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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 303 411
Rank change year-on-year -15 +108 +22
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 367 216 107
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 0.77% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 2.12% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 127 76
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £500 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £656 £688
90th Percentile £740 £775 £772
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 0
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.18 £61.86 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £63.72 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £84.03 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £63.72 -
% change year-on-year +11.43% - -

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 15,959 10,205 10,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.50% 36.38% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,584 6,382 6,052
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £645 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,176 534 364
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.13 £16.08
25th Percentile £17.45 £18.82 £24.42
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +16.93%
75th Percentile £67.85 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.38 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% -42.11% +5.56%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -30 139 £575 +1.10% 258
South East -13 88 £607 +18.53% 72
North of England -57 65 £575 -4.17% 73
Midlands -34 35 £500 -23.08% 41
Yorkshire -9 33 £568 +5.58% 16
South West -22 31 £675 -3.57% 46
West Midlands -39 29 £500 -28.57% 27
North West -58 25 £575 -4.17% 46
North East -31 13 £650 +8.33% 11
East of England -33 7 £563 +11.94% 16
East Midlands -11 6 £478 -4.50% 14
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 14 (3.81%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.91%) Apache
4 4 (1.09%) Confluence
4 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.82%) CICS
5 3 (0.82%) CloudStack
5 3 (0.82%) IBM Transformation Extender
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.18%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.82%) 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
1 263 (71.66%) Azure
2 162 (44.14%) AWS
3 66 (17.98%) GCP
4 57 (15.53%) Entra ID
5 36 (9.81%) GitHub
5 36 (9.81%) SaaS
6 34 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (8.45%) Azure Monitor
8 30 (8.17%) OpenShift
9 26 (7.08%) OCI
10 24 (6.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 21 (5.72%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (4.90%) Serverless
13 17 (4.63%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (3.54%) IaaS
15 12 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (3.00%) Azure AKS
17 10 (2.72%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 98 (26.70%) Firewall
2 74 (20.16%) DNS
3 67 (18.26%) VPN
4 52 (14.17%) WAN
5 48 (13.08%) BGP
5 48 (13.08%) DHCP
6 39 (10.63%) Network Security
7 35 (9.54%) SD-WAN
8 34 (9.26%) TCP/IP
9 32 (8.72%) OSPF
10 28 (7.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 25 (6.81%) LAN
11 25 (6.81%) VXLAN
12 23 (6.27%) BIG-IP
13 22 (5.99%) Ethernet VPN
14 19 (5.18%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (4.90%) MPLS
16 17 (4.63%) VLAN
17 13 (3.54%) VSAN
18 12 (3.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.63%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.63%) Power BI
4 5 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.82%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.54%) Big Data
7 2 (0.54%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.54%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.54%) Tableau
8 1 (0.27%) GIS
8 1 (0.27%) OLAP
8 1 (0.27%) OLTP
8 1 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (10.63%) GitLab
2 36 (9.81%) Git
3 31 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.09%) JIRA
6 3 (0.82%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (0.82%) Maven
6 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 107 (29.16%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.80%) Finance
3 38 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.36%) Banking
6 21 (5.72%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.36%) Aerospace
8 13 (3.54%) Retail
9 9 (2.45%) Legal
9 9 (2.45%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.91%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.36%) Local Government
11 5 (1.36%) Military
11 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.09%) Automotive
12 4 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.82%) Billing
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
13 3 (0.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 121 (32.97%) Architect
2 91 (24.80%) Senior
3 69 (18.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (10.63%) Solutions Architect
5 38 (10.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (10.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 35 (9.54%) Network Engineer
7 22 (5.99%) Network Architect
8 20 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (5.18%) Cloud Architect
10 18 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.63%) Lead
12 16 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (4.36%) Senior Architect
13 15 (4.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (4.09%) Consultant
