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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 365 434
Rank change year-on-year +58 +69 +77
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 240 127 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.47% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 1.45% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 94 89
10th Percentile £413 £460 £464
25th Percentile £464 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £607 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% +1.17% +3.00%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £530 £604 £575
% change year-on-year -12.18% +4.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £75.30
25th Percentile £75.75 - £75.75
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £76.50
75th Percentile £77.25 - £77.25
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £76.50

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 10,899 8,776 11,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 32.57% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,908 5,287 7,696
10th Percentile £287 £275 £263
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £784 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £535 £545
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.83% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 252 506
10th Percentile £14.36 £17.28 £15.37
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £19.99
Median hourly rate £28.56 £37.50 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% -0.33% +50.50%
75th Percentile £61.55 £67.27 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £34.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.71% -8.67% +50.00%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +39 97 £569 -1.09% 27
South West +10 40 £550 -21.43% 16
North of England -18 37 £487 -28.38% 20
South East -5 35 £538 -10.23% 31
Midlands -26 31 £550 -15.38% 11
West Midlands -14 28 £550 -21.43% 4
Yorkshire -25 23 £476 -33.39% 7
North West -20 13 £543 +3.33% 11
East of England - 4 £503 - 10
East Midlands -24 3 £500 -9.09% 7
North East -12 1 £600 - 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 13 (5.42%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.67%) Confluence
4 4 (1.67%) SAS
5 3 (1.25%) CMS
5 3 (1.25%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.25%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.83%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.42%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.42%) Mule
7 1 (0.42%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.33%) Maximo
2 4 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.42%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.42%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 145 (60.42%) Azure
2 96 (40.00%) AWS
3 38 (15.83%) GCP
4 37 (15.42%) OpenShift
5 25 (10.42%) Entra ID
5 25 (10.42%) GitHub
6 18 (7.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 15 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (6.25%) SaaS
8 14 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (5.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (4.58%) Azure AKS
11 10 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (3.75%) IaaS
13 8 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.33%) Amazon S3
13 8 (3.33%) PaaS
14 7 (2.92%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 49 (20.42%) Firewall
2 38 (15.83%) WAN
3 34 (14.17%) Network Security
3 34 (14.17%) VPN
4 22 (9.17%) LAN
5 17 (7.08%) BGP
6 16 (6.67%) SD-WAN
7 14 (5.83%) MPLS
8 13 (5.42%) DNS
9 9 (3.75%) SNMP
9 9 (3.75%) Wireless
10 8 (3.33%) OSPF
10 8 (3.33%) TACACS
11 6 (2.50%) DHCP
11 6 (2.50%) NGFW
11 6 (2.50%) VXLAN
12 5 (2.08%) TCP/IP
13 4 (1.67%) DMZ
13 4 (1.67%) SAN
13 4 (1.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.08%) Big Data
3 5 (2.08%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.08%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.67%) Metadata
4 4 (1.67%) Power BI
5 3 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.83%) DataStage
6 2 (0.83%) Tableau
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.42%) Impala
7 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.42%) QlikView
7 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.25%) GitLab
3 7 (2.92%) Git
4 6 (2.50%) JIRA
5 2 (0.83%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
General
1 96 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.58%) Finance
3 24 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.75%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.92%) Banking
8 6 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.08%) Retail
10 4 (1.67%) Legal
11 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Billing
12 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.83%) International Banking
12 2 (0.83%) Local Government
12 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.42%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 68 (28.33%) Architect
2 33 (13.75%) Senior
3 19 (7.92%) Network Architect
4 18 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (6.67%) Lead
6 13 (5.42%) Consultant
