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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 301 456
Rank change year-on-year -7 +155 -13
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 311 168 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.71% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 2.06% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 97 56
10th Percentile £400 £436 £441
25th Percentile £463 £481 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £618
90th Percentile £700 £750 £706
UK median daily rate £544 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.43% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £21.96 - -
25th Percentile £31.01 - -
Median hourly rate £47.18 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.82% - -
75th Percentile £63.51 - -
90th Percentile £72.65 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.18 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -52.82% - -

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 13,414 8,160 11,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.20% 34.32% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,443 5,332 7,352
10th Percentile £313 £300 £269
25th Percentile £413 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £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 701 328 828
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.17
Median hourly rate £42.50 £34.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.25% -3.65% +60.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £82.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £31.76 £34.11
% change year-on-year +29.09% -6.88% +55.02%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -14 127 £550 +4.76% 54
North of England -28 79 £500 -4.31% 29
Yorkshire -16 46 £500 -26.47% 7
South East -39 43 £600 +3.67% 16
South West -14 27 £325 -47.58% 18
Midlands -54 27 £505 -22.31% 7
North West -34 26 £550 +10.28% 19
West Midlands -45 24 £525 -22.22% 7
North East -20 11 £650 - 3
East of England -32 4 £530 -3.64% 4
East Midlands -31 3 £503 -12.61%
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 (3.22%) Confluence
2 6 (1.93%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.64%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.64%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.61%) Maximo
2 3 (0.96%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.96%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.96%) 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
1 194 (62.38%) Azure
2 149 (47.91%) AWS
3 46 (14.79%) GCP
4 44 (14.15%) OpenShift
5 26 (8.36%) GitHub
6 23 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (7.07%) SaaS
8 19 (6.11%) OCI
9 18 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (5.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 16 (5.14%) Entra ID
11 14 (4.50%) Azure AKS
11 14 (4.50%) IaaS
12 11 (3.54%) Serverless
13 10 (3.22%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (2.89%) PaaS
15 8 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 59 (18.97%) Firewall
2 48 (15.43%) WAN
3 38 (12.22%) Network Security
4 32 (10.29%) BGP
5 31 (9.97%) VPN
6 27 (8.68%) SD-WAN
7 26 (8.36%) VXLAN
8 25 (8.04%) DNS
8 25 (8.04%) OSPF
9 23 (7.40%) LAN
10 21 (6.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 19 (6.11%) Ethernet VPN
12 17 (5.47%) BIG-IP
13 15 (4.82%) SAN
13 15 (4.82%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (3.54%) MPLS
15 9 (2.89%) VSAN
15 9 (2.89%) WLAN
16 8 (2.57%) DHCP
16 8 (2.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.96%) Metadata
2 3 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.64%) Redis
3 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.32%) Big Data
4 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.32%) Firebird
4 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.32%) Power BI
4 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (8.68%) Jenkins
2 22 (7.07%) GitLab
3 14 (4.50%) Git
4 10 (3.22%) JIRA
5 4 (1.29%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
General
1 95 (30.55%) Social Skills
2 38 (12.22%) Public Sector
3 26 (8.36%) Finance
4 21 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.43%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (6.11%) Banking
7 8 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.61%) Retail
10 4 (1.29%) Law
11 3 (0.96%) Front Office
11 3 (0.96%) Legal
11 3 (0.96%) Military
12 2 (0.64%) Billing
12 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.32%) Aviation
13 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (30.55%) Architect
2 56 (18.01%) Senior
3 37 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (9.32%) Network Architect
5 24 (7.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (7.07%) Lead
7 21 (6.75%) Network Engineer
8 20 (6.43%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (6.11%) Senior Architect
9 19 (6.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (4.18%) Technical Architect
14 11 (3.54%) Security Engineer
14 11 (3.54%) Senior Network Architect
15 9 (2.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 8 (2.57%) Desktop Engineer
16 8 (2.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 8 (2.57%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.04%) OpenTelemetry
