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 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 330 458
Rank change year-on-year +22 +128 +12
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 277 152 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.60% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 1.79% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 102 71
10th Percentile £400 £451 £425
25th Percentile £462 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £627 £686 £662
90th Percentile £723 £751 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £75.00

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 12,299 8,501 11,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.87% 33.51% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,801 5,334 7,552
10th Percentile £290 £281 £256
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +0.37% -5.22%
75th Percentile £630 £671 £656
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 602 274 762
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.81 £12.87
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.52 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +18.35% +34.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.52 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% +33.42%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +1 117 £550 - 46
North of England -27 54 £500 -26.47% 22
Yorkshire -24 45 £500 -30.07% 10
South West -1 37 £550 -21.43% 10
South East -49 32 £575 -5.35% 38
Midlands -46 29 £550 -9.39% 7
West Midlands -37 27 £550 -9.39% 5
North West -39 8 £500 -4.53% 12
East of England -25 2 £500 -33.42% 6
East Midlands -32 2 £500 -18.37% 2
North East -15 1 £450 -
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 10 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.89%) Confluence
3 5 (1.81%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.08%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.08%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.53%) Maximo
2 4 (1.44%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (1.44%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 159 (57.40%) Azure
2 104 (37.55%) AWS
3 50 (18.05%) GCP
4 49 (17.69%) OpenShift
5 32 (11.55%) GitHub
6 23 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (6.50%) Entra ID
8 16 (5.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 13 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (4.69%) SaaS
10 12 (4.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (4.33%) IaaS
10 12 (4.33%) Serverless
11 11 (3.97%) Azure AKS
12 10 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (3.61%) PaaS
13 9 (3.25%) Power Platform
14 8 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (16.61%) Firewall
2 39 (14.08%) Network Security
3 34 (12.27%) VPN
4 33 (11.91%) WAN
5 20 (7.22%) DNS
6 17 (6.14%) LAN
7 15 (5.42%) SD-WAN
8 13 (4.69%) BGP
9 9 (3.25%) MPLS
9 9 (3.25%) VXLAN
10 8 (2.89%) SAN
11 7 (2.53%) SNMP
12 6 (2.17%) Internet
13 5 (1.81%) DHCP
13 5 (1.81%) OSPF
13 5 (1.81%) TACACS
13 5 (1.81%) TCP/IP
13 5 (1.81%) VLAN
13 5 (1.81%) VSAN
13 5 (1.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.81%) Power BI
4 4 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.44%) Metadata
5 3 (1.08%) Big Data
5 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.72%) DataStage
6 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) Firebird
7 1 (0.36%) Impala
7 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (10.83%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.05%) Git
3 13 (4.69%) GitLab
4 11 (3.97%) JIRA
5 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.72%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (37.91%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.19%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.47%) Finance
4 27 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.66%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (5.05%) Banking
7 9 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.81%) Legal
9 4 (1.44%) Front Office
9 4 (1.44%) Retail
10 3 (1.08%) Law
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Electronics
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) International Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 77 (27.80%) Architect
2 35 (12.64%) Senior
3 22 (7.94%) Network Architect
4 19 (6.86%) Lead
5 17 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (5.78%) Data Engineer
6 16 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (4.33%) Network Engineer
8 12 (4.33%) Security Engineer
9 10 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.25%) Consultant
10 9 (3.25%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.25%) Senior Architect
11 8 (2.89%) Desktop Engineer
11 8 (2.89%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 8 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.58%) Kafka
1 21 (7.58%) OpenTelemetry
2 15 (5.42%) REST
3 14 (5.05%) ARM Templates
4 11 (3.97%) JSON
5 10 (3.61%) Keycloak
6 8 (2.89%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.89%) Middleware
6 8 (2.89%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.53%) NETCONF
7 7 (2.53%) YANG
8 6 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.44%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.44%) JMS
9 4 (1.44%) OAuth
9 4 (1.44%) OpenConfig
9 4 (1.44%) RESTCONF
9 4 (1.44%) SAML
10 3 (1.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 3 (1.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.16%) Data Centre
2 40 (14.44%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.61%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.25%) Replication
6 8 (2.89%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.89%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.81%) FlexPod
8 5 (1.81%) PKI
9 4 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.44%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.44%) Linux
1 40 (14.44%) Windows
2 16 (5.78%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.25%) VMS
4 8 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (1.81%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.72%) CentOS
7 2 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Android
8 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (28.52%) DevOps
2 75 (27.08%) CI/CD
3 69 (24.91%) Migration
4 65 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (22.02%) Containerisation
6 59 (21.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (15.16%) Roadmaps
8 37 (13.36%) Cloud Security
9 35 (12.64%) RBAC
10 34 (12.27%) Analytics
10 34 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (11.91%) Agile
11 33 (11.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 30 (10.83%) High Availability
13 29 (10.47%) Zero Trust
14 28 (10.11%) AI
14 28 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
15 27 (9.75%) Observability
16 26 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 25 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (28.52%) Python
2 47 (16.97%) PowerShell
3 35 (12.64%) Bash
4 20 (7.22%) Bicep
5 14 (5.05%) Go
6 11 (3.97%) SQL
7 9 (3.25%) Java
8 3 (1.08%) R
8 3 (1.08%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) C
10 1 (0.36%) C#
10 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (25.63%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.61%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.83%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (10.11%) Azure Certification
5 21 (7.58%) DV Cleared
6 18 (6.50%) AWS Certification
7 16 (5.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (5.42%) CCIE
8 15 (5.42%) CISSP
9 14 (5.05%) Degree
10 13 (4.69%) CCNP
11 8 (2.89%) CISM
11 8 (2.89%) JNCIE
11 8 (2.89%) OCP
11 8 (2.89%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.53%) CCNA
12 7 (2.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 6 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.81%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.66%) NIST
2 20 (7.22%) GDPR
3 19 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.89%) NIST 800
5 7 (2.53%) QA
6 6 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.81%) NCSC
8 4 (1.44%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (1.08%) GRC
9 3 (1.08%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.72%) GxP
10 2 (0.72%) PSD2
11 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 35 (12.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (11.55%) Docker
3 30 (10.83%) Active Directory
4 25 (9.03%) vSphere
5 23 (8.30%) VMware NSX
6 13 (4.69%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.81%) KVM
8 5 (1.81%) NFS
9 3 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.36%) Ceph
10 1 (0.36%) Firmware
10 1 (0.36%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 89 (32.13%) Terraform
2 88 (31.77%) Kubernetes
3 57 (20.58%) Ansible
4 27 (9.75%) Grafana
5 18 (6.50%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (5.42%) vCenter Server
8 14 (5.05%) Argo
9 7 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.81%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.44%) Puppet
12 3 (1.08%) Data Guard
12 3 (1.08%) Istio
12 3 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.08%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (1.08%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.08%) Rancher
12 3 (1.08%) SCCM
13 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 81 (29.24%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.25%) VMware
3 31 (11.19%) Red Hat
4 28 (10.11%) Cisco
5 24 (8.66%) Splunk
6 19 (6.86%) Palo Alto
7 18 (6.50%) Google
8 14 (5.05%) Fortinet
9 13 (4.69%) CheckPoint
10 12 (4.33%) Juniper
10 12 (4.33%) Pure Storage
10 12 (4.33%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.61%) Oracle
12 9 (3.25%) Aruba
12 9 (3.25%) Databricks
12 9 (3.25%) IBM
12 9 (3.25%) NetApp
13 7 (2.53%) Meraki
14 6 (2.17%) F5
14 6 (2.17%) OpenAI