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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 383 435
Rank change year-on-year +76 +52 +119
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 249 129 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 1.32% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 97 112
10th Percentile £413 £435 £475
25th Percentile £475 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +2.26%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - -
25th Percentile £65.33 - £27.00
Median hourly rate £70.11 - £51.00
75th Percentile £74.33 - £75.75
90th Percentile £76.08 - £77.10
UK median hourly rate £70.11 - £51.00
% change year-on-year - - -39.29%

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 11,101 9,804 12,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.34% 31.80% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,978 5,866 8,480
10th Percentile £285 £297 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 315 459
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% -10.11% +27.14%
75th Percentile £58.00 £69.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.21 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.86% -20.16% +25.25%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 +58 98 £550 -2.22% 42
North of England -8 45 £600 -16.08% 4
South East -2 40 £525 -8.70% 32
Midlands -11 37 £550 -12.49% 6
South West +25 35 £675 - 12
West Midlands +2 34 £624 -4.59% 5
North West +3 27 £625 -8.09% 1
Yorkshire -17 16 £506 -29.20% 3
East of England - 5 £505 - 3
East Midlands -22 3 £500 -9.09% 1
North East - 2 £600 -
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 (5.22%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.01%) SAS
4 3 (1.20%) CMS
4 3 (1.20%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.20%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.80%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Mule
6 1 (0.40%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.20%) Maximo
2 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 139 (55.82%) Azure
2 84 (33.73%) AWS
3 39 (15.66%) GCP
4 31 (12.45%) GitHub
4 31 (12.45%) SaaS
5 27 (10.84%) Entra ID
6 22 (8.84%) OpenShift
7 18 (7.23%) Google Workspace
8 15 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 15 (6.02%) IaaS
8 15 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (5.62%) PaaS
10 13 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (5.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (4.42%) Azure Stack
13 10 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.61%) Nutanix
15 8 (3.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (19.68%) Firewall
2 32 (12.85%) WAN
3 27 (10.84%) Network Security
3 27 (10.84%) VPN
4 17 (6.83%) BGP
5 16 (6.43%) DNS
5 16 (6.43%) LAN
6 14 (5.62%) MPLS
6 14 (5.62%) SD-WAN
7 9 (3.61%) DHCP
7 9 (3.61%) SNMP
7 9 (3.61%) Wireless
8 8 (3.21%) OSPF
8 8 (3.21%) TACACS
9 6 (2.41%) NGFW
9 6 (2.41%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.01%) VLAN
10 5 (2.01%) VSAN
11 4 (1.61%) DMARC
11 4 (1.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.41%) Big Data
3 5 (2.01%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.01%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.61%) Delta Lake
4 4 (1.61%) Power BI
5 3 (1.20%) Metadata
6 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.80%) DataStage
6 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.80%) Tableau
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) QlikView
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.40%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (6.43%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.62%) GitLab
3 7 (2.81%) Git
4 4 (1.61%) JIRA
5 2 (0.80%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (32.13%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.47%) Finance
3 25 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.23%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.02%) Banking
7 8 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.41%) Legal
8 6 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.01%) Retail
10 4 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.20%) Military
11 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.80%) Billing
12 2 (0.80%) International Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 70 (28.11%) Architect
2 37 (14.86%) Senior
3 30 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (7.63%) Consultant
5 16 (6.43%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (6.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (5.62%) Lead
8 13 (5.22%) Azure Architect
9 12 (4.82%) Data Engineer
9 12 (4.82%) Developer
9 12 (4.82%) Network Architect
10 11 (4.42%) Enterprise Architect
10 11 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.02%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.61%) Infrastructure Manager
12 9 (3.61%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.21%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.43%) REST
2 12 (4.82%) Kafka
3 10 (4.02%) Keycloak
4 9 (3.61%) ARM Templates
4 9 (3.61%) JSON
5 8 (3.21%) NETCONF
5 8 (3.21%) YANG
6 7 (2.81%) XML
7 5 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 3 (1.20%) CSS
