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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 330 468
Rank change year-on-year +10 +138 +24
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 254 150 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.58% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 1.73% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 103 72
10th Percentile £408 £475 £425
25th Percentile £463 £509 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £607 £585
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +3.76% -0.17%
75th Percentile £604 £688 £675
90th Percentile £700 £751 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £607 £575
% change year-on-year -13.51% +5.57% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £75.30
25th Percentile £75.75 - £75.75
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £76.50
75th Percentile £77.25 - £77.25
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £76.50

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 11,631 8,657 11,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.14% 33.31% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,414 5,283 7,785
10th Percentile £275 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £668 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 248 755
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.19 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £16.96
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +13.85% +44.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.13 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.05 £34.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -12.89% +7.43% +42.83%

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 15 February 2026.

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 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +23 107 £538 -6.52% 29
North of England -36 46 £487 -28.35% 21
Yorkshire -28 38 £487 -31.89% 10
South West 0 37 £550 -21.43% 10
Midlands -41 31 £550 -9.39% 9
South East -36 29 £563 -8.91% 28
West Midlands -28 28 £550 -12.49% 6
North West -34 8 £500 -4.53% 11
East of England -19 3 £503 -33.09% 4
East Midlands -30 3 £500 -13.04% 3
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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 10 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.54%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.36%) Confluence
4 5 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.18%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.18%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.79%) SAS
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.15%) Maximo
2 3 (1.18%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.18%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 149 (58.66%) Azure
2 90 (35.43%) AWS
3 47 (18.50%) OpenShift
4 40 (15.75%) GCP
5 32 (12.60%) GitHub
6 21 (8.27%) Entra ID
7 19 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 14 (5.51%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (4.72%) Azure AKS
10 12 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (4.72%) Serverless
11 11 (4.33%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (3.94%) SaaS
13 8 (3.15%) Azure Stack
13 8 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.15%) IaaS
13 8 (3.15%) PaaS
13 8 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (16.93%) Firewall
2 35 (13.78%) VPN
3 34 (13.39%) Network Security
4 31 (12.20%) WAN
5 19 (7.48%) LAN
6 18 (7.09%) DNS
7 14 (5.51%) BGP
8 12 (4.72%) SD-WAN
9 11 (4.33%) MPLS
10 8 (3.15%) VXLAN
11 7 (2.76%) SNMP
11 7 (2.76%) Wireless
12 6 (2.36%) OSPF
13 5 (1.97%) SAN
13 5 (1.97%) TACACS
14 4 (1.57%) DHCP
14 4 (1.57%) DKIM
14 4 (1.57%) DMZ
14 4 (1.57%) Internet
14 4 (1.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.97%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.97%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.57%) Big Data
4 4 (1.57%) Metadata
4 4 (1.57%) Power BI
5 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.79%) DataStage
6 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.39%) Impala
7 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (10.24%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.30%) GitLab
3 9 (3.54%) JIRA
4 8 (3.15%) Git
5 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.79%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 106 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.42%) Finance
3 27 (10.63%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.84%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.54%) Banking
6 9 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.97%) Legal
8 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.57%) Retail
9 3 (1.18%) Front Office
10 2 (0.79%) Billing
10 2 (0.79%) Law
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Electronics
11 1 (0.39%) International Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (27.17%) Architect
2 32 (12.60%) Senior
3 20 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (7.48%) Network Architect
5 17 (6.69%) Lead
6 16 (6.30%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.33%) Network Engineer
8 11 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (3.94%) Consultant
