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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 374 456
Rank change year-on-year -17 +82 +97
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 267 399 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.71% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 1.93% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 195 142 163
10th Percentile £37,800 £42,238 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,028 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% - -18.75%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,125 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -13.73% -8.93%

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 20,810 20,719 18,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.23% 36.80% 38.28%
Number of salaries quoted 10,481 10,092 13,762
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,199 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 December 2025.

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 21 December 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 -30 229 £78,500 +13.77% 63
London +97 143 £90,000 +24.14% 35
UK excluding London -94 102 £60,000 +9.09% 48
Work from Home -1 79 £80,000 +33.33% 39
North of England -63 28 £57,250 +18.04% 11
Wales - 18 £55,000 - 1
East of England +8 17 £62,500 +4.17%
Midlands +18 16 £80,000 +92.39% 3
North West -35 15 £62,500 +28.87% 2
South East -23 14 £78,500 +57.00% 19
West Midlands +32 13 £80,000 +100.00% 2
Yorkshire -5 12 £50,000 -4.76% 8
South West -22 9 £80,000 +6.67% 9
Northern Ireland +1 7 - -
East Midlands -8 3 £49,500 +14.68% 1
Scotland -11 3 £45,000 -18.18% 5
North East -4 1 - - 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 18 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 17 (6.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (4.12%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.50%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 189 (70.79%) Azure
2 99 (37.08%) AWS
3 68 (25.47%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (19.10%) Entra ID
5 29 (10.86%) GCP
6 27 (10.11%) Nutanix
7 25 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (8.99%) Azure Sentinel
8 24 (8.99%) SaaS
9 19 (7.12%) PaaS
10 18 (6.74%) IaaS
11 11 (4.12%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (3.75%) GitHub
12 10 (3.75%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.75%) Serverless
13 9 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (1.87%) Azure Stack
15 5 (1.87%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 47 (17.60%) DNS
2 41 (15.36%) Firewall
3 38 (14.23%) DHCP
4 33 (12.36%) VPN
5 16 (5.99%) WAN
6 14 (5.24%) LAN
7 13 (4.87%) Network Security
7 13 (4.87%) VoIP
8 12 (4.49%) Remote Desktop
8 12 (4.49%) TCP/IP
8 12 (4.49%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (4.12%) VLAN
10 9 (3.37%) Internet
11 8 (3.00%) BGP
12 7 (2.62%) SAN
13 6 (2.25%) Unified Communications
14 5 (1.87%) SD-WAN
15 4 (1.50%) SSL
16 3 (1.12%) NAS
17 2 (0.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.23%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (6.37%) MySQL
4 12 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.49%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.12%) Apache Cassandra
5 11 (4.12%) Big Data
5 11 (4.12%) DataStage
5 11 (4.12%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.12%) Hadoop
5 11 (4.12%) Neo4j
5 11 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.12%) Pentaho
5 11 (4.12%) RDBMS
5 11 (4.12%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.50%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (8.61%) Octopus Deploy
2 20 (7.49%) TeamCity
3 12 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.25%) GitLab
5 5 (1.87%) Git
5 5 (1.87%) JIRA
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 79 (29.59%) Finance
3 32 (11.99%) Law
4 29 (10.86%) Banking
5 25 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.99%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.37%) Retail
8 8 (3.00%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.25%) Billing
10 5 (1.87%) Back Office
10 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.75%) Legal
14 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Front Office
14 1 (0.37%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 41 (15.36%) Architect
2 35 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (8.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (7.49%) Infrastructure Architect
6 18 (6.74%) Lead
7 14 (5.24%) Senior
8 13 (4.87%) Infrastructure Manager
8 13 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.49%) IT Manager
10 11 (4.12%) Administrator
10 11 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) Security Architect
12 8 (3.00%) 1st Line Support
12 8 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.00%) IT Security Specialist
12 8 (3.00%) Security Specialist
13 7 (2.62%) Network Engineer
