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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 303 431
Rank change year-on-year +11 +128 -8
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 379 209 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.76% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.47% 2.13% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 121 70
10th Percentile £413 £406 £446
25th Percentile £498 £475 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +10.34% -13.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £608
90th Percentile £768 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 15,371 9,822 10,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.55% 35.48% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,431 6,193 6,639
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 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 492 536
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £12.88
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £19.22
Median hourly rate £42.71 £31.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -33.69% +13.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +44.07% -34.44% +12.04%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +5 149 £575 - 129
South East -12 89 £615 +17.14% 56
North of England -47 73 £557 -7.25% 36
Yorkshire -16 38 £530 -15.20% 12
Midlands -30 35 £488 -30.36% 8
West Midlands -33 29 £488 -30.36% 5
North West -61 28 £575 -4.17% 22
South West -48 23 £640 -8.57% 19
North East -34 13 £650 +8.33% 2
East of England -20 7 £505 -8.18% 7
East Midlands -11 6 £478 +11.05% 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 (3.17%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.58%) Apache
4 5 (1.32%) Confluence
4 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.79%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.53%) 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 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.53%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
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%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 251 (66.23%) Azure
2 183 (48.28%) AWS
3 58 (15.30%) GCP
4 43 (11.35%) Entra ID
5 39 (10.29%) GitHub
6 36 (9.50%) SaaS
7 33 (8.71%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (7.65%) OpenShift
9 27 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (6.60%) Azure Monitor
10 25 (6.60%) OCI
11 23 (6.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 22 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.49%) IaaS
13 17 (4.49%) Serverless
14 13 (3.43%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (3.17%) PaaS
16 11 (2.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (24.01%) Firewall
2 62 (16.36%) DNS
3 60 (15.83%) VPN
4 58 (15.30%) WAN
5 51 (13.46%) BGP
6 42 (11.08%) Network Security
7 37 (9.76%) DHCP
8 36 (9.50%) OSPF
9 35 (9.23%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 30 (7.92%) LAN
12 29 (7.65%) TCP/IP
13 25 (6.60%) VXLAN
14 23 (6.07%) BIG-IP
14 23 (6.07%) Ethernet VPN
15 22 (5.80%) MPLS
15 22 (5.80%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (4.75%) VLAN
17 15 (3.96%) SAN
18 13 (3.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (1.58%) Power BI
3 5 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.53%) Big Data
6 2 (0.53%) Metadata
6 2 (0.53%) Redis
6 2 (0.53%) Tableau
7 1 (0.26%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.26%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Flink
7 1 (0.26%) Impala
7 1 (0.26%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.26%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 33 (8.71%) GitLab
2 31 (8.18%) Jenkins
3 28 (7.39%) Git
4 4 (1.06%) Jaeger
4 4 (1.06%) JIRA
4 4 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 107 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 41 (10.82%) Public Sector
3 37 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (9.76%) Finance
4 24 (6.33%) Banking
4 24 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (3.96%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.43%) Retail
7 12 (3.17%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.32%) Legal
8 5 (1.32%) Local Government
9 4 (1.06%) Automotive
9 4 (1.06%) Law
9 4 (1.06%) Military
9 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.79%) Publishing
11 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 126 (33.25%) Architect
2 85 (22.43%) Senior
3 56 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (10.03%) Network Engineer
5 33 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (8.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (8.44%) Solutions Architect
7 28 (7.39%) Network Architect
8 23 (6.07%) Senior Architect
9 22 (5.80%) Lead
10 19 (5.01%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (4.75%) Technical Architect
12 17 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.22%) Cloud Architect
13 16 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.17%) Consultant
14 12 (3.17%) Enterprise Architect
14 12 (3.17%) Senior Network Engineer
15 11 (2.90%) Security Engineer
16 10 (2.64%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.54%) REST
2 18 (4.75%) ARM Templates
3 12 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (2.90%) NETCONF
4 11 (2.90%) YANG
