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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 317 471
Rank change year-on-year +12 +154 -33
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 317 165 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.67% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 1.93% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 86 55
10th Percentile £409 £416 £441
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 £641 £638 £606
90th Percentile £709 £751 £690
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -10.42%
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 13,976 8,556 11,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.56% 34.58% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,715 5,503 7,300
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 763 385 853
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.64 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -7.10% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.20 £82.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £33.03 £35.50
% change year-on-year +28.39% -6.97% +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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -1 130 £575 +6.98% 49
North of England -30 75 £514 -1.63% 16
South East -31 46 £625 +8.70% 28
Yorkshire -24 42 £500 -20.00% 9
Midlands -38 33 £500 -35.48% 12
West Midlands -35 30 £500 -44.44% 10
North West -33 26 £558 +17.37% 7
South West -13 25 £423 -31.85% 16
North East -26 13 £650 -
East of England -30 4 £530 -3.64% 13
East Midlands -20 3 £503 -12.61% 2
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 8 (2.52%) Confluence
1 8 (2.52%) OpenStack
1 8 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.63%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.63%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) 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 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Maximo
2 4 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.95%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (0.95%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 192 (60.57%) Azure
2 154 (48.58%) AWS
3 43 (13.56%) GCP
4 39 (12.30%) OpenShift
5 28 (8.83%) GitHub
6 26 (8.20%) SaaS
7 25 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (6.62%) OCI
10 19 (5.99%) Entra ID
11 18 (5.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 14 (4.42%) IaaS
12 14 (4.42%) Serverless
13 13 (4.10%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (2.84%) PaaS
18 8 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
19 7 (2.21%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 64 (20.19%) Firewall
2 48 (15.14%) WAN
3 39 (12.30%) BGP
3 39 (12.30%) Network Security
4 35 (11.04%) DNS
4 35 (11.04%) VPN
5 29 (9.15%) OSPF
6 28 (8.83%) SD-WAN
7 26 (8.20%) VXLAN
8 24 (7.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 23 (7.26%) LAN
10 21 (6.62%) Ethernet VPN
11 19 (5.99%) BIG-IP
12 16 (5.05%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (4.73%) SAN
14 14 (4.42%) MPLS
15 13 (4.10%) DHCP
16 12 (3.79%) WLAN
17 10 (3.15%) VSAN
18 9 (2.84%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.95%) 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 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.32%) Big Data
5 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.32%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.32%) Firebird
5 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (8.52%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.57%) GitLab
3 18 (5.68%) Git
4 8 (2.52%) JIRA
5 4 (1.26%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
General
1 89 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.93%) Public Sector
3 26 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
3 26 (8.20%) Finance
4 19 (5.99%) Banking
5 17 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (2.21%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.89%) Retail
8 4 (1.26%) Law
9 3 (0.95%) Front Office
9 3 (0.95%) Legal
9 3 (0.95%) Military
9 3 (0.95%) Publishing
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.63%) Local Government
11 1 (0.32%) Aviation
11 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 99 (31.23%) Architect
2 56 (17.67%) Senior
3 44 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (9.46%) Network Architect
5 29 (9.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (7.26%) Network Engineer
7 21 (6.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (6.31%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (6.31%) Senior Architect
8 20 (6.31%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (5.99%) Lead
10 15 (4.73%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (4.42%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.47%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.47%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.15%) Senior Network Architect
14 9 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 9 (2.84%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.89%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (6.31%) REST
