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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 314 436
Rank change year-on-year +15 +122 -12
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 372 200 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.72% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% 2.06% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 119 66
10th Percentile £413 £406 £431
25th Percentile £486 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £612
90th Percentile £769 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £60.06 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £69.61 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £69.61 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -14.97% - -

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 15,238 9,732 10,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.42% 35.22% 30.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,354 6,146 6,651
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 £676
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 485 541
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.81% -34.74% +17.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.76 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +48.34% -34.44% +20.00%

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 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 11 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 11 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 -7 145 £575 - 145
South East -19 86 £615 +17.14% 67
North of England -55 74 £530 -11.67% 40
Yorkshire -19 37 £507 -18.88% 15
Midlands -39 35 £488 -30.36% 7
North West -47 30 £570 -5.00% 23
West Midlands -44 29 £488 -30.36% 5
South West -31 24 £651 -6.96% 20
North East -33 13 £650 +8.33% 2
East of England -21 7 £505 -8.18% 6
East Midlands -6 6 £478 +11.05% 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 12 (3.23%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.61%) Apache
4 5 (1.34%) Confluence
4 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.81%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.88%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 244 (65.59%) Azure
2 176 (47.31%) AWS
3 53 (14.25%) GCP
4 43 (11.56%) Entra ID
5 37 (9.95%) GitHub
6 34 (9.14%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (9.14%) SaaS
7 32 (8.60%) OpenShift
8 28 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (6.72%) OCI
10 23 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (5.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 19 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (4.30%) IaaS
13 16 (4.30%) Serverless
14 12 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (2.96%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.96%) PaaS
15 11 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 93 (25.00%) Firewall
2 62 (16.67%) DNS
3 59 (15.86%) VPN
4 58 (15.59%) WAN
5 49 (13.17%) BGP
6 45 (12.10%) Network Security
7 37 (9.95%) DHCP
8 36 (9.68%) OSPF
9 35 (9.41%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 30 (8.06%) LAN
12 29 (7.80%) TCP/IP
13 24 (6.45%) VXLAN
14 23 (6.18%) BIG-IP
15 22 (5.91%) Ethernet VPN
15 22 (5.91%) MPLS
15 22 (5.91%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (4.84%) VLAN
17 14 (3.76%) SAN
18 13 (3.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.08%) Power BI
5 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.54%) Big Data
6 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.54%) Metadata
6 2 (0.54%) Redis
7 1 (0.27%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.27%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.27%) Flink
7 1 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.27%) HBase
7 1 (0.27%) Impala
7 1 (0.27%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 32 (8.60%) GitLab
1 32 (8.60%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.26%) Git
3 4 (1.08%) Jaeger
3 4 (1.08%) JIRA
3 4 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 102 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.56%) Public Sector
3 35 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.14%) Finance
5 22 (5.91%) Banking
6 21 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.30%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.49%) Retail
9 12 (3.23%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.34%) Local Government
11 4 (1.08%) Automotive
11 4 (1.08%) Law
11 4 (1.08%) Legal
11 4 (1.08%) Military
11 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Publishing
13 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (32.53%) Architect
2 80 (21.51%) Senior
3 55 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (9.14%) Network Engineer
5 33 (8.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (8.06%) Network Architect
6 30 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (6.18%) Lead
7 23 (6.18%) Senior Architect
8 20 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.11%) Technical Architect
10 18 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (3.76%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (3.49%) Security Engineer
13 12 (3.23%) Consultant
14 11 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
14 11 (2.96%) Security Architect
15 9 (2.42%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.38%) REST
