Hybrid Cloud Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 461 445
Rank change year-on-year +144 -16 +55
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 186 95 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.25% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 0.83% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 66 127
10th Percentile £406 £427 £450
25th Percentile £480 £467 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £531 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -15.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £685
90th Percentile £751 £713 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £65.67 - £25.85
25th Percentile £71.39 - £27.00
Median hourly rate £81.86 - £78.00
75th Percentile £91.39 - £80.00
90th Percentile £96.56 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £81.86 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -2.50%

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 9,076 11,447 15,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.76% 30.63% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,792 7,375 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 832 523
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.98
90th Percentile £80.40 £72.50 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in England

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in England.

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in England

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in England

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in England.

Hourly rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in England

Hybrid Cloud
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 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 +66 71 £538 +2.38% 166
North of England +48 46 £600 +2.56% 51
North West +35 31 £600 +2.56% 26
South East +54 27 £575 -12.05% 42
Midlands +23 15 £700 +40.00% 22
South West +35 12 £620 +15.89% 28
West Midlands +17 12 £800 +60.00% 7
Yorkshire +14 11 £625 +28.87% 22
East of England - 8 £550 - 15
North East - 4 £600 - 3
East Midlands +3 3 £575 - 15
Hybrid Cloud
UK

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.23%) Apache
2 5 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.15%) Confluence
4 2 (1.08%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.54%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.54%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 107 (57.53%) Azure
2 76 (40.86%) AWS
3 41 (22.04%) GCP
4 38 (20.43%) SaaS
5 30 (16.13%) Entra ID
6 24 (12.90%) PaaS
7 19 (10.22%) GitHub
7 19 (10.22%) Google Workspace
7 19 (10.22%) IaaS
8 18 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (9.14%) Serverless
10 16 (8.60%) Azure AKS
10 16 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.76%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (22.04%) Firewall
2 28 (15.05%) VPN
3 15 (8.06%) Network Security
4 13 (6.99%) MPLS
5 10 (5.38%) WAN
6 9 (4.84%) DNS
6 9 (4.84%) SAN
7 7 (3.76%) BGP
8 6 (3.23%) VSAN
9 5 (2.69%) NAS
9 5 (2.69%) OSPF
9 5 (2.69%) VLAN
10 4 (2.15%) DHCP
11 3 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.61%) IPsec
11 3 (1.61%) LAN
11 3 (1.61%) NGFW
11 3 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.61%) VoIP
11 3 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.23%) Metadata
2 5 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.15%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.61%) Big Data
4 3 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.08%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.08%) Flink
5 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.54%) SQLite
6 1 (0.54%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 17 (9.14%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.53%) GitLab
3 10 (5.38%) Git
4 7 (3.76%) JIRA
5 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.54%) Gatling
6 1 (0.54%) JMeter
6 1 (0.54%) JUnit
6 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 52 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.74%) Finance
3 24 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.76%) Banking
6 6 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.23%) Legal
6 6 (3.23%) Marketing
6 6 (3.23%) Military
7 5 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.61%) Aviation
9 3 (1.61%) Law
9 3 (1.61%) Police
9 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.08%) Electronics
10 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (29.03%) Architect
2 27 (14.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (11.83%) Senior
4 21 (11.29%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.53%) Consultant
6 12 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (5.91%) Azure Architect
7 11 (5.91%) Lead
8 10 (5.38%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (5.38%) Network Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) AWS Architect
10 8 (4.30%) AWS Solution Architect
10 8 (4.30%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) Developer
12 6 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.69%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.45%) REST
