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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 458 471
Rank change year-on-year +50 +13 +24
Permanent jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 301 221 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 1.30% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 214 106 222
10th Percentile £37,000 £46,740 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,063 £53,125 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% -14.06%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,875 £114,375 £99,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +5.13% -4.43% -6.99%

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 22,926 17,031 30,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.93% 39.05% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11,671 8,821 21,651
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,770 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 17 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 14 March 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 +13 261 £70,000 - 110
UK excluding London -16 137 £63,076 +5.13% 76
London +67 136 £87,500 -2.78% 44
Work from Home +53 100 £70,000 +0.72% 47
North of England -61 43 £63,076 -12.38% 23
South East -6 28 £65,000 +15.56% 33
North West -31 21 £64,038 -11.05% 13
West Midlands +16 16 £63,076 +0.92% 4
Midlands -9 16 £63,076 +0.92% 5
East of England 0 15 £27,000 -55.00% 4
Northern Ireland -19 12 - -
Yorkshire -43 12 £63,076 -2.96% 10
South West -36 11 £52,500 +5.00% 9
North East -12 10 £63,076 -
Scotland -12 5 £45,000 -18.18% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales - 2 £42,500 -

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 18 (5.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.99%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.33%) Confluence
4 4 (1.33%) Documentum
5 3 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 194 (64.45%) Azure
2 107 (35.55%) AWS
3 66 (21.93%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (19.27%) Nutanix
5 46 (15.28%) Entra ID
6 24 (7.97%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.31%) GCP
8 20 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.31%) PaaS
9 19 (6.31%) PowerApps
10 18 (5.98%) IaaS
10 18 (5.98%) SaaS
11 15 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.98%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (4.65%) GitHub
13 13 (4.32%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (1.99%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 63 (20.93%) DNS
2 54 (17.94%) DHCP
3 52 (17.28%) Firewall
4 34 (11.30%) VPN
5 25 (8.31%) Remote Desktop
6 18 (5.98%) WAN
7 15 (4.98%) LAN
8 13 (4.32%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (3.32%) Internet
9 10 (3.32%) Network Security
9 10 (3.32%) VLAN
10 8 (2.66%) TCP/IP
10 8 (2.66%) VoIP
11 7 (2.33%) SAN
12 5 (1.66%) BGP
12 5 (1.66%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.66%) Unified Communications
13 4 (1.33%) WebEx
14 3 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.63%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.33%) MySQL
4 7 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (1.99%) Big Data
5 6 (1.99%) DataStage
5 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.99%) Hadoop
5 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.99%) Neo4j
5 6 (1.99%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.99%) Pentaho
5 6 (1.99%) Power BI
5 6 (1.99%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.33%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (5.98%) Octopus Deploy
2 13 (4.32%) TeamCity
3 10 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.99%) Git
5 5 (1.66%) JIRA
6 4 (1.33%) GitLab
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 100 (33.22%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.61%) Finance
3 37 (12.29%) Law
4 25 (8.31%) Retail
5 24 (7.97%) Banking
5 24 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.65%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.99%) Back Office
9 6 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.00%) Automotive
11 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Marketing
11 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Front Office
12 2 (0.66%) Legal
12 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (16.94%) Cloud Engineer
2 43 (14.29%) Senior
3 42 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (11.63%) Architect
5 27 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (5.98%) Lead
7 16 (5.32%) Project Manager
8 15 (4.98%) Administrator
8 15 (4.98%) IT Security Specialist
8 15 (4.98%) Security Specialist
9 14 (4.65%) Digital Project Manager
9 14 (4.65%) Senior Digital Project Manager
9 14 (4.65%) Senior Manager
9 14 (4.65%) Senior Project Manager
10 13 (4.32%) Consultant
11 12 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.65%) Infrastructure Architect
12 11 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (3.32%) Infrastructure Manager
