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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 394 370
Rank change year-on-year -30 -24 -16
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 323 285 706
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.65% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 1.56% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 222 117 247
10th Percentile £36,325 £46,838 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,288 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - -
75th Percentile £78,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -3.70% -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 23,995 18,304 34,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.55% 41.86% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,486 9,288 23,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £41,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -37 287 £65,576 -6.32% 98
UK excluding London -33 190 £63,076 -2.96% 75
Work from Home +55 111 £65,576 -8.91% 40
London +8 107 £83,750 +17.51% 28
North of England -13 62 £64,038 -11.05% 32
South East -23 46 £65,000 -23.53% 18
North West +8 35 £70,000 -2.77% 22
South West -56 28 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Midlands -37 19 £62,000 -11.43% 7
West Midlands -17 18 £59,250 -15.36% 7
Yorkshire -58 14 £63,076 -2.96% 5
East of England -13 13 £27,000 -54.04% 3
North East - 13 £63,076 - 5
Northern Ireland -26 11 - -
Scotland +2 6 £45,000 -18.18% 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands -43 1 £77,500 -

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 22 (6.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.79%) Confluence
4 5 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.24%) Documentum
6 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.62%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 191 (59.13%) Azure
2 122 (37.77%) AWS
3 78 (24.15%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (17.34%) Nutanix
5 42 (13.00%) Entra ID
6 26 (8.05%) Power Platform
7 23 (7.12%) GCP
8 22 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (5.88%) PowerApps
10 16 (4.95%) SaaS
11 15 (4.64%) PaaS
12 14 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (4.33%) GitHub
13 13 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.02%) IaaS
14 9 (2.79%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 63 (19.50%) Firewall
2 62 (19.20%) DNS
3 54 (16.72%) DHCP
4 29 (8.98%) WAN
5 26 (8.05%) Remote Desktop
6 25 (7.74%) LAN
6 25 (7.74%) VPN
7 14 (4.33%) Network Security
8 11 (3.41%) Unified Communications
8 11 (3.41%) VLAN
9 10 (3.10%) TCP/IP
9 10 (3.10%) VoIP
9 10 (3.10%) WebEx
10 9 (2.79%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (2.79%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (2.48%) BGP
11 8 (2.48%) SAN
12 7 (2.17%) Wireless
13 5 (1.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (2.48%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.17%) Power BI
4 6 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (1.55%) Big Data
5 5 (1.55%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.55%) DataStage
5 5 (1.55%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.55%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.55%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.55%) MySQL
5 5 (1.55%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.55%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.55%) Pentaho
5 5 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.55%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.55%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.62%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 14 (4.33%) GitLab
2 13 (4.02%) Git
3 11 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.79%) JIRA
4 9 (2.79%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.86%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.62%) rollup.js
General
1 96 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.17%) Finance
3 36 (11.15%) Retail
4 34 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.43%) Law
6 21 (6.50%) Banking
7 16 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.33%) Manufacturing
9 13 (4.02%) Aerospace
9 13 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.79%) Automotive
10 9 (2.79%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.79%) Marketing
10 9 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.17%) Electronics
12 6 (1.86%) Back Office
13 5 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.93%) Front Office
16 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (22.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 51 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 50 (15.48%) Senior
4 33 (10.22%) Lead
5 31 (9.60%) Architect
6 22 (6.81%) Network Engineer
7 20 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (4.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.64%) Project Manager
10 14 (4.33%) Consultant
10 14 (4.33%) Digital Project Manager
10 14 (4.33%) Senior Digital Project Manager
10 14 (4.33%) Senior Manager
10 14 (4.33%) Senior Project Manager
11 13 (4.02%) Analyst
11 13 (4.02%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
12 12 (3.72%) Administrator
13 11 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.41%) IT Manager
