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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 306 425
Rank change year-on-year +3 +119 -4
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 370 216 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.79% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.41% 2.20% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 124 75
10th Percentile £413 £413 £450
25th Percentile £500 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.73% -10.93%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £616
90th Percentile £750 £775 £733
UK median daily rate £580 £575 £560
% change year-on-year +0.87% +2.68% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £61.74 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £84.17 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -13.26% - -

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 15,362 9,824 10,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.69% 35.87% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,373 6,216 6,421
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 487 486
10th Percentile £14.62 £15.49 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.01 £18.87 £20.81
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -37.46% +11.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.33 £77.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -34.44% +4.65%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -7 143 £575 +3.37% 202
South East -16 90 £615 +14.41% 55
North of England -60 69 £571 -4.79% 41
Midlands -43 35 £500 -28.57% 24
Yorkshire -16 34 £563 -4.17% 16
North West -58 29 £575 -4.17% 21
West Midlands -39 28 £500 -28.57% 12
South West -40 25 £651 -6.96% 23
North East -36 12 £650 +8.33% 4
East Midlands -11 7 £478 +2.14% 12
East of England -27 6 £505 -6.48% 9
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 12 (3.24%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.89%) Apache
4 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.08%) Confluence
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.81%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.54%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.35%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.81%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 253 (68.38%) Azure
2 176 (47.57%) AWS
3 52 (14.05%) GCP
4 47 (12.70%) Entra ID
5 39 (10.54%) GitHub
6 37 (10.00%) SaaS
7 35 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (7.57%) OpenShift
10 27 (7.30%) Azure Monitor
11 25 (6.76%) OCI
12 22 (5.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 22 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.59%) Serverless
14 14 (3.78%) Azure Sentinel
14 14 (3.78%) IaaS
15 12 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.97%) Azure AKS
17 9 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 96 (25.95%) Firewall
2 71 (19.19%) DNS
3 61 (16.49%) VPN
4 53 (14.32%) WAN
5 48 (12.97%) BGP
6 42 (11.35%) DHCP
7 39 (10.54%) Network Security
8 35 (9.46%) OSPF
9 32 (8.65%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 30 (8.11%) TCP/IP
12 29 (7.84%) LAN
13 25 (6.76%) VXLAN
14 23 (6.22%) BIG-IP
15 22 (5.95%) Ethernet VPN
16 21 (5.68%) Wi-Fi
17 20 (5.41%) MPLS
18 18 (4.86%) VLAN
19 15 (4.05%) VSAN
20 12 (3.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.62%) Data Lake
2 6 (1.62%) Power BI
3 5 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.54%) Big Data
6 2 (0.54%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.54%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.54%) Metadata
6 2 (0.54%) Redis
6 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.54%) Tableau
7 1 (0.27%) GIS
7 1 (0.27%) OLAP
7 1 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (10.00%) GitLab
2 29 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 26 (7.03%) Git
4 4 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.81%) JIRA
6 2 (0.54%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.27%) Maven
7 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 113 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.62%) Finance
3 37 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (6.22%) Banking
6 16 (4.32%) Aerospace
7 15 (4.05%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.78%) Retail
9 5 (1.35%) Legal
9 5 (1.35%) Local Government
9 5 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.08%) Automotive
10 4 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.08%) Military
11 3 (0.81%) Billing
11 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.81%) Law
11 3 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (33.78%) Architect
2 89 (24.05%) Senior
3 62 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (10.27%) Network Engineer
5 37 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (9.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 36 (9.73%) Solutions Architect
7 27 (7.30%) Network Architect
8 22 (5.95%) Lead
9 21 (5.68%) Senior Architect
10 20 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
11 19 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.05%) Technical Architect
13 13 (3.51%) Consultant
13 13 (3.51%) Enterprise Architect
13 13 (3.51%) Senior Network Engineer
14 12 (3.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (2.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (39.46%) Terraform
