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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 314 471
Rank change year-on-year +11 +157 -32
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 331 172 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.69% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 1.97% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 93 60
10th Percentile £413 £408 £438
25th Percentile £475 £475 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £612
90th Percentile £735 £751 £729
UK median daily rate £556 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £31.56 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £82.50 £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 14,245 8,718 11,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.81% 34.73% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,889 5,602 7,324
10th Percentile £313 £303 £276
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.57%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £801
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 782 400 852
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.16
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -8.42% +64.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.23 £81.35 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year +32.61% -10.97% +60.11%

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 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 25 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 25 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 -10 130 £575 +6.98% 27
North of England -36 77 £514 -2.05% 15
South East -31 55 £631 +9.78% 23
Yorkshire -23 42 £500 -20.00% 8
Midlands -39 34 £500 -35.48% 6
West Midlands -38 30 £500 -44.44% 4
North West -32 28 £565 +18.95% 7
South West -29 26 £498 -19.76% 8
North East -28 13 £650 +8.33%
East of England -29 5 £530 -3.64% 5
East Midlands -16 4 £500 -13.04% 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 9 (2.72%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.42%) Confluence
2 8 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.91%) Apache
5 2 (0.60%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.60%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) IIS
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Maximo
2 3 (0.91%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.91%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 205 (61.93%) Azure
2 166 (50.15%) AWS
3 48 (14.50%) GCP
4 41 (12.39%) OpenShift
5 30 (9.06%) GitHub
6 28 (8.46%) SaaS
7 26 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (6.65%) Entra ID
10 21 (6.34%) OCI
11 20 (6.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 15 (4.53%) Serverless
13 14 (4.23%) IaaS
14 13 (3.93%) Azure AKS
14 13 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (2.72%) PaaS
18 8 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 72 (21.75%) Firewall
2 54 (16.31%) WAN
3 46 (13.90%) BGP
4 45 (13.60%) VPN
5 41 (12.39%) DNS
5 41 (12.39%) Network Security
6 34 (10.27%) OSPF
6 34 (10.27%) SD-WAN
7 29 (8.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 29 (8.76%) LAN
8 25 (7.55%) VXLAN
9 23 (6.95%) BIG-IP
10 21 (6.34%) Ethernet VPN
11 19 (5.74%) MPLS
12 18 (5.44%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (4.83%) SAN
14 14 (4.23%) DHCP
15 12 (3.63%) VLAN
15 12 (3.63%) WLAN
16 10 (3.02%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.60%) Metadata
3 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.60%) Power BI
3 2 (0.60%) Redis
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.30%) Big Data
4 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.30%) Firebird
4 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.25%) GitLab
3 18 (5.44%) Git
4 8 (2.42%) JIRA
5 4 (1.21%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 91 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.20%) Public Sector
3 26 (7.85%) Finance
4 25 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (6.04%) Banking
6 17 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.32%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.11%) Retail
10 4 (1.21%) Law
10 4 (1.21%) Local Government
11 3 (0.91%) Front Office
11 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Legal
11 3 (0.91%) Military
11 3 (0.91%) Publishing
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 109 (32.93%) Architect
2 60 (18.13%) Senior
3 45 (13.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (10.57%) Network Architect
5 31 (9.37%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (7.25%) Network Engineer
7 23 (6.95%) Senior Architect
8 22 (6.65%) Lead
8 22 (6.65%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (6.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.14%) Cloud Architect
12 17 (5.14%) Technical Architect
13 12 (3.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.32%) Security Engineer
14 11 (3.32%) Senior Network Architect
15 9 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 9 (2.72%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (6.04%) REST