8 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.20%) HTML
8 3 (1.20%) MACH
9 2 (0.80%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.80%) OpenConfig
9 2 (0.80%) RESTCONF
9 2 (0.80%) RESTful
9 2 (0.80%) Swagger
9 2 (0.80%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 44 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 36 (14.46%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.62%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.82%) Replication
5 9 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.61%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.81%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (2.41%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.01%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.01%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.61%) IoT
9 4 (1.61%) Life Science
9 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.20%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.65%) Windows
2 23 (9.24%) Linux
3 21 (8.43%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.61%) Android
6 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.80%) VMS
8 1 (0.40%) CentOS
8 1 (0.40%) Solaris
8 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.40%) Unix
8 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (26.91%) DevOps
2 58 (23.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (22.09%) CI/CD
4 47 (18.88%) Migration
5 46 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (16.87%) Containerisation
7 36 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (13.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 33 (13.25%) Roadmaps
10 32 (12.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (11.65%) Zero Trust
12 27 (10.84%) Cloud Security
13 26 (10.44%) TOGAF
14 25 (10.04%) AI
14 25 (10.04%) High Availability
15 24 (9.64%) Analytics
16 23 (9.24%) Agile
16 23 (9.24%) Incident Response
17 21 (8.43%) Microservices
17 21 (8.43%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 69 (27.71%) Python
2 33 (13.25%) PowerShell
3 26 (10.44%) Bash
4 19 (7.63%) Bicep
5 12 (4.82%) Go
6 11 (4.42%) Java
6 11 (4.42%) SQL
7 5 (2.01%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.61%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.80%) Scala
10 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) C
11 1 (0.40%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) R
11 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (24.50%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.88%) SC Cleared
3 44 (17.67%) Azure Certification
4 32 (12.85%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (9.24%) AWS Certification
6 18 (7.23%) CCIE
7 14 (5.62%) JNCIE
8 13 (5.22%) CISSP
8 13 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (4.02%) Degree
9 10 (4.02%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (3.61%) DV Cleared
11 8 (3.21%) CCNP
12 6 (2.41%) CCNA
12 6 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (2.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.01%) CCSP
13 5 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.84%) GDPR
1 22 (8.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 22 (8.84%) NIST
2 7 (2.81%) QA
3 6 (2.41%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.41%) SOC 2
4 5 (2.01%) PSD2
5 3 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.20%) GRC
5 3 (1.20%) NCSC
5 3 (1.20%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.80%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.80%) GxP
6 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) GMP
7 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.40%) ITGC
7 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (13.65%) Docker
2 30 (12.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.23%) Active Directory
3 18 (7.23%) VMware NSX
4 12 (4.82%) vSphere
5 9 (3.61%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.01%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.20%) KVM
9 1 (0.40%) Ceph
9 1 (0.40%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) QEMU
9 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 67 (26.91%) Terraform
2 52 (20.88%) Kubernetes
3 41 (16.47%) Ansible
4 18 (7.23%) Grafana
5 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (4.02%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.81%) Argo
6 7 (2.81%) vCenter Server
7 6 (2.41%) Puppet
8 5 (2.01%) Data Guard
8 5 (2.01%) NetBackup
8 5 (2.01%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.61%) SCCM
10 3 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.80%) CASB
11 2 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.80%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.80%) vMotion
Vendors
1 51 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.26%) VMware
3 26 (10.44%) Google
4 21 (8.43%) Cisco
5 14 (5.62%) Databricks
6 13 (5.22%) Oracle
7 10 (4.02%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.61%) Citrix
8 9 (3.61%) F5
8 9 (3.61%) Fortinet
9 8 (3.21%) Dynatrace
9 8 (3.21%) Juniper
9 8 (3.21%) Palo Alto
9 8 (3.21%) Zscaler
10 7 (2.81%) OpenAI
10 7 (2.81%) Splunk
11 6 (2.41%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.41%) SAP
12 5 (2.01%) Dell
12 5 (2.01%) IBM
74 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England