2 21 (5.68%) ARM Templates
3 18 (4.86%) REST
4 10 (2.70%) Kafka
5 9 (2.43%) NETCONF
5 9 (2.43%) YANG
6 7 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (1.89%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.62%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.62%) JSON
7 6 (1.62%) LDAP
8 5 (1.35%) .NET
8 5 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.08%) OAuth
9 4 (1.08%) OpenConfig
9 4 (1.08%) OpenID
9 4 (1.08%) RESTCONF
9 4 (1.08%) YAML
10 3 (0.81%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.81%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 70 (18.92%) Data Centre
2 62 (16.76%) Cloud Native
3 32 (8.65%) Public Cloud
4 26 (7.03%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.22%) Private Cloud
6 19 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.51%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.70%) Replication
10 9 (2.43%) CMDB
10 9 (2.43%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.43%) PKI
11 8 (2.16%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.89%) ARM Cortex
12 7 (1.89%) Operational Technology
13 6 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.62%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 81 (21.89%) Windows
2 68 (18.38%) Linux
3 66 (17.84%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.97%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.62%) Unix
7 4 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.08%) VMS
7 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.54%) CentOS
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) AIX
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (37.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 137 (37.03%) DevOps
3 121 (32.70%) CI/CD
4 100 (27.03%) Migration
5 93 (25.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (20.54%) Zero Trust
7 66 (17.84%) Disaster Recovery
7 66 (17.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 63 (17.03%) Roadmaps
9 60 (16.22%) Cloud Security
9 60 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
10 52 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (14.05%) High Availability
11 51 (13.78%) Agile
12 49 (13.24%) ITIL
12 49 (13.24%) Load Balancing
12 49 (13.24%) Platform Engineering
13 46 (12.43%) Observability
14 44 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (11.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 114 (30.81%) Python
2 77 (20.81%) PowerShell
3 61 (16.49%) Bash
4 30 (8.11%) Bicep
5 14 (3.78%) SQL
6 11 (2.97%) Java
7 7 (1.89%) Go
8 5 (1.35%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.81%) C#
9 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.54%) Groovy
10 2 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 116 (31.35%) Security Cleared
2 84 (22.70%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.43%) Cisco Certification
4 37 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 36 (9.73%) DV Cleared
6 35 (9.46%) Degree
7 27 (7.30%) AWS Certification
7 27 (7.30%) CCNP
8 20 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 16 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (4.05%) CISSP
11 12 (3.24%) CCIE
11 12 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (2.43%) JNCIE
14 6 (1.62%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.62%) VCAP
15 5 (1.35%) CISM
16 4 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.65%) NIST
2 20 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.86%) GDPR
4 13 (3.51%) NCSC
5 10 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.16%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.89%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.81%) GRC
8 3 (0.81%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) QA
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 68 (18.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 67 (18.11%) Active Directory
3 38 (10.27%) vSphere
4 34 (9.19%) VMware NSX
5 30 (8.11%) Docker
6 25 (6.76%) Hyper-V
7 22 (5.95%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.81%) KVM
9 3 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.27%) Ceph
10 1 (0.27%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.27%) oVirt
10 1 (0.27%) RHEV
10 1 (0.27%) Squid
10 1 (0.27%) Varnish
10 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 101 (27.30%) Ansible
2 82 (22.16%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.57%) Grafana
4 20 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.59%) vCenter Server
6 13 (3.51%) SCCM
7 8 (2.16%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.89%) Argo
8 7 (1.89%) PowerCLI
8 7 (1.89%) SCOM
8 7 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.89%) systemd
9 6 (1.62%) Istio
9 6 (1.62%) Puppet
10 4 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.81%) CASB
11 3 (0.81%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.81%) vMotion
11 3 (0.81%) yum
Vendors
1 141 (38.11%) Microsoft
2 88 (23.78%) VMware
3 48 (12.97%) Palo Alto
4 47 (12.70%) Cisco
5 38 (10.27%) F5
6 26 (7.03%) Google
7 24 (6.49%) Aruba
8 23 (6.22%) Fortinet
9 19 (5.14%) Arista
9 19 (5.14%) Juniper
10 18 (4.86%) Red Hat
11 15 (4.05%) Splunk
12 13 (3.51%) Zscaler
13 9 (2.43%) CheckPoint
13 9 (2.43%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (2.43%) CyberArk
13 9 (2.43%) ServiceNow
14 8 (2.16%) Commvault
15 7 (1.89%) IBM
15 7 (1.89%) SAP