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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 309 438
Rank change year-on-year +2 +129 -8
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 339 199 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.73% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.29% 2.11% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 116 71
10th Percentile £413 £409 £441
25th Percentile £481 £480 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £643 £639 £606
90th Percentile £738 £751 £700
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £531
% change year-on-year -2.09% +8.24% -11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £31.56 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £82.50 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -26.70% - -

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 14,814 9,440 11,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.11% 34.79% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,210 6,000 7,276
10th Percentile £318 £305 £288
25th Percentile £420 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 791 466 789
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.47 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.35% -16.33% +15.54%
75th Percentile £72.50 £62.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -13.70% +21.67%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -10 132 £568 +3.18% 35
North of England -42 78 £515 -14.25% 32
South East -26 65 £600 +4.35% 26
Yorkshire -22 43 £500 -20.00% 8
Midlands -38 37 £500 -28.57% 7
West Midlands -49 32 £500 -28.57% 3
North West -49 28 £565 -5.83% 23
South West -27 19 £575 -12.88% 10
North East -29 13 £650 +8.33% 1
East of England -23 6 £518 -5.91% 4
East Midlands -10 5 £500 -13.04% 4
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 13 (3.83%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.36%) Confluence
3 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.47%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.59%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.59%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.59%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.29%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 209 (61.65%) Azure
2 173 (51.03%) AWS
3 50 (14.75%) GCP
4 38 (11.21%) OpenShift
5 34 (10.03%) GitHub
6 30 (8.85%) SaaS
7 27 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (6.78%) Entra ID
9 21 (6.19%) OCI
10 19 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (5.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 17 (5.01%) Serverless
12 16 (4.72%) IaaS
13 14 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.24%) PaaS
15 10 (2.95%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.36%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 75 (22.12%) Firewall
2 55 (16.22%) WAN
3 51 (15.04%) BGP
4 44 (12.98%) VPN
5 43 (12.68%) DNS
6 39 (11.50%) Network Security
7 36 (10.62%) OSPF
8 32 (9.44%) SD-WAN
9 31 (9.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 31 (9.14%) LAN
10 24 (7.08%) VXLAN
11 23 (6.78%) BIG-IP
12 22 (6.49%) MPLS
13 21 (6.19%) Ethernet VPN
14 20 (5.90%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (4.72%) SAN
16 15 (4.42%) DHCP
16 15 (4.42%) VLAN
17 14 (4.13%) TCP/IP
18 12 (3.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (1.47%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.88%) Metadata
2 3 (0.88%) NoSQL
2 3 (0.88%) Power BI
3 2 (0.59%) Big Data
3 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.59%) Redis
4 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.29%) Firebird
4 1 (0.29%) GIS
4 1 (0.29%) Impala
4 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (8.26%) Jenkins
2 25 (7.37%) GitLab
3 19 (5.60%) Git
4 8 (2.36%) JIRA
5 4 (1.18%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
General
1 90 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.16%) Public Sector
3 29 (8.55%) Finance
4 22 (6.49%) Banking
4 22 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.42%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.95%) Retail
8 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.18%) Local Government
10 3 (0.88%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.88%) Legal
10 3 (0.88%) Military
10 3 (0.88%) Publishing
11 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.59%) Front Office
11 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.59%) Law
11 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (33.92%) Architect
2 60 (17.70%) Senior
3 48 (14.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (10.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (9.73%) Network Architect
6 26 (7.67%) Network Engineer
7 24 (7.08%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (6.78%) Senior Architect
8 23 (6.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (6.19%) Lead
10 19 (5.60%) Technical Architect
11 16 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (4.72%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.24%) Security Engineer
15 10 (2.95%) Senior Network Architect
16 9 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (2.65%) Security Architect
17 8 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.37%) OpenTelemetry
