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 27 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 315 458
Rank change year-on-year +2 +143 -31
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 332 171 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.68% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 1.95% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 95 62
10th Percentile £413 £406 £415
25th Percentile £475 £469 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £608
90th Percentile £725 £751 £723
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £31.56 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £82.50 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -26.70% - -

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 14,285 8,780 11,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.86% 34.75% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,900 5,626 7,328
10th Percentile £313 £305 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £816
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 778 413 843
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -12.00% +61.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.10 £31.04 £36.50
% change year-on-year +38.86% -14.96% +62.22%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -12 131 £559 +3.95% 36
North of England -25 79 £517 -2.67% 17
South East -29 57 £625 +8.70% 28
Yorkshire -8 43 £500 -20.00% 8
Midlands -41 34 £500 -35.48% 6
West Midlands -43 30 £500 -44.44% 4
North West -39 29 £558 +17.37% 9
South West -23 23 £498 -19.76% 9
North East -28 13 £650 +8.33%
East of England -30 5 £530 -3.64% 4
East Midlands -12 4 £500 -13.04% 2
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 (3.01%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.41%) Confluence
2 8 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.20%) Apache
5 3 (0.90%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.60%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.51%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (0.90%) Fidessa
1 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Maximo
2 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 205 (61.75%) Azure
2 166 (50.00%) AWS
3 48 (14.46%) GCP
4 39 (11.75%) OpenShift
5 31 (9.34%) GitHub
6 29 (8.73%) SaaS
7 26 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (6.93%) Entra ID
9 21 (6.33%) OCI
10 20 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (5.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 16 (4.82%) IaaS
12 16 (4.82%) Serverless
13 13 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.31%) Azure AKS
14 11 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (3.01%) PaaS
16 9 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 73 (21.99%) Firewall
2 54 (16.27%) WAN
3 47 (14.16%) BGP
4 42 (12.65%) DNS
4 42 (12.65%) VPN
5 41 (12.35%) Network Security
6 34 (10.24%) OSPF
7 33 (9.94%) SD-WAN
8 29 (8.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 29 (8.73%) LAN
9 25 (7.53%) VXLAN
10 23 (6.93%) BIG-IP
11 21 (6.33%) Ethernet VPN
12 20 (6.02%) MPLS
13 18 (5.42%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (4.82%) SAN
15 14 (4.22%) DHCP
16 12 (3.61%) VLAN
16 12 (3.61%) WLAN
17 10 (3.01%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.60%) Metadata
3 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.60%) Power BI
3 2 (0.60%) Redis
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.30%) Big Data
4 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.30%) Firebird
4 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (8.13%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.23%) GitLab
3 18 (5.42%) Git
4 8 (2.41%) JIRA
5 4 (1.20%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 91 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.16%) Public Sector
3 27 (8.13%) Finance
4 24 (7.23%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (6.02%) Banking
6 18 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.61%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.71%) Retail
9 7 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Law
10 4 (1.20%) Local Government
11 3 (0.90%) Front Office
11 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Legal
11 3 (0.90%) Military
11 3 (0.90%) Publishing
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 111 (33.43%) Architect
2 60 (18.07%) Senior
3 45 (13.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (10.54%) Network Architect
5 31 (9.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (7.23%) Network Engineer
7 23 (6.93%) Senior Architect
8 22 (6.63%) Lead
8 22 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (6.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.42%) Technical Architect
11 17 (5.12%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (5.12%) Cloud Architect
12 16 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.61%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.31%) Security Engineer
14 11 (3.31%) Senior Network Architect
15 9 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.71%) Security Architect
16 7 (2.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.53%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (6.02%) REST
