Hybrid Cloud Contract Job Trends in England

Hybrid Cloud
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 409 432
Rank change year-on-year +112 +23 +125
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 229 110 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.13% 1.13% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 80 110
10th Percentile £413 £413 £462
25th Percentile £475 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £608
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -5.35% +3.67%
75th Percentile £653 £678 £675
90th Percentile £775 £752 £726
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £27.00
25th Percentile £61.86 - £39.00
Median hourly rate £63.72 - £76.50
75th Percentile £65.57 - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK median hourly rate £63.72 - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - -8.93%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,727 9,707 12,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.41% 31.22% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,702 5,809 8,745
10th Percentile £290 £294 £285
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 294 461
10th Percentile £14.31 £16.76 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.44 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +5.56% +66.79%
75th Percentile £51.06 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.23 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend in England

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in England over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in England

Hybrid Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
London +28 83 £550 - 165
North of England +14 50 £600 -7.69% 26
South East +6 33 £513 -10.87% 127
South West +27 31 £700 +16.67% 26
Midlands -18 31 £638 -2.45% 22
North West +13 30 £600 +20.00% 15
West Midlands -7 28 £650 -7.14% 12
Yorkshire - 18 £538 - 6
East of England - 6 £503 - 24
East Midlands -21 3 £500 +11.11% 9
North East - 2 £600 - 5
Hybrid Cloud
UK