2 17 (5.47%) REST
3 16 (5.14%) Kafka
4 14 (4.50%) JSON
5 9 (2.89%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.57%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.57%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.25%) Middleware
7 7 (2.25%) NETCONF
7 7 (2.25%) YANG
8 6 (1.93%) .NET
9 5 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.61%) LDAP
9 5 (1.61%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.61%) SAML
10 4 (1.29%) Loki
10 4 (1.29%) OAuth
10 4 (1.29%) Spring
11 3 (0.96%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (0.96%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.65%) Data Centre
2 57 (18.33%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.47%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.18%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.89%) Replication
9 7 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.25%) PKI
9 7 (2.25%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.25%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.93%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.93%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.61%) FlexPod
12 4 (1.29%) BYOD
12 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (15.43%) Windows
2 46 (14.79%) Linux
3 28 (9.00%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.89%) VMS
6 6 (1.93%) Data ONTAP
6 6 (1.93%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.61%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.64%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) AIX
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (31.51%) CI/CD
2 88 (28.30%) DevOps
3 84 (27.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (22.51%) Migration
5 61 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 50 (16.08%) Containerisation
7 47 (15.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 47 (15.11%) Zero Trust
8 46 (14.79%) Roadmaps
9 42 (13.50%) Cloud Security
9 42 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (12.86%) High Availability
11 39 (12.54%) Agile
12 37 (11.90%) Load Balancing
13 35 (11.25%) RBAC
14 32 (10.29%) Observability
15 31 (9.97%) Network Design
16 30 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
17 29 (9.32%) Runbook
18 27 (8.68%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 86 (27.65%) Python
2 55 (17.68%) PowerShell
3 32 (10.29%) Bash
4 18 (5.79%) Bicep
5 10 (3.22%) Java
6 9 (2.89%) SQL
7 8 (2.57%) Go
8 3 (0.96%) BeanShell
8 3 (0.96%) C#
8 3 (0.96%) R
8 3 (0.96%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.32%) C
9 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 80 (25.72%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.68%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.29%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (7.40%) DV Cleared
5 18 (5.79%) Degree
6 17 (5.47%) Azure Certification
7 16 (5.14%) CCNP
8 15 (4.82%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.22%) CCIE
9 10 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.89%) CISSP
10 9 (2.89%) OCP
10 9 (2.89%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (2.57%) CCNA
12 7 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.25%) JNCIE
13 6 (1.93%) CCSE
13 6 (1.93%) CISM
13 6 (1.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.29%) NIST
2 19 (6.11%) GDPR
2 19 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (2.89%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.25%) NCSC
5 6 (1.93%) NIST 800
6 5 (1.61%) GRC
7 4 (1.29%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.64%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.32%) QA
9 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (17.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (13.50%) Active Directory
3 36 (11.58%) vSphere
4 29 (9.32%) VMware NSX
5 18 (5.79%) Docker
5 18 (5.79%) Hyper-V
6 14 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (3.22%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.61%) NFS
10 3 (0.96%) KVM
11 1 (0.32%) Firmware
11 1 (0.32%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.32%) Squid
11 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 110 (35.37%) Terraform
2 80 (25.72%) Kubernetes
3 72 (23.15%) Ansible
4 28 (9.00%) Grafana
5 16 (5.14%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.14%) vCenter Server
6 13 (4.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (3.86%) Argo
8 6 (1.93%) Puppet
8 6 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.61%) Istio
9 5 (1.61%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.29%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.29%) Rancher
10 4 (1.29%) SCOM
11 3 (0.96%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.96%) SCCM
12 2 (0.64%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.64%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.64%) vMotion
Vendors
1 87 (27.97%) Microsoft
2 63 (20.26%) VMware
3 36 (11.58%) Palo Alto
4 34 (10.93%) Red Hat
5 32 (10.29%) Cisco
6 26 (8.36%) Aruba
6 26 (8.36%) Splunk
7 24 (7.72%) F5
8 18 (5.79%) Arista
8 18 (5.79%) Google
9 16 (5.14%) Fortinet
10 15 (4.82%) CheckPoint
11 14 (4.50%) Pure Storage
12 13 (4.18%) Juniper
13 10 (3.22%) Zscaler
14 9 (2.89%) NetApp
15 7 (2.25%) IBM
16 6 (1.93%) Commvault
16 6 (1.93%) CyberArk
17 5 (1.61%) Citrix