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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 366 466
Rank change year-on-year -36 +100 +146
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 278 454 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.67% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 2.04% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 212 162 183
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,238 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,058 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,125 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -10.71%

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 19,357 22,231 20,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.28% 32.98% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,736 10,765 14,982
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,143 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,625 £110,000 £106,289
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 November 2025.

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 21 November 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 -26 249 £80,000 +15.94% 192
London +94 146 £88,750 +22.41% 106
UK excluding London -117 107 £62,500 +4.17% 107
Work from Home +33 93 £80,000 +33.33% 78
North of England -62 35 £57,250 +27.22% 11
Wales +32 21 £55,000 -
Midlands +64 18 £80,000 +100.00% 12
North West -41 18 £56,000 +24.44% 8
East of England +12 17 £62,500 +4.17% 10
Yorkshire +10 17 £58,750 -7.11% 1
West Midlands +52 15 £80,000 +113.33% 9
South East -15 15 £78,500 +57.00% 52
South West -15 12 £80,000 +6.67% 19
East Midlands +31 3 £49,500 +14.68% 3
Northern Ireland +9 3 - -
Scotland -4 2 £37,500 -31.82% 6

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 21 (7.55%) SharePoint
2 20 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.44%) Confluence
5 3 (1.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 191 (68.71%) Azure
2 101 (36.33%) AWS
3 72 (25.90%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (18.71%) Entra ID
5 27 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (9.35%) SaaS
7 25 (8.99%) Azure Sentinel
7 25 (8.99%) GCP
8 21 (7.55%) PaaS
9 20 (7.19%) IaaS
10 16 (5.76%) Nutanix
11 12 (4.32%) Serverless
12 11 (3.96%) GitHub
13 8 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (2.88%) Azure Stack
13 8 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.88%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.52%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (2.16%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (15.11%) DNS
2 41 (14.75%) Firewall
3 36 (12.95%) VPN
4 30 (10.79%) DHCP
5 23 (8.27%) WAN
6 21 (7.55%) LAN
7 16 (5.76%) Network Security
8 14 (5.04%) TCP/IP
9 13 (4.68%) VLAN
9 13 (4.68%) VoIP
10 11 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (2.88%) BGP
11 8 (2.88%) Internet
11 8 (2.88%) SAN
12 5 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (1.80%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.80%) Unified Communications
13 4 (1.44%) NAS
13 4 (1.44%) SSL
14 3 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.51%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (4.68%) MySQL
4 9 (3.24%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (2.52%) Big Data
6 7 (2.52%) DataStage
6 7 (2.52%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.52%) Hadoop
6 7 (2.52%) Neo4j
6 7 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.52%) Pentaho
6 7 (2.52%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.52%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.80%) Metadata
8 4 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (7.19%) Octopus Deploy
2 18 (6.47%) TeamCity
3 10 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.52%) Git
5 6 (2.16%) GitLab
6 5 (1.80%) JIRA
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 72 (25.90%) Finance
3 28 (10.07%) Banking
4 24 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.27%) Law
6 19 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.24%) Back Office
9 7 (2.52%) Retail
10 6 (2.16%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.80%) Billing
12 4 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.72%) Legal
15 1 (0.36%) Front Office
15 1 (0.36%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 49 (17.63%) Architect
2 40 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (10.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (9.71%) Lead
5 23 (8.27%) Senior
6 19 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (6.83%) Infrastructure Architect
7 14 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (4.32%) Infrastructure Manager
9 11 (3.96%) Security Architect
10 10 (3.60%) Administrator
10 10 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.60%) IT Engineer
10 10 (3.60%) IT Manager
11 8 (2.88%) 1st Line Support
11 8 (2.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 7 (2.52%) Linux Administrator
12 7 (2.52%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.07%) .NET