3 15 (4.73%) Kafka
4 12 (3.79%) JSON
5 10 (3.15%) ARM Templates
6 9 (2.84%) NETCONF
6 9 (2.84%) YANG
7 8 (2.52%) Apache Avro
7 8 (2.52%) Protocol Buffers
8 7 (2.21%) Middleware
9 6 (1.89%) .NET
10 4 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.26%) LDAP
10 4 (1.26%) Loki
10 4 (1.26%) SailPoint
11 3 (0.95%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (0.95%) JMS
11 3 (0.95%) SAML
11 3 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (18.93%) Cloud Native
1 60 (18.93%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.05%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.73%) Public Cloud
4 13 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.84%) Replication
7 8 (2.52%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.21%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.89%) PKI
10 5 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.58%) FlexPod
10 5 (1.58%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.26%) BYOD
11 4 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 48 (15.14%) Windows
2 46 (14.51%) Linux
3 31 (9.78%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.52%) VMS
6 6 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
6 6 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.58%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.63%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) AIX
9 1 (0.32%) Unix
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (32.18%) CI/CD
1 102 (32.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 100 (31.55%) DevOps
3 81 (25.55%) Migration
4 73 (23.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 52 (16.40%) Zero Trust
6 51 (16.09%) Disaster Recovery
7 49 (15.46%) Containerisation
8 45 (14.20%) High Availability
9 44 (13.88%) Cloud Security
10 43 (13.56%) Load Balancing
10 43 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (13.25%) Roadmaps
12 41 (12.93%) Network Design
13 37 (11.67%) Agile
13 37 (11.67%) RBAC
14 35 (11.04%) Observability
15 34 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
16 33 (10.41%) Runbook
17 32 (10.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 94 (29.65%) Python
2 49 (15.46%) PowerShell
3 34 (10.73%) Bash
4 19 (5.99%) Bicep
5 12 (3.79%) SQL
6 9 (2.84%) Java
7 7 (2.21%) Go
8 3 (0.95%) BeanShell
8 3 (0.95%) C#
8 3 (0.95%) R
8 3 (0.95%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.32%) C
10 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 77 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.41%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (7.26%) DV Cleared
5 19 (5.99%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.99%) Degree
6 17 (5.36%) AWS Certification
7 16 (5.05%) CCNP
8 11 (3.47%) CCIE
8 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.84%) CISSP
9 9 (2.84%) JNCIE
9 9 (2.84%) OCP
9 9 (2.84%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (2.52%) CCNA
10 8 (2.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.21%) CISM
12 6 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.36%) NIST
2 23 (7.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (6.62%) GDPR
4 11 (3.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (3.15%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.52%) NCSC
7 6 (1.89%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.58%) GRC
9 4 (1.26%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.63%) SLA
10 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 56 (17.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (14.20%) Active Directory
3 38 (11.99%) vSphere
4 29 (9.15%) VMware NSX
5 20 (6.31%) Hyper-V
6 19 (5.99%) Docker
7 17 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.73%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.58%) KVM
10 5 (1.58%) NFS
11 1 (0.32%) Firmware
11 1 (0.32%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.32%) Squid
11 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 118 (37.22%) Terraform
2 79 (24.92%) Ansible
3 74 (23.34%) Kubernetes
4 32 (10.09%) Grafana
5 20 (6.31%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.36%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.79%) Argo
8 10 (3.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.52%) Puppet
10 5 (1.58%) Istio
10 5 (1.58%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.26%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.26%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.26%) Rancher
11 4 (1.26%) SCOM
12 3 (0.95%) PowerCLI
12 3 (0.95%) SCCM
12 3 (0.95%) systemd
12 3 (0.95%) yum
13 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (28.39%) Microsoft
2 65 (20.50%) VMware
3 39 (12.30%) Palo Alto
4 33 (10.41%) Red Hat
5 31 (9.78%) Cisco
6 27 (8.52%) F5
7 26 (8.20%) Splunk
8 25 (7.89%) Aruba
9 20 (6.31%) Arista
10 18 (5.68%) Google
11 16 (5.05%) Fortinet
12 14 (4.42%) Pure Storage
13 13 (4.10%) CheckPoint
14 12 (3.79%) Juniper
15 9 (2.84%) Zscaler
16 8 (2.52%) NetApp
17 7 (2.21%) IBM
18 5 (1.58%) Commvault
18 5 (1.58%) SAP
18 5 (1.58%) ServiceNow