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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 304 426
Rank change year-on-year +3 +122 -2
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 375 212 100
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.77% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% 2.16% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 125 73
10th Percentile £413 £409 £450
25th Percentile £500 £480 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £616
90th Percentile £757 £775 £735
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £62.18 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £82.16 £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 15,344 9,807 10,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.60% 35.59% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,401 6,191 6,618
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 £681
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 934 495 519
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.40 £32.71 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -31.85% +9.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +45.00% -33.33% +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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -12 144 £575 +4.55% 29
South East -8 90 £615 +14.41% 41
North of England -61 70 £564 -6.00% 21
Midlands -36 36 £488 -30.36% 10
Yorkshire -18 35 £550 -6.38% 8
West Midlands -43 29 £488 -30.36% 6
North West -53 28 £575 -4.17% 10
South West -45 26 £639 -8.75% 10
North East -27 13 £650 +8.33% 3
East Midlands -13 7 £478 +11.05% 4
East of England -15 7 £505 -8.18% 2
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 (3.20%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.60%) Apache
4 5 (1.33%) Confluence
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.80%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.53%) 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 (1.87%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.53%) Cloudability
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
1 251 (66.93%) Azure
2 180 (48.00%) AWS
3 56 (14.93%) GCP
4 45 (12.00%) Entra ID
5 38 (10.13%) GitHub
6 36 (9.60%) SaaS
7 33 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (7.47%) OpenShift
10 26 (6.93%) Azure Monitor
10 26 (6.93%) OCI
11 23 (6.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 22 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.53%) Serverless
14 15 (4.00%) IaaS
15 13 (3.47%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (3.20%) Azure AKS
17 11 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 93 (24.80%) Firewall
2 67 (17.87%) DNS
3 60 (16.00%) VPN
4 58 (15.47%) WAN
5 51 (13.60%) BGP
6 43 (11.47%) Network Security
7 38 (10.13%) DHCP
8 36 (9.60%) OSPF
9 34 (9.07%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 30 (8.00%) LAN
11 30 (8.00%) TCP/IP
12 26 (6.93%) VXLAN
13 23 (6.13%) BIG-IP
13 23 (6.13%) Ethernet VPN
14 22 (5.87%) MPLS
15 21 (5.60%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (4.80%) VLAN
17 15 (4.00%) SAN
18 14 (3.73%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (1.60%) Power BI
3 5 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.07%) Data Lake
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%) Metadata
6 2 (0.53%) Redis
6 2 (0.53%) Tableau
7 1 (0.27%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.27%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.27%) Flink
7 1 (0.27%) Impala
7 1 (0.27%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 35 (9.33%) GitLab
2 30 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 27 (7.20%) Git
4 4 (1.07%) JIRA
4 4 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.80%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 106 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 37 (9.87%) Finance
4 36 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.40%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (6.13%) Banking
7 15 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.73%) Retail
9 13 (3.47%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.33%) Legal
10 5 (1.33%) 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%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.80%) Law
12 3 (0.80%) Publishing
13 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (33.07%) Architect
2 86 (22.93%) Senior
3 57 (15.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 37 (9.87%) Network Engineer
5 34 (9.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (8.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (8.27%) Solutions Architect
8 30 (8.00%) Network Architect
9 22 (5.87%) Senior Architect
10 21 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
11 20 (5.33%) Lead
12 17 (4.53%) Cloud Architect
12 17 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.27%) Technical Architect
14 14 (3.73%) Consultant
15 12 (3.20%) Senior Network Engineer
16 11 (2.93%) Enterprise Architect
16 11 (2.93%) Security Engineer
17 10 (2.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (40.80%) Terraform
2 20 (5.33%) ARM Templates
2 20 (5.33%) REST
3 11 (2.93%) NETCONF
3 11 (2.93%) YANG
4 10 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (2.40%) Kafka
