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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 303 435
Rank change year-on-year -5 +132 -7
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 367 203 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.74% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 2.10% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 118 68
10th Percentile £413 £406 £432
25th Percentile £490 £475 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £613
90th Percentile £762 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £58.37 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £83.62 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

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 15,162 9,689 10,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.38% 35.09% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,333 6,121 6,736
10th Percentile £325 £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 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 873 481 552
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.52 £18.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.56% -33.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £44.74
% change year-on-year +49.02% -34.06% +11.85%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +12 140 £575 +4.55% 146
South East -16 82 £615 +17.14% 60
North of England -33 81 £519 -13.47% 51
Yorkshire -14 43 £500 -20.00% 20
Midlands -41 35 £488 -30.36% 9
North West -59 31 £565 -5.83% 29
West Midlands -45 30 £488 -30.36% 5
South West -44 20 £575 -17.86% 21
North East -30 13 £650 +8.33% 2
East of England -16 7 £505 -8.18% 8
East Midlands -6 5 £478 +11.05% 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 12 (3.27%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.63%) Apache
3 6 (1.63%) Confluence
4 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.82%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.91%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.54%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 239 (65.12%) Azure
2 179 (48.77%) AWS
3 54 (14.71%) GCP
4 38 (10.35%) Entra ID
4 38 (10.35%) GitHub
5 36 (9.81%) OpenShift
6 33 (8.99%) SaaS
7 29 (7.90%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (6.81%) OCI
10 22 (5.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 19 (5.18%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (4.90%) IaaS
13 14 (3.81%) Serverless
14 13 (3.54%) PaaS
15 12 (3.27%) Azure AKS
15 12 (3.27%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 90 (24.52%) Firewall
2 61 (16.62%) DNS
3 58 (15.80%) VPN
4 57 (15.53%) WAN
5 50 (13.62%) BGP
6 44 (11.99%) Network Security
7 37 (10.08%) OSPF
8 34 (9.26%) DHCP
8 34 (9.26%) SD-WAN
9 31 (8.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 30 (8.17%) LAN
11 28 (7.63%) TCP/IP
12 26 (7.08%) VXLAN
13 23 (6.27%) BIG-IP
13 23 (6.27%) Ethernet VPN
13 23 (6.27%) MPLS
14 20 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (4.90%) VLAN
16 16 (4.36%) SAN
17 13 (3.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (1.63%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.09%) Power BI
4 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.54%) Big Data
5 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.54%) Metadata
5 2 (0.54%) Redis
6 1 (0.27%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.27%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.27%) Flink
6 1 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.27%) Impala
6 1 (0.27%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 30 (8.17%) GitLab
2 29 (7.90%) Jenkins
3 27 (7.36%) Git
4 5 (1.36%) JIRA
4 5 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.09%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 100 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.99%) Public Sector
3 32 (8.72%) Finance
4 30 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.54%) Banking
6 23 (6.27%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.36%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.00%) Aerospace
8 11 (3.00%) Retail
9 5 (1.36%) Local Government
10 4 (1.09%) Automotive
10 4 (1.09%) Law
10 4 (1.09%) Legal
10 4 (1.09%) Military
10 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Publishing
12 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.54%) Front Office
12 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 122 (33.24%) Architect
2 76 (20.71%) Senior
3 52 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 33 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (8.99%) Network Engineer
5 32 (8.72%) Network Architect
6 30 (8.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (8.17%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (6.54%) Lead
8 23 (6.27%) Senior Architect
9 19 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.18%) Technical Architect
10 18 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (3.81%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (3.27%) Enterprise Architect
13 12 (3.27%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.72%) Consultant
14 10 (2.72%) Security Architect
15 9 (2.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.72%) REST
2 19 (5.18%) OpenTelemetry
