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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 334 464
Rank change year-on-year +34 +130 +12
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 268 146 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.58% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 1.72% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 99 70
10th Percentile £401 £472 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £607 £585
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +3.76% -0.17%
75th Percentile £614 £694 £675
90th Percentile £700 £751 £741
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £75.00

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 11,899 8,493 11,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.02% 33.46% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,578 5,252 7,655
10th Percentile £283 £275 £256
25th Percentile £408 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 585 255 755
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.17 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.82 £24.18 £16.54
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +17.46% +40.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.05 £83.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £33.77 £30.58
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.43% +36.00%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +7 115 £556 -1.11% 34
North of England -36 50 £500 -26.47% 19
Yorkshire -15 42 £494 -30.94% 8
South West +5 36 £550 -21.43% 10
South East -33 32 £563 -8.54% 29
Midlands -46 27 £550 -12.49% 10
West Midlands -41 24 £550 -12.49% 9
North West -35 8 £500 -4.53% 11
East of England -17 4 £503 -33.09% 3
East Midlands -32 3 £500 -18.37% 1
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 10 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.61%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.24%) Confluence
4 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.12%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.12%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.99%) Maximo
2 4 (1.49%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (1.49%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 158 (58.96%) Azure
2 98 (36.57%) AWS
3 50 (18.66%) OpenShift
4 44 (16.42%) GCP
5 32 (11.94%) GitHub
6 21 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (7.09%) Entra ID
8 18 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (6.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 14 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (4.48%) Azure AKS
11 12 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (4.48%) Serverless
12 11 (4.10%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (4.10%) IaaS
12 11 (4.10%) SaaS
13 10 (3.73%) PaaS
14 8 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (16.42%) Firewall
2 35 (13.06%) Network Security
2 35 (13.06%) VPN
3 31 (11.57%) WAN
4 20 (7.46%) DNS
5 19 (7.09%) LAN
6 13 (4.85%) SD-WAN
7 12 (4.48%) BGP
8 9 (3.36%) MPLS
9 8 (2.99%) VXLAN
10 7 (2.61%) SAN
11 6 (2.24%) Internet
11 6 (2.24%) SNMP
11 6 (2.24%) Wireless
12 5 (1.87%) DHCP
12 5 (1.87%) OSPF
12 5 (1.87%) VSAN
13 4 (1.49%) DKIM
13 4 (1.49%) DMZ
13 4 (1.49%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.87%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.87%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.49%) Big Data
4 4 (1.49%) Metadata
4 4 (1.49%) Power BI
5 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.75%) DataStage
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.37%) Impala
7 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (10.07%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.22%) GitLab
3 10 (3.73%) Git
4 9 (3.36%) JIRA
5 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.75%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 106 (39.55%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.82%) Finance
2 29 (10.82%) Public Sector
3 25 (9.33%) Documentation Skills
4 24 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.48%) Banking
6 9 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.87%) Legal
8 4 (1.49%) Front Office
8 4 (1.49%) Retail
9 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.12%) Law
10 2 (0.75%) Billing
10 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.37%) International Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Local Government
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (27.99%) Architect
2 34 (12.69%) Senior
3 20 (7.46%) Network Architect
4 19 (7.09%) Lead
5 17 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (5.97%) Data Engineer
7 13 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (4.48%) Network Engineer
9 10 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.36%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.36%) Consultant
10 9 (3.36%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.36%) Security Engineer
11 8 (2.99%) Desktop Engineer