9 10 (3.94%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.54%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.54%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.15%) Desktop Engineer
11 8 (3.15%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 8 (3.15%) Developer
11 8 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.87%) Kafka
2 18 (7.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (5.91%) ARM Templates
4 14 (5.51%) REST
5 11 (4.33%) JSON
6 10 (3.94%) Keycloak
7 7 (2.76%) Apache Avro
7 7 (2.76%) NETCONF
7 7 (2.76%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.76%) YANG
8 6 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.97%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 4 (1.57%) Middleware
10 4 (1.57%) OAuth
10 4 (1.57%) SAML
11 3 (1.18%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.18%) JMS
12 2 (0.79%) Flash
12 2 (0.79%) LDAP
12 2 (0.79%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.14%) Data Centre
2 38 (14.96%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.72%) Replication
4 9 (3.54%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.15%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.97%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.97%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.97%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.57%) IoT
10 3 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.18%) Equities
10 3 (1.18%) Life Science
10 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.96%) Windows
2 33 (12.99%) Linux
3 18 (7.09%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.36%) VMS
5 5 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.79%) CentOS
6 2 (0.79%) CoreOS
6 2 (0.79%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.39%) Android
7 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.95%) DevOps
2 63 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (23.62%) Migration
4 59 (23.23%) CI/CD
5 54 (21.26%) Containerisation
6 45 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (14.57%) RBAC
7 37 (14.57%) Roadmaps
8 36 (14.17%) Cloud Security
9 35 (13.78%) Analytics
9 35 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (11.42%) High Availability
12 26 (10.24%) AI
12 26 (10.24%) Zero Trust
13 25 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (9.45%) Agile
14 24 (9.45%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (9.45%) TOGAF
15 23 (9.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.31%) Python
2 43 (16.93%) PowerShell
3 34 (13.39%) Bash
4 21 (8.27%) Bicep
5 12 (4.72%) Go
6 9 (3.54%) SQL
7 8 (3.15%) Java
8 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.79%) R
9 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 43 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.20%) Azure Certification
3 31 (12.20%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (7.09%) AWS Certification
5 17 (6.69%) CCIE
5 17 (6.69%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (6.30%) CISSP
7 15 (5.91%) Degree
8 13 (5.12%) CCNP
9 10 (3.94%) JNCIE
10 9 (3.54%) CISM
11 8 (3.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 7 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.36%) CCNA
14 5 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (1.97%) CCSE
14 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.09%) NIST
2 17 (6.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.72%) GDPR
4 9 (3.54%) NIST 800
5 7 (2.76%) QA
6 4 (1.57%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.18%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.18%) NCSC
7 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.79%) GRC
8 2 (0.79%) GxP
8 2 (0.79%) PSD2
9 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.39%) ITGC
System Software
1 31 (12.20%) Docker
1 31 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (10.63%) Active Directory
3 21 (8.27%) VMware NSX
4 18 (7.09%) vSphere
5 12 (4.72%) Hyper-V
6 8 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.97%) KVM
7 5 (1.97%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.79%) NFS
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.39%) Ceph
10 1 (0.39%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 79 (31.10%) Kubernetes
2 75 (29.53%) Terraform
3 52 (20.47%) Ansible
4 23 (9.06%) Grafana
5 18 (7.09%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (5.12%) Argo
7 13 (5.12%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.97%) Data Guard
9 5 (1.97%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.57%) Puppet
11 3 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.18%) SCCM
12 2 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.79%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.79%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.79%) vMotion
Vendors
1 70 (27.56%) Microsoft
2 41 (16.14%) VMware
3 27 (10.63%) Red Hat
4 25 (9.84%) Cisco
5 22 (8.66%) Splunk
6 17 (6.69%) Palo Alto
7 14 (5.51%) Fortinet
8 13 (5.12%) CheckPoint
9 11 (4.33%) Google
9 11 (4.33%) Juniper
9 11 (4.33%) Oracle
9 11 (4.33%) Pure Storage
9 11 (4.33%) Zscaler
10 10 (3.94%) Databricks
10 10 (3.94%) IBM
11 8 (3.15%) Aruba
12 6 (2.36%) F5
12 6 (2.36%) Meraki
12 6 (2.36%) SAP
13 5 (1.97%) Citrix