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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 316 469
Rank change year-on-year +10 +153 -33
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 319 164 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.66% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 1.91% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 87 56
10th Percentile £410 £413 £427
25th Percentile £475 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £642 £638 £603
90th Percentile £706 £761 £681
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £23.75 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £35.47 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% - -
75th Percentile £71.88 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -26.70% - -

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 14,001 8,595 11,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.57% 34.64% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,730 5,529 7,353
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.31%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 769 388 855
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.45 £15.32
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.90 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -7.13% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.05 £82.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £32.95 £35.50
% change year-on-year +29.63% -7.20% +57.88%

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 18 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in England over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in England

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 18 June 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 +8 131 £575 +9.52% 26
North of England -31 76 £514 -1.63% 14
South East -30 46 £625 +8.70% 24
Yorkshire -29 42 £500 -20.00% 6
Midlands -34 34 £500 -35.48% 5
West Midlands -32 30 £500 -44.44% 4
North West -30 27 £558 +17.37% 8
South West -10 25 £423 -31.85% 8
North East -28 13 £650 -
East Midlands -21 4 £500 -13.04% 1
East of England -30 4 £530 -3.64% 6
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 9 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.51%) Confluence
2 8 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.51%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.94%) Apache
4 2 (0.63%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.63%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) nginx
5 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Maximo
2 4 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.94%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (0.94%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 193 (60.50%) Azure
2 153 (47.96%) AWS
3 43 (13.48%) GCP
4 39 (12.23%) OpenShift
5 29 (9.09%) GitHub
6 27 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (8.15%) SaaS
8 23 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (6.58%) OCI
10 20 (6.27%) Entra ID
11 19 (5.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 15 (4.70%) Serverless
13 14 (4.39%) IaaS
14 13 (4.08%) Azure AKS
14 13 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (2.82%) PaaS
18 8 (2.51%) Azure Sentinel
19 7 (2.19%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 63 (19.75%) Firewall
2 47 (14.73%) WAN
3 40 (12.54%) Network Security
4 39 (12.23%) BGP
5 36 (11.29%) DNS
5 36 (11.29%) VPN
6 29 (9.09%) OSPF
7 28 (8.78%) SD-WAN
8 25 (7.84%) VXLAN
9 24 (7.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 22 (6.90%) LAN
11 21 (6.58%) Ethernet VPN
12 19 (5.96%) BIG-IP
13 16 (5.02%) SAN
13 16 (5.02%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (4.39%) DHCP
14 14 (4.39%) MPLS
15 12 (3.76%) WLAN
16 10 (3.13%) VSAN
17 9 (2.82%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.94%) Metadata
4 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.63%) Power BI
4 2 (0.63%) Redis
4 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.31%) Big Data
5 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.31%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.31%) Firebird
5 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (8.46%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.52%) GitLab
3 18 (5.64%) Git
4 8 (2.51%) JIRA
5 4 (1.25%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
General
1 89 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.48%) Public Sector
3 26 (8.15%) Documentation Skills
3 26 (8.15%) Finance
4 20 (6.27%) Banking
5 16 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (2.19%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.88%) Retail
8 4 (1.25%) Law
9 3 (0.94%) Front Office
9 3 (0.94%) Legal
9 3 (0.94%) Local Government
9 3 (0.94%) Military
9 3 (0.94%) Publishing
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.31%) Aviation
11 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 101 (31.66%) Architect
2 58 (18.18%) Senior
3 45 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (9.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (9.40%) Network Architect
5 23 (7.21%) Network Engineer
6 22 (6.90%) Senior Architect
7 21 (6.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.64%) Lead
11 15 (4.70%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.39%) Technical Architect
13 12 (3.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.45%) Security Engineer
