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 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 322 472
Rank change year-on-year +6 +150 -41
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 316 163 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.66% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 1.92% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 88 55
10th Percentile £405 £417 £441
25th Percentile £463 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -10.57%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £606
90th Percentile £700 £751 £690
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £23.75 - -
25th Percentile £35.47 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -40.00% - -

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 13,903 8,469 11,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.56% 34.43% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 5,462 7,333
10th Percentile £316 £300 £275
25th Percentile £415 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 750 374 853
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £20.73 £15.39
Median hourly rate £42.30 £33.91 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.74% -7.10% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.55 £83.82 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £33.05 £35.58
% change year-on-year +24.05% -7.10% +58.75%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +5 133 £550 - 24
North of England -25 74 £514 -1.63% 12
South East -39 42 £625 +8.70% 24
Yorkshire -22 41 £500 -20.00% 7
Midlands -37 33 £500 -28.57% 7
West Midlands -33 30 £500 -37.50% 5
South West -6 26 £400 -35.48% 11
North West -31 26 £550 +15.79% 5
North East -28 13 £650 -
East of England -30 4 £530 -3.64% 7
East Midlands -19 3 £503 -12.61% 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 8 (2.53%) Confluence
1 8 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.22%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.63%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.63%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Maximo
2 3 (0.95%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.95%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 196 (62.03%) Azure
2 153 (48.42%) AWS
3 43 (13.61%) GCP
4 39 (12.34%) OpenShift
5 28 (8.86%) GitHub
6 26 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (7.59%) SaaS
8 22 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (6.65%) OCI
10 19 (6.01%) Entra ID
11 18 (5.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 14 (4.43%) IaaS
12 14 (4.43%) Serverless
13 13 (4.11%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (2.85%) PaaS
18 8 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
19 7 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 65 (20.57%) Firewall
2 50 (15.82%) WAN
3 39 (12.34%) Network Security
4 37 (11.71%) BGP
5 35 (11.08%) VPN
6 34 (10.76%) DNS
7 30 (9.49%) SD-WAN
8 29 (9.18%) OSPF
9 27 (8.54%) VXLAN
10 24 (7.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 23 (7.28%) LAN
12 21 (6.65%) Ethernet VPN
13 19 (6.01%) BIG-IP
14 17 (5.38%) Wi-Fi
15 15 (4.75%) SAN
16 12 (3.80%) DHCP
16 12 (3.80%) MPLS
17 11 (3.48%) WLAN
18 10 (3.16%) VSAN
19 9 (2.85%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.95%) Metadata
4 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.63%) Power BI
4 2 (0.63%) Redis
4 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.32%) Big Data
5 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.32%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.32%) Firebird
5 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (8.86%) Jenkins
2 25 (7.91%) GitLab
3 17 (5.38%) Git
4 8 (2.53%) JIRA
5 4 (1.27%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
General
1 89 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.97%) Public Sector
3 27 (8.54%) Finance
4 24 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (6.01%) Banking
6 18 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.90%) Retail
10 4 (1.27%) Law
11 3 (0.95%) Front Office
11 3 (0.95%) Legal
11 3 (0.95%) Military
11 3 (0.95%) Publishing
12 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.63%) Local Government
13 1 (0.32%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.32%) Aviation
13 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (31.33%) Architect
2 57 (18.04%) Senior
3 42 (13.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (9.49%) Network Architect
5 27 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (6.96%) Network Engineer
7 21 (6.65%) Senior Architect
7 21 (6.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (6.01%) Lead
9 19 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (4.75%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (4.43%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.48%) Security Engineer
12 11 (3.48%) Senior Network Architect
13 9 (2.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (2.85%) Security Architect