2 21 (6.19%) REST
3 16 (4.72%) Kafka
4 13 (3.83%) NETCONF
4 13 (3.83%) YANG
5 12 (3.54%) JSON
6 8 (2.36%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.36%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (1.77%) .NET
7 6 (1.77%) LDAP
7 6 (1.77%) Middleware
7 6 (1.77%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.77%) RESTCONF
7 6 (1.77%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.18%) 802.1X
9 4 (1.18%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.18%) Loki
9 4 (1.18%) Spring
10 3 (0.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (20.94%) Data Centre
2 64 (18.88%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.19%) Public Cloud
4 17 (5.01%) Private Cloud
5 15 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.65%) Replication
8 7 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.06%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.06%) PKI
8 7 (2.06%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.47%) FlexPod
9 5 (1.47%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.18%) CMDB
10 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 49 (14.45%) Linux
2 46 (13.57%) Windows
3 33 (9.73%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.65%) VMS
6 8 (2.36%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.77%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.47%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.59%) CentOS
10 1 (0.29%) AIX
10 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.29%) Unix
10 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (31.56%) CI/CD
1 107 (31.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 105 (30.97%) DevOps
3 90 (26.55%) Migration
4 74 (21.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 65 (19.17%) Zero Trust
6 54 (15.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 53 (15.63%) Cloud Security
8 50 (14.75%) Roadmaps
9 49 (14.45%) Containerisation
9 49 (14.45%) High Availability
10 48 (14.16%) Network Design
11 43 (12.68%) Load Balancing
12 42 (12.39%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (12.09%) Agile
13 41 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (11.80%) Observability
15 34 (10.03%) RBAC
15 34 (10.03%) Runbook
16 32 (9.44%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 108 (31.86%) Python
2 45 (13.27%) PowerShell
3 37 (10.91%) Bash
4 16 (4.72%) Bicep
5 15 (4.42%) SQL
6 11 (3.24%) Java
7 7 (2.06%) Go
8 5 (1.47%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.88%) C#
10 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.29%) C
11 1 (0.29%) Groovy
11 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.29%) R
11 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 87 (25.66%) Security Cleared
2 57 (16.81%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.98%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (7.67%) DV Cleared
5 25 (7.37%) AWS Certification
6 23 (6.78%) Azure Certification
7 22 (6.49%) Degree
8 21 (6.19%) CCNP
9 16 (4.72%) CCIE
10 13 (3.83%) JNCIE
10 13 (3.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.65%) OCP
13 9 (2.65%) Oracle Certification
14 8 (2.36%) CCNA
14 8 (2.36%) CISSP
15 5 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.32%) NIST
2 21 (6.19%) GDPR
3 19 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.83%) NCSC
5 12 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.24%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.47%) GRC
8 4 (1.18%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.59%) SLA
10 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.29%) QA
10 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (17.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (13.57%) Active Directory
3 40 (11.80%) vSphere
4 34 (10.03%) VMware NSX
5 21 (6.19%) Docker
6 18 (5.31%) Hyper-V
7 17 (5.01%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (4.13%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.47%) NFS
10 4 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.88%) KVM
12 1 (0.29%) Ceph
12 1 (0.29%) Firmware
12 1 (0.29%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.29%) Squid
12 1 (0.29%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 120 (35.40%) Terraform
2 88 (25.96%) Ansible
3 76 (22.42%) Kubernetes
4 33 (9.73%) Grafana
5 22 (6.49%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.01%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.54%) Argo
8 8 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (2.36%) Puppet
9 7 (2.06%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.47%) Istio
10 5 (1.47%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.18%) CASB
11 4 (1.18%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.18%) Rancher
11 4 (1.18%) SCCM
11 4 (1.18%) SCOM
11 4 (1.18%) systemd
12 3 (0.88%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.88%) yum
Vendors
1 100 (29.50%) Microsoft
2 72 (21.24%) VMware
3 45 (13.27%) Palo Alto
4 43 (12.68%) Cisco
5 38 (11.21%) F5
6 28 (8.26%) Red Hat
7 25 (7.37%) Splunk
8 24 (7.08%) Google
9 23 (6.78%) Fortinet
10 22 (6.49%) Aruba
11 19 (5.60%) Arista
12 18 (5.31%) Juniper
13 13 (3.83%) Zscaler
14 12 (3.54%) Pure Storage
15 11 (3.24%) CheckPoint
16 9 (2.65%) SolarWinds
17 8 (2.36%) NetApp
18 7 (2.06%) CyberArk
19 6 (1.77%) Commvault
20 5 (1.47%) SAP