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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 317 440
Rank change year-on-year +5 +123 -6
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 338 199 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.73% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 2.10% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 116 69
10th Percentile £413 £409 £435
25th Percentile £481 £480 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £644 £639 £600
90th Percentile £738 £751 £705
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -2.09% +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 14,847 9,465 11,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.17% 34.82% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,228 5,997 7,278
10th Percentile £318 £305 £289
25th Percentile £420 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 801 468 782
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.01 £18.87 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.01% -17.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.81 £36.50
% change year-on-year +42.70% -15.60% +15.87%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -15 131 £568 +3.18% 31
North of England -50 79 £517 -13.86% 26
South East -22 65 £600 +4.35% 23
Yorkshire -20 43 £500 -20.00% 7
Midlands -43 37 £500 -28.57% 4
West Midlands -41 32 £500 -28.57% 3
North West -55 29 £570 -5.00% 18
South West -23 19 £575 -12.88% 10
North East -28 13 £650 +8.33% 1
East of England -23 6 £518 -5.91% 1
East Midlands -9 5 £500 -13.04% 1
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 13 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.37%) Confluence
3 7 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.48%) Apache
5 3 (0.89%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.59%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.07%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.59%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.59%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.30%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 209 (61.83%) Azure
2 172 (50.89%) AWS
3 47 (13.91%) GCP
4 38 (11.24%) OpenShift
5 35 (10.36%) GitHub
6 30 (8.88%) SaaS
7 26 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (6.80%) Entra ID
9 22 (6.51%) OCI
10 19 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (5.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 16 (4.73%) IaaS
13 14 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.14%) Serverless
14 11 (3.25%) PaaS
15 10 (2.96%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 76 (22.49%) Firewall
2 54 (15.98%) WAN
3 51 (15.09%) BGP
4 44 (13.02%) DNS
5 43 (12.72%) VPN
6 40 (11.83%) Network Security
7 36 (10.65%) OSPF
8 31 (9.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 31 (9.17%) LAN
8 31 (9.17%) SD-WAN
9 24 (7.10%) VXLAN
10 23 (6.80%) BIG-IP
11 22 (6.51%) MPLS
12 21 (6.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 20 (5.92%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (4.73%) DHCP
14 16 (4.73%) SAN
14 16 (4.73%) VLAN
15 15 (4.44%) TCP/IP
16 12 (3.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (1.78%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.89%) Metadata
2 3 (0.89%) NoSQL
2 3 (0.89%) Power BI
3 2 (0.59%) Big Data
3 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.59%) Redis
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.30%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.30%) Flink
4 1 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.30%) HBase
4 1 (0.30%) Impala
4 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (8.28%) Jenkins
2 25 (7.40%) GitLab
3 21 (6.21%) Git
4 8 (2.37%) JIRA
5 4 (1.18%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 90 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.91%) Public Sector
3 31 (9.17%) Finance
4 22 (6.51%) Banking
4 22 (6.51%) Documentation Skills
5 21 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.96%) Retail
8 5 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.18%) Local Government
10 3 (0.89%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.89%) Legal
10 3 (0.89%) Military
10 3 (0.89%) Publishing
11 2 (0.59%) Automotive
11 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.59%) Front Office
11 2 (0.59%) Law
11 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (33.14%) Architect
2 63 (18.64%) Senior
3 49 (14.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (10.36%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (9.76%) Network Architect
6 28 (8.28%) Network Engineer
7 25 (7.40%) Solutions Architect
8 24 (7.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (6.80%) Senior Architect
10 21 (6.21%) Lead
11 19 (5.62%) Technical Architect
12 16 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (3.25%) Security Engineer
16 10 (2.96%) Senior Network Architect
17 9 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
17 9 (2.66%) Security Architect
18 8 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.40%) OpenTelemetry
