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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 312 435
Rank change year-on-year +16 +123 -14
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 381 209 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.75% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 2.12% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 121 71
10th Percentile £413 £406 £450
25th Percentile £500 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.63% -14.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £606
90th Percentile £767 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £60.06 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £69.61 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £69.61 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -14.97% - -

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 15,313 9,854 10,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.51% 35.45% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,390 6,209 6,628
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £682
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 915 498 528
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.68
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.18 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.31% -34.36% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +10.86%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +1 151 £575 - 24
South East -8 90 £615 +17.14% 33
North of England -52 72 £563 -6.17% 18
Yorkshire -8 37 £540 -13.60% 8
Midlands -30 35 £488 -30.36% 4
West Midlands -40 29 £488 -30.36% 1
North West -50 28 £575 -4.17% 8
South West -40 23 £640 -8.57% 14
North East -33 13 £650 +8.33% 2
East of England -21 7 £505 -8.18% 3
East Midlands -12 6 £478 +11.05% 3
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 (3.15%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.57%) Apache
4 5 (1.31%) Confluence
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.79%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.52%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.84%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.52%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 254 (66.67%) Azure
2 183 (48.03%) AWS
3 58 (15.22%) GCP
4 44 (11.55%) Entra ID
5 38 (9.97%) GitHub
6 36 (9.45%) SaaS
7 34 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (7.35%) OpenShift
9 25 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (6.56%) OCI
10 23 (6.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 22 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (4.46%) IaaS
12 17 (4.46%) Serverless
13 13 (3.41%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.15%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (23.88%) Firewall
2 61 (16.01%) DNS
3 60 (15.75%) VPN
4 58 (15.22%) WAN
5 51 (13.39%) BGP
6 42 (11.02%) Network Security
7 37 (9.71%) DHCP
8 36 (9.45%) OSPF
9 35 (9.19%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 30 (7.87%) LAN
12 29 (7.61%) TCP/IP
13 25 (6.56%) VXLAN
14 23 (6.04%) BIG-IP
14 23 (6.04%) Ethernet VPN
15 22 (5.77%) MPLS
15 22 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (4.72%) VLAN
17 15 (3.94%) SAN
18 13 (3.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.10%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (1.57%) Power BI
3 5 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.52%) Big Data
6 2 (0.52%) Metadata
6 2 (0.52%) Redis
6 2 (0.52%) Tableau
7 1 (0.26%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.26%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.26%) Firebird
7 1 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.26%) HBase
Development Applications
1 33 (8.66%) GitLab
2 30 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.61%) Git
4 4 (1.05%) Jaeger
4 4 (1.05%) JIRA
4 4 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 107 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 41 (10.76%) Public Sector
3 38 (9.97%) Finance
4 37 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.30%) Banking
5 24 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.94%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.41%) Retail
8 12 (3.15%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.31%) Legal
9 5 (1.31%) Local Government
10 4 (1.05%) Automotive
10 4 (1.05%) Law
10 4 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.05%) Military
10 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Publishing
12 2 (0.52%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (33.33%) Architect
2 86 (22.57%) Senior
3 56 (14.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (9.97%) Network Engineer
5 33 (8.66%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (8.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 33 (8.66%) Solutions Architect
6 28 (7.35%) Network Architect
7 23 (6.04%) Senior Architect
8 21 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.51%) Lead
9 18 (4.72%) Technical Architect
10 17 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (4.20%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (3.41%) Consultant
13 12 (3.15%) Enterprise Architect
13 12 (3.15%) Senior Network Engineer
14 11 (2.89%) Security Engineer
15 10 (2.62%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.51%) REST
2 18 (4.72%) ARM Templates
3 11 (2.89%) NETCONF
3 11 (2.89%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (2.89%) YANG
4 10 (2.62%) Kafka
5 7 (1.84%) SailPoint
6 6 (1.57%) .NET
6 6 (1.57%) 802.1X