15 10 (3.13%) Senior Network Architect
16 9 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (2.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 9 (2.82%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.84%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (6.27%) REST
3 15 (4.70%) Kafka
4 12 (3.76%) JSON
5 10 (3.13%) ARM Templates
6 9 (2.82%) NETCONF
6 9 (2.82%) YANG
7 8 (2.51%) Apache Avro
7 8 (2.51%) Protocol Buffers
8 7 (2.19%) Middleware
9 6 (1.88%) .NET
10 4 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.25%) LDAP
10 4 (1.25%) Loki
10 4 (1.25%) SailPoint
11 3 (0.94%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.94%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (0.94%) JMS
11 3 (0.94%) SAML
11 3 (0.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 59 (18.50%) Data Centre
3 16 (5.02%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.70%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.82%) Replication
8 8 (2.51%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.19%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.88%) PKI
11 5 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.57%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.57%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.57%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.25%) BYOD
12 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.36%) Windows
2 46 (14.42%) Linux
3 32 (10.03%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.51%) VMS
6 6 (1.88%) Data ONTAP
6 6 (1.88%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.57%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.63%) CentOS
9 1 (0.31%) AIX
9 1 (0.31%) Unix
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.29%) CI/CD
2 102 (31.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (31.66%) DevOps
4 81 (25.39%) Migration
5 74 (23.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (16.61%) Zero Trust
7 51 (15.99%) Disaster Recovery
8 50 (15.67%) Containerisation
9 46 (14.42%) High Availability
10 44 (13.79%) Cloud Security
11 43 (13.48%) Load Balancing
11 43 (13.48%) Roadmaps
12 42 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (12.54%) Network Design
14 38 (11.91%) Agile
14 38 (11.91%) RBAC
15 35 (10.97%) Observability
15 35 (10.97%) Technical Leadership
16 33 (10.34%) Analytics
16 33 (10.34%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 94 (29.47%) Python
2 49 (15.36%) PowerShell
3 34 (10.66%) Bash
4 19 (5.96%) Bicep
5 13 (4.08%) SQL
6 9 (2.82%) Java
7 7 (2.19%) Go
8 3 (0.94%) BeanShell
8 3 (0.94%) C#
8 3 (0.94%) R
8 3 (0.94%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) C
10 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 77 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 54 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.03%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (7.21%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.27%) Azure Certification
6 18 (5.64%) Degree
7 17 (5.33%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.70%) CCNP
9 11 (3.45%) CCIE
9 11 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.82%) CISSP
10 9 (2.82%) JNCIE
10 9 (2.82%) OCP
10 9 (2.82%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (2.51%) CCNA
11 8 (2.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.19%) CISM
13 6 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.60%) NIST
2 24 (7.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (6.90%) GDPR
4 12 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (3.13%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.51%) NCSC
7 6 (1.88%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.57%) GRC
9 4 (1.25%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.63%) SLA
10 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 57 (17.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (14.73%) Active Directory
3 39 (12.23%) vSphere
4 29 (9.09%) VMware NSX
5 20 (6.27%) Hyper-V
6 19 (5.96%) Docker
7 17 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.70%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.57%) KVM
10 5 (1.57%) NFS
11 1 (0.31%) Firmware
11 1 (0.31%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.31%) Squid
11 1 (0.31%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 118 (36.99%) Terraform
2 79 (24.76%) Ansible
3 75 (23.51%) Kubernetes
4 32 (10.03%) Grafana
5 20 (6.27%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.33%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.76%) Argo
8 10 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.51%) Puppet
10 5 (1.57%) Istio
10 5 (1.57%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.25%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.25%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.25%) Rancher
11 4 (1.25%) SCOM
12 3 (0.94%) PowerCLI
12 3 (0.94%) SCCM
12 3 (0.94%) systemd
12 3 (0.94%) yum
13 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (28.84%) Microsoft
2 66 (20.69%) VMware
3 38 (11.91%) Palo Alto
4 33 (10.34%) Red Hat
5 30 (9.40%) Cisco
6 27 (8.46%) F5
7 26 (8.15%) Splunk
8 24 (7.52%) Aruba
9 20 (6.27%) Arista
10 18 (5.64%) Google
11 15 (4.70%) Fortinet
12 14 (4.39%) Pure Storage
13 12 (3.76%) CheckPoint
14 11 (3.45%) Juniper
15 9 (2.82%) Zscaler
16 8 (2.51%) NetApp
17 7 (2.19%) IBM
18 5 (1.57%) Commvault
18 5 (1.57%) SAP
18 5 (1.57%) SolarWinds