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 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 333 458
Rank change year-on-year +20 +125 +26
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 258 154 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.59% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 1.78% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 107 71
10th Percentile £409 £475 £425
25th Percentile £463 £508 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -1.88%
75th Percentile £620 £684 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -0.86%
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 11,723 8,668 11,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.25% 33.27% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,471 5,277 7,782
10th Percentile £275 £275 £255
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £668 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 251 752
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £16.88
Median hourly rate £32.25 £37.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +13.85% +44.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.98% +42.83%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 +9 110 £545 -5.22% 28
North of England -31 45 £487 -28.35% 20
Yorkshire -21 38 £487 -31.89% 10
South West +9 37 £550 -21.43% 10
South East -32 31 £563 -4.86% 27
Midlands -40 31 £550 -9.39% 9
West Midlands -31 28 £550 -12.49% 6
North West -35 7 £500 -4.53% 10
East of England -20 3 £503 -33.09% 4
East Midlands -30 3 £500 -13.04% 3
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 11 (4.26%) OpenStack
2 10 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.33%) Confluence
4 5 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.16%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.16%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.78%) SAS
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.10%) Maximo
2 3 (1.16%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.16%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 151 (58.53%) Azure
2 94 (36.43%) AWS
3 48 (18.60%) OpenShift
4 40 (15.50%) GCP
5 32 (12.40%) GitHub
6 21 (8.14%) Entra ID
7 19 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (6.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 15 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (4.65%) Azure AKS
11 12 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (4.65%) Serverless
12 11 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
13 10 (3.88%) SaaS
14 9 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (3.10%) Azure Stack
15 8 (3.10%) IaaS
15 8 (3.10%) PaaS
15 8 (3.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (17.05%) Firewall
2 37 (14.34%) VPN
3 35 (13.57%) Network Security
4 34 (13.18%) WAN
5 21 (8.14%) LAN
6 18 (6.98%) DNS
7 16 (6.20%) BGP
8 13 (5.04%) MPLS
8 13 (5.04%) SD-WAN
9 8 (3.10%) SNMP
9 8 (3.10%) VXLAN
9 8 (3.10%) Wireless
10 7 (2.71%) OSPF
11 6 (2.33%) TACACS
12 5 (1.94%) SAN
13 4 (1.55%) DHCP
13 4 (1.55%) DMZ
13 4 (1.55%) Internet
13 4 (1.55%) NGFW
13 4 (1.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.94%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.94%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.55%) Big Data
4 4 (1.55%) Metadata
4 4 (1.55%) Power BI
5 3 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.78%) DataStage
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.39%) Impala
7 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (10.08%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.20%) GitLab
3 9 (3.49%) JIRA
4 8 (3.10%) Git
5 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.78%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 108 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.63%) Finance
3 27 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.08%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.49%) Banking
6 9 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.94%) Legal
8 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.55%) Retail
9 3 (1.16%) Front Office
9 3 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 2 (0.78%) Law
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) International Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Marketing
11 1 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (27.91%) Architect
2 32 (12.40%) Senior
3 20 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (7.75%) Network Architect
4 18 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (6.59%) Lead
6 16 (6.20%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.26%) Consultant
8 11 (4.26%) Network Engineer
9 10 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (3.49%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.49%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.10%) Desktop Engineer
11 8 (3.10%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 8 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.10%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.75%) Kafka
2 18 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (5.81%) ARM Templates
3 15 (5.81%) REST
4 11 (4.26%) JSON
5 10 (3.88%) Keycloak
6 8 (3.10%) NETCONF
6 8 (3.10%) YANG
7 7 (2.71%) Apache Avro
7 7 (2.71%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.94%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 4 (1.55%) Middleware
10 4 (1.55%) OAuth
10 4 (1.55%) SAML
11 3 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.16%) JMS
12 2 (0.78%) OpenAPI
12 2 (0.78%) OpenConfig
12 2 (0.78%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 40 (15.50%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.65%) Replication
4 10 (3.88%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.10%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.94%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.94%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.55%) IoT
10 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.16%) Equities
10 3 (1.16%) Life Science
10 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.12%) Windows
2 33 (12.79%) Linux
3 19 (7.36%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.33%) VMS
5 5 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.78%) Android
6 2 (0.78%) CentOS
6 2 (0.78%) CoreOS
6 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.52%) DevOps
2 63 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (23.64%) Migration
4 59 (22.87%) CI/CD
5 54 (20.93%) Containerisation
6 46 (17.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (14.73%) Roadmaps
8 37 (14.34%) Cloud Security
8 37 (14.34%) RBAC
9 35 (13.57%) Analytics
9 35 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (11.63%) High Availability
12 27 (10.47%) Zero Trust
13 26 (10.08%) AI
14 25 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (9.69%) TOGAF
15 24 (9.30%) Agile
15 24 (9.30%) Disaster Recovery
15 24 (9.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 79 (30.62%) Python
2 43 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 34 (13.18%) Bash
4 21 (8.14%) Bicep
5 12 (4.65%) Go
6 9 (3.49%) SQL
7 8 (3.10%) Java
8 4 (1.55%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.78%) R
9 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (25.19%) Security Cleared
2 43 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 33 (12.79%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (12.02%) Azure Certification
5 19 (7.36%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.36%) CCIE
6 17 (6.59%) DV Cleared
6 17 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (6.20%) CISSP
8 15 (5.81%) Degree
9 13 (5.04%) CCNP
10 12 (4.65%) JNCIE
11 9 (3.49%) CISM
12 8 (3.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 7 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.33%) CCNA
15 5 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.94%) CCSE
15 5 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.98%) NIST
2 17 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.65%) GDPR
4 9 (3.49%) NIST 800
5 7 (2.71%) QA
6 4 (1.55%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.16%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.16%) NCSC
7 3 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.78%) GRC
8 2 (0.78%) GxP
8 2 (0.78%) PSD2
9 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.39%) ITGC
System Software
1 33 (12.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (12.02%) Docker
3 27 (10.47%) Active Directory
4 22 (8.53%) VMware NSX
5 18 (6.98%) vSphere
6 12 (4.65%) Hyper-V
7 8 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.94%) KVM
8 5 (1.94%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.78%) NFS
10 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.39%) Ceph
11 1 (0.39%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 79 (30.62%) Kubernetes
2 76 (29.46%) Terraform
3 54 (20.93%) Ansible
4 23 (8.91%) Grafana
5 18 (6.98%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (5.04%) Argo
7 13 (5.04%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.94%) Data Guard
9 5 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.55%) Puppet
11 3 (1.16%) CASB
11 3 (1.16%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.16%) SCCM
12 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.78%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.78%) vMotion
Vendors
1 71 (27.52%) Microsoft
2 43 (16.67%) VMware
3 27 (10.47%) Cisco
3 27 (10.47%) Red Hat
4 22 (8.53%) Splunk
5 17 (6.59%) Palo Alto
6 15 (5.81%) Fortinet
7 13 (5.04%) CheckPoint
8 12 (4.65%) Juniper
9 11 (4.26%) Google
9 11 (4.26%) Oracle
9 11 (4.26%) Pure Storage
9 11 (4.26%) Zscaler
10 10 (3.88%) Databricks
10 10 (3.88%) IBM
11 8 (3.10%) Aruba
12 7 (2.71%) F5
13 6 (2.33%) Meraki
13 6 (2.33%) SAP
14 5 (1.94%) NetApp