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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 318 445
Rank change year-on-year +4 +127 -27
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 352 199 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.73% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.35% 2.08% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 116 69
10th Percentile £413 £406 £435
25th Percentile £481 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.93%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £613
90th Percentile £746 £751 £744
UK median daily rate £568 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% -8.33%
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 15,004 9,564 10,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.28% 34.86% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 6,038 6,938
10th Percentile £318 £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 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £542
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 822 481 623
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.71 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.39% -27.31% +11.23%
75th Percentile £71.00 £60.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £86.23 £80.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.89%

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 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 28 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 28 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 +1 139 £569 +1.11% 68
North of England -40 82 £517 -13.86% 37
South East -27 70 £615 +17.14% 39
Yorkshire -8 44 £500 -20.00% 12
Midlands -36 36 £500 -28.57% 7
West Midlands -38 32 £500 -28.57% 5
North West -51 31 £565 -5.83% 22
South West -35 18 £575 -17.86% 14
North East -31 13 £650 +8.33% 3
East of England -23 6 £518 -5.91% 4
East Midlands -11 4 £478 +11.05% 2
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 (3.41%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.99%) Confluence
2 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.42%) Apache
4 3 (0.85%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.57%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.57%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.99%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.57%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 221 (62.78%) Azure
2 174 (49.43%) AWS
3 52 (14.77%) GCP
4 39 (11.08%) GitHub
5 37 (10.51%) OpenShift
6 32 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 32 (9.09%) SaaS
7 27 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (6.53%) OCI
10 22 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 17 (4.83%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (4.83%) IaaS
12 16 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.98%) Serverless
14 12 (3.41%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.41%) PaaS
15 10 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.84%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 80 (22.73%) Firewall
2 56 (15.91%) DNS
3 55 (15.63%) WAN
4 53 (15.06%) VPN
5 50 (14.20%) BGP
6 43 (12.22%) Network Security
7 37 (10.51%) OSPF
8 33 (9.38%) SD-WAN
9 31 (8.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 29 (8.24%) LAN
11 26 (7.39%) DHCP
12 25 (7.10%) VXLAN
13 24 (6.82%) TCP/IP
14 23 (6.53%) BIG-IP
15 22 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
15 22 (6.25%) MPLS
16 20 (5.68%) Wi-Fi
17 17 (4.83%) VLAN
18 16 (4.55%) SAN
19 12 (3.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (1.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.85%) Metadata
3 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.85%) Power BI
4 2 (0.57%) Big Data
4 2 (0.57%) Redis
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.28%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.28%) Flink
5 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.28%) Impala
5 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.67%) GitLab
3 26 (7.39%) Git
4 7 (1.99%) JIRA
5 5 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.14%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
General
1 89 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 48 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 34 (9.66%) Finance
4 26 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.10%) Banking
6 23 (6.53%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.84%) Retail
9 5 (1.42%) Local Government
10 4 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.14%) Military
10 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Automotive
11 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Legal
11 3 (0.85%) Publishing
12 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.57%) Law
12 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (34.09%) Architect
2 68 (19.32%) Senior
3 52 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 33 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (9.09%) Network Architect
5 32 (9.09%) Network Engineer
6 28 (7.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (7.95%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (6.82%) Senior Architect
8 20 (5.68%) Lead
9 18 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (5.11%) Technical Architect
10 17 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (3.98%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
