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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 312 445
Rank change year-on-year +2 +133 -4
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 300 167 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.69% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.29% 2.01% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 100 68
10th Percentile £384 £460 £441
25th Percentile £463 £498 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £616
90th Percentile £710 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -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 13,087 8,326 11,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.33% 34.16% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 5,451 7,499
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -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 665 329 825
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £33.91 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.60% +7.65% +40.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.90 £84.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +39.88% +7.76% +34.13%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 - 43
North of England -30 65 £500 -5.84% 25
South East -47 43 £613 +3.59% 26
Yorkshire -19 41 £500 -30.07% 5
South West -11 28 £363 -41.53% 18
Midlands -56 25 £550 -15.38% 12
West Midlands -44 22 £550 -15.38% 10
North West -33 21 £538 +2.63% 16
North East -21 5 £450 - 4
East of England -39 4 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -34 3 £503 -17.96% 2
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 (3.33%) Confluence
2 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.33%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.67%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.00%) Maximo
2 5 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.33%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (1.33%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 180 (60.00%) Azure
2 133 (44.33%) AWS
3 47 (15.67%) OpenShift
4 38 (12.67%) GCP
5 31 (10.33%) GitHub
6 23 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (6.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.67%) SaaS
10 13 (4.33%) Entra ID
11 12 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.00%) Azure AKS
11 12 (4.00%) Serverless
12 11 (3.67%) IaaS
13 10 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.33%) OCI
13 10 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (15.00%) Firewall
2 39 (13.00%) WAN
3 37 (12.33%) Network Security
4 36 (12.00%) VPN
5 25 (8.33%) DNS
6 24 (8.00%) BGP
7 20 (6.67%) LAN
8 19 (6.33%) SD-WAN
9 16 (5.33%) OSPF
9 16 (5.33%) VXLAN
10 13 (4.33%) SAN
11 12 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 12 (4.00%) MPLS
12 11 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (3.33%) Ethernet VPN
14 9 (3.00%) VSAN
15 8 (2.67%) BIG-IP
16 7 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
17 6 (2.00%) Internet
17 6 (2.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.67%) Metadata
3 4 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.00%) Big Data
4 3 (1.00%) Power BI
5 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.67%) DataStage
5 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.67%) Redis
5 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.33%) Firebird
6 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (10.33%) Jenkins
2 17 (5.67%) GitLab
3 12 (4.00%) JIRA
4 11 (3.67%) Git
5 4 (1.33%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 101 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 28 (9.33%) Finance
4 25 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.67%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.33%) Banking
7 11 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.33%) Retail
10 6 (2.00%) Legal
11 4 (1.33%) Front Office
11 4 (1.33%) Law
12 2 (0.67%) Billing
12 2 (0.67%) Marketing
12 2 (0.67%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.33%) International Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 93 (31.00%) Architect
2 48 (16.00%) Senior
3 27 (9.00%) Lead
3 27 (9.00%) Network Architect
4 25 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (7.33%) Network Engineer
6 19 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (5.33%) Senior Architect
9 14 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.33%) Cloud Architect
10 13 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.33%) Technical Architect
11 10 (3.33%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.33%) Senior Network Architect
12 9 (3.00%) Enterprise Architect
12 9 (3.00%) Security Engineer
13 8 (2.67%) Desktop Engineer
13 8 (2.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 19 (6.33%) Kafka
2 19 (6.33%) REST
3 14 (4.67%) JSON
4 9 (3.00%) ARM Templates
5 8 (2.67%) Apache Avro
5 8 (2.67%) Middleware
5 8 (2.67%) NETCONF
5 8 (2.67%) Protocol Buffers
5 8 (2.67%) YANG
6 6 (2.00%) .NET
7 5 (1.67%) SAML
8 4 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (1.33%) JMS
8 4 (1.33%) Keycloak
8 4 (1.33%) OAuth
8 4 (1.33%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.33%) RESTCONF
8 4 (1.33%) Spring
8 4 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 53 (17.67%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.33%) Replication
6 8 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.33%) PKI
7 7 (2.33%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.00%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.67%) FlexPod
9 5 (1.67%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.33%) BYOD
10 4 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.33%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.33%) Linux
2 44 (14.67%) Windows
3 25 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.00%) VMS
5 8 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.00%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (1.67%) CoreOS
8 4 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.67%) CentOS
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (28.67%) CI/CD
2 83 (27.67%) DevOps
3 69 (23.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (22.67%) Migration
5 57 (19.00%) Containerisation
6 56 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 47 (15.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (13.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 40 (13.33%) Cloud Security
11 35 (11.67%) Agile
11 35 (11.67%) High Availability
11 35 (11.67%) Zero Trust
12 33 (11.00%) RBAC
13 31 (10.33%) Observability
14 30 (10.00%) Load Balancing
14 30 (10.00%) Runbook
15 29 (9.67%) Analytics
16 28 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (9.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.33%) Python
2 50 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 37 (12.33%) Bash
4 18 (6.00%) Bicep
5 11 (3.67%) Go
5 11 (3.67%) Java
6 10 (3.33%) SQL
7 3 (1.00%) C#
7 3 (1.00%) R
7 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.33%) C
8 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 73 (24.33%) Security Cleared
2 48 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.67%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (7.33%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 19 (6.33%) Degree
7 14 (4.67%) CCNP
8 13 (4.33%) AWS Certification
9 12 (4.00%) CCIE
10 11 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (3.00%) OCP
11 9 (3.00%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.67%) CCNA
12 8 (2.67%) JNCIE
13 7 (2.33%) CISSP
13 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (2.00%) CISM
14 6 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.00%) NIST
2 22 (7.33%) GDPR
3 20 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.33%) NIST 800
6 6 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.67%) GRC
7 5 (1.67%) NCSC
7 5 (1.67%) QA
8 4 (1.33%) ISO 22301
9 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (11.33%) Active Directory
3 32 (10.67%) VMware NSX
4 30 (10.00%) vSphere
5 21 (7.00%) Docker
6 14 (4.67%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.67%) NFS
8 5 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.00%) KVM
11 1 (0.33%) Firmware
11 1 (0.33%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 102 (34.00%) Terraform
2 81 (27.00%) Kubernetes
3 67 (22.33%) Ansible
4 28 (9.33%) Grafana
5 18 (6.00%) vCenter Server
6 16 (5.33%) Argo
7 15 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (4.67%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.67%) Istio
10 5 (1.67%) Puppet
10 5 (1.67%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.33%) Rancher
12 3 (1.00%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.00%) SCOM
13 2 (0.67%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.67%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 85 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 57 (19.00%) VMware
3 34 (11.33%) Red Hat
4 30 (10.00%) Cisco
5 29 (9.67%) Splunk
6 28 (9.33%) Palo Alto
7 17 (5.67%) F5
8 16 (5.33%) Aruba
8 16 (5.33%) Fortinet
8 16 (5.33%) Google
8 16 (5.33%) Pure Storage
9 14 (4.67%) CheckPoint
9 14 (4.67%) Juniper
10 13 (4.33%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.33%) NetApp
12 9 (3.00%) Arista
12 9 (3.00%) IBM
13 8 (2.67%) SAP
14 7 (2.33%) Databricks
14 7 (2.33%) OpenAI