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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 320 462
Rank change year-on-year +12 +142 -22
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 335 180 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.71% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% 2.04% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 102 62
10th Percentile £413 £407 £415
25th Percentile £475 £480 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £608
90th Percentile £725 £751 £723
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
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 14,374 8,842 11,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.85% 34.67% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,944 5,654 7,319
10th Percentile £313 £303 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.64% -1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 780 422 840
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.59 £12.23
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -10.81% +54.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.15 £31.29 £35.65
% change year-on-year +34.73% -12.24% +58.44%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -24 132 £550 +2.33% 36
North of England -40 79 £517 -13.86% 19
South East -35 58 £625 +8.70% 25
Yorkshire -20 43 £500 -20.00% 7
Midlands -39 35 £500 -35.48% 6
West Midlands -36 30 £500 -44.44% 3
North West -45 29 £558 -1.93% 12
South West -16 23 £498 -19.76% 7
North East -25 13 £650 +8.33%
East Midlands -14 5 £500 -13.04% 3
East of England -29 5 £530 -3.64% 4
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 (2.99%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.39%) Confluence
2 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.19%) Apache
4 3 (0.90%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.60%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) IIS
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.49%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (0.90%) Fidessa
1 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Maximo
2 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 208 (62.09%) Azure
2 168 (50.15%) AWS
3 49 (14.63%) GCP
4 39 (11.64%) OpenShift
5 31 (9.25%) GitHub
6 30 (8.96%) SaaS
7 28 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (6.87%) Entra ID
9 21 (6.27%) OCI
10 20 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (5.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 17 (5.07%) Serverless
12 16 (4.78%) IaaS
13 13 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.28%) Azure AKS
14 11 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.99%) PaaS
16 9 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 73 (21.79%) Firewall
2 55 (16.42%) WAN
3 47 (14.03%) BGP
4 42 (12.54%) DNS
4 42 (12.54%) Network Security
4 42 (12.54%) VPN
5 34 (10.15%) OSPF
6 33 (9.85%) SD-WAN
7 30 (8.96%) LAN
8 29 (8.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 25 (7.46%) VXLAN
10 23 (6.87%) BIG-IP
11 21 (6.27%) Ethernet VPN
12 20 (5.97%) MPLS
13 18 (5.37%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (4.78%) SAN
15 14 (4.18%) DHCP
16 12 (3.58%) VLAN
16 12 (3.58%) WLAN
17 11 (3.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.60%) Metadata
3 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.60%) Power BI
3 2 (0.60%) Redis
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.30%) Big Data
4 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.30%) Firebird
4 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.16%) GitLab
3 18 (5.37%) Git
4 8 (2.39%) JIRA
5 4 (1.19%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 91 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.33%) Public Sector
3 27 (8.06%) Finance
4 24 (7.16%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (5.97%) Banking
6 18 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.58%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.69%) Retail
9 7 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.19%) Law
10 4 (1.19%) Local Government
11 3 (0.90%) Front Office
11 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Legal
11 3 (0.90%) Military
11 3 (0.90%) Publishing
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 112 (33.43%) Architect
2 61 (18.21%) Senior
3 46 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (10.45%) Network Architect
5 32 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (7.16%) Network Engineer
7 23 (6.87%) Senior Architect
8 22 (6.57%) Lead
8 22 (6.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (5.37%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (5.37%) Technical Architect
10 17 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.28%) Security Engineer
13 11 (3.28%) Senior Network Architect
14 10 (2.99%) Security Architect
15 9 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
16 7 (2.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.46%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (5.97%) REST
