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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 439 484
Rank change year-on-year +49 +45 +21
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 293 267 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 1.44% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 207 114 210
10th Percentile £40,750 £47,500 £46,300
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -18.18%
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +5.13% -4.43% -13.10%

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 22,088 18,594 27,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.21% 38.02% 36.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,217 8,739 19,795
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.28% -15.12%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -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 20 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 18 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 20 February 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 +23 249 £70,000 -1.40% 190
London +84 135 £87,500 -2.78% 54
UK excluding London -43 125 £63,076 +5.13% 156
Work from Home +46 100 £70,500 +2.17% 86
North of England -40 39 £63,076 -12.38% 34
South East -15 25 £70,000 +7.69% 52
East of England +5 17 £27,000 -55.00% 14
North West -33 17 £63,076 -12.38% 16
Midlands +5 14 £63,076 -9.89% 19
West Midlands +18 13 £63,076 -9.89% 12
Yorkshire -33 13 £63,076 -5.15% 16
Northern Ireland -15 11 - -
North East -8 9 £63,076 -1.57% 2
South West -28 6 £56,250 -13.46% 25
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 4
Scotland -18 4 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 7

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 16 (5.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.05%) Confluence
5 4 (1.37%) Documentum
6 3 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 184 (62.80%) Azure
2 108 (36.86%) AWS
3 61 (20.82%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (17.06%) Nutanix
5 42 (14.33%) Entra ID
6 25 (8.53%) GCP
7 24 (8.19%) Power Platform
8 23 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.48%) PaaS
9 19 (6.48%) PowerApps
9 19 (6.48%) SaaS
10 16 (5.46%) Azure Sentinel
10 16 (5.46%) IaaS
11 14 (4.78%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (4.44%) GitHub
13 12 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.73%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (20.82%) DNS
2 52 (17.75%) DHCP
3 47 (16.04%) Firewall
4 34 (11.60%) VPN
5 22 (7.51%) Remote Desktop
6 14 (4.78%) Network Security
7 13 (4.44%) WAN
8 11 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (3.41%) Internet
9 10 (3.41%) LAN
10 8 (2.73%) VLAN
10 8 (2.73%) VoIP
11 7 (2.39%) SAN
11 7 (2.39%) TCP/IP
12 5 (1.71%) BGP
12 5 (1.71%) SD-WAN
13 3 (1.02%) Unified Communications
13 3 (1.02%) Wireless
14 2 (0.68%) NAS
14 2 (0.68%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.95%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.07%) MySQL
4 9 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (2.73%) Big Data
5 8 (2.73%) DataStage
5 8 (2.73%) DynamoDB
5 8 (2.73%) Hadoop
5 8 (2.73%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.73%) Neo4j
5 8 (2.73%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.73%) Pentaho
5 8 (2.73%) RDBMS
5 8 (2.73%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.05%) Power BI
7 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.37%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (7.51%) Octopus Deploy
2 17 (5.80%) TeamCity
3 12 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.39%) JIRA
5 2 (0.68%) Git
6 1 (0.34%) GitLab
6 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (35.84%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.50%) Finance
3 36 (12.29%) Law
4 27 (9.22%) Banking
5 23 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 21 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (6.83%) Retail
8 11 (3.75%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.07%) Back Office
10 6 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.68%) Automotive
14 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Front Office
14 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (15.70%) Architect
2 42 (14.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 40 (13.65%) Senior
4 39 (13.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (9.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.14%) Infrastructure Architect
7 16 (5.46%) Lead
7 16 (5.46%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.78%) Administrator
8 14 (4.78%) Digital Project Manager
8 14 (4.78%) Senior Digital Project Manager
8 14 (4.78%) Senior Manager
8 14 (4.78%) Senior Project Manager
9 13 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.10%) Consultant
10 12 (4.10%) IT Security Specialist
10 12 (4.10%) Security Specialist
11 10 (3.41%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.87%) .NET
