (3.36%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.24%) Back Office
11 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.12%) Billing
12 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.75%) Automotive
13 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Legal
13 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 42 (15.67%) Architect
2 30 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (10.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (7.84%) Senior
5 19 (7.09%) Infrastructure Architect
6 15 (5.60%) Lead
7 12 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.10%) Administrator
8 11 (4.10%) Infrastructure Manager
8 11 (4.10%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.73%) Consultant
9 10 (3.73%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (3.36%) Cloud Consultant
10 9 (3.36%) IT Manager
10 9 (3.36%) IT Security Specialist
10 9 (3.36%) Security Specialist
11 8 (2.99%) Digital Project Manager
11 8 (2.99%) Senior Digital Project Manager
11 8 (2.99%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.19%) .NET
2 5 (1.87%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (1.49%) RESTful
4 2 (0.75%) DPDK
4 2 (0.75%) eBPF
4 2 (0.75%) Middleware
4 2 (0.75%) OpenID
4 2 (0.75%) REST
4 2 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (0.75%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.37%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.37%) CSS
5 1 (0.37%) HTML
5 1 (0.37%) JMS
5 1 (0.37%) SOAP
5 1 (0.37%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.79%) Data Centre
2 36 (13.43%) Legacy Systems
2 36 (13.43%) Public Cloud
3 25 (9.33%) Virtual Team
4 21 (7.84%) Cloud Native
5 17 (6.34%) Management Information System
5 17 (6.34%) Onboarding
6 16 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (5.22%) Private Cloud
8 13 (4.85%) Security Posture
9 10 (3.73%) Product Ownership
10 9 (3.36%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (3.36%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.99%) Driving Licence
12 7 (2.61%) iPad
13 6 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (1.49%) ARM Cortex
15 4 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
16 3 (1.12%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 73 (27.24%) Windows
2 57 (21.27%) Windows Server
3 26 (9.70%) Linux
4 10 (3.73%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.61%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.12%) CentOS
7 3 (1.12%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.75%) Rocky
8 2 (0.75%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (26.49%) Infrastructure as Code
2 70 (26.12%) CI/CD
3 68 (25.37%) DevOps
4 61 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (17.54%) Cybersecurity
6 47 (17.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 46 (17.16%) Cloud Security
8 44 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 44 (16.42%) ITIL
9 41 (15.30%) Roadmaps
10 39 (14.55%) Agile
10 39 (14.55%) Migration
11 38 (14.18%) Analytics
12 35 (13.06%) AI
13 34 (12.69%) ITSM
13 34 (12.69%) Mentoring
14 31 (11.57%) Business Continuity
14 31 (11.57%) Vulnerability Management
15 29 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (24.63%) PowerShell
2 57 (21.27%) Python
3 46 (17.16%) SQL
4 17 (6.34%) Bicep
4 17 (6.34%) Java
5 8 (2.99%) Bash
5 8 (2.99%) VBA
6 5 (1.87%) Go
7 4 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.12%) C#
8 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.75%) PHP
9 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.58%) Azure Certification
3 17 (6.34%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.60%) Degree
6 13 (4.85%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.10%) CEH
7 11 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.36%) CISSP
9 8 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.61%) CISM
11 6 (2.24%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.49%) CCSP
13 4 (1.49%) CESG Certified Professional
13 4 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (1.12%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (11.19%) NIST
3 18 (6.72%) SLA
4 16 (5.97%) GDPR
5 12 (4.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (4.10%) ISO 22301
7 8 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (2.99%) PCI DSS
8 7 (2.61%) NCSC
8 7 (2.61%) QA
9 6 (2.24%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (1.12%) Basel III
11 3 (1.12%) COBIT
11 3 (1.12%) MiFID
12 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 60 (22.39%) Active Directory
2 39 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (10.07%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.48%) Docker
5 7 (2.61%) Firmware
6 5 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.49%) KVM
7 4 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.49%) vSphere
8 2 (0.75%) NFS
8 2 (0.75%) QEMU
9 1 (0.37%) iptables
9 1 (0.37%) vCloud
9 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (27.61%) Terraform
2 28 (10.45%) Ansible
3 23 (8.58%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.10%) SCCM
5 9 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.24%) Grafana
7 5 (1.87%) SCOM
8 3 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.75%) Autotask
9 2 (0.75%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.75%) Suricata
10 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 82 (30.60%) Microsoft
2 75 (27.99%) VMware
3 22 (8.21%) Dell
4 21 (7.84%) Cisco
5 17 (6.34%) Commvault
6 16 (5.97%) Dell Compellent
6 16 (5.97%) HP
6 16 (5.97%) Nimble Storage
6 16 (5.97%) Oracle
7 11 (4.10%) Juniper
8 10 (3.73%) Informatica
8 10 (3.73%) Talend
9 9 (3.36%) Apple
9 9 (3.36%) Datto
9 9 (3.36%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.36%) Splunk
10 8 (2.99%) Freshdesk
11 7 (2.61%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.24%) Adobe
12 6 (2.24%) Veeam