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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 319 451
Rank change year-on-year +12 +132 -7
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 301 171 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.71% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 2.07% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 100 57
10th Percentile £393 £444 £441
25th Percentile £463 £486 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £742
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -83.14% - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.87 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -83.14% - -

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 13,200 8,279 11,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 34.19% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,339 5,404 7,342
10th Percentile £313 £300 £266
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -3.64%
75th Percentile £628 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 338 818
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.03 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.91 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +32.70% -0.57% +51.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £83.59 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year +32.05% +0.83% +41.51%

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 21 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
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 21 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 -6 124 £550 +4.76% 40
North of England -29 75 £500 -4.31% 24
Yorkshire -17 44 £500 -26.47% 5
South East -38 43 £600 +3.00% 19
Midlands -43 26 £515 -15.92% 9
South West -19 25 £244 -60.69% 21
North West -34 23 £550 +10.28% 16
West Midlands -43 23 £525 -19.23% 7
North East -20 10 £650 - 3
East of England -27 4 £530 -3.64% 3
East Midlands -27 3 £503 -12.61% 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 10 (3.32%) Confluence
2 6 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.66%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.00%) Apache
5 2 (0.66%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.66%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Maximo
2 3 (1.00%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.00%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 184 (61.13%) Azure
2 140 (46.51%) AWS
3 43 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 41 (13.62%) GCP
5 27 (8.97%) GitHub
6 22 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (5.65%) OCI
8 17 (5.65%) SaaS
9 16 (5.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 14 (4.65%) Azure AKS
10 14 (4.65%) IaaS
11 13 (4.32%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (3.32%) Serverless
13 9 (2.99%) PaaS
14 8 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (18.27%) Firewall
2 45 (14.95%) WAN
3 37 (12.29%) Network Security
4 30 (9.97%) BGP
4 30 (9.97%) VPN
5 25 (8.31%) DNS
5 25 (8.31%) SD-WAN
6 23 (7.64%) OSPF
6 23 (7.64%) VXLAN
7 21 (6.98%) LAN
8 19 (6.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 17 (5.65%) Ethernet VPN
10 15 (4.98%) BIG-IP
10 15 (4.98%) SAN
11 13 (4.32%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (3.65%) MPLS
13 9 (2.99%) VSAN
14 8 (2.66%) DHCP
14 8 (2.66%) NAS
15 7 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.99%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.00%) Big Data
3 3 (1.00%) Metadata
4 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.66%) DataStage
4 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.66%) Redis
4 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.33%) Firebird
5 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.33%) Power BI
5 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (8.64%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.64%) GitLab
3 13 (4.32%) Git
4 12 (3.99%) JIRA
5 4 (1.33%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
General
1 96 (31.89%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.30%) Public Sector
3 25 (8.31%) Finance
4 23 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.64%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (5.98%) Banking
7 8 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.66%) Retail
10 4 (1.33%) Law
11 3 (1.00%) Front Office
11 3 (1.00%) Legal
12 2 (0.66%) Billing
12 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.66%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Aviation
13 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Marketing
13 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 89 (29.57%) Architect
2 56 (18.60%) Senior
3 34 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (8.97%) Network Architect
5 24 (7.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (7.31%) Lead
7 21 (6.98%) Network Engineer
8 20 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (6.31%) Senior Architect
10 17 (5.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (4.32%) Technical Architect
14 11 (3.65%) Senior Network Architect
15 10 (3.32%) Security Engineer