6 6 (1.57%) LDAP
6 6 (1.57%) OpenConfig
6 6 (1.57%) RESTCONF
7 5 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.31%) JSON
8 4 (1.05%) Loki
8 4 (1.05%) Middleware
8 4 (1.05%) OAuth
8 4 (1.05%) OpenID
8 4 (1.05%) RESTful
8 4 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (18.37%) Data Centre
2 61 (16.01%) Cloud Native
3 29 (7.61%) Public Cloud
4 27 (7.09%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.77%) Private Cloud
6 15 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.41%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.89%) PKI
9 10 (2.62%) Replication
10 8 (2.10%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.10%) CMDB
10 8 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.10%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.10%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.10%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.84%) ARM Cortex
11 7 (1.84%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 78 (20.47%) Windows
2 72 (18.90%) Linux
3 59 (15.49%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.89%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.57%) VMS
7 5 (1.31%) Unix
8 4 (1.05%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.05%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.79%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.52%) CentOS
10 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) AIX
11 1 (0.26%) Android
11 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (36.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 134 (35.17%) DevOps
3 127 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 100 (26.25%) Migration
5 90 (23.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (19.69%) Zero Trust
7 64 (16.80%) Disaster Recovery
8 62 (16.27%) Roadmaps
9 61 (16.01%) Cloud Security
10 59 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
11 56 (14.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 54 (14.17%) High Availability
13 49 (12.86%) Agile
14 48 (12.60%) ITIL
14 48 (12.60%) Observability
15 46 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 44 (11.55%) Load Balancing
16 44 (11.55%) Network Design
16 44 (11.55%) Platform Engineering
17 43 (11.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (30.18%) Python
2 75 (19.69%) PowerShell
3 57 (14.96%) Bash
4 27 (7.09%) Bicep
5 19 (4.99%) SQL
6 10 (2.62%) Java
7 9 (2.36%) Go
8 5 (1.31%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.79%) C#
10 2 (0.52%) Perl
10 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) Groovy
11 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.26%) R
11 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 108 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 77 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.07%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (9.45%) DV Cleared
5 34 (8.92%) Azure Certification
6 30 (7.87%) Degree
7 27 (7.09%) AWS Certification
8 25 (6.56%) CCNP
9 16 (4.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.67%) CCIE
11 13 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.41%) CISSP
11 13 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.89%) JNCIE
14 8 (2.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (1.57%) OCP
15 6 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (1.31%) Master's Degree
16 5 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.45%) NIST
2 24 (6.30%) GDPR
3 21 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (3.67%) NCSC
5 10 (2.62%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.84%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.05%) GRC
8 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.79%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.52%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) COBIT
10 1 (0.26%) QA
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (17.32%) Active Directory
2 65 (17.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (9.97%) vSphere
4 32 (8.40%) VMware NSX
5 27 (7.09%) Docker
6 23 (6.04%) Hyper-V
7 19 (4.99%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (4.20%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.79%) KVM
10 3 (0.79%) NFS
11 1 (0.26%) Ceph
11 1 (0.26%) Firmware
11 1 (0.26%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.26%) oVirt
11 1 (0.26%) RHEV
11 1 (0.26%) Squid
11 1 (0.26%) Varnish
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 151 (39.63%) Terraform
2 99 (25.98%) Ansible
3 79 (20.73%) Kubernetes
4 31 (8.14%) Grafana
5 20 (5.25%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.41%) SCCM
7 13 (3.41%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.10%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.10%) Istio
8 8 (2.10%) SCOM
9 7 (1.84%) Argo
9 7 (1.84%) Puppet
9 7 (1.84%) systemd
10 6 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.05%) Rancher
12 3 (0.79%) CASB
12 3 (0.79%) PowerCLI
12 3 (0.79%) SnapMirror
12 3 (0.79%) vMotion
Vendors
1 140 (36.75%) Microsoft
2 83 (21.78%) VMware
3 51 (13.39%) Cisco
4 49 (12.86%) Palo Alto
5 40 (10.50%) F5
6 31 (8.14%) Google
7 24 (6.30%) Fortinet
8 23 (6.04%) Aruba
9 21 (5.51%) Juniper
10 20 (5.25%) Red Hat
11 19 (4.99%) Arista
12 14 (3.67%) Splunk
12 14 (3.67%) Zscaler
13 10 (2.62%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.36%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (2.36%) CyberArk
15 8 (2.10%) CheckPoint
15 8 (2.10%) SolarWinds
16 7 (1.84%) NetApp
16 7 (1.84%) SAP
90 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England