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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 299 424
Rank change year-on-year -5 +125 +4
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 373 223 106
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 0.80% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 2.22% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 128 75
10th Percentile £413 £413 £428
25th Percentile £500 £497 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £617
90th Percentile £750 £775 £733
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 15,693 10,033 10,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.82% 36.06% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,517 6,319 6,321
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £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 £546
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.68% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,029 498 440
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.50 £14.37
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £22.47
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -42.46% +25.16%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% -36.84% +8.57%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -13 147 £575 -1.71% 149
South East -7 88 £615 +17.14% 45
North of England -50 70 £566 -5.63% 29
Yorkshire -15 34 £557 -5.28% 12
Midlands -39 34 £500 -28.57% 28
North West -49 29 £575 -4.17% 16
West Midlands -40 28 £500 -28.57% 18
South West -45 26 £663 -5.36% 14
North East -35 13 £650 +8.33% 2
East Midlands -11 6 £478 -4.50% 10
East of England -36 6 £505 -6.48% 9
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 (3.22%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.88%) Apache
4 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.07%) Confluence
6 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.80%) 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%) CICS
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.34%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.80%) 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 (69.97%) Azure
2 176 (47.18%) AWS
3 54 (14.48%) GCP
4 48 (12.87%) Entra ID
5 37 (9.92%) GitHub
6 36 (9.65%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (9.65%) SaaS
7 30 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (7.77%) OpenShift
9 26 (6.97%) Azure Monitor
10 25 (6.70%) OCI
11 22 (5.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 20 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (4.29%) Serverless
14 14 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
14 14 (3.75%) IaaS
15 13 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.95%) Azure AKS
17 9 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 98 (26.27%) Firewall
2 70 (18.77%) DNS
3 63 (16.89%) VPN
4 54 (14.48%) WAN
5 49 (13.14%) BGP
6 42 (11.26%) DHCP
7 40 (10.72%) Network Security
8 36 (9.65%) OSPF
9 33 (8.85%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 29 (7.77%) LAN
11 29 (7.77%) TCP/IP
12 26 (6.97%) VXLAN
13 23 (6.17%) BIG-IP
13 23 (6.17%) Ethernet VPN
14 21 (5.63%) MPLS
14 21 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (4.83%) VLAN
16 14 (3.75%) VSAN
17 12 (3.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.61%) Data Lake
2 6 (1.61%) Power BI
3 5 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.54%) Big Data
5 2 (0.54%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.54%) EDRMS
5 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.54%) Redis
5 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.54%) Tableau
6 1 (0.27%) OLAP
6 1 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (9.92%) GitLab
2 30 (8.04%) Git
2 30 (8.04%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.80%) JIRA
5 2 (0.54%) Maven
5 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 112 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.60%) Finance
3 37 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.43%) Banking
6 23 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.29%) Aerospace
8 15 (4.02%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.75%) Retail
10 7 (1.88%) Legal
11 6 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.34%) Local Government
13 4 (1.07%) Automotive
13 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.07%) Military
14 3 (0.80%) Billing
14 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.80%) Law
14 3 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 123 (32.98%) Architect
2 88 (23.59%) Senior
3 65 (17.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (10.19%) Network Engineer
5 37 (9.92%) Solutions Architect
6 36 (9.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (9.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (7.24%) Network Architect
9 24 (6.43%) Lead
10 20 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (5.36%) Senior Architect
11 19 (5.09%) Cloud Architect
12 18 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.02%) Technical Architect
15 13 (3.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.49%) Consultant
15 13 (3.49%) Senior Network Engineer
16 12 (3.22%) Enterprise Architect
17 10 (2.68%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (39.68%) Terraform