3 16 (4.36%) ARM Templates
3 16 (4.36%) Kafka
4 11 (3.00%) NETCONF
4 11 (3.00%) YANG
5 10 (2.72%) JSON
6 7 (1.91%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.63%) .NET
7 6 (1.63%) Apache Avro
7 6 (1.63%) LDAP
7 6 (1.63%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.63%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (1.63%) RESTCONF
7 6 (1.63%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.36%) Middleware
9 4 (1.09%) Loki
9 4 (1.09%) OAuth
9 4 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (18.53%) Data Centre
2 61 (16.62%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.81%) Public Cloud
4 24 (6.54%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.09%) Private Cloud
6 14 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (3.00%) Enterprise Cloud
9 10 (2.72%) PKI
9 10 (2.72%) Replication
10 8 (2.18%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.18%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.18%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.63%) ARM Cortex
13 5 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.36%) FlexPod
13 5 (1.36%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 68 (18.53%) Linux
2 66 (17.98%) Windows
3 52 (14.17%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.00%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.45%) VMS
7 6 (1.63%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.36%) CoreOS
9 4 (1.09%) Unix
10 2 (0.54%) CentOS
10 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.27%) AIX
11 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 125 (34.06%) DevOps
3 120 (32.70%) CI/CD
4 96 (26.16%) Migration
5 84 (22.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 74 (20.16%) Zero Trust
7 61 (16.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 58 (15.80%) Cloud Security
9 56 (15.26%) Roadmaps
10 53 (14.44%) Technical Leadership
11 51 (13.90%) High Availability
12 50 (13.62%) Observability
13 46 (12.53%) Agile
13 46 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (12.26%) Analytics
14 45 (12.26%) Containerisation
14 45 (12.26%) Network Design
15 44 (11.99%) Load Balancing
16 43 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (11.44%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 116 (31.61%) Python
2 64 (17.44%) PowerShell
3 53 (14.44%) Bash
4 26 (7.08%) Bicep
5 18 (4.90%) SQL
6 10 (2.72%) Java
7 7 (1.91%) Go
8 5 (1.36%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.82%) C#
10 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.27%) C
11 1 (0.27%) Groovy
11 1 (0.27%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.27%) Perl
11 1 (0.27%) R
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 103 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 70 (19.07%) SC Cleared
3 47 (12.81%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (9.26%) DV Cleared
5 32 (8.72%) Azure Certification
6 29 (7.90%) Degree
7 27 (7.36%) AWS Certification
8 26 (7.08%) CCNP
9 16 (4.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (4.09%) CCIE
11 13 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (3.00%) CISSP
13 11 (3.00%) JNCIE
14 9 (2.45%) OCP
14 9 (2.45%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (1.63%) CCNA
17 5 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.81%) NIST
2 24 (6.54%) GDPR
3 21 (5.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.81%) NCSC
5 13 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.00%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.09%) GRC
8 3 (0.82%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.27%) QA
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (17.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 63 (17.17%) Active Directory
3 41 (11.17%) vSphere
4 35 (9.54%) VMware NSX
5 26 (7.08%) Docker
6 22 (5.99%) Hyper-V
7 20 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (4.36%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.36%) NFS
10 4 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.82%) KVM
12 1 (0.27%) Ceph
12 1 (0.27%) Firmware
12 1 (0.27%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.27%) Squid
12 1 (0.27%) Varnish
12 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 146 (39.78%) Terraform
2 100 (27.25%) Ansible
3 81 (22.07%) Kubernetes
4 32 (8.72%) Grafana
5 22 (5.99%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.36%) vCenter Server
7 14 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (3.27%) SCCM
9 10 (2.72%) Argo
10 8 (2.18%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.18%) Istio
11 7 (1.91%) Puppet
11 7 (1.91%) systemd
12 5 (1.36%) SnapMirror
13 4 (1.09%) CASB
13 4 (1.09%) Rancher
13 4 (1.09%) SCOM
14 3 (0.82%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.82%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.82%) yum
Vendors
1 124 (33.79%) Microsoft
2 81 (22.07%) VMware
3 51 (13.90%) Cisco
3 51 (13.90%) Palo Alto
4 40 (10.90%) F5
5 26 (7.08%) Fortinet
5 26 (7.08%) Google
6 24 (6.54%) Aruba
6 24 (6.54%) Red Hat
7 22 (5.99%) Juniper
8 20 (5.45%) Splunk
9 19 (5.18%) Arista
10 14 (3.81%) Zscaler
11 10 (2.72%) CheckPoint
12 9 (2.45%) Pure Storage
12 9 (2.45%) SolarWinds
13 8 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (2.18%) CyberArk
13 8 (2.18%) NetApp
14 7 (1.91%) SAP