7 11 (4.58%) Data Engineer
7 11 (4.58%) Security Architect
8 10 (4.17%) Developer
8 10 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
8 10 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.75%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.33%) Infrastructure Manager
10 8 (3.33%) IP Specialist
10 8 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.83%) ARM Templates
2 13 (5.42%) REST
3 12 (5.00%) Kafka
4 10 (4.17%) Keycloak
5 8 (3.33%) NETCONF
5 8 (3.33%) YANG
6 6 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.50%) JSON
7 5 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 3 (1.25%) MACH
8 3 (1.25%) OAuth
8 3 (1.25%) SAML
8 3 (1.25%) XML
9 2 (0.83%) LDAP
9 2 (0.83%) OpenID
9 2 (0.83%) RESTful
9 2 (0.83%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.83%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.83%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 41 (17.08%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (5.83%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.42%) Replication
6 11 (4.58%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.92%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.92%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.08%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.67%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.25%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.25%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.25%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.17%) Windows
2 26 (10.83%) Linux
3 20 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.67%) Android
5 3 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.25%) VMS
6 2 (0.83%) CentOS
6 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.92%) DevOps
2 52 (21.67%) CI/CD
3 51 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 48 (20.00%) Migration
5 47 (19.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (16.25%) Roadmaps
6 39 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (13.75%) Cloud Security
8 30 (12.50%) Zero Trust
9 28 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (11.67%) TOGAF
10 27 (11.25%) Analytics
10 27 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (10.83%) High Availability
12 25 (10.42%) RBAC
13 24 (10.00%) Incident Response
13 24 (10.00%) Network Architecture
14 23 (9.58%) Identity Access Management
14 23 (9.58%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 65 (27.08%) Python
2 37 (15.42%) PowerShell
3 27 (11.25%) Bash
4 17 (7.08%) Bicep
5 12 (5.00%) Go
6 10 (4.17%) SQL
7 9 (3.75%) Java
8 5 (2.08%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.83%) R
9 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.42%) Scala
10 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 41 (17.08%) SC Cleared
3 38 (15.83%) Azure Certification
4 33 (13.75%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (8.75%) AWS Certification
6 19 (7.92%) CCIE
6 19 (7.92%) CISSP
7 15 (6.25%) Degree
7 15 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (5.83%) JNCIE
9 11 (4.58%) CCNP
9 11 (4.58%) DV Cleared
10 9 (3.75%) CISM
11 8 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 5 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.75%) NIST
2 20 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (7.50%) GDPR
4 8 (3.33%) NIST 800
5 7 (2.92%) QA
6 5 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.08%) PSD2
7 4 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (1.25%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.83%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.83%) GxP
9 2 (0.83%) NCSC
10 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.42%) GMP
10 1 (0.42%) GRC
10 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.42%) ITGC
System Software
1 32 (13.33%) Docker
2 26 (10.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (8.75%) Active Directory
4 17 (7.08%) VMware NSX
5 10 (4.17%) vSphere
6 8 (3.33%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.08%) KVM
7 5 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.42%) Ceph
10 1 (0.42%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 70 (29.17%) Terraform
2 63 (26.25%) Kubernetes
3 47 (19.58%) Ansible
4 17 (7.08%) Grafana
5 13 (5.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.33%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.92%) Argo
8 7 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.50%) Puppet
10 5 (2.08%) Data Guard
10 5 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.67%) NetBackup
12 3 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.25%) SCCM
13 2 (0.83%) CASB
13 2 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.83%) vMotion
Vendors
1 56 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.58%) VMware
3 26 (10.83%) Cisco
4 17 (7.08%) Red Hat
5 15 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 15 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 13 (5.42%) Oracle
7 12 (5.00%) Google
7 12 (5.00%) Juniper
8 10 (4.17%) IBM
8 10 (4.17%) Zscaler
9 9 (3.75%) CheckPoint
9 9 (3.75%) Databricks
9 9 (3.75%) F5
10 8 (3.33%) Dynatrace
10 8 (3.33%) Splunk
11 6 (2.50%) Aruba
11 6 (2.50%) Citrix
11 6 (2.50%) SAP
12 5 (2.08%) Commvault