14 7 (2.22%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.91%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (6.33%) REST
3 15 (4.75%) Kafka
4 12 (3.80%) JSON
5 10 (3.16%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.53%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.53%) NETCONF
6 8 (2.53%) Protocol Buffers
6 8 (2.53%) YANG
7 7 (2.22%) Middleware
8 6 (1.90%) .NET
9 4 (1.27%) LDAP
9 4 (1.27%) Loki
9 4 (1.27%) SailPoint
9 4 (1.27%) SAML
9 4 (1.27%) Spring
10 3 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.95%) OAuth
10 3 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (18.99%) Data Centre
2 59 (18.67%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.06%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.85%) Replication
8 8 (2.53%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.22%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.90%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.90%) PKI
11 5 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.58%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.58%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.27%) BYOD
12 4 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.82%) Windows
2 47 (14.87%) Linux
3 32 (10.13%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.53%) VMS
6 7 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.90%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.58%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.95%) CentOS
10 1 (0.32%) AIX
10 1 (0.32%) Unix
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.59%) CI/CD
2 101 (31.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 99 (31.33%) DevOps
4 83 (26.27%) Migration
5 72 (22.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (16.77%) Zero Trust
7 51 (16.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 50 (15.82%) Containerisation
9 44 (13.92%) Cloud Security
9 44 (13.92%) High Availability
10 43 (13.61%) Load Balancing
11 41 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (12.97%) Roadmaps
12 38 (12.03%) Agile
12 38 (12.03%) Network Design
13 37 (11.71%) RBAC
14 35 (11.08%) Observability
14 35 (11.08%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (10.13%) Runbook
16 31 (9.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 93 (29.43%) Python
2 51 (16.14%) PowerShell
3 34 (10.76%) Bash
4 19 (6.01%) Bicep
5 12 (3.80%) SQL
6 10 (3.16%) Java
7 7 (2.22%) Go
8 3 (0.95%) BeanShell
8 3 (0.95%) C#
8 3 (0.95%) R
8 3 (0.95%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.32%) C
10 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 79 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 56 (17.72%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.44%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (7.28%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.33%) Degree
6 19 (6.01%) Azure Certification
7 16 (5.06%) AWS Certification
7 16 (5.06%) CCNP
8 11 (3.48%) CCIE
8 11 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.85%) CISSP
9 9 (2.85%) OCP
9 9 (2.85%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (2.53%) CCNA
10 8 (2.53%) JNCIE
10 8 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.22%) CISM
12 6 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.39%) NIST
2 23 (7.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (6.65%) GDPR
4 11 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (3.16%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.53%) NCSC
7 6 (1.90%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.58%) GRC
9 4 (1.27%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.63%) SLA
10 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 57 (18.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (14.56%) Active Directory
3 39 (12.34%) vSphere
4 29 (9.18%) VMware NSX
5 20 (6.33%) Hyper-V
6 19 (6.01%) Docker
7 16 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.75%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.58%) NFS
11 4 (1.27%) KVM
12 1 (0.32%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.32%) Squid
12 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 119 (37.66%) Terraform
2 78 (24.68%) Ansible
3 76 (24.05%) Kubernetes
4 30 (9.49%) Grafana
5 18 (5.70%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.70%) vCenter Server
6 12 (3.80%) Argo
7 11 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (2.53%) Puppet
9 5 (1.58%) Istio
9 5 (1.58%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.27%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.27%) Rancher
10 4 (1.27%) SCOM
11 3 (0.95%) PowerCLI
11 3 (0.95%) SCCM
11 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.95%) systemd
11 3 (0.95%) yum
Vendors
1 92 (29.11%) Microsoft
2 66 (20.89%) VMware
3 39 (12.34%) Palo Alto
4 35 (11.08%) Red Hat
5 33 (10.44%) Cisco
6 27 (8.54%) Aruba
6 27 (8.54%) F5
7 26 (8.23%) Splunk
8 20 (6.33%) Arista
9 18 (5.70%) Fortinet
10 17 (5.38%) Google
11 15 (4.75%) CheckPoint
12 14 (4.43%) Pure Storage
13 13 (4.11%) Juniper
14 10 (3.16%) Zscaler
15 8 (2.53%) NetApp
16 7 (2.22%) IBM
17 5 (1.58%) Commvault
17 5 (1.58%) CyberArk
17 5 (1.58%) SAP