3 15 (4.48%) Kafka
4 12 (3.58%) JSON
5 11 (3.28%) NETCONF
5 11 (3.28%) YANG
6 8 (2.39%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.39%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.09%) ARM Templates
7 7 (2.09%) Middleware
8 6 (1.79%) .NET
8 6 (1.79%) LDAP
8 6 (1.79%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.19%) Loki
10 4 (1.19%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.19%) RESTCONF
11 3 (0.90%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (20.60%) Data Centre
2 66 (19.70%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.37%) Public Cloud
4 17 (5.07%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.48%) Private Cloud
6 14 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.69%) Replication
9 7 (2.09%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.09%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.79%) PKI
11 5 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.49%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.49%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.33%) Windows
2 46 (13.73%) Linux
3 33 (9.85%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.69%) VMS
6 7 (2.09%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.79%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.49%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.60%) CentOS
10 1 (0.30%) AIX
10 1 (0.30%) Unix
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (31.64%) CI/CD
2 104 (31.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 102 (30.45%) DevOps
4 85 (25.37%) Migration
5 73 (21.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 60 (17.91%) Zero Trust
7 53 (15.82%) Disaster Recovery
8 50 (14.93%) Cloud Security
8 50 (14.93%) Containerisation
9 47 (14.03%) High Availability
9 47 (14.03%) Roadmaps
10 45 (13.43%) Network Design
11 43 (12.84%) Agile
11 43 (12.84%) Load Balancing
12 41 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
14 37 (11.04%) Observability
14 37 (11.04%) RBAC
15 33 (9.85%) Runbook
16 31 (9.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 102 (30.45%) Python
2 50 (14.93%) PowerShell
3 36 (10.75%) Bash
4 17 (5.07%) Bicep
5 14 (4.18%) SQL
6 11 (3.28%) Java
7 7 (2.09%) Go
8 5 (1.49%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.90%) C#
9 3 (0.90%) R
9 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) C
11 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 86 (25.67%) Security Cleared
2 57 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 43 (12.84%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (7.76%) DV Cleared
5 23 (6.87%) Degree
6 22 (6.57%) Azure Certification
7 21 (6.27%) AWS Certification
7 21 (6.27%) CCNP
8 15 (4.48%) CCIE
9 13 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (3.28%) JNCIE
11 10 (2.99%) CISSP
11 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.69%) OCP
12 9 (2.69%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (2.39%) CCNA
13 8 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.45%) NIST
2 21 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.97%) GDPR
4 13 (3.88%) NCSC
5 12 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.99%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.49%) GRC
8 4 (1.19%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.90%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.60%) SLA
10 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.30%) QA
System Software
1 59 (17.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (14.33%) Active Directory
3 40 (11.94%) vSphere
4 34 (10.15%) VMware NSX
5 19 (5.67%) Docker
5 19 (5.67%) Hyper-V
6 17 (5.07%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (4.18%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.49%) NFS
8 5 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.19%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.30%) Squid
10 1 (0.30%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 118 (35.22%) Terraform
2 82 (24.48%) Ansible
3 76 (22.69%) Kubernetes
4 33 (9.85%) Grafana
5 21 (6.27%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.07%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.58%) Argo
8 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.39%) Puppet
10 6 (1.79%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.49%) Istio
11 5 (1.49%) SnapMirror
12 4 (1.19%) CASB
12 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.19%) Rancher
12 4 (1.19%) SCOM
13 3 (0.90%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.90%) SCCM
13 3 (0.90%) systemd
13 3 (0.90%) yum
Vendors
1 98 (29.25%) Microsoft
2 72 (21.49%) VMware
3 45 (13.43%) Palo Alto
4 39 (11.64%) Cisco
5 34 (10.15%) F5
6 31 (9.25%) Red Hat
7 26 (7.76%) Splunk
8 23 (6.87%) Aruba
9 22 (6.57%) Google
10 20 (5.97%) Fortinet
11 19 (5.67%) Arista
12 14 (4.18%) Juniper
13 13 (3.88%) Pure Storage
14 12 (3.58%) CheckPoint
15 11 (3.28%) Zscaler
16 9 (2.69%) SolarWinds
17 8 (2.39%) NetApp
18 7 (2.09%) CyberArk
19 6 (1.79%) Commvault
20 5 (1.49%) ServiceNow