11 8 (2.99%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 8 (2.99%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.84%) Kafka
2 20 (7.46%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (5.60%) ARM Templates
4 14 (5.22%) REST
5 11 (4.10%) JSON
6 10 (3.73%) Keycloak
7 7 (2.61%) Apache Avro
7 7 (2.61%) Middleware
7 7 (2.61%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.24%) NETCONF
8 6 (2.24%) YANG
9 5 (1.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 4 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.49%) JMS
10 4 (1.49%) OAuth
10 4 (1.49%) SAML
11 2 (0.75%) .NET
11 2 (0.75%) XML
11 2 (0.75%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.93%) Cloud Native
1 40 (14.93%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.10%) Replication
4 10 (3.73%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.36%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.99%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.61%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.87%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.49%) Equities
10 4 (1.49%) FlexPod
10 4 (1.49%) IoT
10 4 (1.49%) PKI
10 4 (1.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.81%) Linux
1 37 (13.81%) Windows
2 16 (5.97%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.99%) VMS
4 7 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.87%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (1.49%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.75%) CentOS
7 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (28.36%) DevOps
2 69 (25.75%) CI/CD
3 67 (25.00%) Migration
4 64 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (20.90%) Containerisation
6 53 (19.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (15.30%) Roadmaps
8 38 (14.18%) RBAC
9 35 (13.06%) Analytics
9 35 (13.06%) Cloud Security
9 35 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (11.19%) High Availability
10 30 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (10.45%) Agile
11 28 (10.45%) Disaster Recovery
11 28 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (10.45%) Zero Trust
12 27 (10.07%) AI
13 25 (9.33%) Incident Response
14 24 (8.96%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 79 (29.48%) Python
2 46 (17.16%) PowerShell
3 36 (13.43%) Bash
4 21 (7.84%) Bicep
5 13 (4.85%) Go
6 11 (4.10%) SQL
7 9 (3.36%) Java
8 4 (1.49%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.12%) R
9 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 69 (25.75%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.19%) Azure Certification
4 28 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (7.09%) DV Cleared
6 18 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (6.34%) AWS Certification
8 16 (5.97%) CISSP
8 16 (5.97%) Degree
9 15 (5.60%) CCIE
10 13 (4.85%) CCNP
11 9 (3.36%) CISM
12 8 (2.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 8 (2.99%) JNCIE
13 7 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.61%) OCP
13 7 (2.61%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (1.87%) CCNA
15 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.58%) NIST
2 19 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.72%) GDPR
4 9 (3.36%) NIST 800
5 7 (2.61%) QA
6 6 (2.24%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.87%) NCSC
8 4 (1.49%) GRC
8 4 (1.49%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (1.12%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.75%) GxP
10 2 (0.75%) PSD2
11 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.37%) ITGC
System Software
1 36 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (11.19%) Active Directory
3 29 (10.82%) Docker
4 24 (8.96%) VMware NSX
4 24 (8.96%) vSphere
5 13 (4.85%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.87%) KVM
7 5 (1.87%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (1.49%) NFS
9 3 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.37%) Ceph
10 1 (0.37%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 86 (32.09%) Kubernetes
2 84 (31.34%) Terraform
3 54 (20.15%) Ansible
4 26 (9.70%) Grafana
5 19 (7.09%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (5.60%) vCenter Server
8 14 (5.22%) Argo
9 7 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.87%) Data Guard
10 5 (1.87%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.49%) SnapMirror
12 3 (1.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.12%) Puppet
12 3 (1.12%) Rancher
12 3 (1.12%) SCCM
13 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.75%) Istio
Vendors
1 77 (28.73%) Microsoft
2 46 (17.16%) VMware
3 31 (11.57%) Red Hat
4 26 (9.70%) Cisco
5 24 (8.96%) Splunk
6 19 (7.09%) Palo Alto
7 14 (5.22%) Google
8 13 (4.85%) CheckPoint
8 13 (4.85%) Fortinet
9 12 (4.48%) Oracle
9 12 (4.48%) Pure Storage
9 12 (4.48%) Zscaler
10 11 (4.10%) Juniper
11 10 (3.73%) Databricks
11 10 (3.73%) IBM
12 9 (3.36%) Aruba
13 8 (2.99%) NetApp
14 6 (2.24%) Citrix
14 6 (2.24%) Meraki
14 6 (2.24%) SAP