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

6 months to
7 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 313 457
Rank change year-on-year 0 +144 -21
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 303 171 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.70% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 2.05% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 101 68
10th Percentile £387 £450 £441
25th Percentile £463 £494 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £634 £675 £616
90th Percentile £705 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £21.91 - -
25th Percentile £30.89 - -
Median hourly rate £46.68 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -53.32% - -
75th Percentile £62.39 - -
90th Percentile £71.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.68 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -53.32% - -

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 13,147 8,326 11,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.29% 34.16% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,325 5,444 7,507
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -0.32% -3.93%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 332 822
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.68 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.36 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £34.50 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +36.23% +8.66% +41.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.57 £61.30
90th Percentile £87.95 £84.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £30.14
% change year-on-year +38.46% +7.83% +34.04%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +5 136 £550 +2.33% 31
North of England -26 66 £500 -5.84% 33
South East -31 43 £613 +3.59% 24
Yorkshire -20 41 £500 -30.07% 4
South West -18 27 £363 -41.53% 18
Midlands -61 25 £550 -15.38% 9
West Midlands -46 22 £550 -15.38% 9
North West -35 21 £538 +2.63% 26
North East -17 6 £450 - 3
East of England -35 4 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -32 3 £503 -17.96%
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 (3.30%) Confluence
2 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.65%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.66%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.65%) Maximo
1 5 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.32%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (1.32%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 180 (59.41%) Azure
2 134 (44.22%) AWS
3 46 (15.18%) OpenShift
4 37 (12.21%) GCP
5 31 (10.23%) GitHub
6 22 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 14 (4.62%) SaaS
9 13 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.96%) Entra ID
10 12 (3.96%) IaaS
10 12 (3.96%) Serverless
11 11 (3.63%) Azure AKS
11 11 (3.63%) OCI
12 10 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (2.97%) PaaS
14 8 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (15.18%) Firewall
2 40 (13.20%) WAN
3 39 (12.87%) Network Security
4 36 (11.88%) VPN
5 25 (8.25%) BGP
5 25 (8.25%) DNS
6 20 (6.60%) LAN
6 20 (6.60%) SD-WAN
7 17 (5.61%) OSPF
7 17 (5.61%) VXLAN
8 14 (4.62%) SAN
9 13 (4.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 12 (3.96%) MPLS
11 11 (3.63%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (3.63%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (2.97%) BIG-IP
12 9 (2.97%) VSAN
13 7 (2.31%) NAS
13 7 (2.31%) Software-Defined Networking
14 6 (1.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.65%) Metadata
3 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.32%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.99%) Big Data
4 3 (0.99%) Power BI
5 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.66%) DataStage
5 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.66%) Redis
5 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.33%) Firebird
6 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (9.90%) Jenkins
2 17 (5.61%) GitLab
3 12 (3.96%) JIRA
4 10 (3.30%) Git
5 4 (1.32%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.56%) Public Sector
3 29 (9.57%) Finance
4 25 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.28%) Banking
7 11 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.64%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.31%) Retail
10 6 (1.98%) Legal
11 4 (1.32%) Front Office
11 4 (1.32%) Law
12 2 (0.66%) Billing
12 2 (0.66%) Marketing
12 2 (0.66%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (31.68%) Architect
2 49 (16.17%) Senior
3 28 (9.24%) Lead
3 28 (9.24%) Network Architect
4 25 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (7.26%) Network Engineer
6 19 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (5.61%) Senior Architect
8 14 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
9 13 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.29%) Technical Architect
10 11 (3.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.63%) Senior Network Architect
