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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 304 435
Rank change year-on-year +6 +131 -4
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 374 219 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.79% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.43% 2.20% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 126 75
10th Percentile £413 £413 £450
25th Percentile £500 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.73% -10.93%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £616
90th Percentile £750 £775 £733
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £560
% change year-on-year - +2.68% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £61.74 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £84.17 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -13.26% - -

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 15,379 9,945 10,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.61% 35.84% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,371 6,299 6,425
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.20% -5.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 493 487
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.03 £18.87 £20.88
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.71 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -37.70% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -34.44% +7.54%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -3 145 £575 +3.37% 119
South East -14 91 £615 +14.41% 41
North of England -53 69 £568 -5.42% 25
Midlands -36 36 £500 -28.57% 21
Yorkshire -21 34 £557 -5.28% 9
West Midlands -35 29 £500 -28.57% 11
North West -57 29 £575 -4.17% 14
South West -40 25 £651 -6.96% 14
North East -28 12 £650 +8.33% 2
East Midlands -9 7 £478 +2.14% 10
East of England -20 6 £505 -6.48% 8
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 (3.21%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.87%) Apache
4 5 (1.34%) Confluence
4 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.80%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.80%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 256 (68.45%) Azure
2 181 (48.40%) AWS
3 52 (13.90%) GCP
4 47 (12.57%) Entra ID
5 39 (10.43%) GitHub
6 38 (10.16%) SaaS
7 37 (9.89%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (7.75%) OpenShift
10 27 (7.22%) Azure Monitor
11 25 (6.68%) OCI
12 22 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 22 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.55%) Serverless
14 14 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
14 14 (3.74%) IaaS
15 12 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.94%) Azure AKS
17 10 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 96 (25.67%) Firewall
2 71 (18.98%) DNS
3 61 (16.31%) VPN
4 55 (14.71%) WAN
5 49 (13.10%) BGP
6 42 (11.23%) DHCP
7 40 (10.70%) Network Security
8 35 (9.36%) OSPF
9 33 (8.82%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 31 (8.29%) TCP/IP
11 29 (7.75%) LAN
12 25 (6.68%) VXLAN
13 23 (6.15%) BIG-IP
14 22 (5.88%) Ethernet VPN
15 21 (5.61%) MPLS
15 21 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (4.81%) VLAN
17 15 (4.01%) VSAN
18 13 (3.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.60%) Power BI
3 5 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.34%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.53%) Big Data
6 2 (0.53%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.53%) Metadata
6 2 (0.53%) Redis
6 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.53%) Tableau
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.27%) HBase
7 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (9.89%) GitLab
2 28 (7.49%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.42%) Git
4 4 (1.07%) JIRA
5 3 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.53%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 114 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 41 (10.96%) Finance
3 38 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.42%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (6.15%) Banking
7 16 (4.28%) Aerospace
8 15 (4.01%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.74%) Retail
10 5 (1.34%) Legal
10 5 (1.34%) Local Government
11 4 (1.07%) Automotive
11 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.07%) Military
11 4 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.80%) Billing
12 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.80%) Law
12 3 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 124 (33.16%) Architect
2 88 (23.53%) Senior
3 62 (16.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (10.16%) Network Engineer
5 37 (9.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (9.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 35 (9.36%) Solutions Architect
8 27 (7.22%) Network Architect
9 22 (5.88%) Lead
10 21 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (5.61%) Senior Architect
11 20 (5.35%) Cloud Architect
12 19 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (4.01%) Technical Architect
14 14 (3.74%) Consultant
14 14 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.48%) Enterprise Architect
15 13 (3.48%) Senior Network Engineer
16 12 (3.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 11 (2.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (39.57%) Terraform
