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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 314 324
Rank change year-on-year -141 +10 +4
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 413 432 620
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.87% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 2.13% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 320 200 174
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £69,500
% change year-on-year - -10.07% -0.71%

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 31,179 20,283 24,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.55% 40.97% 32.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19,338 10,179 12,548
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £46,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.83% -11.43% -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 26 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 16 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 26 September 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 -125 388 £70,000 - 453
UK excluding London -91 301 £62,500 - 270
Work from Home -7 128 £70,000 -12.50% 284
London -114 96 £82,500 +13.79% 191
North of England -11 92 £52,500 -19.23% 66
South East -42 83 £70,000 -17.65% 77
South West -66 59 £85,000 +6.25% 44
Midlands -27 55 £70,000 -12.50% 38
West Midlands 0 53 £70,000 -12.50% 24
North West +2 51 £65,288 +22.03% 39
Yorkshire -39 26 £50,000 -23.08% 20
East of England -30 19 £55,000 -4.35% 13
North East - 15 £47,000 - 8
Scotland +16 8 £77,500 +106.67% 23
Wales -79 6 £54,085 -1.66% 7
East Midlands -44 2 £68,750 +38.89% 14

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 33 (7.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (6.30%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.18%) Confluence
4 7 (1.69%) IIS
5 4 (0.97%) SAS
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.48%) Weka
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.24%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 254 (61.50%) Azure
2 156 (37.77%) AWS
3 94 (22.76%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (21.55%) Entra ID
5 38 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (9.20%) Serverless
6 37 (8.96%) GCP
7 36 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
8 35 (8.47%) Azure AKS
9 34 (8.23%) PaaS
10 31 (7.51%) IaaS
11 30 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (6.30%) GitHub
14 22 (5.33%) Amazon S3
15 21 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 108 (26.15%) Firewall
2 77 (18.64%) VPN
3 58 (14.04%) DNS
4 50 (12.11%) WAN
5 46 (11.14%) DHCP
5 46 (11.14%) Network Security
6 39 (9.44%) LAN
7 25 (6.05%) SD-WAN
7 25 (6.05%) Wireless
8 20 (4.84%) TCP/IP
9 14 (3.39%) Software-Defined Networking
9 14 (3.39%) Unified Communications
10 13 (3.15%) VLAN
11 12 (2.91%) Cisco Nexus
11 12 (2.91%) SAN
12 11 (2.66%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (2.18%) BGP
15 8 (1.94%) IPv4
15 8 (1.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
1 15 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
1 15 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.91%) Spark SQL
4 8 (1.94%) Oracle Database
5 7 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.73%) Flink
8 2 (0.48%) Redis
8 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (4.84%) GitLab
2 16 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.39%) Git
4 13 (3.15%) JIRA
5 8 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.48%) rollup.js
6 2 (0.48%) Terragrunt
General
1 99 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.35%) Finance
3 44 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.93%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.05%) Retail
6 19 (4.60%) Law
7 18 (4.36%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.63%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.39%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.94%) Banking
11 8 (1.94%) Marketing
12 6 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.21%) Automotive
13 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.21%) Electronics
13 5 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.97%) Local Government
15 3 (0.73%) Legal
16 2 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (17.19%) Architect
2 60 (14.53%) Senior
3 58 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 52 (12.59%) Cloud Engineer
5 49 (11.86%) Lead
6 34 (8.23%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (7.02%) Network Engineer
8 25 (6.05%) Data Engineer
9 23 (5.57%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (5.57%) Consultant
10 22 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (4.84%) Azure Architect
11 20 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.60%) Technical Architect
13 17 (4.12%) Cloud Consultant
13 17 (4.12%) IT Engineer
13 17 (4.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 16 (3.87%) Support Engineer
15 14 (3.39%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (32.20%) Terraform
2 18 (4.36%) Kafka
3 13 (3.15%) ARM Templates
4 12 (2.91%) .NET
4 12 (2.91%) Keycloak
