Hybrid Cloud Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Hybrid Cloud
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 66 73
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.62% 0.55% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 2.09% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £376 -
25th Percentile £611 £397 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% +3.73% -
75th Percentile £633 £738 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £700 £700 £663
% change year-on-year - +5.66% +16.23%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Hybrid Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 279 191 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 43.46% 26.45% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 110 161
10th Percentile £250 £158 £270
25th Percentile £396 £363 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £659 £600
90th Percentile £600 £738 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 17
10th Percentile - £17.10 £26.25
25th Percentile - £21.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% -23.08% +261.11%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £31.75 £58.35 £68.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year +24.07% -12.07% +44.74%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hybrid Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) NGFW
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Release Management
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) VMware