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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 316 300
Rank change year-on-year -129 -16 +29
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 403 423 701
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.86% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 2.09% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 319 189 178
10th Percentile £41,200 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £47,000 £55,750 £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 £62,250 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.23% -7.14% -

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 30,201 20,280 25,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.28% 41.08% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,773 10,170 13,078
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,080
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -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 17 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 17 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 -117 380 £68,750 -5.17% 538
UK excluding London -72 302 £62,250 -4.23% 297
Work from Home +11 125 £70,000 -12.50% 278
North of England -5 95 £54,000 -16.92% 62
London -109 87 £83,250 +11.00% 246
South East -58 81 £70,000 -17.65% 89
South West -67 58 £85,000 +6.25% 43
Midlands -22 54 £70,000 -12.50% 52
North West +6 53 £65,000 -25.07% 37
West Midlands +1 52 £70,000 -12.50% 30
Yorkshire -36 27 £50,000 -23.08% 19
East of England -31 20 £50,500 -12.17% 13
North East - 15 £47,000 - 7
Scotland +8 8 £77,500 +106.67% 27
Wales -86 6 £54,085 -1.66% 8
East Midlands -55 2 £68,750 +38.89% 22

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 (8.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.20%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.99%) Confluence
4 7 (1.74%) IIS
5 4 (0.99%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.50%) Weka
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 247 (61.29%) Azure
2 152 (37.72%) AWS
3 95 (23.57%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (20.84%) Entra ID
5 39 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
6 38 (9.43%) Serverless
7 36 (8.93%) GCP
8 34 (8.44%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (7.94%) Azure AKS
9 32 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (7.94%) PaaS
10 31 (7.69%) IaaS
11 30 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (5.46%) Amazon S3
15 21 (5.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.71%) GitHub
17 19 (4.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 102 (25.31%) Firewall
2 71 (17.62%) VPN
3 55 (13.65%) DNS
4 50 (12.41%) WAN
5 44 (10.92%) Network Security
6 43 (10.67%) DHCP
7 37 (9.18%) LAN
8 24 (5.96%) SD-WAN
9 23 (5.71%) Wireless
10 20 (4.96%) TCP/IP
11 13 (3.23%) Software-Defined Networking
11 13 (3.23%) Unified Communications
11 13 (3.23%) VLAN
12 12 (2.98%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (2.73%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (2.73%) SAN
14 9 (2.23%) BGP
14 9 (2.23%) VoIP
15 8 (1.99%) IPv4
15 8 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.97%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.98%) Spark SQL
5 11 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (1.99%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.74%) Flink
10 2 (0.50%) Power BI
10 2 (0.50%) Redis
10 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (5.21%) GitLab
2 17 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.72%) Git
4 12 (2.98%) JIRA
5 8 (1.99%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.50%) rollup.js
6 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
General
1 93 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.41%) Finance
3 43 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.46%) Retail
6 19 (4.71%) Law
7 16 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 16 (3.97%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.72%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.74%) Banking
11 6 (1.49%) Automotive
11 6 (1.49%) Electronics
11 6 (1.49%) Marketing
11 6 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.99%) Local Government
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
13 2 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 66 (16.38%) Architect
2 58 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 58 (14.39%) Senior
3 51 (12.66%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (12.16%) Lead
5 29 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (6.70%) Network Engineer
7 24 (5.96%) Data Engineer
8 23 (5.71%) Consultant
9 22 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (4.96%) Azure Architect
10 20 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (4.47%) IT Engineer
11 18 (4.47%) Technical Architect
12 17 (4.22%) Cloud Consultant
12 17 (4.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (4.22%) Support Engineer
13 14 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.23%) Administrator
14 13 (3.23%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (31.51%) Terraform
2 17 (4.22%) Kafka
3 14 (3.47%) .NET
4 13 (3.23%) ARM Templates
5 12 (2.98%) PySpark