13 11 (3.13%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.84%) Senior Network Architect
15 9 (2.56%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.10%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (5.68%) REST
3 17 (4.83%) Kafka
4 12 (3.41%) ARM Templates
4 12 (3.41%) JSON
5 11 (3.13%) NETCONF
5 11 (3.13%) YANG
6 8 (2.27%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.27%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (1.70%) .NET
7 6 (1.70%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.70%) LDAP
7 6 (1.70%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.70%) RESTCONF
7 6 (1.70%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.42%) Middleware
9 4 (1.14%) Loki
9 4 (1.14%) YAML
10 3 (0.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 68 (19.32%) Data Centre
2 64 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 23 (6.53%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 15 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.26%) Private Cloud
6 12 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (2.84%) Replication
9 9 (2.56%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.56%) PKI
10 7 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.99%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.99%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.42%) ARM Cortex
11 5 (1.42%) CMDB
11 5 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.42%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.42%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 61 (17.33%) Linux
2 55 (15.63%) Windows
3 42 (11.93%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.84%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.56%) VMS
7 6 (1.70%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.42%) CoreOS
9 4 (1.14%) Unix
10 2 (0.57%) CentOS
11 1 (0.28%) AIX
11 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (34.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 119 (33.81%) CI/CD
3 116 (32.95%) DevOps
4 93 (26.42%) Migration
5 81 (23.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 68 (19.32%) Zero Trust
7 58 (16.48%) Disaster Recovery
8 56 (15.91%) Cloud Security
9 54 (15.34%) High Availability
10 53 (15.06%) Roadmaps
11 47 (13.35%) Containerisation
11 47 (13.35%) Observability
12 46 (13.07%) Load Balancing
13 45 (12.78%) Network Design
13 45 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
15 43 (12.22%) Agile
15 43 (12.22%) Analytics
16 37 (10.51%) RBAC
17 36 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 113 (32.10%) Python
2 56 (15.91%) PowerShell
3 50 (14.20%) Bash
4 24 (6.82%) Bicep
5 17 (4.83%) SQL
6 10 (2.84%) Java
7 7 (1.99%) Go
8 5 (1.42%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.85%) C#
10 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.28%) C
11 1 (0.28%) Groovy
11 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.28%) Perl
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 97 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 62 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 26 (7.39%) Azure Certification
6 25 (7.10%) AWS Certification
6 25 (7.10%) Degree
7 24 (6.82%) CCNP
8 15 (4.26%) CCIE
9 13 (3.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.13%) JNCIE
11 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.56%) OCP
12 9 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (2.27%) CISSP
14 7 (1.99%) CCNA
15 5 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.94%) NIST
2 23 (6.53%) GDPR
3 19 (5.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.69%) NCSC
5 12 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.13%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.42%) GRC
8 4 (1.14%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.14%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.57%) SLA
10 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.28%) QA
10 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (16.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 56 (15.91%) Active Directory
3 41 (11.65%) vSphere
4 35 (9.94%) VMware NSX
5 23 (6.53%) Docker
6 18 (5.11%) Hyper-V
6 18 (5.11%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.42%) NFS
9 4 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.85%) KVM
11 1 (0.28%) Ceph
11 1 (0.28%) Firmware
11 1 (0.28%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.28%) Squid
11 1 (0.28%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 137 (38.92%) Terraform
2 94 (26.70%) Ansible
3 81 (23.01%) Kubernetes
4 34 (9.66%) Grafana
5 23 (6.53%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.11%) vCenter Server
7 14 (3.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (3.69%) Argo
9 10 (2.84%) SCCM
10 7 (1.99%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.99%) Puppet
11 6 (1.70%) systemd
12 5 (1.42%) Istio
12 5 (1.42%) SnapMirror
13 4 (1.14%) CASB
13 4 (1.14%) Rancher
13 4 (1.14%) SCOM
14 3 (0.85%) Check_MK
14 3 (0.85%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.85%) yum
Vendors
1 111 (31.53%) Microsoft
2 74 (21.02%) VMware
3 47 (13.35%) Palo Alto
4 46 (13.07%) Cisco
5 40 (11.36%) F5
6 27 (7.67%) Red Hat
7 26 (7.39%) Splunk
8 24 (6.82%) Fortinet
8 24 (6.82%) Google
9 22 (6.25%) Aruba
10 20 (5.68%) Juniper
11 19 (5.40%) Arista
12 13 (3.69%) Zscaler
13 12 (3.41%) Pure Storage
14 9 (2.56%) CheckPoint
14 9 (2.56%) SolarWinds
15 8 (2.27%) NetApp
16 7 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (1.99%) CyberArk
16 7 (1.99%) SAP