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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 344 369
Rank change year-on-year -91 +25 -24
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 349 367 748
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.82% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 1.91% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 256 142 264
10th Percentile £37,000 £51,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,250 £57,573
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 £87,031
90th Percentile £91,250 £112,050 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,996 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.97% +5.18% -3.57%

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 24,103 19,242 36,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.56% 42.80% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15,356 9,177 23,651
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £38,750
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 £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -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 21 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 21 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 -88 321 £65,000 -9.71% 72
UK excluding London -55 239 £62,500 -11.97% 65
Work from Home +46 125 £65,000 -14.47% 42
London -42 88 £79,000 +8.97% 24
North of England +10 86 £63,076 -12.38% 16
South East -58 53 £68,750 -19.12% 24
North West +28 48 £70,000 -2.77% 9
South West -70 40 £55,000 -18.52% 7
Midlands -12 32 £55,500 -29.52% 6
West Midlands -1 31 £54,500 -30.79% 5
Yorkshire -37 22 £60,288 -7.25% 7
North East - 16 £44,000 -
East of England -17 12 £32,250 -43.91% 5
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland +2 3 £60,000 +29.73% 3
Wales -50 3 £55,000 -31.25% 1
East Midlands -37 1 £77,500 - 1

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 26 (7.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.44%) Confluence
4 5 (1.43%) IIS
5 4 (1.15%) Documentum
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 215 (61.60%) Azure
2 120 (34.38%) AWS
3 86 (24.64%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (16.33%) Entra ID
5 42 (12.03%) Nutanix
6 29 (8.31%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (7.74%) PaaS
8 24 (6.88%) GCP
8 24 (6.88%) IaaS
8 24 (6.88%) Power Platform
9 22 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (6.02%) SaaS
11 20 (5.73%) Azure AKS
12 17 (4.87%) PowerApps
13 16 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (4.30%) GitHub
15 13 (3.72%) Serverless
16 10 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
18 7 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 81 (23.21%) Firewall
2 62 (17.77%) DNS
3 52 (14.90%) DHCP
4 41 (11.75%) WAN
5 36 (10.32%) VPN
6 33 (9.46%) LAN
7 26 (7.45%) Network Security
8 18 (5.16%) Remote Desktop
9 16 (4.58%) VLAN
10 15 (4.30%) Wireless
11 13 (3.72%) TCP/IP
12 11 (3.15%) SAN
12 11 (3.15%) SD-WAN
13 10 (2.87%) Unified Communications
13 10 (2.87%) VoIP
13 10 (2.87%) WebEx
14 9 (2.58%) BGP
14 9 (2.58%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (2.58%) Software-Defined Networking
14 9 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.29%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.72%) Power BI
4 5 (1.43%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.57%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.57%) Flink
7 2 (0.57%) Redis
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.29%) DataStage
8 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) MySQL
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (6.30%) GitLab
2 18 (5.16%) Git
3 16 (4.58%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.72%) JIRA
5 8 (2.29%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.15%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.57%) rollup.js
8 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 104 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.33%) Finance
3 42 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 36 (10.32%) Retail
5 18 (5.16%) Law
6 16 (4.58%) Aerospace
7 15 (4.30%) Banking
8 14 (4.01%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (3.72%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.58%) Automotive
11 9 (2.58%) Marketing
12 7 (2.01%) Electronics
13 6 (1.72%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.15%) Back Office
15 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.57%) Front Office
16 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (19.20%) Cloud Engineer
2 57 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 50 (14.33%) Senior
4 48 (13.75%) Lead
5 39 (11.17%) Architect
6 24 (6.88%) Network Engineer
7 22 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (4.87%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
9 17 (4.87%) Consultant
10 16 (4.58%) Analyst
11 14 (4.01%) Administrator
11 14 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (4.01%) Digital Project Manager
11 14 (4.01%) Project Manager
11 14 (4.01%) Senior Digital Project Manager
11 14 (4.01%) Senior Manager
11 14 (4.01%) Senior Project Manager
