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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 317 436
Rank change year-on-year +1 +119 -11
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 356 200 100
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 0.73% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.36% 2.07% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 117 69
10th Percentile £413 £406 £435
25th Percentile £491 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +9.09% -11.47%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £613
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £35.47 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.01% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £81.88 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -16.01% - -

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 15,106 9,640 10,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.33% 35.03% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,321 6,093 6,845
10th Percentile £322 £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 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 860 478 589
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.38 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% -28.04% +9.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +49.02% -28.48% +10.00%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -2 138 £575 +4.55% 96
North of England -42 82 £519 -13.47% 35
South East -18 74 £615 +17.14% 43
Yorkshire -19 44 £500 -20.00% 14
Midlands -36 36 £500 -28.57% 5
West Midlands -48 31 £500 -28.57% 3
North West -61 31 £565 -5.83% 19
South West -40 19 £575 -17.86% 15
North East -33 13 £650 +8.33% 2
East of England -21 6 £518 -5.91% 3
East Midlands -9 5 £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 (3.37%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.69%) Confluence
4 5 (1.40%) Apache
4 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.84%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.56%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.97%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.56%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 226 (63.48%) Azure
2 172 (48.31%) AWS
3 52 (14.61%) GCP
4 40 (11.24%) GitHub
5 36 (10.11%) OpenShift
6 34 (9.55%) Entra ID
7 33 (9.27%) SaaS
8 28 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (6.46%) OCI
11 22 (6.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 18 (5.06%) IaaS
13 17 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (3.93%) Serverless
16 13 (3.65%) PaaS
17 12 (3.37%) Azure AKS
18 10 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (2.81%) Azure Sentinel
19 9 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 86 (24.16%) Firewall
2 59 (16.57%) DNS
3 56 (15.73%) WAN
4 54 (15.17%) VPN
5 50 (14.04%) BGP
6 43 (12.08%) Network Security
7 37 (10.39%) OSPF
8 33 (9.27%) SD-WAN
9 31 (8.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 30 (8.43%) DHCP
10 30 (8.43%) LAN
11 26 (7.30%) TCP/IP
11 26 (7.30%) VXLAN
12 23 (6.46%) BIG-IP
13 22 (6.18%) Ethernet VPN
13 22 (6.18%) MPLS
14 20 (5.62%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (5.06%) VLAN
16 16 (4.49%) SAN
17 12 (3.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.84%) Metadata
3 3 (0.84%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.84%) Power BI
4 2 (0.56%) Big Data
4 2 (0.56%) Redis
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.28%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.28%) Flink
5 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.28%) Impala
5 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (8.71%) Jenkins
2 28 (7.87%) GitLab
3 27 (7.58%) Git
4 6 (1.69%) JIRA
5 5 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.12%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 94 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.92%) Public Sector
3 33 (9.27%) Finance
4 28 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.02%) Banking
6 24 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.49%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.81%) Retail
9 5 (1.40%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.40%) Local Government
10 4 (1.12%) Automotive
10 4 (1.12%) Law
10 4 (1.12%) Military
10 4 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Legal
11 3 (0.84%) Publishing
12 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (33.99%) Architect
2 70 (19.66%) Senior
3 51 (14.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 33 (9.27%) Network Engineer
5 32 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (8.99%) Network Architect
6 29 (8.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 28 (7.87%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (6.46%) Senior Architect
9 22 (6.18%) Lead
10 18 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (5.06%) Technical Architect
11 17 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.93%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (3.09%) Enterprise Architect
14 11 (3.09%) Security Engineer
15 9 (2.53%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.53%) Security Architect