6 7 (1.87%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.60%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.60%) LDAP
7 6 (1.60%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.60%) RESTCONF
8 5 (1.33%) .NET
8 5 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.33%) JSON
9 4 (1.07%) OAuth
9 4 (1.07%) OpenID
9 4 (1.07%) RESTful
9 4 (1.07%) YAML
10 3 (0.80%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 71 (18.93%) Data Centre
2 59 (15.73%) Cloud Native
3 28 (7.47%) Public Cloud
4 26 (6.93%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.87%) Private Cloud
6 15 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 10 (2.67%) PKI
9 10 (2.67%) Replication
10 8 (2.13%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.13%) CMDB
10 8 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.13%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.87%) ARM Cortex
11 7 (1.87%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.87%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (21.07%) Windows
2 71 (18.93%) Linux
3 61 (16.27%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.93%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.60%) VMS
7 5 (1.33%) Unix
8 4 (1.07%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.07%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.80%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.53%) CentOS
11 1 (0.27%) AIX
11 1 (0.27%) Android
11 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (37.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 135 (36.00%) DevOps
3 124 (33.07%) CI/CD
4 98 (26.13%) Migration
5 92 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (20.00%) Zero Trust
7 66 (17.60%) Disaster Recovery
8 61 (16.27%) Cloud Security
9 59 (15.73%) Technical Leadership
10 57 (15.20%) Roadmaps
11 56 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (14.13%) High Availability
13 50 (13.33%) Agile
13 50 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (13.33%) Observability
14 48 (12.80%) Load Balancing
15 46 (12.27%) ITIL
15 46 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
16 44 (11.73%) Network Design
17 43 (11.47%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 114 (30.40%) Python
2 75 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 59 (15.73%) Bash
4 29 (7.73%) Bicep
5 18 (4.80%) SQL
6 9 (2.40%) Go
6 9 (2.40%) Java
7 5 (1.33%) BeanShell
8 3 (0.80%) C#
9 2 (0.53%) Perl
9 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) C
10 1 (0.27%) Groovy
10 1 (0.27%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.27%) R
10 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 112 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 78 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 48 (12.80%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (10.40%) DV Cleared
5 33 (8.80%) Azure Certification
6 32 (8.53%) Degree
7 28 (7.47%) AWS Certification
8 26 (6.93%) CCNP
9 19 (5.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.73%) CCIE
10 14 (3.73%) CISSP
11 13 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (2.93%) JNCIE
12 11 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (1.60%) OCP
14 6 (1.60%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (1.60%) VCAP
15 5 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.53%) NIST
2 20 (5.33%) GDPR
2 20 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.47%) NCSC
4 10 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.87%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.80%) GRC
7 3 (0.80%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.53%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) QA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (17.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 66 (17.60%) Active Directory
3 40 (10.67%) vSphere
4 33 (8.80%) VMware NSX
5 28 (7.47%) Docker
6 22 (5.87%) Hyper-V
7 20 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
8 19 (5.07%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.80%) KVM
9 3 (0.80%) NFS
9 3 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.27%) Ceph
10 1 (0.27%) Firmware
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
1 104 (27.73%) Ansible
2 84 (22.40%) Kubernetes
3 29 (7.73%) Grafana
4 20 (5.33%) Prometheus
5 19 (5.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (4.53%) vCenter Server
7 13 (3.47%) SCCM
8 8 (2.13%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.87%) Argo
9 7 (1.87%) Istio
9 7 (1.87%) PowerCLI
9 7 (1.87%) Puppet
9 7 (1.87%) SCOM
9 7 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.87%) systemd
10 3 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.80%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.80%) Rancher
10 3 (0.80%) SnapMirror
10 3 (0.80%) vMotion
Vendors
1 137 (36.53%) Microsoft
2 84 (22.40%) VMware
3 49 (13.07%) Cisco
4 48 (12.80%) Palo Alto
5 40 (10.67%) F5
6 30 (8.00%) Google
7 25 (6.67%) Fortinet
8 24 (6.40%) Aruba
9 21 (5.60%) Juniper
10 20 (5.33%) Red Hat
11 19 (5.07%) Arista
12 14 (3.73%) Splunk
13 13 (3.47%) Zscaler
14 10 (2.67%) ServiceNow
15 9 (2.40%) CheckPoint
15 9 (2.40%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (2.40%) CyberArk
16 8 (2.13%) SolarWinds
17 7 (1.87%) Commvault
17 7 (1.87%) NetApp
107 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England