12 13 (3.72%) Cloud Consultant
13 12 (3.44%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.87%) ARM Templates
1 10 (2.87%) XMPP
2 7 (2.01%) .NET
3 6 (1.72%) YAML
4 5 (1.43%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.43%) boto
4 5 (1.43%) Kafka
5 3 (0.86%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.86%) OpenID
6 2 (0.57%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.57%) OAuth
6 2 (0.57%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.57%) Streamlit
6 2 (0.57%) WAMP
7 1 (0.29%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.29%) Loki
7 1 (0.29%) Node.js
7 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.29%) REST
7 1 (0.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.31%) Public Cloud
3 27 (7.74%) Onboarding
4 25 (7.16%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (5.44%) Data Centre
6 16 (4.58%) PKI
6 16 (4.58%) Security Posture
7 15 (4.30%) Low-Code
8 14 (4.01%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (3.72%) Private Cloud
10 12 (3.44%) Replication
11 10 (2.87%) FlexPod
11 10 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.87%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (2.58%) Management Information System
13 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.43%) Driving Licence
14 5 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (36.96%) Windows
2 109 (31.23%) Windows Server
3 61 (17.48%) Linux
4 8 (2.29%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.01%) Android
6 5 (1.43%) CentOS
6 5 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.43%) VMS
7 4 (1.15%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (29.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 89 (25.50%) CI/CD
3 87 (24.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 81 (23.21%) ITIL
5 78 (22.35%) DevOps
6 76 (21.78%) Agile
7 64 (18.34%) Disaster Recovery
8 61 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (16.91%) Mentoring
10 57 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (14.61%) Cloud Security
12 49 (14.04%) Roadmaps
13 47 (13.47%) Cybersecurity
14 45 (12.89%) Migration
15 40 (11.46%) Coaching
16 35 (10.03%) AI
16 35 (10.03%) High Availability
17 34 (9.74%) Business Continuity
18 31 (8.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 29 (8.31%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 76 (21.78%) PowerShell
2 67 (19.20%) Python
3 28 (8.02%) SQL
4 26 (7.45%) Bash
5 25 (7.16%) Bicep
6 16 (4.58%) Java
7 14 (4.01%) VBA
8 11 (3.15%) Go
9 8 (2.29%) Clojure
9 8 (2.29%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.01%) C#
11 3 (0.86%) C++
11 3 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.60%) AWS Certification
3 26 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (7.16%) Azure Certification
5 24 (6.88%) Degree
6 22 (6.30%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (5.16%) SC Cleared
8 16 (4.58%) ISTQB
9 11 (3.15%) CCNA
9 11 (3.15%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.58%) CCNP
11 9 (2.58%) MCSE
12 8 (2.29%) OSCP
12 8 (2.29%) RHCE
12 8 (2.29%) RHCSA
13 7 (2.01%) CEH
13 7 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (1.72%) CISSP
14 6 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (7.74%) SLA
3 26 (7.45%) NIST
4 10 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (2.87%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.29%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.01%) ISO 22301
7 6 (1.72%) GDPR
8 5 (1.43%) NCSC
9 4 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.57%) QA
12 1 (0.29%) COBIT
12 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 105 (30.09%) Active Directory
2 80 (22.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (10.03%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.74%) Docker
5 26 (7.45%) vSphere
6 9 (2.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (2.58%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (2.58%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.29%) Squid
8 5 (1.43%) KVM
9 4 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 104 (29.80%) Terraform
2 60 (17.19%) Ansible
3 57 (16.33%) Kubernetes
4 35 (10.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (6.59%) Grafana
6 14 (4.01%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.87%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (2.58%) SCCM
8 9 (2.58%) ZABBIX
9 8 (2.29%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.29%) Packer
9 8 (2.29%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.15%) Nagios
10 4 (1.15%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.57%) Istio
12 2 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.57%) linkerd
12 2 (0.57%) Nessus
12 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (41.26%) Microsoft
2 113 (32.38%) VMware
3 37 (10.60%) Cisco
4 24 (6.88%) Splunk
5 23 (6.59%) Veeam
6 20 (5.73%) Dell
7 19 (5.44%) HP
8 18 (5.16%) Dell Compellent
8 18 (5.16%) Nimble Storage
8 18 (5.16%) Oracle
8 18 (5.16%) Palo Alto
8 18 (5.16%) Red Hat
9 15 (4.30%) Fortinet
10 13 (3.72%) Commvault
11 11 (3.15%) Meraki
12 9 (2.58%) Google
13 8 (2.29%) IFS
13 8 (2.29%) ServiceNow
14 7 (2.01%) NetApp
15 6 (1.72%) SolarWinds