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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 312 452
Rank change year-on-year -8 +140 -10
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 290 173 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.71% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 2.08% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 104 67
10th Percentile £390 £461 £441
25th Percentile £463 £511 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £579 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +5.23% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £616
90th Percentile £700 £750 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £579 £550
% change year-on-year -9.29% +5.23% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.50% - -
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.50% - -

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 12,869 8,330 11,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.59% 34.01% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,162 5,466 7,547
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 658 315 820
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.06 £22.85 £15.13
Median hourly rate £45.46 £36.48 £28.38
Median % change year-on-year +24.62% +28.56% +26.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £68.99
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +16.07% +24.53%

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 19 April 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
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 19 April 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 +17 129 £550 - 37
North of England -53 56 £500 -6.89% 22
Yorkshire -23 42 £500 -30.07% 6
South East -46 40 £631 +5.21% 29
South West -9 30 £445 -28.23% 11
Midlands -49 29 £550 -15.38% 4
West Midlands -42 26 £550 -15.38% 2
North West -47 13 £500 -4.53% 14
East of England -33 4 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -32 3 £503 -17.96% 2
North East -21 1 £450 - 2
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 8 (2.76%) Confluence
2 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.69%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.07%) Maximo
2 4 (1.38%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (1.38%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 171 (58.97%) Azure
2 125 (43.10%) AWS
3 48 (16.55%) OpenShift
4 40 (13.79%) GCP
5 35 (12.07%) GitHub
6 24 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (5.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 16 (5.52%) Entra ID
9 13 (4.48%) SaaS
10 12 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.14%) Azure AKS
10 12 (4.14%) IaaS
10 12 (4.14%) Serverless
11 10 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (3.10%) PaaS
13 8 (2.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 41 (14.14%) Firewall
2 39 (13.45%) Network Security
3 33 (11.38%) VPN
4 32 (11.03%) WAN
5 25 (8.62%) DNS
6 18 (6.21%) LAN
7 14 (4.83%) BGP
8 13 (4.48%) SAN
8 13 (4.48%) SD-WAN
9 10 (3.45%) MPLS
9 10 (3.45%) VSAN
9 10 (3.45%) VXLAN
10 8 (2.76%) OSPF
11 7 (2.41%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (2.07%) Internet
12 6 (2.07%) NAS
12 6 (2.07%) SNMP
12 6 (2.07%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (1.72%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.72%) Metadata
4 4 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.03%) Big Data
5 3 (1.03%) Power BI
5 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.69%) DataStage
6 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.69%) Redis
6 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.34%) Firebird
7 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.79%) JIRA
3 10 (3.45%) Git
3 10 (3.45%) GitLab
4 3 (1.03%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 101 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 28 (9.66%) Finance
4 24 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.28%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.83%) Banking
6 12 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.07%) Retail
9 5 (1.72%) Legal
10 4 (1.38%) Front Office
10 4 (1.38%) Law
11 2 (0.69%) Billing
11 2 (0.69%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.34%) International Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 94 (32.41%) Architect
2 41 (14.14%) Senior
3 27 (9.31%) Lead
4 25 (8.62%) Network Architect
5 19 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (5.86%) Network Engineer
7 16 (5.52%) Senior Architect
8 13 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
8 13 (4.48%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.48%) Technical Architect
9 12 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.45%) Senior Network Architect
11 9 (3.10%) Enterprise Architect
11 9 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.76%) Desktop Engineer
12 8 (2.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 8 (2.76%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.97%) OpenTelemetry
2 22 (7.59%) Kafka
3 17 (5.86%) REST
4 14 (4.83%) JSON
5 12 (4.14%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.76%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.76%) Middleware
6 8 (2.76%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.41%) Keycloak
8 6 (2.07%) NETCONF
8 6 (2.07%) YANG
9 5 (1.72%) .NET
9 5 (1.72%) SAML
10 4 (1.38%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.38%) JMS
10 4 (1.38%) OAuth
10 4 (1.38%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.38%) RESTCONF
10 4 (1.38%) Spring
10 4 (1.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.90%) Cloud Native
2 43 (14.83%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.79%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.45%) Replication
6 9 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.76%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.41%) PKI
9 6 (2.07%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.07%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.72%) FlexPod
11 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.38%) BYOD
11 4 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.52%) Linux
2 41 (14.14%) Windows
3 22 (7.59%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.10%) VMS
5 6 (2.07%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (1.72%) CoreOS
6 5 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.03%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (27.93%) DevOps
2 80 (27.59%) CI/CD
3 69 (23.79%) Migration
4 66 (22.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (21.03%) Containerisation
6 58 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (16.55%) Roadmaps
8 43 (14.83%) Cloud Security
9 42 (14.48%) Disaster Recovery
10 39 (13.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (12.41%) RBAC
12 33 (11.38%) Agile
13 31 (10.69%) High Availability
13 31 (10.69%) Zero Trust
14 30 (10.34%) Analytics
14 30 (10.34%) Observability
14 30 (10.34%) Runbook
15 28 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (8.62%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 81 (27.93%) Python
2 49 (16.90%) PowerShell
3 38 (13.10%) Bash
4 18 (6.21%) Bicep
5 13 (4.48%) Go
6 11 (3.79%) Java
7 10 (3.45%) SQL
8 3 (1.03%) C#
8 3 (1.03%) R
8 3 (1.03%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.34%) C
9 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 70 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 45 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.66%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (8.62%) Azure Certification
5 21 (7.24%) DV Cleared
6 18 (6.21%) Degree
7 15 (5.17%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.48%) CCNP
8 13 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (3.79%) CCIE
10 9 (3.10%) CISSP
10 9 (3.10%) OCP
10 9 (3.10%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.41%) CCNA
12 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (2.07%) CISM
13 6 (2.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 6 (2.07%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.03%) NIST
2 24 (8.28%) GDPR
3 23 (7.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.41%) NIST 800
5 7 (2.41%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.72%) NCSC
6 5 (1.72%) QA
7 4 (1.38%) GRC
7 4 (1.38%) ISO 22301
8 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.69%) PSD2
10 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 43 (14.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (11.38%) Active Directory
2 33 (11.38%) VMware NSX
3 30 (10.34%) vSphere
4 28 (9.66%) Docker
5 13 (4.48%) Hyper-V
6 11 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.72%) NFS
9 4 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.03%) KVM
11 1 (0.34%) Ceph
11 1 (0.34%) Firmware
11 1 (0.34%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.34%) QEMU
11 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 98 (33.79%) Terraform
2 86 (29.66%) Kubernetes
3 60 (20.69%) Ansible
4 27 (9.31%) Grafana
5 19 (6.55%) vCenter Server
6 17 (5.86%) Argo
7 15 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (4.48%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.72%) Puppet
10 5 (1.72%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.38%) Istio
12 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.03%) Rancher
13 2 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.69%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.69%) vMotion
13 2 (0.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 83 (28.62%) Microsoft
2 55 (18.97%) VMware
3 35 (12.07%) Red Hat
4 30 (10.34%) Cisco
5 29 (10.00%) Splunk
6 21 (7.24%) Palo Alto
7 16 (5.52%) Pure Storage
8 15 (5.17%) Fortinet
8 15 (5.17%) Google
9 13 (4.48%) CheckPoint
9 13 (4.48%) Juniper
10 11 (3.79%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.45%) Aruba
12 9 (3.10%) Databricks
12 9 (3.10%) F5
12 9 (3.10%) IBM
12 9 (3.10%) NetApp
13 7 (2.41%) OpenAI
14 6 (2.07%) Oracle
14 6 (2.07%) SAP