Hybrid Cloud Contracts

Hybrid Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 450 497
Rank change year-on-year -39 +47 -52
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 109 284 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.47% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 1.43% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 178 284
10th Percentile £438 £448 £463
25th Percentile £483 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £688
90th Percentile £734 £762 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £598 £569 £593
% change year-on-year +5.05% -4.13% +18.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Generic Skills
UK

Hybrid Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud.

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud.

Hourly rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hybrid Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England 0 89 £585 -2.50% 64
London +40 52 £538 -14.68% 30
Work from Home +56 43 £525 -12.50% 29
UK excluding London -29 32 £598 +5.05% 48
South East +9 10 £608 -0.82% 11
North of England +24 7 £590 +12.65% 8
South West +9 6 £450 -21.74% 5
Scotland +12 5 £575 +2.68% 10
North West +8 5 £593 +10.23% 6
West Midlands +9 3 £500 -9.09% 8
Midlands +1 3 £500 -9.09% 10
Yorkshire +20 2 £485 +115.56% 1
Wales +10 1 - - 3

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.59%) Confluence
2 3 (2.75%) Apache
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.83%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.83%) SAS
4 1 (0.92%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (48.62%) Azure
2 39 (35.78%) AWS
3 19 (17.43%) SaaS
4 10 (9.17%) IaaS
4 10 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.17%) PaaS
5 8 (7.34%) Azure AKS
5 8 (7.34%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (5.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.59%) GCP
7 5 (4.59%) Serverless
8 4 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.67%) Cloudflare
8 4 (3.67%) GitHub
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.76%) Firewall
2 12 (11.01%) WAN
3 11 (10.09%) VPN
4 7 (6.42%) DNS
4 7 (6.42%) SD-WAN
5 6 (5.50%) 5G
5 6 (5.50%) MPLS
6 5 (4.59%) HTTP
6 5 (4.59%) HTTPS
6 5 (4.59%) IPsec
7 4 (3.67%) IPv4
7 4 (3.67%) Network Security
7 4 (3.67%) OSPF
8 3 (2.75%) BGP
9 2 (1.83%) DHCP
9 2 (1.83%) EIGRP
9 2 (1.83%) LAN
9 2 (1.83%) SCCP
9 2 (1.83%) SSL
9 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.59%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.67%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.75%) Big Data
4 3 (2.75%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.75%) Flink
4 3 (2.75%) GIS
5 2 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.83%) DB2
5 2 (1.83%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.83%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.83%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.83%) Scylla
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (8.26%) JIRA
2 3 (2.75%) Git
2 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.75%) Poetry
3 1 (0.92%) Maven
General
1 25 (22.94%) Finance
2 24 (22.02%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.50%) Law
5 6 (5.50%) Legal
5 6 (5.50%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.59%) Banking
6 5 (4.59%) Police
7 3 (2.75%) Retail
8 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.92%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.92%) German Language
9 1 (0.92%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (31.19%) Architect
2 13 (11.93%) Cloud Architect
3 11 (10.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (9.17%) Azure Architect
4 10 (9.17%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (8.26%) Senior
6 8 (7.34%) Network Architect
6 8 (7.34%) Project Manager
7 7 (6.42%) Consultant
8 6 (5.50%) Development Manager
8 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Lead
8 6 (5.50%) Network Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Network Manager
8 6 (5.50%) Procurement Manager
9 5 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Security Consultant
9 5 (4.59%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (4.59%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.59%) OpenAPI
1 5 (4.59%) REST
1 5 (4.59%) Swagger
2 4 (3.67%) SAML
2 4 (3.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.67%) YAML
3 3 (2.75%) .NET
3 3 (2.75%) Great Expectations
3 3 (2.75%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (2.75%) LAPP Stack
3 3 (2.75%) Pandas
3 3 (2.75%) Plotly
3 3 (2.75%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.75%) SciPy
3 3 (2.75%) Seaborn
4 2 (1.83%) JPA
4 2 (1.83%) React
4 2 (1.83%) Spring
5 1 (0.92%) OpenID
5 1 (0.92%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.17%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.34%) PKI
4 7 (6.42%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.67%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.92%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.92%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.92%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.76%) Windows
2 9 (8.26%) Linux
3 6 (5.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.36%) DevOps
2 29 (26.61%) Roadmaps
3 28 (25.69%) Migration
4 26 (23.85%) Agile
5 21 (19.27%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (14.68%) Service Design
8 14 (12.84%) CI/CD
8 14 (12.84%) Cloud Security
9 12 (11.01%) Business Strategy
10 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (9.17%) Architecture Roadmap
12 9 (8.26%) Microservices
12 9 (8.26%) SIEM
13 8 (7.34%) Architectural Design
13 8 (7.34%) Data Modelling
13 8 (7.34%) Disaster Recovery
13 8 (7.34%) Test Automation
13 8 (7.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.68%) Python
2 13 (11.93%) SQL
3 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.67%) Java
4 4 (3.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.75%) Bicep
5 3 (2.75%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.83%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) CCIE
4 8 (7.34%) Degree
5 6 (5.50%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.59%) CTC Cleared
7 4 (3.67%) CCNP
7 4 (3.67%) CISSP
7 4 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.67%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.92%) CISM
9 1 (0.92%) MCSE
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.42%) QA
3 5 (4.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (3.67%) NIST
5 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.92%) GDPR
6 1 (0.92%) GxP
System Software
1 16 (14.68%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.42%) Docker
3 4 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (14.68%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.93%) Terraform
3 7 (6.42%) Ansible
4 5 (4.59%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.75%) Nessus
5 3 (2.75%) Puppet
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (26.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.93%) Cisco
3 7 (6.42%) Oracle
3 7 (6.42%) SAP
4 5 (4.59%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.59%) CheckPoint
4 5 (4.59%) Fortinet
4 5 (4.59%) Palo Alto
4 5 (4.59%) Zscaler
5 4 (3.67%) F5
5 4 (3.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.67%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.67%) VMware
6 3 (2.75%) Cadence
6 3 (2.75%) Citrix
6 3 (2.75%) Databricks
6 3 (2.75%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.75%) ESRI
6 3 (2.75%) New Relic
6 3 (2.75%) Rapid7