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 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 372 426
Rank change year-on-year +70 +54 +96
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 260 139 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.48% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 1.47% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 107 100
10th Percentile £413 £450 £474
25th Percentile £471 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -2.92% +2.56%
75th Percentile £649 £684 £678
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £548 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -6.41% +1.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £36.60
25th Percentile £75.75 - £51.00
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £77.25 - £76.50
90th Percentile - - £77.40
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -16.90%

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 11,224 9,439 11,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.73% 32.35% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,080 5,723 8,061
10th Percentile £282 £282 £269
25th Percentile £408 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 281 458
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £20.89
Median hourly rate £28.06 £37.50 £43.92
Median % change year-on-year -25.17% -14.62% +25.39%
75th Percentile £61.44 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £33.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -21.72% +21.43%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 +37 100 £550 +1.15% 41
North of England -2 53 £550 -23.08% 19
South East -13 42 £515 -11.59% 26
South West +18 36 £650 -4.41% 13
Midlands -18 33 £550 -15.38% 7
West Midlands -16 30 £586 -16.29% 5
North West -6 27 £613 -9.93% 4
Yorkshire -21 24 £485 -32.17% 13
East of England - 5 £505 - 7
East Midlands -28 3 £500 -9.09% 2
North East - 2 £600 - 2
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 13 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.92%) SAS
4 4 (1.54%) Confluence
5 3 (1.15%) CMS
5 3 (1.15%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.15%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.77%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) Mule
7 1 (0.38%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.15%) Maximo
2 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 151 (58.08%) Azure
2 98 (37.69%) AWS
3 45 (17.31%) GCP
4 30 (11.54%) GitHub
4 30 (11.54%) OpenShift
4 30 (11.54%) SaaS
5 28 (10.77%) Entra ID
6 17 (6.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 17 (6.54%) Google Workspace
7 15 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (4.62%) IaaS
11 11 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (4.23%) PaaS
12 9 (3.46%) Azure Stack
13 8 (3.08%) Azure AKS
13 8 (3.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.62%) Firewall
2 37 (14.23%) WAN
3 31 (11.92%) VPN
4 30 (11.54%) Network Security
5 19 (7.31%) LAN
6 17 (6.54%) BGP
7 16 (6.15%) SD-WAN
8 15 (5.77%) DNS
9 14 (5.38%) MPLS
10 10 (3.85%) SNMP
11 9 (3.46%) Wireless
12 8 (3.08%) DHCP
12 8 (3.08%) OSPF
12 8 (3.08%) TACACS
13 6 (2.31%) NGFW
13 6 (2.31%) TCP/IP
13 6 (2.31%) VSAN
14 5 (1.92%) VLAN
15 4 (1.54%) VXLAN
16 3 (1.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.92%) Big Data
2 5 (1.92%) Oracle Database
2 5 (1.92%) Oracle Exadata
3 4 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.54%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.54%) Delta Lake
3 4 (1.54%) Power BI
4 3 (1.15%) Metadata
5 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.77%) DataStage
5 2 (0.77%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.77%) Tableau
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.38%) QlikView
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.92%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.15%) GitLab
3 7 (2.69%) Git
3 7 (2.69%) JIRA
4 2 (0.77%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 91 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.62%) Finance
3 26 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.46%) Banking
7 6 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (2.31%) Retail
8 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.54%) Legal
10 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.77%) Billing
11 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.77%) International Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Local Government
11 2 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (29.62%) Architect
2 38 (14.62%) Senior
3 28 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (6.15%) Consultant
4 16 (6.15%) Lead
5 15 (5.77%) Network Architect
6 14 (5.38%) Azure Architect
6 14 (5.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.62%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.23%) Developer
9 11 (4.23%) Enterprise Architect
9 11 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.85%) Network Engineer
10 10 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (3.46%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.08%) Infrastructure Manager
