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 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 311 421
Rank change year-on-year +7 +110 +7
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 368 215 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 0.77% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.35% 2.15% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 123 73
10th Percentile £413 £413 £420
25th Percentile £500 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% -8.94%
75th Percentile £666 £656 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £735
UK median daily rate £588 £575 £560
% change year-on-year +2.17% +2.68% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £62.18 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £84.03 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -13.26% - -

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 15,646 10,012 10,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.89% 36.00% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,463 6,294 6,274
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,063 498 415
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.48 £15.11
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.03 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.55% -42.41% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.50% -40.00% +11.11%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -14 140 £575 -4.17% 215
South East -9 89 £615 +17.14% 85
North of England -48 66 £575 -4.17% 54
Midlands -36 35 £500 -28.57% 51
Yorkshire -14 33 £568 -3.40% 13
West Midlands -36 29 £500 -28.57% 29
South West -31 28 £663 -5.36% 37
North West -61 26 £575 -4.17% 35
North East -35 13 £650 +8.33% 6
East Midlands -13 6 £478 -4.50% 22
East of England -29 6 £505 - 13
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 12 (3.26%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.90%) Apache
4 4 (1.09%) Confluence
4 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.82%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.54%) CICS
6 2 (0.54%) IBM Transformation Extender
6 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.82%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 261 (70.92%) Azure
2 174 (47.28%) AWS
3 59 (16.03%) GCP
4 53 (14.40%) Entra ID
5 37 (10.05%) SaaS
6 33 (8.97%) GitHub
6 33 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (7.88%) OpenShift
9 26 (7.07%) Azure Monitor
9 26 (7.07%) OCI
10 22 (5.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 19 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (4.35%) Serverless
13 15 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
14 14 (3.80%) IaaS
15 12 (3.26%) Azure AKS
15 12 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (2.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (27.17%) Firewall
2 67 (18.21%) DNS
3 64 (17.39%) VPN
4 54 (14.67%) WAN
5 49 (13.32%) BGP
6 42 (11.41%) DHCP
7 39 (10.60%) Network Security
8 36 (9.78%) OSPF
9 32 (8.70%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 30 (8.15%) LAN
11 30 (8.15%) TCP/IP
12 26 (7.07%) VXLAN
13 23 (6.25%) BIG-IP
13 23 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
14 21 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
15 20 (5.43%) MPLS
16 19 (5.16%) VLAN
17 14 (3.80%) VSAN
18 12 (3.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.63%) Data Lake
2 6 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.63%) Power BI
3 5 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.54%) Big Data
6 2 (0.54%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.54%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.54%) Redis
6 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.54%) Tableau
7 1 (0.27%) GIS
7 1 (0.27%) OLAP
7 1 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (9.78%) GitLab
2 32 (8.70%) Git
3 26 (7.07%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.09%) JIRA
6 2 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.54%) Maven
6 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 108 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.13%) Finance
3 38 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.52%) Banking
6 23 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.35%) Aerospace
8 15 (4.08%) Retail
9 14 (3.80%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.17%) Legal
11 6 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.36%) Local Government
13 4 (1.09%) Automotive
13 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.09%) Military
14 3 (0.82%) Billing
14 3 (0.82%) Law
14 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 121 (32.88%) Architect
2 87 (23.64%) Senior
3 65 (17.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (10.60%) Network Engineer
5 36 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
6 35 (9.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (9.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (7.07%) Network Architect
8 23 (6.25%) Lead
9 20 (5.43%) Cloud Architect
10 19 (5.16%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.89%) Senior Architect
12 16 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Enterprise Architect
13 14 (3.80%) Technical Architect
14 13 (3.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.53%) Consultant
14 13 (3.53%) Senior Network Engineer