3 15 (4.52%) Kafka
4 12 (3.61%) JSON
5 11 (3.31%) NETCONF
5 11 (3.31%) YANG
6 8 (2.41%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.41%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.11%) ARM Templates
7 7 (2.11%) Middleware
8 6 (1.81%) .NET
8 6 (1.81%) LDAP
8 6 (1.81%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.20%) Loki
10 4 (1.20%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.20%) RESTCONF
11 3 (0.90%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.90%) JMS
11 3 (0.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 69 (20.78%) Data Centre
2 66 (19.88%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.42%) Public Cloud
4 17 (5.12%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.52%) Private Cloud
6 14 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.71%) Replication
9 7 (2.11%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.11%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.81%) PKI
11 5 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.51%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.51%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.20%) BYOD
12 4 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.46%) Windows
2 46 (13.86%) Linux
3 33 (9.94%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.71%) VMS
6 7 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.81%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.51%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.60%) CentOS
10 1 (0.30%) AIX
10 1 (0.30%) Unix
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (31.93%) CI/CD
2 104 (31.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (30.42%) DevOps
4 85 (25.60%) Migration
5 71 (21.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 60 (18.07%) Zero Trust
7 53 (15.96%) Disaster Recovery
8 50 (15.06%) Containerisation
9 48 (14.46%) Cloud Security
10 47 (14.16%) High Availability
10 47 (14.16%) Roadmaps
11 45 (13.55%) Network Design
12 43 (12.95%) Agile
12 43 (12.95%) Load Balancing
13 41 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
15 37 (11.14%) Observability
15 37 (11.14%) RBAC
16 33 (9.94%) Runbook
17 31 (9.34%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 101 (30.42%) Python
2 49 (14.76%) PowerShell
3 35 (10.54%) Bash
4 17 (5.12%) Bicep
5 14 (4.22%) SQL
6 11 (3.31%) Java
7 7 (2.11%) Go
8 5 (1.51%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.90%) C#
9 3 (0.90%) R
9 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) C
11 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 85 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 56 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 42 (12.65%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (7.83%) DV Cleared
5 22 (6.63%) Degree
6 21 (6.33%) Azure Certification
6 21 (6.33%) CCNP
7 20 (6.02%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.52%) CCIE
9 13 (3.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (3.31%) JNCIE
11 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.71%) CISSP
12 9 (2.71%) OCP
12 9 (2.71%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (2.41%) CCNA
14 7 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.24%) NIST
2 21 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (6.02%) GDPR
4 13 (3.92%) NCSC
5 12 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (3.01%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.51%) GRC
8 4 (1.20%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.90%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.60%) SLA
10 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.30%) QA
System Software
1 58 (17.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (14.16%) Active Directory
3 40 (12.05%) vSphere
4 34 (10.24%) VMware NSX
5 19 (5.72%) Docker
5 19 (5.72%) Hyper-V
6 17 (5.12%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (4.22%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.51%) NFS
8 5 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.20%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.30%) Squid
10 1 (0.30%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 118 (35.54%) Terraform
2 82 (24.70%) Ansible
3 75 (22.59%) Kubernetes
4 33 (9.94%) Grafana
5 21 (6.33%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.12%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.61%) Argo
8 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.41%) Puppet
10 6 (1.81%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.51%) Istio
11 5 (1.51%) SnapMirror
12 4 (1.20%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.20%) Rancher
12 4 (1.20%) SCOM
13 3 (0.90%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.90%) PowerCLI
13 3 (0.90%) SCCM
13 3 (0.90%) systemd
13 3 (0.90%) yum
Vendors
1 97 (29.22%) Microsoft
2 71 (21.39%) VMware
3 45 (13.55%) Palo Alto
4 39 (11.75%) Cisco
5 34 (10.24%) F5
6 31 (9.34%) Red Hat
7 26 (7.83%) Splunk
8 23 (6.93%) Aruba
9 21 (6.33%) Google
10 20 (6.02%) Fortinet
11 19 (5.72%) Arista
12 14 (4.22%) Juniper
13 13 (3.92%) Pure Storage
14 12 (3.61%) CheckPoint
15 11 (3.31%) Zscaler
16 9 (2.71%) SolarWinds
17 8 (2.41%) NetApp
18 7 (2.11%) CyberArk
19 6 (1.81%) Commvault
20 5 (1.51%) ServiceNow