2 21 (6.21%) REST
3 16 (4.73%) Kafka
4 13 (3.85%) NETCONF
4 13 (3.85%) YANG
5 12 (3.55%) JSON
6 8 (2.37%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.37%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (1.78%) .NET
7 6 (1.78%) LDAP
7 6 (1.78%) Middleware
7 6 (1.78%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.78%) RESTCONF
7 6 (1.78%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.48%) 802.1X
8 5 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.18%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.18%) Loki
9 4 (1.18%) Spring
10 3 (0.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (21.01%) Data Centre
2 62 (18.34%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.51%) Public Cloud
4 17 (5.03%) Private Cloud
5 15 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.96%) Replication
9 8 (2.37%) PKI
10 7 (2.07%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.07%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.07%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.48%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.48%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.18%) BYOD
12 4 (1.18%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.09%) Linux
2 47 (13.91%) Windows
3 33 (9.76%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.66%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.66%) VMS
6 6 (1.78%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (1.48%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.59%) CentOS
8 2 (0.59%) Unix
9 1 (0.30%) AIX
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (31.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 107 (31.66%) CI/CD
3 105 (31.07%) DevOps
4 89 (26.33%) Migration
5 74 (21.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 65 (19.23%) Zero Trust
7 54 (15.98%) Disaster Recovery
8 52 (15.38%) Cloud Security
9 50 (14.79%) High Availability
9 50 (14.79%) Roadmaps
10 49 (14.50%) Containerisation
11 48 (14.20%) Network Design
12 43 (12.72%) Load Balancing
13 41 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (12.13%) Technical Leadership
14 40 (11.83%) Agile
14 40 (11.83%) Observability
15 34 (10.06%) RBAC
15 34 (10.06%) Runbook
16 32 (9.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 110 (32.54%) Python
2 47 (13.91%) PowerShell
3 39 (11.54%) Bash
4 16 (4.73%) Bicep
4 16 (4.73%) SQL
5 11 (3.25%) Java
6 7 (2.07%) Go
7 5 (1.48%) BeanShell
8 3 (0.89%) C#
9 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.30%) C
10 1 (0.30%) Groovy
10 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.30%) R
10 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 87 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 57 (16.86%) SC Cleared
3 45 (13.31%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 25 (7.40%) AWS Certification
6 23 (6.80%) Azure Certification
7 22 (6.51%) CCNP
7 22 (6.51%) Degree
8 16 (4.73%) CCIE
9 13 (3.85%) JNCIE
9 13 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.66%) OCP
12 9 (2.66%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (2.37%) CCNA
13 8 (2.37%) CISSP
14 5 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.36%) NIST
2 21 (6.21%) GDPR
3 19 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.85%) NCSC
5 12 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.25%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.48%) GRC
8 4 (1.18%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.59%) SLA
10 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.30%) QA
10 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (17.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (13.61%) Active Directory
3 40 (11.83%) vSphere
4 34 (10.06%) VMware NSX
5 21 (6.21%) Docker
6 18 (5.33%) Hyper-V
7 17 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.48%) NFS
10 4 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.89%) KVM
12 1 (0.30%) Ceph
12 1 (0.30%) Firmware
12 1 (0.30%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.30%) Squid
12 1 (0.30%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 122 (36.09%) Terraform
2 88 (26.04%) Ansible
3 75 (22.19%) Kubernetes
4 33 (9.76%) Grafana
5 22 (6.51%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.03%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.55%) Argo
8 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.07%) FortiGate
10 6 (1.78%) Puppet
11 5 (1.48%) Istio
11 5 (1.48%) SnapMirror
11 5 (1.48%) systemd
12 4 (1.18%) CASB
12 4 (1.18%) Rancher
12 4 (1.18%) SCCM
12 4 (1.18%) SCOM
13 3 (0.89%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.89%) PowerCLI
13 3 (0.89%) yum
Vendors
1 101 (29.88%) Microsoft
2 72 (21.30%) VMware
3 45 (13.31%) Cisco
3 45 (13.31%) Palo Alto
4 38 (11.24%) F5
5 28 (8.28%) Red Hat
6 25 (7.40%) Splunk
7 23 (6.80%) Fortinet
7 23 (6.80%) Google
8 22 (6.51%) Aruba
9 19 (5.62%) Arista
9 19 (5.62%) Juniper
10 13 (3.85%) Zscaler
11 12 (3.55%) Pure Storage
12 11 (3.25%) CheckPoint
13 9 (2.66%) SolarWinds
14 8 (2.37%) NetApp
15 7 (2.07%) CyberArk
16 6 (1.78%) Commvault
17 5 (1.48%) SAP