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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 452 440
Rank change year-on-year +135 -12 +29
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 172 90 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.24% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 0.78% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 67 135
10th Percentile £460 £441 £425
25th Percentile £508 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £616 £675
90th Percentile £750 £742 £805
UK median daily rate £583 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +5.91% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £38.28
25th Percentile - - £63.81
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £78.50
90th Percentile - - £79.40
UK median hourly rate £100.00 - £78.00

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 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

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 1 May 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
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 1 May 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 +48 63 £550 +4.76% 115
South East +72 36 £600 -1.23% 67
North of England +47 35 £537 -8.98% 24
North West +29 17 £524 -11.60% 13
South West +54 14 £620 +37.78% 31
Midlands +30 11 £650 +30.00% 32
Yorkshire +16 10 £715 +47.42% 11
West Midlands +18 7 £650 +30.00% 7
North East - 7 - -
East of England - 6 £550 - 7
East Midlands - 4 £613 - 23
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 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.91%) Apache
2 5 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.33%) Confluence
3 4 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.16%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.16%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.58%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 98 (56.98%) Azure
2 73 (42.44%) AWS
3 36 (20.93%) SaaS
4 29 (16.86%) GCP
5 27 (15.70%) Entra ID
6 26 (15.12%) PaaS
7 24 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (12.21%) IaaS
9 17 (9.88%) Serverless
10 13 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (7.56%) GitHub
11 12 (6.98%) Azure AKS
12 8 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (4.65%) OpenShift
13 7 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (3.49%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 32 (18.60%) Firewall
1 32 (18.60%) VPN
2 19 (11.05%) MPLS
3 17 (9.88%) WAN
4 16 (9.30%) DNS
5 15 (8.72%) BGP
5 15 (8.72%) VSAN
6 14 (8.14%) Network Security
7 11 (6.40%) OSPF
8 10 (5.81%) SD-WAN
9 7 (4.07%) IPsec
9 7 (4.07%) NGFW
10 6 (3.49%) DHCP
10 6 (3.49%) TCP/IP
10 6 (3.49%) VLAN
11 5 (2.91%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (2.33%) NAS
12 4 (2.33%) SAN
13 3 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.49%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.33%) Metadata
4 3 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.16%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.16%) Flink
5 2 (1.16%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.58%) Big Data
6 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.58%) Redis
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (9.88%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.72%) GitLab
3 11 (6.40%) Git
4 8 (4.65%) JIRA
5 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.58%) Gatling
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) JUnit
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.12%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.21%) Finance
4 15 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.98%) Banking
6 7 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.07%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (3.49%) Marketing
8 5 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.91%) Legal
9 4 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.74%) Aviation
10 3 (1.74%) Military
11 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Electronics
11 2 (1.16%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.16%) Police
11 2 (1.16%) Publishing
11 2 (1.16%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 62 (36.05%) Architect
2 28 (16.28%) Senior
3 27 (15.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (10.47%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (10.47%) Technical Architect
5 16 (9.30%) Consultant
6 14 (8.14%) Senior Architect
7 11 (6.40%) Lead
7 11 (6.40%) Senior Technical Architect
8 10 (5.81%) Security Architect
8 10 (5.81%) Security Engineer
8 10 (5.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) AWS Architect
9 9 (5.23%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) AWS Solution Architect
10 8 (4.65%) Azure Architect
11 7 (4.07%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.07%) IT Engineer
11 7 (4.07%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.07%) REST
2 6 (3.49%) Middleware
3 5 (2.91%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.91%) Kafka
3 5 (2.91%) SAML