2 17 (4.57%) ARM Templates
3 15 (4.03%) OpenTelemetry
4 12 (3.23%) Kafka
5 11 (2.96%) NETCONF
5 11 (2.96%) YANG
6 7 (1.88%) JSON
7 6 (1.61%) .NET
7 6 (1.61%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.61%) LDAP
7 6 (1.61%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.61%) RESTCONF
7 6 (1.61%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.08%) Loki
9 4 (1.08%) Middleware
9 4 (1.08%) OAuth
9 4 (1.08%) OpenID
9 4 (1.08%) RESTful
10 3 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.74%) Data Centre
2 61 (16.40%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.99%) Onboarding
4 25 (6.72%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.30%) Private Cloud
6 15 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (2.96%) PKI
10 10 (2.69%) Replication
11 9 (2.42%) Security Posture
12 8 (2.15%) AI Agents
12 8 (2.15%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.88%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.61%) ARM Cortex
15 5 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (1.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 74 (19.89%) Windows
2 70 (18.82%) Linux
3 58 (15.59%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.96%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.61%) VMS
7 5 (1.34%) Unix
8 4 (1.08%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (0.81%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.81%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.54%) CentOS
10 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.27%) AIX
11 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (36.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 132 (35.48%) DevOps
3 123 (33.06%) CI/CD
4 95 (25.54%) Migration
5 89 (23.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (20.43%) Zero Trust
7 64 (17.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 62 (16.67%) Cloud Security
9 58 (15.59%) Technical Leadership
10 57 (15.32%) Roadmaps
11 53 (14.25%) High Availability
12 50 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 49 (13.17%) Observability
14 47 (12.63%) Agile
15 45 (12.10%) Containerisation
16 44 (11.83%) Analytics
16 44 (11.83%) Network Design
16 44 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 43 (11.56%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 116 (31.18%) Python
2 72 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 56 (15.05%) Bash
4 25 (6.72%) Bicep
5 18 (4.84%) SQL
6 10 (2.69%) Java
7 7 (1.88%) Go
8 5 (1.34%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.81%) C#
10 2 (0.54%) Perl
10 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.27%) C
11 1 (0.27%) Groovy
11 1 (0.27%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.27%) R
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 108 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 77 (20.70%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.10%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 32 (8.60%) Azure Certification
6 29 (7.80%) Degree
7 26 (6.99%) AWS Certification
8 24 (6.45%) CCNP
9 16 (4.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.76%) CCIE
11 13 (3.49%) CISSP
12 12 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.96%) JNCIE
14 8 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (1.88%) OCP
15 7 (1.88%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.95%) NIST
2 24 (6.45%) GDPR
3 21 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (3.76%) NCSC
5 11 (2.96%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.34%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.08%) GRC
8 3 (0.81%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) QA
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 68 (18.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 65 (17.47%) Active Directory
3 40 (10.75%) vSphere
4 35 (9.41%) VMware NSX
5 27 (7.26%) Docker
6 22 (5.91%) Hyper-V
7 18 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (4.30%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.81%) KVM
10 3 (0.81%) NFS
11 1 (0.27%) Ceph
11 1 (0.27%) Firmware
11 1 (0.27%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.27%) oVirt
11 1 (0.27%) RHEV
11 1 (0.27%) Squid
11 1 (0.27%) Varnish
11 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 145 (38.98%) Terraform
2 98 (26.34%) Ansible
3 79 (21.24%) Kubernetes
4 31 (8.33%) Grafana
5 20 (5.38%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (4.03%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.23%) SCCM
9 9 (2.42%) Argo
10 8 (2.15%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.15%) Istio
11 7 (1.88%) Puppet
11 7 (1.88%) SCOM
11 7 (1.88%) systemd
12 5 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.08%) Rancher
14 3 (0.81%) CASB
14 3 (0.81%) Check_MK
14 3 (0.81%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.81%) vMotion
Vendors
1 131 (35.22%) Microsoft
2 86 (23.12%) VMware
3 49 (13.17%) Cisco
3 49 (13.17%) Palo Alto
4 40 (10.75%) F5
5 25 (6.72%) Google
6 24 (6.45%) Fortinet
7 23 (6.18%) Aruba
8 22 (5.91%) Red Hat
9 20 (5.38%) Juniper
10 18 (4.84%) Arista
11 16 (4.30%) Splunk
12 13 (3.49%) Zscaler
13 8 (2.15%) CheckPoint
13 8 (2.15%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (2.15%) CyberArk
13 8 (2.15%) Pure Storage
13 8 (2.15%) ServiceNow
13 8 (2.15%) SolarWinds
14 7 (1.88%) SAP
291 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England