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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 316 311
Rank change year-on-year -127 -5 +21
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 408 428 619
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.86% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 2.10% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 318 200 173
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,125 £42,238
25th Percentile £48,052 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £69,000
% change year-on-year - -9.42% -1.43%

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 31,403 20,344 23,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.58% 41.04% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19,380 10,219 12,067
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,038 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -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 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.56% -14.29% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -117 382 £70,000 - 561
UK excluding London -94 291 £62,500 - 347
Work from Home -7 123 £70,000 -12.50% 360
London -111 100 £82,500 +13.79% 254
North of England -18 87 £52,500 -19.23% 76
South East -56 81 £70,000 -17.65% 90
Midlands -24 57 £73,750 -7.81% 45
South West -67 56 £85,000 +6.25% 52
West Midlands 0 55 £77,500 -3.13% 28
North West -7 47 £65,000 +44.44% 47
Yorkshire -38 25 £50,000 -23.08% 23
East of England -43 18 £50,500 -15.83% 21
North East - 15 £47,000 - 7
Scotland +9 8 £77,500 +106.67% 34
Wales -88 6 £54,085 -1.66% 19
East Midlands -52 2 £68,750 +38.89% 17

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 34 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (6.37%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.21%) Confluence
4 7 (1.72%) IIS
5 4 (0.98%) SAS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.49%) Weka
2 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 255 (62.50%) Azure
2 154 (37.75%) AWS
3 91 (22.30%) Entra ID
4 89 (21.81%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (9.31%) Serverless
6 36 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (8.82%) GCP
7 35 (8.58%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (8.33%) Azure AKS
9 33 (8.09%) PaaS
10 31 (7.60%) IaaS
11 30 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (7.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (7.11%) GitHub
13 23 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (5.39%) Amazon S3
15 21 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 107 (26.23%) Firewall
2 79 (19.36%) VPN
3 61 (14.95%) DNS
4 50 (12.25%) DHCP
5 47 (11.52%) WAN
6 46 (11.27%) Network Security
7 36 (8.82%) LAN
8 26 (6.37%) Wireless
9 25 (6.13%) SD-WAN
10 20 (4.90%) TCP/IP
11 14 (3.43%) Software-Defined Networking
12 13 (3.19%) SAN
12 13 (3.19%) Unified Communications
13 12 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
14 11 (2.70%) VLAN
15 9 (2.21%) BGP
15 9 (2.21%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (1.96%) IPv4
17 7 (1.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.94%) Spark SQL
5 8 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.96%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.74%) Flink
7 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.49%) Redis
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (4.41%) GitLab
2 15 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.43%) Git
4 13 (3.19%) JIRA
5 8 (1.96%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.98%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.49%) rollup.js
7 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 98 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.24%) Finance
3 44 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.39%) Retail
6 19 (4.66%) Law
7 16 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.43%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.70%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.47%) Banking
11 6 (1.47%) Marketing
11 6 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.98%) Automotive
13 4 (0.98%) Electronics
13 4 (0.98%) Local Government
14 3 (0.74%) Legal
15 2 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 70 (17.16%) Architect
2 61 (14.95%) Senior
3 57 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 49 (12.01%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (12.01%) Lead
5 35 (8.58%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (6.86%) Network Engineer
7 26 (6.37%) Data Engineer
8 24 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (5.64%) Consultant
10 22 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (4.90%) Azure Architect
11 20 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (4.90%) Technical Architect
12 17 (4.17%) Cloud Consultant
12 17 (4.17%) IT Engineer
13 16 (3.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.68%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.68%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (31.62%) Terraform