2 9 (3.24%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (1.44%) RESTful
4 4 (1.44%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (1.08%) Kafka
5 3 (1.08%) PySpark
6 2 (0.72%) DPDK
6 2 (0.72%) eBPF
6 2 (0.72%) Middleware
6 2 (0.72%) Node.js
6 2 (0.72%) OpenID
7 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.36%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.36%) React
7 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 64 (23.02%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.35%) Legacy Systems
2 26 (9.35%) Public Cloud
3 23 (8.27%) Virtual Team
4 21 (7.55%) Cloud Native
5 20 (7.19%) Security Posture
6 19 (6.83%) Onboarding
7 12 (4.32%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (3.24%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.88%) Driving Licence
11 7 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.52%) iPad
11 7 (2.52%) Operational Technology
11 7 (2.52%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.80%) e-Learning
13 5 (1.80%) Social Media
14 4 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
15 3 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 87 (31.29%) Windows
2 61 (21.94%) Windows Server
3 43 (15.47%) Linux
4 18 (6.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (5.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (3.24%) Windows 10
7 8 (2.88%) Mac OS
7 8 (2.88%) Rocky
8 6 (2.16%) CentOS
8 6 (2.16%) Unix
9 4 (1.44%) HPUX
9 4 (1.44%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (1.44%) Solaris
10 2 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (27.70%) DevOps
2 75 (26.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (23.02%) CI/CD
3 64 (23.02%) Continuous Improvement
4 59 (21.22%) Migration
5 53 (19.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 44 (15.83%) Roadmaps
7 43 (15.47%) ITIL
8 42 (15.11%) Cloud Security
8 42 (15.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 41 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (14.03%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (12.95%) AI
12 32 (11.51%) Analytics
12 32 (11.51%) Vulnerability Management
13 30 (10.79%) Containerisation
14 28 (10.07%) Agile
15 26 (9.35%) ITSM
15 26 (9.35%) Root Cause Analysis
16 25 (8.99%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 64 (23.02%) PowerShell
2 62 (22.30%) Python
3 50 (17.99%) SQL
4 13 (4.68%) Java
5 12 (4.32%) Bicep
6 8 (2.88%) Bash
7 7 (2.52%) C#
8 5 (1.80%) Go
9 4 (1.44%) PHP
10 3 (1.08%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.08%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.72%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 36 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.15%) Azure Certification
3 27 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.47%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.47%) Degree
5 17 (6.12%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.24%) CISSP
9 8 (2.88%) CEH
9 8 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (2.16%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.80%) CCNP
11 5 (1.80%) CISM
12 4 (1.44%) CCNA
12 4 (1.44%) CISA
12 4 (1.44%) GCIH
12 4 (1.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (11.87%) NIST
3 23 (8.27%) GDPR
4 8 (2.88%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.88%) QA
5 7 (2.52%) ISO 22301
6 6 (2.16%) NCSC
6 6 (2.16%) SLA
7 5 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.08%) Basel III
8 3 (1.08%) MiFID
8 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.72%) COBIT
9 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 63 (22.66%) Active Directory
2 43 (15.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (11.15%) Hyper-V
4 15 (5.40%) Docker
5 6 (2.16%) Firmware
5 6 (2.16%) NFS
6 5 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.80%) vSphere
7 4 (1.44%) KVM
7 4 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.72%) QEMU
8 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) vCloud
9 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 83 (29.86%) Terraform
2 41 (14.75%) Ansible
3 37 (13.31%) Kubernetes
4 24 (8.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (5.40%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.60%) SCCM
7 9 (3.24%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.52%) SCOM
9 6 (2.16%) Grafana
10 5 (1.80%) Autotask
11 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.72%) Suricata
11 2 (0.72%) WSUS
12 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.36%) Nagios
12 1 (0.36%) Nessus
12 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.36%) VxRail
12 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 89 (32.01%) Microsoft
2 69 (24.82%) VMware
3 33 (11.87%) Cisco
4 25 (8.99%) Oracle
5 18 (6.47%) Commvault
6 17 (6.12%) Dell
7 15 (5.40%) Palo Alto
8 12 (4.32%) Datto
9 11 (3.96%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.60%) Fortinet
11 9 (3.24%) Apple
11 9 (3.24%) Juniper
11 9 (3.24%) SAP
11 9 (3.24%) ServiceNow
12 7 (2.52%) Aruba
12 7 (2.52%) HP
12 7 (2.52%) IBM
12 7 (2.52%) Informatica
12 7 (2.52%) Splunk
12 7 (2.52%) Talend