5 10 (2.64%) Kafka
6 7 (1.85%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.58%) .NET
7 6 (1.58%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.58%) LDAP
7 6 (1.58%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.58%) RESTCONF
8 5 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.32%) JSON
9 4 (1.06%) Loki
9 4 (1.06%) Middleware
9 4 (1.06%) OAuth
9 4 (1.06%) OpenID
9 4 (1.06%) RESTful
10 3 (0.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (18.47%) Data Centre
2 62 (16.36%) Cloud Native
3 29 (7.65%) Public Cloud
4 27 (7.12%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.80%) Private Cloud
6 15 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.43%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.90%) PKI
9 10 (2.64%) Replication
10 8 (2.11%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.11%) CMDB
10 8 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.11%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.11%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.85%) ARM Cortex
11 7 (1.85%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 77 (20.32%) Windows
2 72 (19.00%) Linux
3 59 (15.57%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.90%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.58%) VMS
7 5 (1.32%) Unix
8 4 (1.06%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (0.79%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.53%) CentOS
10 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) AIX
11 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (36.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 134 (35.36%) DevOps
3 127 (33.51%) CI/CD
4 100 (26.39%) Migration
5 90 (23.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (19.79%) Zero Trust
7 65 (17.15%) Disaster Recovery
8 62 (16.36%) Roadmaps
9 61 (16.09%) Cloud Security
10 59 (15.57%) Technical Leadership
11 55 (14.51%) High Availability
11 55 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 49 (12.93%) Agile
13 48 (12.66%) ITIL
13 48 (12.66%) Observability
14 45 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (11.87%) Load Balancing
15 44 (11.61%) Containerisation
15 44 (11.61%) Network Design
16 43 (11.35%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 116 (30.61%) Python
2 74 (19.53%) PowerShell
3 58 (15.30%) Bash
4 27 (7.12%) Bicep
5 19 (5.01%) SQL
6 10 (2.64%) Java
7 9 (2.37%) Go
8 5 (1.32%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.79%) C#
10 2 (0.53%) Perl
10 2 (0.53%) 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
1 107 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 76 (20.05%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.14%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (9.50%) DV Cleared
5 34 (8.97%) Azure Certification
6 30 (7.92%) Degree
7 27 (7.12%) AWS Certification
8 25 (6.60%) CCNP
9 16 (4.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.69%) CCIE
11 13 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.43%) CISSP
11 13 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.90%) JNCIE
14 8 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (1.85%) OCP
15 7 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
16 5 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.50%) NIST
2 24 (6.33%) GDPR
3 21 (5.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (3.69%) NCSC
5 10 (2.64%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.85%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.06%) GRC
8 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.79%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.53%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) COBIT
10 1 (0.26%) QA
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (17.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 65 (17.15%) Active Directory
3 39 (10.29%) vSphere
4 33 (8.71%) VMware NSX
5 27 (7.12%) Docker
6 23 (6.07%) Hyper-V
7 19 (5.01%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (4.22%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.79%) KVM
10 3 (0.79%) NFS
11 1 (0.26%) Ceph
11 1 (0.26%) Firmware
11 1 (0.26%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.26%) oVirt
11 1 (0.26%) RHEV
11 1 (0.26%) Squid
11 1 (0.26%) Varnish
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 151 (39.84%) Terraform
2 100 (26.39%) Ansible
3 79 (20.84%) Kubernetes
4 32 (8.44%) Grafana
5 20 (5.28%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (3.69%) vCenter Server
8 13 (3.43%) SCCM
9 8 (2.11%) Argo
9 8 (2.11%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.11%) Istio
9 8 (2.11%) SCOM
10 7 (1.85%) Puppet
10 7 (1.85%) systemd
11 6 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.06%) Rancher
13 3 (0.79%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.79%) PowerCLI
13 3 (0.79%) SnapMirror
13 3 (0.79%) vMotion
Vendors
1 138 (36.41%) Microsoft
2 84 (22.16%) VMware
3 51 (13.46%) Cisco
4 49 (12.93%) Palo Alto
5 40 (10.55%) F5
6 31 (8.18%) Google
7 24 (6.33%) Fortinet
8 23 (6.07%) Aruba
9 21 (5.54%) Juniper
9 21 (5.54%) Red Hat
10 19 (5.01%) Arista
11 15 (3.96%) Splunk
12 14 (3.69%) Zscaler
13 10 (2.64%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.37%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (2.37%) CyberArk
15 8 (2.11%) CheckPoint
15 8 (2.11%) SolarWinds
16 7 (1.85%) NetApp
16 7 (1.85%) SAP