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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 297 418
Rank change year-on-year -2 +121 -1
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 380 209 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.76% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.48% 2.14% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 122 72
10th Percentile £413 £407 £450
25th Percentile £500 £476 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +10.34% -13.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £612
90th Percentile £759 £775 £736
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 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 £82.64 £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 15,332 9,789 10,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.59% 35.47% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,402 6,184 6,614
10th Percentile £325 £305 £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 £687
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 492 522
10th Percentile £14.88 £15.48 £12.53
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.78 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -34.82% +11.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £29.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +37.82% -33.89% +10.31%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -2 145 £575 +2.22% 50
South East 0 92 £615 +14.41% 42
North of England -40 71 £563 -6.17% 24
Yorkshire -16 36 £540 -8.09% 10
Midlands -40 36 £488 -30.36% 12
West Midlands -44 29 £488 -30.36% 7
North West -47 28 £575 -4.17% 11
South West -34 26 £639 -8.75% 15
North East -29 13 £650 +8.33% 3
East Midlands -12 7 £478 +11.05% 5
East of England -20 7 £505 -8.18% 3
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 (3.16%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.58%) Apache
4 5 (1.32%) Confluence
4 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.79%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.84%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.53%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 254 (66.84%) Azure
2 181 (47.63%) AWS
3 56 (14.74%) GCP
4 45 (11.84%) Entra ID
5 39 (10.26%) GitHub
6 37 (9.74%) SaaS
7 34 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (7.37%) OpenShift
10 26 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
10 26 (6.84%) OCI
11 23 (6.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 23 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (4.47%) Serverless
13 16 (4.21%) IaaS
14 13 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (3.16%) Azure AKS
16 11 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (24.21%) Firewall
2 68 (17.89%) DNS
3 60 (15.79%) VPN
4 57 (15.00%) WAN
5 51 (13.42%) BGP
6 43 (11.32%) Network Security
7 39 (10.26%) DHCP
8 36 (9.47%) OSPF
9 34 (8.95%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 30 (7.89%) TCP/IP
12 29 (7.63%) LAN
13 25 (6.58%) VXLAN
14 23 (6.05%) BIG-IP
14 23 (6.05%) Ethernet VPN
15 22 (5.79%) MPLS
16 21 (5.53%) Wi-Fi
17 18 (4.74%) VLAN
18 16 (4.21%) VSAN
19 15 (3.95%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (1.58%) Power BI
3 5 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.53%) Big Data
6 2 (0.53%) Metadata
6 2 (0.53%) Redis
6 2 (0.53%) Tableau
7 1 (0.26%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.26%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Flink
7 1 (0.26%) Impala
7 1 (0.26%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.26%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 35 (9.21%) GitLab
2 30 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 27 (7.11%) Git
4 4 (1.05%) Jaeger
4 4 (1.05%) JIRA
4 4 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 107 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 38 (10.00%) Finance
4 36 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.32%) Banking
5 24 (6.32%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.68%) Retail
8 13 (3.42%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.32%) Legal
9 5 (1.32%) Local Government
10 4 (1.05%) Automotive
10 4 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.05%) Military
10 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Law
11 3 (0.79%) Publishing
12 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (33.16%) Architect
2 88 (23.16%) Senior
3 57 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 37 (9.74%) Network Engineer
5 34 (8.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (8.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (8.42%) Solutions Architect
8 29 (7.63%) Network Architect
9 23 (6.05%) Senior Architect
10 21 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
11 20 (5.26%) Lead
12 18 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (4.47%) Cloud Architect
13 17 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.47%) Technical Architect
14 14 (3.68%) Consultant
15 12 (3.16%) Enterprise Architect
15 12 (3.16%) Senior Network Engineer
16 11 (2.89%) Security Engineer
17 10 (2.63%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (40.53%) Terraform
2 20 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 20 (5.26%) REST
3 11 (2.89%) NETCONF
3 11 (2.89%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (2.89%) YANG
4 9 (2.37%) Kafka
5 7 (1.84%) SailPoint
6 6 (1.58%) .NET