16 9 (2.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 8 (2.66%) Data Engineer
17 8 (2.66%) Desktop Engineer
17 8 (2.66%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.31%) OpenTelemetry
2 17 (5.65%) REST
3 16 (5.32%) Kafka
4 14 (4.65%) JSON
5 9 (2.99%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.66%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.66%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.33%) Middleware
7 7 (2.33%) NETCONF
7 7 (2.33%) YANG
8 6 (1.99%) .NET
9 5 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.66%) SAML
10 4 (1.33%) Loki
10 4 (1.33%) OAuth
10 4 (1.33%) Spring
10 4 (1.33%) XML
11 3 (1.00%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.00%) OpenID
11 3 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.60%) Data Centre
2 53 (17.61%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.32%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.32%) Replication
6 7 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.33%) PKI
6 7 (2.33%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.99%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.99%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.66%) FlexPod
8 5 (1.66%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.33%) BYOD
9 4 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.61%) Windows
2 45 (14.95%) Linux
3 27 (8.97%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.99%) VMS
5 6 (1.99%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (1.99%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.66%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.66%) CentOS
8 1 (0.33%) AIX
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (31.23%) CI/CD
2 84 (27.91%) DevOps
3 80 (26.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (23.26%) Migration
5 57 (18.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 50 (16.61%) Containerisation
7 46 (15.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 45 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (14.95%) Roadmaps
9 42 (13.95%) Zero Trust
10 41 (13.62%) Cloud Security
11 39 (12.96%) Agile
12 38 (12.62%) High Availability
13 35 (11.63%) Load Balancing
14 32 (10.63%) Observability
14 32 (10.63%) RBAC
15 29 (9.63%) Network Design
15 29 (9.63%) Runbook
15 29 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (8.97%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 84 (27.91%) Python
2 51 (16.94%) PowerShell
3 31 (10.30%) Bash
4 18 (5.98%) Bicep
5 9 (2.99%) Go
5 9 (2.99%) SQL
6 7 (2.33%) Java
7 3 (1.00%) C#
7 3 (1.00%) R
7 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.33%) C
8 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 75 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 51 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.63%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (7.31%) DV Cleared
5 18 (5.98%) Azure Certification
5 18 (5.98%) Degree
6 15 (4.98%) CCNP
7 14 (4.65%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.32%) CCIE
8 10 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.99%) OCP
9 9 (2.99%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (2.66%) CCNA
11 7 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.33%) JNCIE
12 6 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.99%) CISSP
12 6 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (1.66%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.97%) NIST
2 19 (6.31%) GDPR
3 18 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.99%) NCSC
6 6 (1.99%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.66%) GRC
8 4 (1.33%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) QA
9 1 (0.33%) SLA
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (17.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (12.62%) Active Directory
3 35 (11.63%) vSphere
4 28 (9.30%) VMware NSX
5 18 (5.98%) Docker
5 18 (5.98%) Hyper-V
6 14 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.66%) NFS
10 3 (1.00%) KVM
11 1 (0.33%) Firmware
11 1 (0.33%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.33%) Squid
11 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 106 (35.22%) Terraform
2 80 (26.58%) Kubernetes
3 68 (22.59%) Ansible
4 28 (9.30%) Grafana
5 16 (5.32%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.32%) vCenter Server
6 13 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (3.99%) Argo
8 6 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.66%) Istio
9 5 (1.66%) Puppet
9 5 (1.66%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.33%) Rancher
10 4 (1.33%) SCOM
11 3 (1.00%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.00%) SCCM
12 2 (0.66%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.66%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 83 (27.57%) Microsoft
2 62 (20.60%) VMware
3 33 (10.96%) Palo Alto
4 32 (10.63%) Cisco
4 32 (10.63%) Red Hat
5 26 (8.64%) Splunk
6 23 (7.64%) Aruba
6 23 (7.64%) F5
7 17 (5.65%) Google
8 16 (5.32%) Arista
8 16 (5.32%) Fortinet
9 14 (4.65%) CheckPoint
9 14 (4.65%) Pure Storage
10 13 (4.32%) Juniper
11 10 (3.32%) Zscaler
12 9 (2.99%) NetApp
13 8 (2.66%) IBM
14 6 (1.99%) Commvault
15 5 (1.66%) Citrix
15 5 (1.66%) SAP