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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 308 466
Rank change year-on-year -2 +158 -20
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 315 164 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.69% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.34% 2.00% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 92 56
10th Percentile £400 £422 £441
25th Percentile £465 £480 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £558 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% -1.76% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £632 £618
90th Percentile £700 £711 £706
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £23.75 - -
25th Percentile £35.47 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -40.00% - -

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 13,482 8,205 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.29% 34.43% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 5,344 7,369
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 708 337 832
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.34 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.17
Median hourly rate £44.50 £33.91 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.23% -3.80% +59.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.65 £82.78 £71.14
UK median hourly rate £41.46 £32.05 £34.00
% change year-on-year +29.36% -5.74% +54.55%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -11 129 £575 +9.52% 47
North of England -28 79 £500 +5.26% 27
Yorkshire -20 46 £500 - 8
South East -35 43 £600 +3.67% 14
Midlands -44 28 £515 -20.77% 7
South West -6 27 £325 -46.72% 18
North West -31 26 £550 +15.79% 16
West Midlands -43 25 £525 -22.22% 6
North East -24 11 £650 - 3
East of England -32 4 £530 -3.64% 3
East Midlands -26 3 £503 -12.61% 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 (3.17%) Confluence
2 8 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.90%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.95%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.63%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Maximo
2 3 (0.95%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.95%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 197 (62.54%) Azure
2 151 (47.94%) AWS
3 47 (14.92%) GCP
4 44 (13.97%) OpenShift
5 27 (8.57%) GitHub
6 25 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (6.98%) SaaS
8 20 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.03%) OCI
10 18 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 18 (5.71%) Entra ID
11 14 (4.44%) IaaS
12 13 (4.13%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.13%) Serverless
13 12 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (2.86%) PaaS
16 8 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 62 (19.68%) Firewall
2 49 (15.56%) WAN
3 40 (12.70%) Network Security
4 34 (10.79%) VPN
5 33 (10.48%) BGP
6 28 (8.89%) SD-WAN
7 27 (8.57%) DNS
8 26 (8.25%) OSPF
8 26 (8.25%) VXLAN
9 23 (7.30%) LAN
10 21 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 19 (6.03%) Ethernet VPN
12 17 (5.40%) BIG-IP
13 15 (4.76%) SAN
13 15 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (3.49%) MPLS
15 10 (3.17%) DHCP
16 9 (2.86%) Software-Defined Networking
16 9 (2.86%) VSAN
16 9 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.95%) Metadata
3 3 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.63%) Redis
4 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.32%) Big Data
5 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.32%) Firebird
5 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.32%) Power BI
5 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 22 (6.98%) GitLab
3 14 (4.44%) Git
4 10 (3.17%) JIRA
5 4 (1.27%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
General
1 97 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.70%) Public Sector
3 25 (7.94%) Finance
4 21 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (6.03%) Banking
7 8 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.59%) Retail
10 4 (1.27%) Law
11 3 (0.95%) Front Office
11 3 (0.95%) Legal
11 3 (0.95%) Military
12 2 (0.63%) Billing
12 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Local Government
13 1 (0.32%) Marketing
13 1 (0.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 98 (31.11%) Architect
2 58 (18.41%) Senior
3 38 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (9.52%) Network Architect
5 25 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (6.98%) Lead
6 22 (6.98%) Network Engineer
7 21 (6.67%) Senior Architect
8 20 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (6.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (4.13%) Technical Architect
14 11 (3.49%) Security Engineer
14 11 (3.49%) Senior Network Architect
15 9 (2.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 8 (2.54%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 8 (2.54%) Security Architect
16 8 (2.54%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.94%) OpenTelemetry
2 17 (5.40%) REST
3 16 (5.08%) Kafka
4 14 (4.44%) JSON
5 9 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.54%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.54%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.22%) Middleware
7 7 (2.22%) NETCONF
7 7 (2.22%) YANG
8 6 (1.90%) .NET
9 5 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.59%) LDAP
9 5 (1.59%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.59%) SAML
10 4 (1.27%) Loki
10 4 (1.27%) OAuth
10 4 (1.27%) Spring
11 3 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (0.95%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 60 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 58 (18.41%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.40%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.13%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.17%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.86%) Replication
9 7 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.22%) PKI
9 7 (2.22%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.22%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.90%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.90%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.59%) FlexPod
12 4 (1.27%) BYOD
12 4 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (15.24%) Windows
2 45 (14.29%) Linux
3 28 (8.89%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.86%) VMS
6 6 (1.90%) Data ONTAP
6 6 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.59%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.63%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) AIX
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (31.75%) CI/CD
2 91 (28.89%) DevOps
3 85 (26.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (22.54%) Migration
5 62 (19.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 50 (15.87%) Containerisation
7 49 (15.56%) Zero Trust
8 48 (15.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 46 (14.60%) Roadmaps
10 42 (13.33%) Cloud Security
10 42 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (13.02%) Agile
11 41 (13.02%) High Availability
12 38 (12.06%) Load Balancing
13 37 (11.75%) RBAC
14 33 (10.48%) Network Design
14 33 (10.48%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (10.16%) Observability
16 29 (9.21%) Analytics
16 29 (9.21%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 85 (26.98%) Python
2 54 (17.14%) PowerShell
3 32 (10.16%) Bash
4 18 (5.71%) Bicep
5 11 (3.49%) SQL
6 10 (3.17%) Java
7 8 (2.54%) Go
8 3 (0.95%) BeanShell
8 3 (0.95%) C#
8 3 (0.95%) R
8 3 (0.95%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.32%) C
9 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 81 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 56 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.48%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (7.30%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.03%) Degree
6 18 (5.71%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.40%) CCNP
8 15 (4.76%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.17%) CCIE
9 10 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.86%) CISSP
10 9 (2.86%) OCP
10 9 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (2.54%) CCNA
12 7 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.22%) JNCIE
13 6 (1.90%) CCSE
13 6 (1.90%) CISM
13 6 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.79%) NIST
2 21 (6.67%) GDPR
2 21 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.22%) NCSC
6 6 (1.90%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.59%) GRC
8 4 (1.27%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.63%) SLA
10 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.32%) QA
10 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (17.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 37 (11.75%) vSphere
4 29 (9.21%) VMware NSX
5 19 (6.03%) Hyper-V
6 18 (5.71%) Docker
7 14 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.59%) NFS
11 3 (0.95%) KVM
12 1 (0.32%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.32%) Squid
12 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 109 (34.60%) Terraform
2 80 (25.40%) Kubernetes
3 72 (22.86%) Ansible
4 28 (8.89%) Grafana
5 16 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.08%) vCenter Server
6 13 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (3.81%) Argo
8 6 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.59%) Istio
9 5 (1.59%) Puppet
9 5 (1.59%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.27%) Rancher
10 4 (1.27%) SCOM
11 3 (0.95%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.95%) SCCM
12 2 (0.63%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.63%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 90 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 64 (20.32%) VMware
3 38 (12.06%) Palo Alto
4 34 (10.79%) Red Hat
5 33 (10.48%) Cisco
6 26 (8.25%) Aruba
6 26 (8.25%) Splunk
7 24 (7.62%) F5
8 18 (5.71%) Arista
8 18 (5.71%) Fortinet
8 18 (5.71%) Google
9 16 (5.08%) CheckPoint
10 14 (4.44%) Pure Storage
11 13 (4.13%) Juniper
12 10 (3.17%) Zscaler
13 9 (2.86%) NetApp
14 7 (2.22%) IBM
15 6 (1.90%) CyberArk
16 5 (1.59%) Commvault
16 5 (1.59%) SAP
117 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England