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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 353 451
Rank change year-on-year +36 +98 +55
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 242 136 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.51% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 1.56% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 96 86
10th Percentile £413 £460 £433
25th Percentile £463 £504 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £604 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +0.58% +2.48%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £533 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.25% +4.35% -
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 11,262 8,731 11,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.75% 32.75% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,197 5,252 7,807
10th Percentile £282 £274 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 243 660
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +55.66%
75th Percentile £63.05 £67.51 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.05 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.87% - +58.51%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +29 103 £563 -2.17% 38
South West +10 39 £550 -21.43% 26
South East -20 36 £569 -7.52% 50
North of England -39 35 £487 -28.38% 34
Midlands -33 26 £550 -9.39% 20
West Midlands -31 24 £550 -9.39% 5
Yorkshire -26 23 £476 -33.39% 13
North West -26 11 £543 +3.58% 16
East of England - 3 £503 - 17
East Midlands -29 2 £503 -8.64% 13
North East -16 1 £600 - 6
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 15 (6.20%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.65%) Confluence
4 4 (1.65%) SAS
5 3 (1.24%) CMS
5 3 (1.24%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.24%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) Mule
6 1 (0.41%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.31%) Maximo
2 3 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.83%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.83%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 150 (61.98%) Azure
2 98 (40.50%) AWS
3 38 (15.70%) GCP
3 38 (15.70%) OpenShift
4 26 (10.74%) GitHub
5 23 (9.50%) Entra ID
6 18 (7.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 16 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (6.20%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (5.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.55%) Azure AKS
11 11 (4.55%) SaaS
11 11 (4.55%) Serverless
12 10 (4.13%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.31%) AWS Direct Connect
13 8 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (18.60%) Firewall
2 37 (15.29%) WAN
3 36 (14.88%) VPN
4 33 (13.64%) Network Security
5 24 (9.92%) LAN
6 19 (7.85%) BGP
7 16 (6.61%) MPLS
8 13 (5.37%) DNS
8 13 (5.37%) SD-WAN
9 9 (3.72%) SNMP
9 9 (3.72%) Wireless
10 8 (3.31%) OSPF
10 8 (3.31%) TACACS
11 6 (2.48%) DHCP
11 6 (2.48%) VXLAN
12 5 (2.07%) TCP/IP
13 4 (1.65%) DMZ
13 4 (1.65%) Internet
13 4 (1.65%) SAN
13 4 (1.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.07%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.07%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.65%) Big Data
4 4 (1.65%) Metadata
4 4 (1.65%) Power BI
5 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.83%) DataStage
6 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.41%) Impala
7 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (7.85%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.20%) GitLab
3 7 (2.89%) Git
4 6 (2.48%) JIRA
5 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.83%) Jaeger
General
1 102 (42.15%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.22%) Finance
3 24 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.68%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.07%) Banking
8 5 (2.07%) Legal
9 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.65%) Retail
10 2 (0.83%) Billing
10 2 (0.83%) Front Office
10 2 (0.83%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Local Government
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Electronics
11 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.41%) International Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (28.10%) Architect
2 31 (12.81%) Senior
3 19 (7.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (6.61%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (6.61%) Lead
4 16 (6.61%) Network Architect
5 11 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
5 11 (4.55%) Consultant
5 11 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 11 (4.55%) Security Architect
6 10 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (4.13%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (3.72%) IP Specialist
7 9 (3.72%) Network Engineer
8 8 (3.31%) Desktop Support
8 8 (3.31%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 8 (3.31%) Developer
8 8 (3.31%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.02%) REST
2 15 (6.20%) ARM Templates
3 13 (5.37%) Kafka
4 10 (4.13%) Keycloak
4 10 (4.13%) NETCONF
4 10 (4.13%) YANG
5 6 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (2.48%) JSON
6 5 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (2.07%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 4 (1.65%) OAuth
7 4 (1.65%) SAML
8 3 (1.24%) MACH
8 3 (1.24%) Spring
8 3 (1.24%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.24%) XML
9 2 (0.83%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.83%) OpenConfig
9 2 (0.83%) RESTCONF
9 2 (0.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 40 (16.53%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.20%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (6.20%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.37%) Replication
5 8 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.31%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.89%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.89%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.07%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.07%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.65%) IoT
9 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.24%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.24%) Life Science
10 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.12%) Windows
2 28 (11.57%) Linux
3 21 (8.68%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.65%) Android
5 3 (1.24%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.24%) VMS
6 2 (0.83%) CentOS
6 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (28.51%) DevOps
2 55 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (21.90%) CI/CD
4 50 (20.66%) Migration
5 49 (20.25%) Containerisation
6 48 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (16.53%) Roadmaps
8 37 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (13.22%) Cloud Security
10 30 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (11.98%) TOGAF
12 28 (11.57%) Analytics
13 27 (11.16%) Microservices
13 27 (11.16%) Zero Trust
14 26 (10.74%) High Availability
14 26 (10.74%) RBAC
14 26 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (10.33%) Agile
15 25 (10.33%) Incident Response
16 24 (9.92%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (28.51%) Python
2 42 (17.36%) PowerShell
3 28 (11.57%) Bash
4 17 (7.02%) Bicep
5 12 (4.96%) Go
6 10 (4.13%) Java
6 10 (4.13%) SQL
7 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.83%) R
8 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.36%) SC Cleared
3 36 (14.88%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (14.46%) Azure Certification
5 22 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 22 (9.09%) CCIE
6 19 (7.85%) CISSP
7 16 (6.61%) JNCIE
8 15 (6.20%) Degree
8 15 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (5.37%) DV Cleared
10 11 (4.55%) CCNP
11 9 (3.72%) CISM
12 8 (3.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 5 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.07%) CCSP
13 5 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (7.85%) NIST
2 15 (6.20%) GDPR
3 8 (3.31%) NIST 800
4 7 (2.89%) QA
5 5 (2.07%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.07%) PSD2
6 4 (1.65%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.24%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.24%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.83%) GxP
8 2 (0.83%) NCSC
9 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.41%) GMP
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 32 (13.22%) Docker
2 28 (11.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (10.33%) Active Directory
4 17 (7.02%) VMware NSX
5 10 (4.13%) vSphere
6 9 (3.72%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.07%) KVM
7 5 (2.07%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.41%) Ceph
10 1 (0.41%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 68 (28.10%) Terraform
2 65 (26.86%) Kubernetes
3 50 (20.66%) Ansible
4 16 (6.61%) Grafana
4 16 (6.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.31%) Puppet
6 8 (3.31%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.89%) Argo
7 7 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.07%) Data Guard
8 5 (2.07%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.65%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.24%) SCCM
11 2 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.83%) vMotion
Vendors
1 64 (26.45%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.29%) VMware
3 26 (10.74%) Cisco
4 18 (7.44%) Red Hat
5 15 (6.20%) Fortinet
5 15 (6.20%) Palo Alto
6 12 (4.96%) Juniper
6 12 (4.96%) Oracle
7 10 (4.13%) Databricks
7 10 (4.13%) Google
7 10 (4.13%) IBM
7 10 (4.13%) Zscaler
8 9 (3.72%) CheckPoint
8 9 (3.72%) F5
8 9 (3.72%) Splunk
9 7 (2.89%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.48%) Aruba
10 6 (2.48%) Citrix
10 6 (2.48%) SAP
11 5 (2.07%) Commvault