14 14 (3.81%) Enterprise Architect
15 12 (3.27%) Azure Architect
15 12 (3.27%) Senior Network Engineer
16 11 (3.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (42.23%) Terraform
2 24 (6.54%) ARM Templates
3 17 (4.63%) REST
4 11 (3.00%) Kafka
5 9 (2.45%) NETCONF
5 9 (2.45%) YANG
6 7 (1.91%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.63%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.63%) JSON
7 6 (1.63%) LDAP
7 6 (1.63%) YAML
8 5 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.09%) Keycloak
9 4 (1.09%) Middleware
9 4 (1.09%) OAuth
9 4 (1.09%) OpenConfig
9 4 (1.09%) RESTCONF
9 4 (1.09%) RESTful
10 3 (0.82%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.82%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 77 (20.98%) Data Centre
2 54 (14.71%) Cloud Native
3 35 (9.54%) Public Cloud
4 30 (8.17%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.27%) Private Cloud
6 20 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (4.09%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.00%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.72%) ARM Cortex
10 7 (1.91%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.91%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.91%) PKI
11 6 (1.63%) CMDB
11 6 (1.63%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.63%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.63%) Replication
11 6 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 87 (23.71%) Windows
2 71 (19.35%) Linux
3 66 (17.98%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.45%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.18%) Unix
7 4 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.09%) VMS
7 4 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.82%) zOS
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.27%) AIX
10 1 (0.27%) Android
10 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (42.51%) Infrastructure as Code
2 146 (39.78%) DevOps
3 127 (34.60%) CI/CD
4 105 (28.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 100 (27.25%) Migration
6 79 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 74 (20.16%) Zero Trust
8 64 (17.44%) Technical Leadership
9 63 (17.17%) Disaster Recovery
9 63 (17.17%) Roadmaps
10 58 (15.80%) Agile
11 57 (15.53%) ITIL
12 56 (15.26%) Cloud Security
13 54 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
14 53 (14.44%) Cybersecurity
15 52 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 49 (13.35%) Analytics
17 48 (13.08%) High Availability
18 47 (12.81%) Observability
18 47 (12.81%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 108 (29.43%) Python
2 76 (20.71%) PowerShell
3 59 (16.08%) Bash
4 37 (10.08%) Bicep
5 13 (3.54%) SQL
6 12 (3.27%) Java
7 10 (2.72%) Go
8 5 (1.36%) BeanShell
8 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.09%) Groovy
10 3 (0.82%) C#
10 3 (0.82%) COBOL
10 3 (0.82%) JCL
11 2 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 91 (24.80%) SC Cleared
3 47 (12.81%) Azure Certification
4 45 (12.26%) Cisco Certification
5 42 (11.44%) DV Cleared
6 34 (9.26%) Degree
7 32 (8.72%) AWS Certification
8 26 (7.08%) CCNP
9 18 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (4.09%) CISSP
11 14 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (3.27%) CCIE
12 12 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (2.45%) JNCIE
15 6 (1.63%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.63%) VCAP
16 5 (1.36%) CISM
16 5 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.45%) NIST
2 15 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.27%) GDPR
4 11 (3.00%) NCSC
5 7 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.91%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.63%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.27%) PMO
9 1 (0.27%) QA
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (20.44%) Active Directory
2 67 (18.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (10.08%) vSphere
4 30 (8.17%) Docker
5 23 (6.27%) Hyper-V
5 23 (6.27%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (6.27%) VMware NSX
6 17 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.82%) KVM
8 3 (0.82%) RACF
8 3 (0.82%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.54%) IAG
10 1 (0.27%) Ceph
10 1 (0.27%) oVirt
10 1 (0.27%) RHEV
10 1 (0.27%) Squid
10 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 107 (29.16%) Ansible
2 85 (23.16%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.54%) Grafana
3 24 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (5.18%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.63%) SCCM
6 12 (3.27%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.91%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.91%) Puppet
7 7 (1.91%) SCOM
7 7 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.91%) systemd
8 6 (1.63%) PowerCLI
9 5 (1.36%) Istio
10 4 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.82%) Argo
11 3 (0.82%) CASB
11 3 (0.82%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.82%) yum
Vendors
1 155 (42.23%) Microsoft
2 85 (23.16%) VMware
3 51 (13.90%) Cisco
4 46 (12.53%) Palo Alto
5 34 (9.26%) F5
6 33 (8.99%) Google
7 25 (6.81%) Aruba
8 24 (6.54%) Fortinet
9 19 (5.18%) Arista
9 19 (5.18%) Juniper
10 13 (3.54%) Red Hat
10 13 (3.54%) Zscaler
11 12 (3.27%) CrowdStrike
11 12 (3.27%) CyberArk
11 12 (3.27%) IBM
12 9 (2.45%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.91%) CheckPoint
13 7 (1.91%) Databricks
13 7 (1.91%) SAP
13 7 (1.91%) Splunk