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 24 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 315 462
Rank change year-on-year +2 +147 -21
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 295 172 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.70% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 2.05% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 102 66
10th Percentile £381 £460 £441
25th Percentile £463 £508 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £579 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +5.23% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £615
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £579 £550
% change year-on-year -9.29% +5.23% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £21.91 - -
25th Percentile £30.89 - -
Median hourly rate £46.68 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -53.32% - -
75th Percentile £62.39 - -
90th Percentile £71.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.68 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -53.32% - -

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 12,954 8,379 11,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.60% 34.06% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,217 5,479 7,537
10th Percentile £304 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% -0.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 659 321 822
10th Percentile £16.07 £16.37 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.25 £15.16
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.71% +19.30% +26.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.30 £84.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.05 £28.13
% change year-on-year +41.84% +13.96% +25.00%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -3 131 £550 - 24
North of England -43 58 £500 -6.89% 19
South East -48 43 £625 +4.17% 21
Yorkshire -18 42 £500 -30.07% 4
South West -15 30 £423 -31.85% 8
Midlands -41 27 £550 -15.38% 3
West Midlands -40 24 £550 -15.38% 3
North West -39 15 £500 -4.53% 10
East of England -35 4 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -35 3 £503 -17.96%
North East -21 1 £450 - 5
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 9 (3.05%) Confluence
2 7 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Maximo
2 4 (1.36%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (1.36%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 174 (58.98%) Azure
2 125 (42.37%) AWS
3 48 (16.27%) OpenShift
4 41 (13.90%) GCP
5 34 (11.53%) GitHub
6 24 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (5.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 15 (5.08%) Entra ID
10 12 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.07%) Azure AKS
10 12 (4.07%) SaaS
10 12 (4.07%) Serverless
11 11 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (3.73%) IaaS
12 10 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.71%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 41 (13.90%) Firewall
2 38 (12.88%) Network Security
3 35 (11.86%) VPN
4 32 (10.85%) WAN
5 25 (8.47%) DNS
6 18 (6.10%) LAN
7 15 (5.08%) BGP
8 13 (4.41%) SAN
8 13 (4.41%) SD-WAN
9 10 (3.39%) MPLS
9 10 (3.39%) VSAN
9 10 (3.39%) VXLAN
10 9 (3.05%) OSPF
11 7 (2.37%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (2.03%) Internet
12 6 (2.03%) NAS
12 6 (2.03%) SNMP
12 6 (2.03%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.03%) VLAN
12 6 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.69%) Metadata
4 4 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.02%) Big Data
5 3 (1.02%) Power BI
6 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.68%) DataStage
6 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.68%) Redis
6 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.34%) Firebird
7 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (10.51%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.07%) JIRA
3 11 (3.73%) Git
4 10 (3.39%) GitLab
5 4 (1.36%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 101 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.15%) Finance
2 27 (9.15%) Public Sector
3 26 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.14%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (5.08%) Banking
6 12 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.71%) Retail
7 8 (2.71%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.03%) Legal
9 4 (1.36%) Front Office
9 4 (1.36%) Law
10 2 (0.68%) Billing
10 2 (0.68%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) International Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 93 (31.53%) Architect
2 43 (14.58%) Senior
3 27 (9.15%) Lead
4 25 (8.47%) Network Architect
5 20 (6.78%) Network Engineer
6 19 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (5.42%) Senior Architect
9 14 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
10 13 (4.41%) Technical Architect
11 12 (4.07%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.39%) Senior Network Architect