15 11 (2.99%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (39.40%) Terraform
2 20 (5.43%) ARM Templates
3 17 (4.62%) REST
4 10 (2.72%) Kafka
5 9 (2.45%) NETCONF
5 9 (2.45%) YANG
6 8 (2.17%) JSON
7 7 (1.90%) SailPoint
8 6 (1.63%) 802.1X
8 6 (1.63%) LDAP
8 6 (1.63%) YAML
9 5 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.09%) .NET
10 4 (1.09%) OAuth
10 4 (1.09%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.09%) OpenID
10 4 (1.09%) RESTCONF
10 4 (1.09%) RESTful
11 3 (0.82%) OAuth2
11 3 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (20.92%) Data Centre
2 57 (15.49%) Cloud Native
3 35 (9.51%) Public Cloud
4 26 (7.07%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.25%) Private Cloud
6 18 (4.89%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.99%) Replication
9 9 (2.45%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.17%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.17%) PKI
11 7 (1.90%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.90%) ARM Cortex
11 7 (1.90%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.63%) CMDB
12 6 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.36%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 85 (23.10%) Windows
2 70 (19.02%) Linux
3 66 (17.93%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.99%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.90%) Unix
7 5 (1.36%) VMS
8 4 (1.09%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.54%) zOS
10 1 (0.27%) AIX
10 1 (0.27%) Android
10 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (38.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 137 (37.23%) DevOps
3 119 (32.34%) CI/CD
4 101 (27.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 97 (26.36%) Migration
6 74 (20.11%) Zero Trust
7 73 (19.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 66 (17.93%) Roadmaps
9 63 (17.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 63 (17.12%) Technical Leadership
10 59 (16.03%) Cloud Security
11 54 (14.67%) Agile
12 52 (14.13%) ITIL
13 49 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (13.32%) High Availability
14 47 (12.77%) Project Delivery
15 46 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
16 45 (12.23%) Cybersecurity
16 45 (12.23%) Observability
17 44 (11.96%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 107 (29.08%) Python
2 71 (19.29%) PowerShell
3 55 (14.95%) Bash
4 30 (8.15%) Bicep
5 13 (3.53%) SQL
6 12 (3.26%) Java
7 8 (2.17%) Go
8 5 (1.36%) BeanShell
9 4 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.82%) C#
10 3 (0.82%) Groovy
11 2 (0.54%) COBOL
11 2 (0.54%) JCL
11 2 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 117 (31.79%) Security Cleared
2 85 (23.10%) SC Cleared
3 48 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 44 (11.96%) Azure Certification
5 38 (10.33%) DV Cleared
6 37 (10.05%) Degree
7 30 (8.15%) AWS Certification
8 29 (7.88%) CCNP
9 21 (5.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (4.08%) CISSP
13 12 (3.26%) CCIE
13 12 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (2.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (2.45%) JNCIE
16 7 (1.90%) VCAP
17 6 (1.63%) Master's Degree
18 5 (1.36%) CISM
18 5 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.52%) NIST
2 17 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.53%) GDPR
4 12 (3.26%) NCSC
5 8 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.90%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.63%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.54%) GRC
9 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.27%) QA
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (20.11%) Active Directory
2 67 (18.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (9.51%) vSphere
4 30 (8.15%) Docker
5 28 (7.61%) VMware NSX
6 26 (7.07%) Hyper-V
7 23 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
8 19 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.82%) KVM
11 2 (0.54%) RACF
11 2 (0.54%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.27%) Ceph
12 1 (0.27%) IAG
12 1 (0.27%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.27%) oVirt
12 1 (0.27%) RHEV
12 1 (0.27%) Squid
12 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 105 (28.53%) Ansible
2 82 (22.28%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.25%) Grafana
4 20 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.53%) SCCM
7 12 (3.26%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.17%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.90%) PowerCLI
9 7 (1.90%) SCOM
9 7 (1.90%) systemd
10 6 (1.63%) Puppet
11 5 (1.36%) Istio
12 4 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.82%) CASB
13 3 (0.82%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.82%) Nagios
13 3 (0.82%) vMotion
13 3 (0.82%) yum
Vendors
1 146 (39.67%) Microsoft
2 88 (23.91%) VMware
3 53 (14.40%) Cisco
4 51 (13.86%) Palo Alto
5 38 (10.33%) F5
6 29 (7.88%) Google
7 25 (6.79%) Aruba
7 25 (6.79%) Fortinet
8 20 (5.43%) Juniper
9 19 (5.16%) Arista
10 16 (4.35%) Zscaler
11 14 (3.80%) Red Hat
12 11 (2.99%) CyberArk
12 11 (2.99%) IBM
13 10 (2.72%) CheckPoint
14 9 (2.45%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (2.45%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.45%) Splunk
15 7 (1.90%) Databricks
15 7 (1.90%) SAP
488 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England