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 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 370 430
Rank change year-on-year +65 +60 +100
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 246 135 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.47% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 1.46% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 102 95
10th Percentile £413 £460 £468
25th Percentile £468 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% +3.90%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £681
90th Percentile £775 £750 £733
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £75.30
25th Percentile £75.75 - £75.75
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £76.50
75th Percentile £77.25 - £77.25
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - -17.30%

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 11,164 9,228 11,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.35% 32.45% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,054 5,574 7,852
10th Percentile £283 £276 £263
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.13%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £784 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £528 £549
% change year-on-year -4.74% -3.92% -0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 267 470
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.18 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.56 £37.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.80% -12.94% +25.67%
75th Percentile £62.64 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.63 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.65 £41.85
% change year-on-year -19.13% -19.60% +26.80%

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 28 December 2025.

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
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 28 December 2025. 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 +39 99 £556 -3.26% 71
North of England -12 42 £488 -28.31% 74
South West +20 40 £650 -5.80% 37
South East -17 35 £538 -6.52% 87
Midlands -25 33 £550 -15.38% 58
West Midlands -9 30 £586 -16.29% 33
Yorkshire -24 23 £476 -33.39% 33
North West -12 18 £550 -8.52% 38
East of England - 4 £503 - 50
East Midlands -23 3 £500 -9.09% 21
North East -9 1 £600 - 3
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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 13 (5.28%) OpenStack
2 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.63%) Confluence
3 4 (1.63%) SAS
3 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.22%) CMS
4 3 (1.22%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.22%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.81%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) Mule
6 1 (0.41%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.44%) Maximo
2 4 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 149 (60.57%) Azure
2 96 (39.02%) AWS
3 41 (16.67%) GCP
4 33 (13.41%) OpenShift
5 29 (11.79%) GitHub
6 27 (10.98%) Entra ID
7 20 (8.13%) SaaS
8 18 (7.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 17 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (4.47%) IaaS
15 10 (4.07%) PaaS
16 9 (3.66%) Azure AKS
16 9 (3.66%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (3.66%) Azure Stack
17 8 (3.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (20.33%) Firewall
2 39 (15.85%) WAN
3 34 (13.82%) VPN
4 33 (13.41%) Network Security
5 21 (8.54%) LAN
6 17 (6.91%) BGP
6 17 (6.91%) SD-WAN
7 15 (6.10%) DNS
8 14 (5.69%) MPLS
9 10 (4.07%) SNMP
10 9 (3.66%) Wireless
11 8 (3.25%) DHCP
11 8 (3.25%) OSPF
11 8 (3.25%) TACACS
12 6 (2.44%) NGFW
12 6 (2.44%) TCP/IP
13 5 (2.03%) VLAN
13 5 (2.03%) VSAN
13 5 (2.03%) VXLAN
14 3 (1.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.47%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.03%) Big Data
3 5 (2.03%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.03%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.63%) Delta Lake
4 4 (1.63%) Metadata
4 4 (1.63%) Power BI
5 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.81%) DataStage
5 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.81%) Tableau
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.41%) QlikView
6 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.10%) GitLab
3 7 (2.85%) Git
4 6 (2.44%) JIRA
5 2 (0.81%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
General
1 93 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.63%) Finance
3 25 (10.16%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.13%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.25%) Banking
7 6 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.44%) Retail
8 5 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.63%) Legal
10 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.81%) Billing
11 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.81%) International Banking
11 2 (0.81%) Local Government
11 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 72 (29.27%) Architect
2 33 (13.41%) Senior
3 21 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (6.50%) Network Architect
6 15 (6.10%) Lead
7 14 (5.69%) Consultant
8 12 (4.88%) Azure Architect