13 9 (3.05%) Enterprise Architect
13 9 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.05%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.71%) Desktop Engineer
14 8 (2.71%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.15%) OpenTelemetry
2 21 (7.12%) Kafka
3 17 (5.76%) REST
4 14 (4.75%) JSON
5 10 (3.39%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.71%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.71%) Middleware
6 8 (2.71%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (2.03%) .NET
7 6 (2.03%) Keycloak
7 6 (2.03%) NETCONF
7 6 (2.03%) YANG
8 5 (1.69%) SAML
9 4 (1.36%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.36%) JMS
9 4 (1.36%) OAuth
9 4 (1.36%) OpenConfig
9 4 (1.36%) RESTCONF
9 4 (1.36%) Spring
9 4 (1.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 46 (15.59%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.39%) Replication
6 9 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.71%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.37%) PKI
9 6 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.03%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.69%) FlexPod
11 4 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.36%) BYOD
11 4 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.36%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.27%) Linux
2 44 (14.92%) Windows
3 25 (8.47%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.05%) VMS
6 6 (2.03%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (1.69%) CoreOS
7 5 (1.69%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.02%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (27.46%) DevOps
2 80 (27.12%) CI/CD
3 70 (23.73%) Migration
4 65 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (20.34%) Containerisation
6 59 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (16.27%) Roadmaps
8 43 (14.58%) Cloud Security
9 42 (14.24%) Disaster Recovery
10 41 (13.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 35 (11.86%) RBAC
12 34 (11.53%) Agile
13 32 (10.85%) Observability
14 31 (10.51%) Analytics
14 31 (10.51%) High Availability
14 31 (10.51%) Runbook
14 31 (10.51%) Zero Trust
15 29 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (8.47%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 81 (27.46%) Python
2 51 (17.29%) PowerShell
3 38 (12.88%) Bash
4 17 (5.76%) Bicep
5 13 (4.41%) Go
6 11 (3.73%) Java
7 10 (3.39%) SQL
8 3 (1.02%) C#
8 3 (1.02%) R
8 3 (1.02%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.34%) C
9 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 70 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.59%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.83%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (7.46%) Azure Certification
4 22 (7.46%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.44%) Degree
6 15 (5.08%) CCNP
7 13 (4.41%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.73%) CCIE
9 9 (3.05%) OCP
9 9 (3.05%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (2.71%) CCNA
10 8 (2.71%) CISSP
11 7 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (2.03%) CISM
12 6 (2.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 6 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.51%) NIST
2 24 (8.14%) GDPR
3 22 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.37%) NIST 800
5 7 (2.37%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.69%) GRC
6 5 (1.69%) NCSC
7 4 (1.36%) ISO 22301
7 4 (1.36%) QA
8 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 45 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (11.53%) Active Directory
3 33 (11.19%) VMware NSX
4 30 (10.17%) vSphere
5 26 (8.81%) Docker
6 13 (4.41%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.69%) NFS
10 4 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (1.02%) KVM
12 1 (0.34%) Ceph
12 1 (0.34%) Firmware
12 1 (0.34%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.34%) QEMU
12 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 99 (33.56%) Terraform
2 85 (28.81%) Kubernetes
3 61 (20.68%) Ansible
4 28 (9.49%) Grafana
5 19 (6.44%) vCenter Server
6 17 (5.76%) Argo
7 15 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (4.75%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.69%) Istio
10 5 (1.69%) Puppet
10 5 (1.69%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.36%) Rancher
12 3 (1.02%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.02%) SCOM
13 2 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.68%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.68%) vMotion
Vendors
1 86 (29.15%) Microsoft
2 57 (19.32%) VMware
3 35 (11.86%) Red Hat
4 32 (10.85%) Cisco
5 29 (9.83%) Splunk
6 22 (7.46%) Palo Alto
7 16 (5.42%) Fortinet
7 16 (5.42%) Pure Storage
8 15 (5.08%) Google
9 14 (4.75%) Juniper
10 13 (4.41%) CheckPoint
10 13 (4.41%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.39%) Aruba
11 10 (3.39%) F5
11 10 (3.39%) NetApp
12 9 (3.05%) IBM
13 8 (2.71%) Databricks
14 7 (2.37%) OpenAI
15 6 (2.03%) Oracle
15 6 (2.03%) SAP