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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 303 429
Rank change year-on-year -3 +126 -2
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 368 217 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.80% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 2.22% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 126 73
10th Percentile £413 £413 £450
25th Percentile £500 £488 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -10.93%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £616
90th Percentile £750 £744 £735
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
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 15,389 9,780 10,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.72% 35.93% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 6,180 6,309
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £686
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 487 466
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.50 £13.97
25th Percentile £18.52 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.77 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -38.46% +16.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.62 £77.50 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £38.53 £30.00 £46.21
% change year-on-year +28.42% -35.07% +7.14%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -27 144 £575 +2.22% 194
South East -16 88 £615 +17.14% 50
North of England -57 70 £568 -5.42% 38
Yorkshire -17 35 £557 -5.28% 15
Midlands -38 33 £488 -30.36% 25
North West -55 29 £575 -4.17% 20
West Midlands -39 27 £488 -30.36% 13
South West -44 25 £651 -6.96% 23
North East -28 12 £650 +8.33% 3
East Midlands -19 6 £478 -4.50% 12
East of England -22 6 £505 -6.48% 8
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 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.09%) Confluence
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.82%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.54%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.36%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) 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
1 255 (69.29%) Azure
2 175 (47.55%) AWS
3 52 (14.13%) GCP
4 47 (12.77%) Entra ID
5 37 (10.05%) GitHub
6 36 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (9.78%) SaaS
7 30 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (7.88%) OpenShift
9 27 (7.34%) Azure Monitor
10 25 (6.79%) OCI
11 22 (5.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 20 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (4.35%) Serverless
14 14 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
14 14 (3.80%) IaaS
15 12 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.99%) Azure AKS
17 9 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 97 (26.36%) Firewall
2 71 (19.29%) DNS
3 61 (16.58%) VPN
4 54 (14.67%) WAN
5 48 (13.04%) BGP
6 42 (11.41%) DHCP
7 39 (10.60%) Network Security
8 35 (9.51%) 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
14 22 (5.98%) Ethernet VPN
15 21 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
16 20 (5.43%) MPLS
17 18 (4.89%) VLAN
18 14 (3.80%) VSAN
19 12 (3.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.63%) Data Lake
2 6 (1.63%) Power BI
3 5 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
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%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.54%) Tableau
7 1 (0.27%) GIS
7 1 (0.27%) OLAP
7 1 (0.27%) OLTP
7 1 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (10.05%) GitLab
2 30 (8.15%) Jenkins
3 27 (7.34%) Git
4 5 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.82%) JIRA
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
1 112 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.96%) Finance
3 37 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (6.25%) Banking
7 16 (4.35%) Aerospace
8 15 (4.08%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.80%) Retail
10 6 (1.63%) Legal
11 5 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.36%) Local Government
11 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.09%) Automotive
12 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.09%) Military
13 3 (0.82%) Billing
13 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.82%) Law
13 3 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 124 (33.70%) Architect
2 89 (24.18%) Senior
3 63 (17.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (10.33%) Network Engineer
5 36 (9.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
6 35 (9.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (7.61%) Network Architect
8 23 (6.25%) Lead
9 21 (5.71%) Senior Architect
10 20 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (5.16%) Cloud Architect
12 18 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.08%) Technical Architect
15 13 (3.53%) Senior Network Engineer
16 12 (3.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.26%) Consultant
16 12 (3.26%) Enterprise Architect
17 10 (2.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (39.67%) Terraform
2 21 (5.71%) ARM Templates
3 18 (4.89%) REST
4 9 (2.45%) Kafka
4 9 (2.45%) NETCONF
4 9 (2.45%) YANG
5 7 (1.90%) SailPoint
6 6 (1.63%) 802.1X
6 6 (1.63%) JSON
6 6 (1.63%) LDAP
6 6 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.09%) .NET
8 4 (1.09%) OAuth
8 4 (1.09%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.09%) OpenID
8 4 (1.09%) RESTCONF
8 4 (1.09%) YAML
9 3 (0.82%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 72 (19.57%) Data Centre
2 63 (17.12%) Cloud Native
3 33 (8.97%) Public Cloud
4 24 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.25%) Private Cloud
6 19 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.53%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.72%) Replication
10 9 (2.45%) CMDB
10 9 (2.45%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.45%) PKI
11 8 (2.17%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.90%) ARM Cortex
12 7 (1.90%) Operational Technology
13 6 (1.63%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
15 4 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 82 (22.28%) Windows
2 69 (18.75%) Linux
3 67 (18.21%) 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
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
1 140 (38.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 138 (37.50%) DevOps
3 122 (33.15%) CI/CD
4 99 (26.90%) Migration
5 94 (25.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (20.65%) Zero Trust
7 68 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 67 (18.21%) Disaster Recovery
9 62 (16.85%) Technical Leadership
10 61 (16.58%) Roadmaps
11 59 (16.03%) Cloud Security
12 52 (14.13%) Agile
12 52 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (14.13%) High Availability
13 50 (13.59%) ITIL
14 49 (13.32%) Load Balancing
15 47 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
16 45 (12.23%) Observability
16 45 (12.23%) Project Delivery
17 44 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 113 (30.71%) Python
2 75 (20.38%) PowerShell
3 60 (16.30%) Bash
4 30 (8.15%) Bicep
5 14 (3.80%) SQL
6 12 (3.26%) Java
7 6 (1.63%) 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%) Perl
Qualifications
1 116 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 84 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 47 (12.77%) Cisco Certification
4 37 (10.05%) Azure Certification
5 36 (9.78%) Degree
5 36 (9.78%) DV Cleared
6 28 (7.61%) CCNP
7 27 (7.34%) AWS Certification
8 20 (5.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 16 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (4.08%) CISSP
11 12 (3.26%) CCIE
11 12 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (2.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (2.45%) JNCIE
14 6 (1.63%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.63%) VCAP
15 5 (1.36%) CISM
16 4 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.15%) NIST
2 18 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.08%) GDPR
4 13 (3.53%) NCSC
5 9 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.90%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.82%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) PMO
9 1 (0.27%) QA
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 69 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (10.05%) vSphere
3 33 (8.97%) VMware NSX
4 31 (8.42%) Docker
5 25 (6.79%) Hyper-V
6 22 (5.98%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.82%) KVM
8 3 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.27%) Ceph
9 1 (0.27%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.27%) oVirt
9 1 (0.27%) RHEV
9 1 (0.27%) Squid
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 103 (27.99%) Ansible
2 83 (22.55%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.61%) Grafana
4 20 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.62%) vCenter Server
7 13 (3.53%) SCCM
8 8 (2.17%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.90%) Argo
9 7 (1.90%) PowerCLI
9 7 (1.90%) SCOM
9 7 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
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%) vMotion
13 3 (0.82%) yum
Vendors
1 143 (38.86%) Microsoft
2 89 (24.18%) VMware
3 49 (13.32%) Palo Alto
4 48 (13.04%) Cisco
5 38 (10.33%) F5
6 26 (7.07%) Google
7 25 (6.79%) Aruba
8 24 (6.52%) Fortinet
9 20 (5.43%) Juniper
10 19 (5.16%) Arista
10 19 (5.16%) Red Hat
11 14 (3.80%) Splunk
12 12 (3.26%) Zscaler
13 10 (2.72%) CheckPoint
14 9 (2.45%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (2.45%) ServiceNow
15 8 (2.17%) Commvault
15 8 (2.17%) CyberArk
16 7 (1.90%) IBM
16 7 (1.90%) SAP
330 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England