6 6 (1.58%) 802.1X
6 6 (1.58%) LDAP
6 6 (1.58%) OpenConfig
6 6 (1.58%) RESTCONF
7 5 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.32%) JSON
8 4 (1.05%) Loki
8 4 (1.05%) OAuth
8 4 (1.05%) OpenID
8 4 (1.05%) RESTful
8 4 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (18.68%) Data Centre
2 59 (15.53%) Cloud Native
3 28 (7.37%) Onboarding
3 28 (7.37%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.79%) Private Cloud
5 15 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.42%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (2.89%) PKI
8 10 (2.63%) Replication
9 8 (2.11%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.11%) CMDB
9 8 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.84%) ARM Cortex
10 7 (1.84%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.84%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.84%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 80 (21.05%) Windows
2 73 (19.21%) Linux
3 62 (16.32%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.89%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.58%) VMS
7 5 (1.32%) Unix
8 4 (1.05%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.05%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.79%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.53%) CentOS
11 1 (0.26%) AIX
11 1 (0.26%) Android
11 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (37.37%) Infrastructure as Code
2 136 (35.79%) DevOps
3 127 (33.42%) CI/CD
4 100 (26.32%) Migration
5 92 (24.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (19.74%) Zero Trust
7 67 (17.63%) Disaster Recovery
8 61 (16.05%) Cloud Security
9 60 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
10 58 (15.26%) Roadmaps
11 56 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 54 (14.21%) High Availability
13 51 (13.42%) Agile
13 51 (13.42%) Observability
14 50 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (12.63%) Load Balancing
16 47 (12.37%) ITIL
16 47 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
17 44 (11.58%) Network Design
17 44 (11.58%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 115 (30.26%) Python
2 76 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 60 (15.79%) Bash
4 29 (7.63%) Bicep
5 18 (4.74%) SQL
6 10 (2.63%) Go
7 9 (2.37%) Java
8 5 (1.32%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.79%) C#
10 2 (0.53%) Perl
10 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) Groovy
11 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.26%) R
11 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 112 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 78 (20.53%) SC Cleared
3 47 (12.37%) Cisco Certification
4 40 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 33 (8.68%) Azure Certification
6 31 (8.16%) Degree
7 28 (7.37%) AWS Certification
8 25 (6.58%) CCNP
9 19 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.68%) CCIE
10 14 (3.68%) CISSP
11 13 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.89%) JNCIE
14 9 (2.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (1.58%) OCP
15 6 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.58%) VCAP
16 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.68%) NIST
2 21 (5.53%) GDPR
3 20 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.68%) NCSC
5 11 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.63%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.84%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.05%) GRC
9 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.79%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.53%) SLA
11 1 (0.26%) COBIT
11 1 (0.26%) QA
11 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 68 (17.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 67 (17.63%) Active Directory
3 41 (10.79%) vSphere
4 35 (9.21%) VMware NSX
5 28 (7.37%) Docker
6 22 (5.79%) Hyper-V
7 20 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
8 19 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.79%) KVM
9 3 (0.79%) NFS
9 3 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.26%) Ceph
10 1 (0.26%) Firmware
10 1 (0.26%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.26%) oVirt
10 1 (0.26%) RHEV
10 1 (0.26%) Squid
10 1 (0.26%) Varnish
10 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 104 (27.37%) Ansible
2 85 (22.37%) Kubernetes
3 30 (7.89%) Grafana
4 21 (5.53%) Prometheus
5 19 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (4.47%) vCenter Server
7 13 (3.42%) SCCM
8 8 (2.11%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.11%) Istio
8 8 (2.11%) SCOM
9 7 (1.84%) Argo
9 7 (1.84%) PowerCLI
9 7 (1.84%) Puppet
9 7 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.84%) systemd
10 4 (1.05%) Rancher
11 3 (0.79%) CASB
11 3 (0.79%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.79%) SnapMirror
11 3 (0.79%) vMotion
Vendors
1 140 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 87 (22.89%) VMware
3 49 (12.89%) Cisco
4 48 (12.63%) Palo Alto
5 40 (10.53%) F5
6 30 (7.89%) Google
7 24 (6.32%) Fortinet
8 23 (6.05%) Aruba
9 20 (5.26%) Juniper
9 20 (5.26%) Red Hat
10 19 (5.00%) Arista
11 14 (3.68%) Splunk
12 13 (3.42%) Zscaler
13 10 (2.63%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.37%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (2.37%) CyberArk
15 8 (2.11%) CheckPoint
15 8 (2.11%) SolarWinds
16 7 (1.84%) Commvault
16 7 (1.84%) NetApp