2 21 (5.61%) ARM Templates
3 18 (4.81%) REST
4 10 (2.67%) NETCONF
4 10 (2.67%) YANG
5 9 (2.41%) Kafka
6 7 (1.87%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (1.87%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.60%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.60%) JSON
7 6 (1.60%) LDAP
8 5 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.34%) OpenConfig
8 5 (1.34%) RESTCONF
9 4 (1.07%) .NET
9 4 (1.07%) OAuth
9 4 (1.07%) OpenID
9 4 (1.07%) YAML
10 3 (0.80%) SAML
10 3 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (18.98%) Data Centre
2 60 (16.04%) Cloud Native
3 31 (8.29%) Public Cloud
4 26 (6.95%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.15%) Private Cloud
6 18 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.48%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.67%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.67%) Replication
10 9 (2.41%) CMDB
10 9 (2.41%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.41%) PKI
11 7 (1.87%) ARM Cortex
11 7 (1.87%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.60%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 82 (21.93%) Windows
2 69 (18.45%) Linux
3 66 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.94%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.34%) Unix
7 4 (1.07%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.07%) VMS
7 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.53%) CentOS
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) AIX
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (37.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 136 (36.36%) DevOps
3 121 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 100 (26.74%) Migration
5 95 (25.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (20.32%) Zero Trust
7 67 (17.91%) Disaster Recovery
8 66 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 63 (16.84%) Cloud Security
10 62 (16.58%) Roadmaps
11 61 (16.31%) Technical Leadership
12 53 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 52 (13.90%) High Availability
14 51 (13.64%) Agile
15 49 (13.10%) ITIL
15 49 (13.10%) Load Balancing
15 49 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
16 48 (12.83%) Observability
17 46 (12.30%) Cybersecurity
18 45 (12.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 113 (30.21%) Python
2 77 (20.59%) PowerShell
3 60 (16.04%) Bash
4 30 (8.02%) Bicep
5 14 (3.74%) SQL
6 10 (2.67%) Java
7 7 (1.87%) Go
8 5 (1.34%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.53%) C#
9 2 (0.53%) Perl
9 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) Groovy
10 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 117 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 84 (22.46%) SC Cleared
3 48 (12.83%) Cisco Certification
4 37 (9.89%) DV Cleared
5 35 (9.36%) Azure Certification
6 34 (9.09%) Degree
7 28 (7.49%) AWS Certification
8 27 (7.22%) CCNP
9 20 (5.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (4.01%) CISSP
10 15 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (3.48%) CCIE
12 12 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (2.67%) JNCIE
14 6 (1.60%) VCAP
15 5 (1.34%) CISM
15 5 (1.34%) Master's Degree
16 4 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.82%) NIST
2 20 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.81%) GDPR
4 13 (3.48%) NCSC
5 10 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.14%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.87%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.80%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.53%) GRC
9 2 (0.53%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) QA
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (18.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 67 (17.91%) Active Directory
3 39 (10.43%) vSphere
4 34 (9.09%) VMware NSX
5 29 (7.75%) Docker
6 25 (6.68%) Hyper-V
7 22 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.80%) KVM
9 3 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.27%) Ceph
10 1 (0.27%) NFS
10 1 (0.27%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.27%) oVirt
10 1 (0.27%) RHEV
10 1 (0.27%) Squid
10 1 (0.27%) Varnish
10 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 102 (27.27%) Ansible
2 82 (21.93%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.22%) Grafana
4 20 (5.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (5.35%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.55%) vCenter Server
6 13 (3.48%) SCCM
7 8 (2.14%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.87%) Argo
8 7 (1.87%) PowerCLI
8 7 (1.87%) SCOM
8 7 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.87%) systemd
9 6 (1.60%) Istio
9 6 (1.60%) Puppet
10 4 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.80%) CASB
11 3 (0.80%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.80%) vMotion
11 3 (0.80%) yum
Vendors
1 145 (38.77%) Microsoft
2 89 (23.80%) VMware
3 48 (12.83%) Cisco
3 48 (12.83%) Palo Alto
4 39 (10.43%) F5
5 26 (6.95%) Google
6 24 (6.42%) Aruba
6 24 (6.42%) Fortinet
7 20 (5.35%) Juniper
8 19 (5.08%) Arista
8 19 (5.08%) Red Hat
9 15 (4.01%) Splunk
10 13 (3.48%) Zscaler
11 9 (2.41%) CheckPoint
11 9 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (2.41%) CyberArk
11 9 (2.41%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.14%) Commvault
13 7 (1.87%) IBM
13 7 (1.87%) SAP
219 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England