12 8 (3.08%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.38%) REST
2 12 (4.62%) Kafka
3 10 (3.85%) Keycloak
4 9 (3.46%) ARM Templates
5 8 (3.08%) NETCONF
5 8 (3.08%) YANG
6 7 (2.69%) JSON
7 6 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (1.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 4 (1.54%) XML
10 3 (1.15%) CSS
10 3 (1.15%) HTML
10 3 (1.15%) MACH
10 3 (1.15%) OAuth
10 3 (1.15%) SAML
11 2 (0.77%) OpenAPI
11 2 (0.77%) OpenConfig
11 2 (0.77%) RESTCONF
11 2 (0.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 40 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.38%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.00%) Replication
5 11 (4.23%) Operational Technology
6 10 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.69%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.69%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.92%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.92%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.54%) IoT
10 4 (1.54%) Life Science
10 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.15%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.92%) Windows
2 27 (10.38%) Linux
3 21 (8.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.54%) Android
6 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.15%) VMS
7 2 (0.77%) CentOS
7 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.38%) Solaris
8 1 (0.38%) Unix
8 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.46%) DevOps
2 61 (23.46%) CI/CD
3 56 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (19.23%) Migration
5 49 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (18.46%) Containerisation
7 41 (15.77%) Roadmaps
8 40 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 32 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 31 (11.92%) Zero Trust
11 28 (10.77%) Cloud Security
12 26 (10.00%) Agile
12 26 (10.00%) TOGAF
13 25 (9.62%) AI
13 25 (9.62%) High Availability
13 25 (9.62%) Incident Response
13 25 (9.62%) Microservices
14 24 (9.23%) Analytics
15 23 (8.85%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 69 (26.54%) Python
2 38 (14.62%) PowerShell
3 27 (10.38%) Bash
4 19 (7.31%) Bicep
5 12 (4.62%) Go
5 12 (4.62%) Java
6 11 (4.23%) SQL
7 5 (1.92%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.15%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.38%) R
10 1 (0.38%) Scala
10 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (23.85%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 44 (16.92%) Azure Certification
4 35 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (8.85%) AWS Certification
6 19 (7.31%) CCIE
7 14 (5.38%) CISSP
7 14 (5.38%) JNCIE
8 13 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (4.62%) Degree
10 10 (3.85%) CCNP
10 10 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (2.69%) DV Cleared
12 6 (2.31%) CCNA
12 6 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.92%) CCSP
13 5 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.46%) GDPR
1 22 (8.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 22 (8.46%) NIST
2 7 (2.69%) QA
3 6 (2.31%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.31%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.92%) PSD2
5 3 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.15%) GRC
5 3 (1.15%) NCSC
5 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.77%) GxP
6 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) GMP
7 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.38%) ITGC
7 1 (0.38%) JSP 440
System Software
1 34 (13.08%) Docker
2 28 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (8.08%) Active Directory
4 20 (7.69%) VMware NSX
5 13 (5.00%) vSphere
6 8 (3.08%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.92%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.15%) KVM
9 1 (0.38%) Ceph
9 1 (0.38%) Firmware
9 1 (0.38%) QEMU
9 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 73 (28.08%) Terraform
2 61 (23.46%) Kubernetes
3 45 (17.31%) Ansible
4 20 (7.69%) Grafana
5 13 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (4.62%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (3.08%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.69%) Argo
9 6 (2.31%) Puppet
10 5 (1.92%) Data Guard
10 5 (1.92%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.54%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.54%) SCCM
12 3 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.77%) CASB
13 2 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.77%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.77%) vMotion
Vendors
1 54 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 37 (14.23%) VMware
3 26 (10.00%) Google
4 23 (8.85%) Cisco
5 14 (5.38%) Databricks
6 13 (5.00%) Oracle
7 12 (4.62%) Fortinet
7 12 (4.62%) Red Hat
8 11 (4.23%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.85%) Juniper
9 10 (3.85%) Zscaler
10 9 (3.46%) F5
11 8 (3.08%) Dynatrace
11 8 (3.08%) Splunk
12 7 (2.69%) Citrix
12 7 (2.69%) OpenAI
13 6 (2.31%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.31%) SAP
14 5 (1.92%) Commvault
14 5 (1.92%) Salesforce