11 10 (3.30%) Data Engineer
12 9 (2.97%) Enterprise Architect
12 9 (2.97%) Security Engineer
13 8 (2.64%) Desktop Engineer
13 8 (2.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.91%) OpenTelemetry
2 19 (6.27%) Kafka
2 19 (6.27%) REST
3 14 (4.62%) JSON
4 8 (2.64%) Apache Avro
4 8 (2.64%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.64%) Middleware
4 8 (2.64%) NETCONF
4 8 (2.64%) Protocol Buffers
4 8 (2.64%) YANG
5 6 (1.98%) .NET
6 5 (1.65%) SAML
7 4 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (1.32%) JMS
7 4 (1.32%) Keycloak
7 4 (1.32%) OAuth
7 4 (1.32%) OpenConfig
7 4 (1.32%) RESTCONF
7 4 (1.32%) Spring
7 4 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.48%) Cloud Native
1 56 (18.48%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.63%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.63%) Replication
5 10 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.31%) PKI
7 7 (2.31%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.98%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.98%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.98%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.65%) FlexPod
10 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.32%) BYOD
10 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.32%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.51%) Linux
2 45 (14.85%) Windows
3 26 (8.58%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.97%) VMS
5 6 (1.98%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (1.65%) CoreOS
7 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.66%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) AIX
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.04%) CI/CD
2 83 (27.39%) DevOps
3 72 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (22.77%) Migration
5 58 (19.14%) Containerisation
6 54 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (16.17%) Roadmaps
8 47 (15.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 43 (14.19%) Disaster Recovery
10 40 (13.20%) Cloud Security
11 37 (12.21%) High Availability
12 36 (11.88%) Zero Trust
13 35 (11.55%) Agile
14 32 (10.56%) RBAC
15 31 (10.23%) Load Balancing
15 31 (10.23%) Observability
16 30 (9.90%) Runbook
17 29 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
18 28 (9.24%) Analytics
19 27 (8.91%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 86 (28.38%) Python
2 50 (16.50%) PowerShell
3 37 (12.21%) Bash
4 17 (5.61%) Bicep
5 11 (3.63%) Go
5 11 (3.63%) Java
6 10 (3.30%) SQL
7 3 (0.99%) C#
7 3 (0.99%) R
7 3 (0.99%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.33%) C
8 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 73 (24.09%) Security Cleared
2 47 (15.51%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.57%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (6.93%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.27%) Azure Certification
5 19 (6.27%) Degree
6 14 (4.62%) CCNP
7 13 (4.29%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.96%) CCIE
9 10 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.97%) OCP
10 9 (2.97%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.64%) CCNA
11 8 (2.64%) JNCIE
12 7 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.98%) CISSP
13 6 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.65%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.57%) NIST
2 22 (7.26%) GDPR
3 19 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.98%) NIST 800
5 6 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.65%) GRC
6 5 (1.65%) NCSC
6 5 (1.65%) QA
7 4 (1.32%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (15.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (10.89%) Active Directory
3 32 (10.56%) VMware NSX
4 30 (9.90%) vSphere
5 23 (7.59%) Docker
6 15 (4.95%) Hyper-V
7 12 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.65%) NFS
8 5 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.99%) KVM
11 1 (0.33%) Firmware
11 1 (0.33%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 102 (33.66%) Terraform
2 82 (27.06%) Kubernetes
3 68 (22.44%) Ansible
4 28 (9.24%) Grafana
5 18 (5.94%) vCenter Server
6 15 (4.95%) Argo
7 14 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (4.62%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.65%) Istio
9 5 (1.65%) Puppet
9 5 (1.65%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.32%) Rancher
10 4 (1.32%) SCOM
11 3 (0.99%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.66%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 83 (27.39%) Microsoft
2 59 (19.47%) VMware
3 34 (11.22%) Red Hat
4 30 (9.90%) Cisco
5 29 (9.57%) Palo Alto
5 29 (9.57%) Splunk
6 18 (5.94%) F5
7 17 (5.61%) Aruba
8 16 (5.28%) Fortinet
8 16 (5.28%) Google
8 16 (5.28%) Pure Storage
9 14 (4.62%) CheckPoint
9 14 (4.62%) Juniper
10 13 (4.29%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.30%) Arista
11 10 (3.30%) NetApp
12 8 (2.64%) IBM
12 8 (2.64%) SAP
13 7 (2.31%) Databricks
13 7 (2.31%) OpenAI
117 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England