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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 306 451
Rank change year-on-year +6 +145 +8
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 304 162 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.67% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.41% 1.96% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 106 69
10th Percentile £395 £450 £441
25th Percentile £454 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £579 £585
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -1.07% -2.50%
75th Percentile £624 £675 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £579 £575
% change year-on-year -9.29% +0.65% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - -
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £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 12,618 8,255 11,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.50% 34.07% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,010 5,413 7,575
10th Percentile £300 £300 £258
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £671
90th Percentile £749 £775 £783
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 309 795
10th Percentile £15.73 £16.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.46 £22.50 £15.21
Median hourly rate £42.71 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +23.21% +20.95%
75th Percentile £69.44 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% +18.18% +22.22%

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 27 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 27 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 +1 131 £550 +2.33% 39
North of England -32 63 £500 -26.47% 26
Yorkshire -11 49 £494 -30.94% 9
South East -52 37 £613 +0.82% 26
South West +4 36 £550 -20.29% 11
Midlands -46 31 £550 -4.35% 2
West Midlands -37 29 £550 +4.76% 1
North West -33 13 £500 -4.53% 16
East of England -34 3 £515 -6.36% 2
East Midlands -32 2 £500 -18.37% 1
North East -18 1 £450 - 1
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 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.63%) Confluence
3 5 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.99%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.99%) Hyperledger
4 3 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) IIS
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.30%) Maximo
2 4 (1.32%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (1.32%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 179 (58.88%) Azure
2 121 (39.80%) AWS
3 53 (17.43%) OpenShift
4 51 (16.78%) GCP
5 41 (13.49%) GitHub
6 29 (9.54%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (6.91%) Entra ID
8 20 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 14 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (4.61%) Serverless
11 13 (4.28%) SaaS
12 12 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (3.95%) IaaS
13 11 (3.62%) Azure AKS
13 11 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.29%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (3.29%) PaaS
14 10 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.80%) Firewall
2 43 (14.14%) Network Security
3 36 (11.84%) VPN
4 30 (9.87%) WAN
5 25 (8.22%) DNS
6 16 (5.26%) LAN
7 15 (4.93%) BGP
8 14 (4.61%) SD-WAN
9 11 (3.62%) SAN
10 10 (3.29%) MPLS
10 10 (3.29%) VSAN
11 9 (2.96%) VXLAN
12 8 (2.63%) OSPF
13 7 (2.30%) VLAN
14 6 (1.97%) DHCP
14 6 (1.97%) Internet
14 6 (1.97%) SNMP
14 6 (1.97%) Software-Defined Networking
15 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
15 5 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.64%) Metadata
3 3 (0.99%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.99%) Power BI
3 3 (0.99%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.66%) Big Data
4 2 (0.66%) DataStage
4 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.33%) Firebird
5 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (11.51%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.61%) Git
2 14 (4.61%) GitLab
3 11 (3.62%) JIRA
4 3 (0.99%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 108 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 30 (9.87%) Finance
4 26 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.55%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (5.26%) Banking
6 9 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.97%) Legal
8 5 (1.64%) Retail
8 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.32%) Front Office
10 3 (0.99%) Law
11 2 (0.66%) Billing
11 2 (0.66%) Marketing
11 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.33%) Electronics
12 1 (0.33%) International Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (28.95%) Architect
2 44 (14.47%) Senior
3 23 (7.57%) Lead
3 23 (7.57%) Network Architect
4 20 (6.58%) Azure Engineer
4 20 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 16 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (5.26%) Senior Architect
6 15 (4.93%) Network Engineer
7 13 (4.28%) Security Engineer
8 11 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (3.29%) Senior Network Architect