4 4 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.33%) OAuth
4 4 (2.33%) PySpark
5 3 (1.74%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (1.74%) OpenID
6 2 (1.16%) .NET
6 2 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.16%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.16%) Node.js
6 2 (1.16%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.16%) Spring
7 1 (0.58%) CSS
7 1 (0.58%) HTML
7 1 (0.58%) LDAP
7 1 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.95%) Public Cloud
2 13 (7.56%) PKI
3 11 (6.40%) Data Centre
4 10 (5.81%) Onboarding
5 9 (5.23%) Private Cloud
6 8 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.49%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.91%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.74%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.74%) Replication
11 2 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.16%) Robotics
11 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.58%) Hackathon
12 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.84%) Windows
2 33 (19.19%) Windows Server
3 30 (17.44%) Linux
4 10 (5.81%) CentOS
5 9 (5.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (4.07%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.49%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.74%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.16%) Android
9 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.58%) AIX
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.58%) Rocky
10 1 (0.58%) Solaris
10 1 (0.58%) Unix
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.16%) Agile
2 40 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (21.51%) DevSecOps
4 36 (20.93%) CI/CD
5 35 (20.35%) Migration
6 33 (19.19%) DevOps
6 33 (19.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 33 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (19.19%) Roadmaps
7 32 (18.60%) Containerisation
8 29 (16.86%) Zero Trust
9 23 (13.37%) Identity Access Management
10 21 (12.21%) Analytics
10 21 (12.21%) TOGAF
11 18 (10.47%) Data Protection
11 18 (10.47%) Microservices
12 17 (9.88%) Use Case
13 16 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (9.30%) High Availability
13 16 (9.30%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.09%) Python
2 36 (20.93%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.81%) Bicep
4 9 (5.23%) SQL
5 7 (4.07%) Java
6 6 (3.49%) Bash
7 5 (2.91%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.74%) C#
10 2 (1.16%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (1.16%) Perl
10 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.16%) VB
10 2 (1.16%) VBScript
11 1 (0.58%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) PHP
11 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (30.81%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.21%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (10.47%) DV Cleared
5 16 (9.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 15 (8.72%) AWS Certification
7 14 (8.14%) Degree
7 14 (8.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (7.56%) CISSP
8 13 (7.56%) MCSE
9 12 (6.98%) Azure Certification
10 9 (5.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.23%) CEH
11 8 (4.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (4.65%) CCIE
11 8 (4.65%) CCSP
11 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (4.65%) OSCP
12 7 (4.07%) CISM
13 6 (3.49%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.70%) NIST
2 14 (8.14%) NCSC
3 12 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (6.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (6.40%) GDPR
5 8 (4.65%) PCI DSS
6 7 (4.07%) COBIT
7 6 (3.49%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.74%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.16%) QA
11 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (19.19%) Active Directory
3 23 (13.37%) VMware NSX
4 20 (11.63%) Docker
5 19 (11.05%) vSphere
6 9 (5.23%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.49%) BitLocker
8 5 (2.91%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (23.84%) Kubernetes
2 39 (22.67%) Ansible
2 39 (22.67%) Terraform
3 15 (8.72%) vCenter Server
4 11 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (6.40%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (4.65%) FortiGate
6 7 (4.07%) Nessus
6 7 (4.07%) PowerCLI
6 7 (4.07%) vRealize
7 5 (2.91%) Puppet
8 4 (2.33%) Grafana
8 4 (2.33%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.33%) VxRail
9 3 (1.74%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.74%) SCCM
10 2 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.58%) CASB
11 1 (0.58%) SCOM
11 1 (0.58%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 50 (29.07%) VMware
2 39 (22.67%) Microsoft
3 30 (17.44%) Cisco
4 22 (12.79%) Google
5 18 (10.47%) Fortinet
6 16 (9.30%) Palo Alto
7 12 (6.98%) CheckPoint
7 12 (6.98%) Red Hat
8 10 (5.81%) Citrix
9 9 (5.23%) F5
9 9 (5.23%) Zscaler
10 7 (4.07%) CyberArk
11 6 (3.49%) HP
11 6 (3.49%) SAP
12 5 (2.91%) Dell
12 5 (2.91%) Veeam
13 4 (2.33%) Aruba
13 4 (2.33%) Okta
13 4 (2.33%) Oracle
14 3 (1.74%) Juniper