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 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 305 425
Rank change year-on-year +10 +120 -1
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 383 210 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.76% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 2.15% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 123 71
10th Percentile £413 £408 £450
25th Percentile £500 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.63% -14.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £606
90th Percentile £766 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £61.74 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £82.64 £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 15,362 9,774 10,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.60% 35.43% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,425 6,154 6,623
10th Percentile £325 £306 £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 £687
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 499 523
10th Percentile £14.89 £15.45 £12.55
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.36 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.74% -33.98% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.96 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +42.24% -34.44% +10.86%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -1 149 £575 +2.22% 103
South East -16 91 £615 +17.14% 44
North of England -61 72 £563 -6.17% 33
Yorkshire -18 37 £540 -8.09% 13
Midlands -25 36 £488 -30.36% 9
West Midlands -45 29 £488 -30.36% 6
North West -63 28 £575 -4.17% 17
South West -40 25 £638 -8.93% 19
North East -29 13 £650 +8.33% 3
East Midlands -10 7 £478 +11.05% 3
East of England -28 7 £505 -8.18% 3
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 (3.13%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.57%) Apache
4 5 (1.31%) Confluence
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.78%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.52%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.52%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 254 (66.32%) Azure
2 182 (47.52%) AWS
3 58 (15.14%) GCP
4 45 (11.75%) Entra ID
5 39 (10.18%) GitHub
6 37 (9.66%) SaaS
7 34 (8.88%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (7.31%) OpenShift
10 26 (6.79%) OCI
11 25 (6.53%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (5.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 17 (4.44%) Serverless
15 16 (4.18%) IaaS
16 13 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 12 (3.13%) Azure AKS
18 11 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
18 11 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 91 (23.76%) Firewall
2 66 (17.23%) DNS
3 59 (15.40%) VPN
4 57 (14.88%) WAN
5 51 (13.32%) BGP
6 42 (10.97%) Network Security
7 38 (9.92%) DHCP
8 36 (9.40%) OSPF
9 34 (8.88%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 29 (7.57%) LAN
11 29 (7.57%) TCP/IP
12 25 (6.53%) VXLAN
13 23 (6.01%) BIG-IP
13 23 (6.01%) Ethernet VPN
14 22 (5.74%) MPLS
15 21 (5.48%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (4.70%) VLAN
17 15 (3.92%) SAN
17 15 (3.92%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (1.57%) Power BI
3 5 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.52%) Big Data
6 2 (0.52%) Metadata
6 2 (0.52%) Redis
6 2 (0.52%) Tableau
7 1 (0.26%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Flink
7 1 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.26%) Impala
7 1 (0.26%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.26%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 35 (9.14%) GitLab
2 32 (8.36%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.57%) Git
4 4 (1.04%) Jaeger
4 4 (1.04%) JIRA
4 4 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 107 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.44%) Public Sector
3 38 (9.92%) Finance
4 36 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.27%) Banking
5 24 (6.27%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.66%) Retail
8 13 (3.39%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.31%) Legal
9 5 (1.31%) Local Government
10 4 (1.04%) Automotive
10 4 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.04%) Military
10 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Law
11 3 (0.78%) Publishing
12 2 (0.52%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (32.90%) Architect
2 87 (22.72%) Senior
3 56 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 37 (9.66%) Network Engineer
5 33 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (8.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (8.36%) Solutions Architect
7 29 (7.57%) Network Architect
8 23 (6.01%) Senior Architect
9 21 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (5.48%) Lead
10 18 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.44%) Technical Architect
12 14 (3.66%) Consultant
13 12 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
13 12 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
14 11 (2.87%) Security Engineer
15 10 (2.61%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.22%) REST
2 19 (4.96%) ARM Templates
3 11 (2.87%) NETCONF
3 11 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (2.87%) YANG