4 12 (2.91%) PySpark
5 6 (1.45%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.45%) XMPP
6 5 (1.21%) boto
6 5 (1.21%) SAML
7 3 (0.73%) OpenID
7 3 (0.73%) YAML
8 2 (0.48%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.48%) Loki
8 2 (0.48%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.48%) OAuth
8 2 (0.48%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.24%) LDAP
9 1 (0.24%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.41%) Data Centre
2 31 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.30%) Private Cloud
4 24 (5.81%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.36%) Security Posture
6 17 (4.12%) PKI
6 17 (4.12%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.66%) Driving Licence
9 10 (2.42%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.18%) Enterprise Storage
10 9 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.94%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.94%) Replication
12 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.45%) FlexPod
13 6 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
15 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 130 (31.48%) Windows
2 105 (25.42%) Windows Server
3 75 (18.16%) Linux
4 9 (2.18%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.21%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.21%) VMS
7 4 (0.97%) Android
7 4 (0.97%) CentOS
7 4 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.48%) AIX
9 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.48%) Unix
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Rocky
10 1 (0.24%) SUSE
10 1 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (33.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 125 (30.27%) CI/CD
3 105 (25.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 104 (25.18%) DevOps
5 97 (23.49%) Cloud Security
6 95 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 84 (20.34%) Migration
8 79 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (16.95%) Agile
10 67 (16.22%) Roadmaps
11 63 (15.25%) Analytics
12 62 (15.01%) Disaster Recovery
13 59 (14.29%) ITIL
13 59 (14.29%) Mentoring
14 58 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
15 55 (13.32%) AI
16 54 (13.08%) Zero Trust
17 53 (12.83%) Decision-Making
18 46 (11.14%) Infrastructure Automation
19 45 (10.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.10%) PowerShell
2 82 (19.85%) Python
3 49 (11.86%) Bash
4 35 (8.47%) SQL
5 33 (7.99%) Bicep
6 24 (5.81%) Go
7 21 (5.08%) Java
8 13 (3.15%) C#
8 13 (3.15%) C++
8 13 (3.15%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.94%) Clojure
10 6 (1.45%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.48%) Korn
13 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 91 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 61 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 51 (12.35%) Azure Certification
4 40 (9.69%) AWS Certification
5 38 (9.20%) DV Cleared
6 28 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (5.08%) Degree
7 21 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (4.12%) CCNP
9 16 (3.87%) ISTQB
10 12 (2.91%) CCNA
11 11 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.42%) RHCE
12 10 (2.42%) RHCSA
12 10 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (2.18%) CISSP
14 8 (1.94%) OSCP
15 6 (1.45%) CCIE
16 5 (1.21%) DBS Check
16 5 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (4.36%) NIST
3 14 (3.39%) SLA
4 13 (3.15%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.94%) NCSC
6 7 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.45%) GDPR
8 5 (1.21%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.97%) GRC
10 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 110 (26.63%) Active Directory
2 73 (17.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (10.41%) Docker
4 25 (6.05%) Hyper-V
4 25 (6.05%) vSphere
5 17 (4.12%) VMware NSX
6 14 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.94%) Squid
10 3 (0.73%) Firmware
10 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 77 (18.64%) Ansible
2 65 (15.74%) Kubernetes
3 43 (10.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (6.05%) Grafana
5 19 (4.60%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.66%) Puppet
7 9 (2.18%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.18%) ZABBIX
8 8 (1.94%) FortiGate
8 8 (1.94%) Packer
8 8 (1.94%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.94%) SCCM
9 7 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.45%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (1.45%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.97%) Nagios
12 3 (0.73%) Istio
12 3 (0.73%) linkerd
13 2 (0.48%) Argo
13 2 (0.48%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 167 (40.44%) Microsoft
2 108 (26.15%) VMware
3 45 (10.90%) Cisco
4 25 (6.05%) Veeam
5 21 (5.08%) Palo Alto
6 19 (4.60%) Splunk
7 18 (4.36%) Fortinet
7 18 (4.36%) Red Hat
8 17 (4.12%) Oracle
9 14 (3.39%) Google
10 13 (3.15%) Meraki
11 9 (2.18%) Aruba
12 8 (1.94%) IFS
12 8 (1.94%) NetApp
13 7 (1.69%) Tenable
14 6 (1.45%) Citrix
14 6 (1.45%) EMC
14 6 (1.45%) Juniper
14 6 (1.45%) SolarWinds
14 6 (1.45%) Zscaler