3 15 (4.53%) Kafka
4 12 (3.63%) JSON
5 10 (3.02%) ARM Templates
5 10 (3.02%) NETCONF
5 10 (3.02%) YANG
6 8 (2.42%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.42%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.11%) Middleware
8 6 (1.81%) .NET
8 6 (1.81%) LDAP
8 6 (1.81%) SailPoint
9 4 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.21%) Loki
10 3 (0.91%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.91%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.91%) JMS
10 3 (0.91%) SAML
10 3 (0.91%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 66 (19.94%) Data Centre
2 65 (19.64%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.83%) Public Cloud
5 14 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.23%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.72%) Replication
7 7 (2.11%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.81%) PKI
9 5 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.51%) FlexPod
9 5 (1.51%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.21%) BYOD
10 4 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.50%) Windows
2 46 (13.90%) Linux
3 32 (9.67%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.42%) VMS
6 6 (1.81%) Data ONTAP
6 6 (1.81%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.51%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.60%) CentOS
9 1 (0.30%) AIX
9 1 (0.30%) Unix
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (31.72%) CI/CD
2 103 (31.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (30.51%) DevOps
4 84 (25.38%) Migration
5 73 (22.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 60 (18.13%) Zero Trust
7 53 (16.01%) Disaster Recovery
8 50 (15.11%) Cloud Security
8 50 (15.11%) Containerisation
9 47 (14.20%) High Availability
9 47 (14.20%) Roadmaps
10 43 (12.99%) Agile
10 43 (12.99%) Load Balancing
10 43 (12.99%) Network Design
11 41 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (11.78%) RBAC
13 38 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
14 35 (10.57%) Observability
15 34 (10.27%) Runbook
16 33 (9.97%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 99 (29.91%) Python
2 49 (14.80%) PowerShell
3 34 (10.27%) Bash
4 19 (5.74%) Bicep
5 14 (4.23%) SQL
6 11 (3.32%) Java
7 7 (2.11%) Go
8 5 (1.51%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.91%) C#
9 3 (0.91%) R
9 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) C
11 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 87 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 58 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 39 (11.78%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (8.76%) DV Cleared
5 22 (6.65%) Azure Certification
5 22 (6.65%) Degree
6 20 (6.04%) CCNP
7 19 (5.74%) AWS Certification
8 14 (4.23%) CCIE
9 12 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (3.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (3.32%) CISSP
11 10 (3.02%) JNCIE
12 9 (2.72%) OCP
12 9 (2.72%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.42%) CCNA
14 7 (2.11%) CISM
15 6 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (1.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.18%) NIST
2 24 (7.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (6.34%) GDPR
4 13 (3.93%) NCSC
5 12 (3.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (3.02%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.81%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.51%) GRC
9 4 (1.21%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.60%) SLA
10 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.30%) QA
System Software
1 58 (17.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (14.20%) Active Directory
3 39 (11.78%) vSphere
4 34 (10.27%) VMware NSX
5 20 (6.04%) Hyper-V
6 19 (5.74%) Docker
7 17 (5.14%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.53%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.51%) KVM
9 5 (1.51%) NFS
9 5 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.30%) Squid
10 1 (0.30%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 122 (36.86%) Terraform
2 83 (25.08%) Ansible
3 76 (22.96%) Kubernetes
4 32 (9.67%) Grafana
5 20 (6.04%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.14%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.63%) Argo
8 9 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.42%) Puppet
10 6 (1.81%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.51%) Istio
11 5 (1.51%) SnapMirror
12 4 (1.21%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.21%) Rancher
12 4 (1.21%) SCOM
13 3 (0.91%) PowerCLI
13 3 (0.91%) SCCM
13 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.91%) systemd
13 3 (0.91%) yum
Vendors
1 98 (29.61%) Microsoft
2 71 (21.45%) VMware
3 45 (13.60%) Palo Alto
4 38 (11.48%) Cisco
5 34 (10.27%) Red Hat
6 33 (9.97%) F5
7 26 (7.85%) Splunk
8 24 (7.25%) Aruba
9 20 (6.04%) Arista
9 20 (6.04%) Google
10 19 (5.74%) Fortinet
11 14 (4.23%) Pure Storage
12 13 (3.93%) CheckPoint
12 13 (3.93%) Juniper
13 11 (3.32%) Zscaler
14 9 (2.72%) SolarWinds
15 8 (2.42%) NetApp
16 7 (2.11%) CyberArk
16 7 (2.11%) IBM
17 5 (1.51%) Commvault