13 7 (2.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.86%) .NET
2 9 (3.37%) ARM Templates
3 5 (1.87%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.50%) RESTful
4 4 (1.50%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.75%) DPDK
5 2 (0.75%) eBPF
5 2 (0.75%) Kafka
5 2 (0.75%) Middleware
5 2 (0.75%) OpenID
6 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.37%) CSS
6 1 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.37%) HTML
6 1 (0.37%) JMS
6 1 (0.37%) Node.js
6 1 (0.37%) REST
6 1 (0.37%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.97%) Data Centre
2 30 (11.24%) Public Cloud
3 26 (9.74%) Virtual Team
4 25 (9.36%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (7.12%) Cloud Native
6 18 (6.74%) Management Information System
7 17 (6.37%) Security Posture
8 16 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (5.99%) Onboarding
9 11 (4.12%) Private Cloud
9 11 (4.12%) Product Ownership
10 8 (3.00%) Driving Licence
11 7 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.62%) iPad
12 6 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.87%) Social Media
14 4 (1.50%) ARM Cortex
14 4 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
15 2 (0.75%) Cyber Security Posture
15 2 (0.75%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 87 (32.58%) Windows
2 64 (23.97%) Windows Server
3 32 (11.99%) Linux
4 11 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (3.37%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.62%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.87%) Rocky
8 2 (0.75%) CentOS
8 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.75%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (26.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 66 (24.72%) DevOps
3 65 (24.34%) CI/CD
4 64 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (18.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 48 (17.98%) Migration
6 48 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (17.23%) Disaster Recovery
7 46 (17.23%) ITIL
8 44 (16.48%) Cloud Security
9 43 (16.10%) Cybersecurity
10 40 (14.98%) Roadmaps
11 38 (14.23%) Analytics
12 33 (12.36%) AI
12 33 (12.36%) Vulnerability Management
13 29 (10.86%) Agile
13 29 (10.86%) Business Continuity
14 28 (10.49%) Collaborative Culture
14 28 (10.49%) ITSM
15 27 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.84%) PowerShell
2 58 (21.72%) Python
3 54 (20.22%) SQL
4 18 (6.74%) Java
5 14 (5.24%) Bicep
6 6 (2.25%) Bash
7 5 (1.87%) C#
8 4 (1.50%) Go
8 4 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.12%) PHP
10 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.49%) Azure Certification
3 20 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.74%) AWS Certification
5 17 (6.37%) Degree
6 14 (5.24%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.12%) CISSP
8 10 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.75%) CEH
8 10 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.00%) CISM
10 6 (2.25%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.87%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.50%) CCNP
12 4 (1.50%) CISA
12 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.50%) CRISC
12 4 (1.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (13.11%) NIST
3 22 (8.24%) GDPR
4 13 (4.87%) SLA
5 10 (3.75%) ISO 22301
6 9 (3.37%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (3.00%) QA
8 7 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.87%) NCSC
9 5 (1.87%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.12%) Basel III
10 3 (1.12%) MiFID
11 2 (0.75%) COBIT
11 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 65 (24.34%) Active Directory
2 46 (17.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (12.73%) Hyper-V
4 13 (4.87%) Docker
5 7 (2.62%) Firmware
6 5 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.87%) vSphere
7 4 (1.50%) KVM
7 4 (1.50%) NFS
7 4 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.75%) QEMU
9 1 (0.37%) iptables
9 1 (0.37%) vCloud
9 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (28.46%) Terraform
2 32 (11.99%) Ansible
3 27 (10.11%) Kubernetes
4 22 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.87%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.75%) SCCM
7 6 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.25%) SCOM
8 5 (1.87%) Autotask
9 3 (1.12%) Grafana
10 2 (0.75%) Suricata
11 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.37%) VxRail
11 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 82 (30.71%) Microsoft
2 74 (27.72%) VMware
3 23 (8.61%) Cisco
4 21 (7.87%) Dell
5 20 (7.49%) Oracle
6 18 (6.74%) Commvault
7 13 (4.87%) HP
8 12 (4.49%) Datto
8 12 (4.49%) Dell Compellent
8 12 (4.49%) Nimble Storage
9 11 (4.12%) Informatica
9 11 (4.12%) Juniper
9 11 (4.12%) Talend
10 10 (3.75%) Palo Alto
11 9 (3.37%) Apple
12 8 (3.00%) SAP
13 7 (2.62%) Freshdesk
13 7 (2.62%) Splunk
14 5 (1.87%) Intel
14 5 (1.87%) Red Hat