13 11 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.10%) .NET
1 10 (3.10%) XMPP
2 5 (1.55%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.55%) OpenID
3 4 (1.24%) Kafka
3 4 (1.24%) YAML
4 3 (0.93%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.62%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.62%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.62%) OAuth
5 2 (0.62%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.62%) REST
5 2 (0.62%) Streamlit
5 2 (0.62%) WAMP
6 1 (0.31%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.31%) boto
6 1 (0.31%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.31%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.07%) Public Cloud
2 28 (8.67%) Onboarding
3 26 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (7.12%) Data Centre
5 22 (6.81%) Cloud Native
6 17 (5.26%) Private Cloud
7 15 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.64%) Low-Code
8 14 (4.33%) Legacy Applications
8 14 (4.33%) Management Information System
9 12 (3.72%) Replication
10 10 (3.10%) FlexPod
10 10 (3.10%) Video Conferencing
11 9 (2.79%) PKI
12 8 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (2.17%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.86%) Blog
15 5 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (34.37%) Windows
2 91 (28.17%) Windows Server
3 48 (14.86%) Linux
4 9 (2.79%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.17%) Android
6 5 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.24%) CentOS
7 4 (1.24%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.31%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (28.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 81 (25.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 78 (24.15%) CI/CD
4 75 (23.22%) ITIL
5 69 (21.36%) DevOps
6 67 (20.74%) Agile
6 67 (20.74%) Disaster Recovery
7 59 (18.27%) Mentoring
8 55 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (14.24%) Coaching
10 46 (14.24%) Cybersecurity
11 42 (13.00%) Business Continuity
12 41 (12.69%) Cloud Security
13 39 (12.07%) High Availability
14 38 (11.76%) Roadmaps
15 36 (11.15%) ITSM
16 33 (10.22%) AI
16 33 (10.22%) Storage Management
17 30 (9.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 73 (22.60%) Python
2 71 (21.98%) PowerShell
3 30 (9.29%) SQL
4 22 (6.81%) Bicep
5 20 (6.19%) Bash
5 20 (6.19%) Java
6 14 (4.33%) VBA
7 9 (2.79%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.48%) Go
9 7 (2.17%) C#
10 6 (1.86%) Clojure
11 5 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.93%) C++
13 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (11.15%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (7.12%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (5.57%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.95%) Degree
7 11 (3.41%) CEH
7 11 (3.41%) ISTQB
8 10 (3.10%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.10%) SC Cleared
9 9 (2.79%) MCSE
10 8 (2.48%) CCNA
10 8 (2.48%) CCNP
11 7 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.86%) CISSP
12 6 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (1.55%) CISM
13 5 (1.55%) OSCP
13 5 (1.55%) RHCE
13 5 (1.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (9.60%) SLA
3 25 (7.74%) NIST
4 11 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (3.41%) ISO 22301
5 10 (3.10%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.48%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.17%) GDPR
8 5 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.55%) NCSC
9 4 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.62%) Basel III
10 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.62%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.62%) MiFID
10 2 (0.62%) QA
11 1 (0.31%) COBIT
11 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (25.70%) Active Directory
2 69 (21.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (9.60%) Hyper-V
4 22 (6.81%) Docker
4 22 (6.81%) vSphere
5 9 (2.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 9 (2.79%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.55%) KVM
6 5 (1.55%) Squid
6 5 (1.55%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.93%) Firmware
8 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.31%) iptables
9 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (28.79%) Terraform
2 55 (17.03%) Ansible
3 48 (14.86%) Kubernetes
4 33 (10.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (6.50%) Grafana
6 10 (3.10%) Cisco CUCM
6 10 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.10%) SCCM
7 8 (2.48%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.17%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.86%) ZABBIX
10 5 (1.55%) Packer
10 5 (1.55%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.93%) Nagios
12 2 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.62%) Nessus
12 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 112 (34.67%) VMware
2 108 (33.44%) Microsoft
3 31 (9.60%) Cisco
4 28 (8.67%) Dell
5 27 (8.36%) HP
6 26 (8.05%) Dell Compellent
6 26 (8.05%) Nimble Storage
7 23 (7.12%) Splunk
8 19 (5.88%) Oracle
8 19 (5.88%) Palo Alto
9 17 (5.26%) Commvault
9 17 (5.26%) Veeam
10 14 (4.33%) Red Hat
11 11 (3.41%) Fortinet
11 11 (3.41%) ServiceNow
12 9 (2.79%) Juniper
13 7 (2.17%) NetApp
13 7 (2.17%) SolarWinds
14 6 (1.86%) IFS
14 6 (1.86%) Ubiquiti