2 6 (3.23%) Middleware
3 5 (2.69%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.69%) SAML
4 4 (2.15%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.15%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (2.15%) JSON
4 4 (2.15%) Kafka
4 4 (2.15%) OAuth
4 4 (2.15%) PySpark
4 4 (2.15%) XML
5 3 (1.61%) CSS
5 3 (1.61%) HTML
5 3 (1.61%) OpenID
6 2 (1.08%) .NET
6 2 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.08%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.08%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.14%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.99%) Public Cloud
3 11 (5.91%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.84%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.23%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.23%) Reinsurance
7 5 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.08%) CCTV
10 2 (1.08%) Clustering
10 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.08%) Digital Signage
10 2 (1.08%) PKI
10 2 (1.08%) Replication
10 2 (1.08%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.52%) Linux
1 27 (14.52%) Windows
2 22 (11.83%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.61%) CentOS
4 3 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.08%) Solaris
5 2 (1.08%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) AIX
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.27%) Agile
2 38 (20.43%) DevOps
2 38 (20.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 38 (20.43%) Migration
3 36 (19.35%) Roadmaps
4 35 (18.82%) CI/CD
5 33 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (15.05%) Zero Trust
7 27 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (13.44%) User Experience
9 23 (12.37%) Containerisation
10 22 (11.83%) Data Protection
11 21 (11.29%) Identity Access Management
12 19 (10.22%) Cost Management
13 18 (9.68%) RBAC
14 17 (9.14%) High Availability
15 16 (8.60%) Analytics
15 16 (8.60%) Enterprise Architecture
15 16 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 15 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (24.19%) Python
2 29 (15.59%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.99%) Bicep
4 9 (4.84%) Java
5 8 (4.30%) SQL
6 7 (3.76%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.23%) Bash
8 4 (2.15%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.61%) C#
9 3 (1.61%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.08%) Go
10 2 (1.08%) Groovy
10 2 (1.08%) Perl
10 2 (1.08%) Rust
11 1 (0.54%) C
11 1 (0.54%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.54%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.54%) R
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.37%) Azure Certification
4 18 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (9.14%) AWS Certification
6 16 (8.60%) Degree
7 12 (6.45%) DV Cleared
8 11 (5.91%) CCIE
8 11 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.30%) Master's Degree
10 7 (3.76%) CISSP
11 6 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (3.23%) CCNA
11 6 (3.23%) CCNP
11 6 (3.23%) VCAP
12 5 (2.69%) JNCIE
12 5 (2.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (2.15%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (2.15%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.14%) GDPR
2 16 (8.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (8.60%) NIST
3 6 (3.23%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.61%) NCSC
6 2 (1.08%) GRC
6 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.08%) QA
6 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.08%) SLA
7 1 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
System Software
1 31 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (10.22%) Docker
4 13 (6.99%) VMware NSX
5 11 (5.91%) vSphere
6 9 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.15%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.61%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.08%) Firmware
10 1 (0.54%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 38 (20.43%) Kubernetes
1 38 (20.43%) Terraform
2 36 (19.35%) Ansible
3 11 (5.91%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (4.84%) vCenter Server
5 8 (4.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.30%) PowerCLI
6 7 (3.76%) Grafana
6 7 (3.76%) vRealize
7 5 (2.69%) Puppet
8 4 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.15%) VxRail
9 3 (1.61%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.08%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.08%) SCCM
11 1 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.54%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.54%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.54%) SCOM
11 1 (0.54%) vMotion
Vendors
1 38 (20.43%) Google
2 37 (19.89%) Microsoft
3 30 (16.13%) VMware
4 22 (11.83%) Cisco
5 12 (6.45%) Citrix
5 12 (6.45%) F5
6 11 (5.91%) Fortinet
7 10 (5.38%) CheckPoint
8 9 (4.84%) Zscaler
9 7 (3.76%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.76%) SAP
10 6 (3.23%) CyberArk
10 6 (3.23%) Oracle
11 5 (2.69%) Dell
11 5 (2.69%) Veeam
12 4 (2.15%) Aruba
12 4 (2.15%) HP
12 4 (2.15%) Juniper
12 4 (2.15%) Okta
12 4 (2.15%) Salesforce