13 10 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.64%) .NET
2 5 (1.66%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.33%) RESTful
3 4 (1.33%) XMPP
4 2 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.66%) Middleware
4 2 (0.66%) OpenID
4 2 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.66%) REST
4 2 (0.66%) Streamlit
4 2 (0.66%) WAMP
4 2 (0.66%) YAML
5 1 (0.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.33%) CSS
5 1 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.33%) HTML
5 1 (0.33%) Kafka
5 1 (0.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.29%) Public Cloud
2 38 (12.62%) Data Centre
3 32 (10.63%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (8.97%) Onboarding
5 22 (7.31%) Cloud Native
6 17 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (5.32%) Private Cloud
8 15 (4.98%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (4.98%) Low-Code
9 14 (4.65%) Virtual Team
10 13 (4.32%) Management Information System
11 9 (2.99%) Replication
11 9 (2.99%) Security Posture
12 8 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.99%) Blog
14 6 (1.99%) Driving Licence
14 6 (1.99%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.33%) FlexPod
15 4 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 89 (29.57%) Windows
2 72 (23.92%) Windows Server
3 29 (9.63%) Linux
4 13 (4.32%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.33%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.33%) CentOS
6 4 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.66%) Android
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (27.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 78 (25.91%) Disaster Recovery
3 75 (24.92%) DevOps
4 74 (24.58%) CI/CD
5 67 (22.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (18.94%) ITIL
7 55 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (17.61%) Mentoring
9 52 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (15.95%) Cybersecurity
11 46 (15.28%) Cloud Security
12 44 (14.62%) Agile
13 42 (13.95%) ITSM
14 40 (13.29%) Business Continuity
14 40 (13.29%) Coaching
15 39 (12.96%) Roadmaps
16 34 (11.30%) AI
16 34 (11.30%) Migration
16 34 (11.30%) Vulnerability Management
17 32 (10.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 76 (25.25%) PowerShell
2 69 (22.92%) Python
3 34 (11.30%) SQL
4 22 (7.31%) Bicep
5 18 (5.98%) Java
6 14 (4.65%) Bash
6 14 (4.65%) VBA
7 10 (3.32%) Go
8 9 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.99%) C#
10 4 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.66%) C++
12 2 (0.66%) PHP
12 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.66%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 32 (10.63%) Security Cleared
2 21 (6.98%) Azure Certification
3 20 (6.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (6.31%) AWS Certification
5 17 (5.65%) CEH
5 17 (5.65%) Degree
6 14 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (4.65%) SC Cleared
7 12 (3.99%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.33%) CCNP
9 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.99%) CISSP
10 6 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.66%) CISM
11 5 (1.66%) MCSE
12 4 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.33%) CCSP
12 4 (1.33%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (9.97%) NIST
2 30 (9.97%) SLA
3 17 (5.65%) ISO 22301
4 12 (3.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (3.65%) GDPR
5 11 (3.65%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.99%) SOC 2
7 8 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.66%) NCSC
8 5 (1.66%) QA
9 4 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.00%) Basel III
10 3 (1.00%) MiFID
11 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 75 (24.92%) Active Directory
2 57 (18.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (10.96%) Hyper-V
4 12 (3.99%) vSphere
5 11 (3.65%) Docker
6 7 (2.33%) Firmware
6 7 (2.33%) KVM
7 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.99%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 84 (27.91%) Terraform
2 36 (11.96%) Ansible
3 32 (10.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (9.97%) Kubernetes
5 15 (4.98%) Grafana
6 12 (3.99%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.99%) SCCM
7 7 (2.33%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.66%) SCOM
9 4 (1.33%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.00%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.66%) VxRail
12 1 (0.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 107 (35.55%) VMware
2 94 (31.23%) Microsoft
3 28 (9.30%) Dell
4 26 (8.64%) HP
5 25 (8.31%) Dell Compellent
5 25 (8.31%) Nimble Storage
6 24 (7.97%) Commvault
7 23 (7.64%) Cisco
8 13 (4.32%) Palo Alto
8 13 (4.32%) Splunk
8 13 (4.32%) Veeam
9 11 (3.65%) Juniper
9 11 (3.65%) Oracle
9 11 (3.65%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.66%) Freshdesk
10 8 (2.66%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.33%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.99%) Citrix
12 6 (1.99%) Informatica
12 6 (1.99%) Talend