15 9 (2.53%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.46%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (5.62%) REST
3 16 (4.49%) Kafka
4 13 (3.65%) ARM Templates
5 11 (3.09%) JSON
5 11 (3.09%) NETCONF
5 11 (3.09%) YANG
6 7 (1.97%) 802.1X
6 7 (1.97%) Apache Avro
6 7 (1.97%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (1.69%) .NET
7 6 (1.69%) LDAP
7 6 (1.69%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.69%) RESTCONF
7 6 (1.69%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.40%) Middleware
9 4 (1.12%) Loki
9 4 (1.12%) YAML
10 3 (0.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 68 (19.10%) Data Centre
2 64 (17.98%) Cloud Native
3 23 (6.46%) Onboarding
3 23 (6.46%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.21%) Private Cloud
5 12 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (2.81%) PKI
7 10 (2.81%) Replication
8 9 (2.53%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.97%) Operational Technology
9 7 (1.97%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.40%) ARM Cortex
10 5 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.40%) FlexPod
10 5 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.26%) Linux
2 61 (17.13%) Windows
3 48 (13.48%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.09%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.53%) VMS
7 6 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.40%) CoreOS
9 4 (1.12%) Unix
10 2 (0.56%) CentOS
10 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.28%) AIX
11 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (34.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 118 (33.15%) CI/CD
2 118 (33.15%) DevOps
3 93 (26.12%) Migration
4 83 (23.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 69 (19.38%) Zero Trust
6 61 (17.13%) Disaster Recovery
7 55 (15.45%) High Availability
8 53 (14.89%) Roadmaps
9 52 (14.61%) Cloud Security
10 48 (13.48%) Technical Leadership
11 47 (13.20%) Observability
12 46 (12.92%) Containerisation
12 46 (12.92%) Load Balancing
13 45 (12.64%) Network Design
13 45 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (12.36%) Agile
15 42 (11.80%) Analytics
16 38 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (32.02%) Python
2 57 (16.01%) PowerShell
3 51 (14.33%) Bash
4 23 (6.46%) Bicep
5 17 (4.78%) SQL
6 10 (2.81%) Java
7 7 (1.97%) Go
8 5 (1.40%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.84%) C#
10 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.28%) C
11 1 (0.28%) Groovy
11 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.28%) Perl
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 97 (27.25%) Security Cleared
2 63 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.64%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 29 (8.15%) Azure Certification
6 28 (7.87%) Degree
7 26 (7.30%) CCNP
8 24 (6.74%) AWS Certification
9 15 (4.21%) CCIE
9 15 (4.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.09%) JNCIE
12 9 (2.53%) OCP
12 9 (2.53%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (2.25%) CISSP
14 6 (1.69%) CCNA
15 5 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.83%) NIST
2 23 (6.46%) GDPR
3 19 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.65%) NCSC
5 12 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.09%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.40%) GRC
8 4 (1.12%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.12%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.56%) SLA
10 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.28%) QA
10 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (17.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 60 (16.85%) Active Directory
3 41 (11.52%) vSphere
4 35 (9.83%) VMware NSX
5 23 (6.46%) Docker
6 20 (5.62%) Hyper-V
7 19 (5.34%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.21%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.40%) NFS
10 4 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.84%) KVM
12 1 (0.28%) Ceph
12 1 (0.28%) Firmware
12 1 (0.28%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.28%) Squid
12 1 (0.28%) Varnish
12 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 137 (38.48%) Terraform
2 96 (26.97%) Ansible
3 80 (22.47%) Kubernetes
4 33 (9.27%) Grafana
5 22 (6.18%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.78%) vCenter Server
7 13 (3.65%) Argo
7 13 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (3.09%) SCCM
9 7 (1.97%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.97%) Puppet
9 7 (1.97%) systemd
10 6 (1.69%) Istio
11 5 (1.40%) SnapMirror
12 4 (1.12%) CASB
12 4 (1.12%) Rancher
12 4 (1.12%) SCOM
13 3 (0.84%) PowerCLI
13 3 (0.84%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.84%) yum
Vendors
1 115 (32.30%) Microsoft
2 78 (21.91%) VMware
3 50 (14.04%) Cisco
3 50 (14.04%) Palo Alto
4 40 (11.24%) F5
5 27 (7.58%) Red Hat
6 25 (7.02%) Fortinet
7 24 (6.74%) Aruba
7 24 (6.74%) Google
7 24 (6.74%) Splunk
8 22 (6.18%) Juniper
9 19 (5.34%) Arista
10 13 (3.65%) Zscaler
11 11 (3.09%) Pure Storage
12 10 (2.81%) CheckPoint
13 9 (2.53%) SolarWinds
14 8 (2.25%) CyberArk
14 8 (2.25%) NetApp
15 7 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (1.97%) SAP