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 13 (5.68%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.75%) SAS
4 3 (1.31%) CMS
4 3 (1.31%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.31%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.87%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.87%) Apache
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) Mule
6 1 (0.44%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.31%) Maximo
1 3 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.44%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 133 (58.08%) Azure
2 82 (35.81%) AWS
3 45 (19.65%) GCP
4 32 (13.97%) SaaS
5 28 (12.23%) Entra ID
6 24 (10.48%) GitHub
7 19 (8.30%) Google Workspace
7 19 (8.30%) OpenShift
8 18 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (6.99%) IaaS
9 16 (6.99%) PaaS
10 15 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (5.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 13 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (4.37%) Azure AKS
12 10 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.37%) Azure Stack
13 9 (3.93%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (3.93%) Nutanix
13 9 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (24.02%) Firewall
2 31 (13.54%) WAN
3 29 (12.66%) Network Security
4 27 (11.79%) VPN
5 18 (7.86%) BGP
6 16 (6.99%) LAN
7 15 (6.55%) MPLS
7 15 (6.55%) SD-WAN
8 13 (5.68%) DNS
9 11 (4.80%) OSPF
10 9 (3.93%) DHCP
10 9 (3.93%) Wireless
11 7 (3.06%) SNMP
12 6 (2.62%) NGFW
12 6 (2.62%) SAN
12 6 (2.62%) TACACS
12 6 (2.62%) VLAN
12 6 (2.62%) VSAN
13 4 (1.75%) DMARC
13 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.18%) Big Data
2 5 (2.18%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.18%) Oracle Exadata
3 4 (1.75%) Delta Lake
4 3 (1.31%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.87%) Power BI
5 2 (0.87%) Tableau
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.44%) Impala
6 1 (0.44%) Metadata
6 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.44%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 10 (4.37%) GitLab
1 10 (4.37%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.62%) Git
3 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.87%) JIRA
4 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (30.13%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.03%) Finance
3 23 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.99%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.80%) Banking
7 10 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.75%) Military
10 3 (1.31%) Law
10 3 (1.31%) Legal
10 3 (1.31%) Retail
11 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.87%) International Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Local Government
11 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (27.95%) Architect
2 34 (14.85%) Senior
3 28 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (8.30%) Consultant
5 16 (6.99%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (6.55%) Network Architect
6 15 (6.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (5.24%) Azure Architect
8 11 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.37%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.93%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.93%) Developer
10 9 (3.93%) Infrastructure Manager
11 8 (3.49%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.49%) Designer
11 8 (3.49%) Security Architect
11 8 (3.49%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.06%) Lead
12 7 (3.06%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.68%) REST
2 9 (3.93%) ARM Templates
3 7 (3.06%) JSON
3 7 (3.06%) Kafka
4 6 (2.62%) Keycloak
4 6 (2.62%) NETCONF
4 6 (2.62%) YANG
5 5 (2.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 5 (2.18%) XML
6 3 (1.31%) CSS
6 3 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.31%) HTML
6 3 (1.31%) MACH
6 3 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.44%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.44%) NLTK
7 1 (0.44%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.28%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.23%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.11%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.37%) Replication
5 9 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.93%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.49%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.06%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.18%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.18%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.75%) Life Science
10 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.31%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.31%) Digital Signage
11 3 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.04%) Windows
2 20 (8.73%) Linux
3 15 (6.55%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.75%) Android
6 3 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.87%) VMS
8 1 (0.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.44%) Solaris
8 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.44%) Unix
8 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.07%) DevOps
2 55 (24.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (22.71%) CI/CD
4 41 (17.90%) Migration
5 33 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 31 (13.54%) Containerisation
8 30 (13.10%) Roadmaps
8 30 (13.10%) Zero Trust
9 29 (12.66%) Cloud Security
10 27 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (10.48%) High Availability
13 23 (10.04%) TOGAF
14 22 (9.61%) Agile
15 21 (9.17%) Network Architecture
15 21 (9.17%) RBAC
16 20 (8.73%) Analytics
16 20 (8.73%) Incident Response
16 20 (8.73%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 59 (25.76%) Python
2 31 (13.54%) PowerShell
3 19 (8.30%) Bash
3 19 (8.30%) Bicep
4 11 (4.80%) SQL
5 10 (4.37%) Go
6 7 (3.06%) Java
7 5 (2.18%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.75%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.87%) Rust
10 2 (0.87%) Scala
10 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.44%) C
11 1 (0.44%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
11 1 (0.44%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.44%) R
11 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (24.02%) Security Cleared
2 44 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 42 (18.34%) Azure Certification
4 31 (13.54%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (9.17%) AWS Certification
6 18 (7.86%) CCIE
7 14 (6.11%) CISSP
7 14 (6.11%) JNCIE
8 12 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (4.37%) Degree
9 10 (4.37%) DV Cleared
9 10 (4.37%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (3.93%) CCNP
11 7 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.62%) CCNA
13 5 (2.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (2.18%) CCSP
13 5 (2.18%) CISM
13 5 (2.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.48%) NIST
2 22 (9.61%) GDPR
2 22 (9.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.06%) SOC 2
4 6 (2.62%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.18%) PSD2
6 4 (1.75%) NCSC
6 4 (1.75%) QA
7 3 (1.31%) GRC
7 3 (1.31%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.31%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.87%) GxP
9 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.44%) GMP
9 1 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (13.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (11.35%) Docker
3 19 (8.30%) Active Directory
4 15 (6.55%) VMware NSX
5 10 (4.37%) vSphere
6 8 (3.49%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.31%) KVM
10 2 (0.87%) Firmware
10 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.44%) Ceph
11 1 (0.44%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.44%) QEMU
11 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (25.76%) Terraform
2 42 (18.34%) Kubernetes
3 36 (15.72%) Ansible
4 15 (6.55%) Grafana
5 10 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.62%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.18%) Data Guard
8 5 (2.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (2.18%) Puppet
9 4 (1.75%) Argo
9 4 (1.75%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.75%) SCCM
9 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.31%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.31%) vMotion
11 2 (0.87%) CASB
11 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.87%) Podman
Vendors
1 46 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.28%) VMware
3 30 (13.10%) Google
4 23 (10.04%) Cisco
5 11 (4.80%) Oracle
6 10 (4.37%) Citrix
6 10 (4.37%) F5
7 9 (3.93%) Databricks
8 8 (3.49%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.49%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.49%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.62%) Juniper
9 6 (2.62%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.62%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.75%) Qualys
10 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.75%) Splunk
10 4 (1.75%) Veeam
11 3 (1.31%) CheckPoint