2 19 (4.66%) Kafka
3 13 (3.19%) ARM Templates
3 13 (3.19%) Keycloak
4 12 (2.94%) .NET
4 12 (2.94%) PySpark
5 6 (1.47%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.23%) boto
6 5 (1.23%) SAML
7 4 (0.98%) XMPP
8 3 (0.74%) OpenID
9 2 (0.49%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.49%) Loki
9 2 (0.49%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.49%) OAuth
9 2 (0.49%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.49%) YAML
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.54%) Data Centre
2 30 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.37%) Private Cloud
4 23 (5.64%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.41%) Security Posture
6 17 (4.17%) PKI
6 17 (4.17%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
9 11 (2.70%) Driving Licence
9 11 (2.70%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.21%) Replication
11 8 (1.96%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.98%) FlexPod
14 4 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.98%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 130 (31.86%) Windows
2 106 (25.98%) Windows Server
3 73 (17.89%) Linux
4 10 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.98%) VMS
8 3 (0.74%) CentOS
9 2 (0.49%) AIX
9 2 (0.49%) Android
9 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.49%) Unix
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Rocky
10 1 (0.25%) SUSE
10 1 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (34.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 125 (30.64%) CI/CD
3 105 (25.74%) DevOps
4 102 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 98 (24.02%) Cloud Security
6 95 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 85 (20.83%) Migration
8 78 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (15.93%) Agile
9 65 (15.93%) Disaster Recovery
9 65 (15.93%) Roadmaps
10 64 (15.69%) Analytics
11 59 (14.46%) Mentoring
12 58 (14.22%) AI
13 55 (13.48%) Cybersecurity
13 55 (13.48%) Decision-Making
13 55 (13.48%) ITIL
13 55 (13.48%) Zero Trust
14 47 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
15 45 (11.03%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.34%) PowerShell
1 83 (20.34%) Python
2 48 (11.76%) Bash
3 35 (8.58%) SQL
4 32 (7.84%) Bicep
5 25 (6.13%) Go
6 20 (4.90%) Java
7 12 (2.94%) C#
7 12 (2.94%) C++
7 12 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.96%) Clojure
9 6 (1.47%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 89 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 62 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 51 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 40 (9.80%) AWS Certification
5 36 (8.82%) DV Cleared
6 28 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (5.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (5.39%) Degree
9 17 (4.17%) CCNP
10 16 (3.92%) ISTQB
11 12 (2.94%) CCNA
12 11 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.45%) RHCE
13 10 (2.45%) RHCSA
13 10 (2.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (2.21%) CISSP
15 8 (1.96%) OSCP
16 6 (1.47%) CCIE
17 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
17 5 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.17%) NIST
3 15 (3.68%) SLA
4 13 (3.19%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.96%) NCSC
6 7 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.47%) GDPR
7 6 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.98%) GRC
10 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 114 (27.94%) Active Directory
2 73 (17.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (10.05%) Docker
4 26 (6.37%) vSphere
5 24 (5.88%) Hyper-V
6 17 (4.17%) VMware NSX
7 16 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (1.96%) Squid
11 3 (0.74%) Firmware
12 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 75 (18.38%) Ansible
2 61 (14.95%) Kubernetes
3 42 (10.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (5.88%) Grafana
5 20 (4.90%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.68%) Puppet
7 13 (3.19%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.21%) ZABBIX
9 8 (1.96%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.96%) Packer
9 8 (1.96%) Proxmox
9 8 (1.96%) SCCM
10 7 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.47%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.98%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.98%) Nagios
13 3 (0.74%) Istio
13 3 (0.74%) linkerd
14 2 (0.49%) Argo
14 2 (0.49%) Podman
Vendors
1 167 (40.93%) Microsoft
2 109 (26.72%) VMware
3 45 (11.03%) Cisco
4 26 (6.37%) Veeam
5 19 (4.66%) Palo Alto
6 17 (4.17%) Oracle
6 17 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 17 (4.17%) Splunk
7 16 (3.92%) Fortinet
8 13 (3.19%) Google
8 13 (3.19%) Meraki
9 9 (2.21%) Aruba
9 9 (2.21%) Citrix
10 8 (1.96%) IFS
10 8 (1.96%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.72%) NetApp
11 7 (1.72%) Tenable
11 7 (1.72%) Zscaler
12 6 (1.47%) Juniper
12 6 (1.47%) Zerto