10 9 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
10 9 (2.96%) Technical Architect
11 8 (2.63%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.88%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (7.57%) Kafka
3 17 (5.59%) REST
4 15 (4.93%) ARM Templates
5 11 (3.62%) JSON
6 10 (3.29%) Keycloak
7 8 (2.63%) Apache Avro
7 8 (2.63%) Middleware
7 8 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (1.97%) NETCONF
8 6 (1.97%) YANG
9 4 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.32%) JMS
9 4 (1.32%) OAuth
9 4 (1.32%) OpenConfig
9 4 (1.32%) RESTCONF
9 4 (1.32%) SAML
10 3 (0.99%) .NET
10 3 (0.99%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.46%) Cloud Native
2 42 (13.82%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.29%) Replication
5 9 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.96%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.30%) PKI
7 6 (1.97%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.64%) FlexPod
8 5 (1.64%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.32%) BYOD
9 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.13%) Linux
1 46 (15.13%) Windows
2 23 (7.57%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.62%) VMS
4 10 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.97%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (1.64%) CoreOS
7 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.66%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Android
9 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (30.26%) DevOps
2 86 (28.29%) CI/CD
3 79 (25.99%) Migration
4 71 (23.36%) Containerisation
5 69 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 66 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (15.46%) Cloud Security
8 44 (14.47%) Roadmaps
9 42 (13.82%) RBAC
10 41 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 40 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 36 (11.84%) High Availability
13 34 (11.18%) Agile
14 33 (10.86%) Analytics
15 32 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (10.53%) Zero Trust
16 31 (10.20%) Runbook
17 30 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 28 (9.21%) AI
18 28 (9.21%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 95 (31.25%) Python
2 57 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 44 (14.47%) Bash
4 20 (6.58%) Bicep
5 15 (4.93%) Go
6 10 (3.29%) SQL
7 9 (2.96%) Java
8 3 (0.99%) R
8 3 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.33%) C
10 1 (0.33%) C#
10 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 74 (24.34%) Security Cleared
2 49 (16.12%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.21%) Azure Certification
4 27 (8.88%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (7.24%) DV Cleared
6 16 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 16 (5.26%) Degree
6 16 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.95%) CCNP
7 12 (3.95%) CISSP
8 11 (3.62%) CCIE
9 9 (2.96%) OCP
9 9 (2.96%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.63%) CCNA
11 7 (2.30%) CISM
11 7 (2.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 6 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.97%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.84%) NIST
2 26 (8.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (8.22%) GDPR
4 9 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.63%) NIST 800
6 7 (2.30%) NCSC
6 7 (2.30%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.97%) QA
8 4 (1.32%) GRC
8 4 (1.32%) ISO 22301
8 4 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.66%) GxP
10 2 (0.66%) PSD2
11 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 44 (14.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (12.17%) Active Directory
3 33 (10.86%) Docker
4 32 (10.53%) VMware NSX
4 32 (10.53%) vSphere
5 16 (5.26%) Hyper-V
6 12 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.64%) KVM
8 5 (1.64%) NFS
9 3 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.33%) Ceph
10 1 (0.33%) Firmware
10 1 (0.33%) QEMU
10 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 104 (34.21%) Terraform
2 96 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 68 (22.37%) Ansible
4 34 (11.18%) Grafana
5 21 (6.91%) vCenter Server
6 19 (6.25%) Argo
6 19 (6.25%) Prometheus
7 18 (5.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.64%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.32%) Istio
10 4 (1.32%) Puppet
11 3 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.99%) Rancher
11 3 (0.99%) SCCM
11 3 (0.99%) vMotion
12 2 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.66%) vRealize
Vendors
1 88 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 54 (17.76%) VMware
3 37 (12.17%) Red Hat
4 31 (10.20%) Splunk
5 29 (9.54%) Cisco
6 19 (6.25%) Google
6 19 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 17 (5.59%) Pure Storage
8 14 (4.61%) Fortinet
9 13 (4.28%) Zscaler
10 12 (3.95%) Juniper
11 11 (3.62%) CheckPoint
12 9 (2.96%) Aruba
12 9 (2.96%) Databricks
12 9 (2.96%) IBM
12 9 (2.96%) NetApp
13 7 (2.30%) F5
13 7 (2.30%) OpenAI
13 7 (2.30%) Oracle
14 6 (1.97%) SAP