6 11 (2.73%) Keycloak
7 6 (1.49%) XMPP
8 5 (1.24%) 802.1X
8 5 (1.24%) boto
9 4 (0.99%) YAML
10 2 (0.50%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.50%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.50%) Loki
10 2 (0.50%) ModSecurity
10 2 (0.50%) OpenID
10 2 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.25%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.25%) Node.js
11 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.17%) Data Centre
2 30 (7.44%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.20%) Private Cloud
4 24 (5.96%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.22%) Security Posture
6 16 (3.97%) PKI
7 15 (3.72%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (3.72%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.73%) Driving Licence
9 10 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.23%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.99%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.99%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.74%) Replication
13 6 (1.49%) FlexPod
13 6 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 127 (31.51%) Windows
2 105 (26.05%) Windows Server
3 75 (18.61%) Linux
4 7 (1.74%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.24%) Android
5 5 (1.24%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.24%) VMS
6 4 (0.99%) CentOS
6 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.50%) AIX
7 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.50%) Unix
7 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Rocky
8 1 (0.25%) SUSE
8 1 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (33.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 118 (29.28%) CI/CD
3 103 (25.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 96 (23.82%) DevOps
5 94 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 90 (22.33%) Cloud Security
7 77 (19.11%) Migration
8 74 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (16.13%) Roadmaps
10 64 (15.88%) ITIL
11 63 (15.63%) Agile
12 60 (14.89%) Analytics
13 58 (14.39%) Mentoring
14 56 (13.90%) Cybersecurity
14 56 (13.90%) Disaster Recovery
15 52 (12.90%) Decision-Making
16 51 (12.66%) Zero Trust
17 50 (12.41%) AI
18 43 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
19 40 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 78 (19.35%) PowerShell
1 78 (19.35%) Python
2 46 (11.41%) Bash
3 33 (8.19%) SQL
4 32 (7.94%) Bicep
5 23 (5.71%) Go
6 21 (5.21%) Java
7 15 (3.72%) C#
8 13 (3.23%) C++
8 13 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.99%) Clojure
10 6 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.50%) Korn
13 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 86 (21.34%) Security Cleared
2 57 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.17%) Azure Certification
4 37 (9.18%) AWS Certification
4 37 (9.18%) DV Cleared
5 29 (7.20%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (4.96%) Degree
6 20 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (4.22%) CCNP
8 16 (3.97%) ISTQB
9 12 (2.98%) CCNA
10 11 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.48%) RHCE
11 10 (2.48%) RHCSA
11 10 (2.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 9 (2.23%) CISSP
13 8 (1.99%) OSCP
14 6 (1.49%) CCIE
14 6 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (1.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (4.47%) NIST
3 14 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.23%) SLA
5 9 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.99%) NCSC
7 6 (1.49%) GDPR
7 6 (1.49%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.24%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.99%) GRC
10 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.25%) PMO
11 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 108 (26.80%) Active Directory
2 74 (18.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (10.17%) Docker
4 25 (6.20%) Hyper-V
5 24 (5.96%) vSphere
6 17 (4.22%) VMware NSX
7 13 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.99%) Squid
9 8 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.74%) Firmware
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 75 (18.61%) Ansible
2 62 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (4.96%) Grafana
5 15 (3.72%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.48%) Puppet
7 9 (2.23%) SCCM
7 9 (2.23%) ZABBIX
8 8 (1.99%) FortiGate
8 8 (1.99%) Packer
8 8 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.99%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.49%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (1.49%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.99%) Nagios
12 3 (0.74%) Istio
12 3 (0.74%) linkerd
13 2 (0.50%) Argo
13 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 166 (41.19%) Microsoft
2 108 (26.80%) VMware
3 47 (11.66%) Cisco
4 24 (5.96%) Veeam
5 21 (5.21%) Palo Alto
6 19 (4.71%) Splunk
7 17 (4.22%) Oracle
7 17 (4.22%) Red Hat
8 15 (3.72%) Fortinet
9 13 (3.23%) Google
9 13 (3.23%) Meraki
10 8 (1.99%) Aruba
10 8 (1.99%) IFS
10 8 (1.99%) NetApp
11 7 (1.74%) Tenable
12 6 (1.49%) EMC
12 6 (1.49%) Juniper
12 6 (1.49%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.24%) Citrix
13 5 (1.24%) SolarWinds