2 5 (1.71%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.37%) RESTful
4 2 (0.68%) DPDK
4 2 (0.68%) eBPF
4 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.68%) Middleware
4 2 (0.68%) OpenID
4 2 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.68%) REST
4 2 (0.68%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (0.68%) Streamlit
4 2 (0.68%) XMPP
5 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.34%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.34%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.34%) CSS
5 1 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.34%) HTML
5 1 (0.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.36%) Data Centre
2 40 (13.65%) Public Cloud
3 35 (11.95%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (7.85%) Cloud Native
4 23 (7.85%) Onboarding
5 18 (6.14%) Virtual Team
6 17 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (5.80%) Management Information System
7 15 (5.12%) Legacy Applications
7 15 (5.12%) Low-Code
7 15 (5.12%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.73%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.39%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.39%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.05%) Blog
10 6 (2.05%) iPad
10 6 (2.05%) Replication
11 5 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.37%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 80 (27.30%) Windows
2 65 (22.18%) Windows Server
3 26 (8.87%) Linux
4 13 (4.44%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.39%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.37%) CentOS
6 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (26.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 72 (24.57%) CI/CD
3 71 (24.23%) DevOps
4 63 (21.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 58 (19.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (17.41%) ITIL
9 48 (16.38%) Cloud Security
9 48 (16.38%) Mentoring
10 46 (15.70%) Cybersecurity
11 45 (15.36%) Roadmaps
12 44 (15.02%) Agile
13 42 (14.33%) ITSM
14 36 (12.29%) AI
14 36 (12.29%) Analytics
14 36 (12.29%) Business Continuity
14 36 (12.29%) Coaching
14 36 (12.29%) Migration
15 30 (10.24%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (24.91%) PowerShell
2 67 (22.87%) Python
3 39 (13.31%) SQL
4 20 (6.83%) Bicep
5 19 (6.48%) Java
6 14 (4.78%) VBA
7 13 (4.44%) Bash
8 9 (3.07%) Go
9 8 (2.73%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.71%) C#
11 4 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.34%) C++
14 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.19%) Azure Certification
3 23 (7.85%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.46%) Degree
4 16 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.78%) CEH
5 14 (4.78%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.75%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.07%) CISSP
9 7 (2.39%) CISM
9 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.05%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.71%) CCNP
11 5 (1.71%) CITP
11 5 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.37%) CCSP
12 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (9.22%) NIST
2 27 (9.22%) SLA
3 14 (4.78%) ISO 22301
4 13 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (4.44%) GDPR
5 11 (3.75%) PCI DSS
6 9 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (3.07%) SOC 2
7 7 (2.39%) NCSC
8 5 (1.71%) QA
9 4 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.02%) Basel III
10 3 (1.02%) MiFID
11 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 67 (22.87%) Active Directory
2 47 (16.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (9.90%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.41%) Docker
5 8 (2.73%) vSphere
6 7 (2.39%) Firmware
6 7 (2.39%) KVM
7 5 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.68%) QEMU
9 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.34%) iptables
10 1 (0.34%) vCloud
10 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (27.65%) Terraform
2 31 (10.58%) Ansible
3 28 (9.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (8.53%) Kubernetes
5 12 (4.10%) Grafana
5 12 (4.10%) SCCM
6 11 (3.75%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.05%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.71%) SCOM
9 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.68%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.68%) VxRail
12 1 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 92 (31.40%) VMware
2 88 (30.03%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.53%) Dell
4 23 (7.85%) Cisco
4 23 (7.85%) HP
5 22 (7.51%) Dell Compellent
5 22 (7.51%) Nimble Storage
6 19 (6.48%) Commvault
7 13 (4.44%) Oracle
8 12 (4.10%) Splunk
8 12 (4.10%) Veeam
9 11 (3.75%) Juniper
9 11 (3.75%) Palo Alto
9 11 (3.75%) ServiceNow
10 10 (3.41%) Freshdesk
11 8 (2.73%) Informatica
11 8 (2.73%) Talend
12 6 (2.05%) Apple
12 6 (2.05%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.05%) SAP