4 9 (2.35%) Kafka
5 7 (1.83%) SailPoint
6 6 (1.57%) .NET
6 6 (1.57%) 802.1X
6 6 (1.57%) LDAP
6 6 (1.57%) OpenConfig
6 6 (1.57%) RESTCONF
7 5 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.31%) JSON
8 4 (1.04%) Loki
8 4 (1.04%) OAuth
8 4 (1.04%) OpenID
8 4 (1.04%) RESTful
8 4 (1.04%) YAML
9 3 (0.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 71 (18.54%) Data Centre
2 61 (15.93%) Cloud Native
3 28 (7.31%) Public Cloud
4 27 (7.05%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.74%) Private Cloud
6 15 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (2.61%) PKI
8 10 (2.61%) Replication
9 8 (2.09%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.09%) CMDB
9 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.83%) ARM Cortex
10 7 (1.83%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.83%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 79 (20.63%) Windows
2 72 (18.80%) Linux
3 61 (15.93%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.87%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.57%) VMS
7 5 (1.31%) Unix
8 4 (1.04%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.04%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.78%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.52%) CentOS
11 1 (0.26%) AIX
11 1 (0.26%) Android
11 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (37.34%) Infrastructure as Code
2 138 (36.03%) DevOps
3 130 (33.94%) CI/CD
4 101 (26.37%) Migration
5 91 (23.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (19.58%) Zero Trust
7 67 (17.49%) Disaster Recovery
8 61 (15.93%) Cloud Security
8 61 (15.93%) Roadmaps
9 60 (15.67%) Technical Leadership
10 57 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 54 (14.10%) High Availability
12 52 (13.58%) Agile
13 50 (13.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (13.05%) Observability
14 47 (12.27%) ITIL
14 47 (12.27%) Load Balancing
15 45 (11.75%) Platform Engineering
16 44 (11.49%) Network Design
16 44 (11.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 115 (30.03%) Python
2 75 (19.58%) PowerShell
3 59 (15.40%) Bash
4 28 (7.31%) Bicep
5 18 (4.70%) SQL
6 10 (2.61%) Go
7 9 (2.35%) Java
8 5 (1.31%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.78%) C#
10 2 (0.52%) Perl
10 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) Groovy
11 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.26%) R
11 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 110 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 77 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 47 (12.27%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (10.18%) DV Cleared
5 33 (8.62%) Azure Certification
6 30 (7.83%) Degree
7 28 (7.31%) AWS Certification
8 25 (6.53%) CCNP
9 19 (4.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.66%) CCIE
10 14 (3.66%) CISSP
11 13 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.87%) JNCIE
14 9 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (1.57%) OCP
15 6 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.57%) VCAP
16 5 (1.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.40%) NIST
2 24 (6.27%) GDPR
3 22 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.66%) NCSC
5 13 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.61%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.83%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.04%) GRC
9 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.78%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.52%) SLA
11 1 (0.26%) COBIT
11 1 (0.26%) QA
11 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (17.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 66 (17.23%) Active Directory
3 40 (10.44%) vSphere
4 34 (8.88%) VMware NSX
5 28 (7.31%) Docker
6 22 (5.74%) Hyper-V
7 19 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (4.96%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.78%) KVM
8 3 (0.78%) NFS
8 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.26%) Ceph
9 1 (0.26%) Firmware
9 1 (0.26%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.26%) oVirt
9 1 (0.26%) RHEV
9 1 (0.26%) Squid
9 1 (0.26%) Varnish
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 155 (40.47%) Terraform
2 103 (26.89%) Ansible
3 84 (21.93%) Kubernetes
4 30 (7.83%) Grafana
5 21 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (4.18%) vCenter Server
8 13 (3.39%) SCCM
9 8 (2.09%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.09%) Istio
9 8 (2.09%) SCOM
10 7 (1.83%) Argo
10 7 (1.83%) Puppet
10 7 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.83%) systemd
11 6 (1.57%) PowerCLI
12 4 (1.04%) Rancher
13 3 (0.78%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.78%) SnapMirror
13 3 (0.78%) vMotion
Vendors
1 139 (36.29%) Microsoft
2 86 (22.45%) VMware
3 49 (12.79%) Cisco
4 48 (12.53%) Palo Alto
5 40 (10.44%) F5
6 31 (8.09%) Google
7 24 (6.27%) Fortinet
8 23 (6.01%) Aruba
9 20 (5.22%) Juniper
9 20 (5.22%) Red Hat
10 19 (4.96%) Arista
11 14 (3.66%) Splunk
12 13 (3.39%) Zscaler
13 10 (2.61%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.35%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (2.35%) CyberArk
15 8 (2.09%) CheckPoint
15 8 (2.09%) SolarWinds
16 7 (1.83%) Commvault
16 7 (1.83%) NetApp