2 20 (5.36%) ARM Templates
3 18 (4.83%) REST
4 10 (2.68%) Kafka
5 9 (2.41%) NETCONF
5 9 (2.41%) YANG
6 7 (1.88%) JSON
6 7 (1.88%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.61%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.61%) LDAP
8 5 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.34%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (1.34%) YAML
9 4 (1.07%) .NET
9 4 (1.07%) OAuth
9 4 (1.07%) OpenConfig
9 4 (1.07%) OpenID
9 4 (1.07%) RESTCONF
10 3 (0.80%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 73 (19.57%) Data Centre
2 62 (16.62%) Cloud Native
3 33 (8.85%) Public Cloud
4 24 (6.43%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.17%) Private Cloud
6 18 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.95%) Replication
9 9 (2.41%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.41%) PKI
10 8 (2.14%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.14%) CMDB
11 7 (1.88%) ARM Cortex
11 7 (1.88%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.61%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 83 (22.25%) Windows
2 70 (18.77%) Linux
3 67 (17.96%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.95%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.88%) Unix
7 5 (1.34%) VMS
8 4 (1.07%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.07%) 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
10 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (38.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 141 (37.80%) DevOps
3 123 (32.98%) CI/CD
4 100 (26.81%) Migration
5 98 (26.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (20.38%) Zero Trust
7 70 (18.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 67 (17.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 63 (16.89%) Technical Leadership
10 62 (16.62%) Roadmaps
11 61 (16.35%) Cloud Security
12 53 (14.21%) Agile
13 52 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (13.67%) ITIL
15 50 (13.40%) High Availability
16 48 (12.87%) Load Balancing
17 47 (12.60%) Platform Engineering
18 46 (12.33%) Project Delivery
19 45 (12.06%) Observability
19 45 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 113 (30.29%) Python
2 73 (19.57%) PowerShell
3 59 (15.82%) Bash
4 30 (8.04%) Bicep
5 14 (3.75%) SQL
6 12 (3.22%) Java
7 7 (1.88%) Go
8 5 (1.34%) BeanShell
9 4 (1.07%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.80%) C#
10 3 (0.80%) Groovy
11 2 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) COBOL
12 1 (0.27%) JCL
Qualifications
1 117 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 85 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.33%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (10.46%) Azure Certification
5 37 (9.92%) Degree
5 37 (9.92%) DV Cleared
6 27 (7.24%) AWS Certification
6 27 (7.24%) CCNP
7 20 (5.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 17 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.02%) CISSP
10 12 (3.22%) CCIE
10 12 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (2.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (2.41%) JNCIE
13 6 (1.61%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.61%) VCAP
14 5 (1.34%) CISM
15 4 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.77%) NIST
2 17 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.02%) GDPR
4 13 (3.49%) NCSC
5 9 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.88%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 22301
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 70 (18.77%) Active Directory
1 70 (18.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (9.92%) vSphere
3 32 (8.58%) VMware NSX
4 31 (8.31%) Docker
5 26 (6.97%) Hyper-V
6 22 (5.90%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (5.09%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.80%) KVM
8 3 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.27%) Ceph
9 1 (0.27%) IAG
9 1 (0.27%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.27%) oVirt
9 1 (0.27%) RACF
9 1 (0.27%) RHEV
9 1 (0.27%) Squid
9 1 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 106 (28.42%) Ansible
2 83 (22.25%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.24%) Grafana
4 20 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (5.09%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.29%) vCenter Server
7 13 (3.49%) SCCM
8 8 (2.14%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.88%) PowerCLI
9 7 (1.88%) SCOM
9 7 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.88%) systemd
10 6 (1.61%) Argo
10 6 (1.61%) Puppet
11 5 (1.34%) Istio
12 4 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.80%) CASB
13 3 (0.80%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.80%) vMotion
13 3 (0.80%) yum
Vendors
1 145 (38.87%) Microsoft
2 91 (24.40%) VMware
3 51 (13.67%) Cisco
3 51 (13.67%) Palo Alto
4 38 (10.19%) F5
5 26 (6.97%) Google
6 25 (6.70%) Aruba
6 25 (6.70%) Fortinet
7 20 (5.36%) Juniper
8 19 (5.09%) Arista
9 18 (4.83%) Red Hat
10 14 (3.75%) Zscaler
11 13 (3.49%) Splunk
12 10 (2.68%) CheckPoint
13 9 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (2.41%) ServiceNow
14 8 (2.14%) CyberArk
14 8 (2.14%) IBM
15 7 (1.88%) Commvault
15 7 (1.88%) SAP
275 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England