9 11 (4.47%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (4.07%) Developer
10 10 (4.07%) Enterprise Architect
10 10 (4.07%) Network Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.28%) REST
2 12 (4.88%) ARM Templates
2 12 (4.88%) Kafka
3 10 (4.07%) Keycloak
4 8 (3.25%) NETCONF
4 8 (3.25%) YANG
5 6 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (2.44%) JSON
6 5 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (2.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 3 (1.22%) MACH
7 3 (1.22%) OAuth
7 3 (1.22%) SAML
7 3 (1.22%) XML
8 2 (0.81%) LDAP
8 2 (0.81%) OpenID
8 2 (0.81%) RESTful
8 2 (0.81%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.81%) Spring
8 2 (0.81%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.48%) Cloud Native
2 40 (16.26%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.69%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.28%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (5.28%) Replication
5 11 (4.47%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.85%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.85%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.03%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.03%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.03%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.63%) IoT
10 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.22%) Life Science
11 3 (1.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.41%) Windows
2 25 (10.16%) Linux
3 21 (8.54%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.63%) Android
5 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.22%) VMS
6 2 (0.81%) CentOS
6 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.46%) DevOps
2 55 (22.36%) CI/CD
3 54 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (19.51%) Migration
6 47 (19.11%) Containerisation
7 40 (16.26%) Roadmaps
8 39 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (13.01%) Cloud Security
9 32 (13.01%) Zero Trust
10 29 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (10.98%) RBAC
12 27 (10.98%) TOGAF
13 26 (10.57%) Analytics
13 26 (10.57%) High Availability
14 25 (10.16%) AI
14 25 (10.16%) Incident Response
15 24 (9.76%) Microservices
16 23 (9.35%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 63 (25.61%) Python
2 39 (15.85%) PowerShell
3 27 (10.98%) Bash
4 20 (8.13%) Bicep
5 12 (4.88%) Go
6 11 (4.47%) SQL
7 9 (3.66%) Java
8 5 (2.03%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.41%) Scala
10 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.07%) Azure Certification
2 42 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.41%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (8.54%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.72%) CCIE
6 17 (6.91%) CISSP
7 14 (5.69%) JNCIE
7 14 (5.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (5.28%) Degree
9 11 (4.47%) CCNP
10 10 (4.07%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.85%) CISM
11 7 (2.85%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 5 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.03%) CCSP
13 5 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.76%) NIST
2 23 (9.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.94%) GDPR
4 7 (2.85%) QA
5 6 (2.44%) NIST 800
5 6 (2.44%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.03%) PSD2
6 5 (2.03%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (1.22%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.81%) GRC
8 2 (0.81%) GxP
8 2 (0.81%) NCSC
9 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.41%) GMP
9 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 33 (13.41%) Docker
2 28 (11.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (8.54%) Active Directory
4 19 (7.72%) VMware NSX
5 12 (4.88%) vSphere
6 8 (3.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.03%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.63%) KVM
9 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.41%) Ceph
10 1 (0.41%) Firmware
10 1 (0.41%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 74 (30.08%) Terraform
2 60 (24.39%) Kubernetes
3 47 (19.11%) Ansible
4 17 (6.91%) Grafana
5 14 (5.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (4.88%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (3.25%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.85%) Argo
9 6 (2.44%) Puppet
10 5 (2.03%) Data Guard
10 5 (2.03%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.63%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.63%) SCCM
12 3 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.81%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.81%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.81%) vMotion
Vendors
1 57 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.04%) VMware
3 25 (10.16%) Cisco
4 15 (6.10%) Google
5 14 (5.69%) Databricks
5 14 (5.69%) Fortinet
6 13 (5.28%) Palo Alto
6 13 (5.28%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.88%) Oracle
8 11 (4.47%) Juniper
9 10 (4.07%) Zscaler
10 9 (3.66%) F5
11 8 (3.25%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.25%) Dynatrace
11 8 (3.25%) IBM
11 8 (3.25%) Splunk
12 7 (2.85%) OpenAI
13 6 (2.44%) Citrix
13 6 (2.44%) SAP
14 5 (2.03%) Commvault