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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 318 449
Rank change year-on-year +26 +131 -9
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 303 170 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.70% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 2.05% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 101 66
10th Percentile £389 £460 £441
25th Percentile £463 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £616
90th Percentile £703 £750 £746
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £21.91 - -
25th Percentile £30.89 - -
Median hourly rate £46.68 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -53.32% - -
75th Percentile £62.39 - -
90th Percentile £71.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.68 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -53.32% - -

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 13,049 8,303 11,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.42% 34.16% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,271 5,427 7,448
10th Percentile £305 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -0.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 322 823
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.40 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £33.91 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.06% +13.03% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.15 £83.94 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.05 £29.50
% change year-on-year +41.84% +8.64% +31.20%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -4 132 £550 - 28
North of England -40 67 £500 -6.89% 23
Yorkshire -25 44 £500 -30.07% 4
South East -51 43 £625 +4.17% 21
South West -16 29 £400 -35.48% 14
Midlands -48 26 £550 -15.38% 6
West Midlands -42 23 £550 -15.38% 6
North West -30 20 £538 +2.63% 14
North East -17 5 £450 - 5
East of England -38 4 £530 -3.64% 1
East Midlands -39 3 £503 -17.96%
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 10 (3.30%) Confluence
2 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.66%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.98%) Maximo
2 5 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.32%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (1.32%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 182 (60.07%) Azure
2 134 (44.22%) AWS
3 48 (15.84%) OpenShift
4 40 (13.20%) GCP
5 33 (10.89%) GitHub
6 23 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (5.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 15 (4.95%) SaaS
10 14 (4.62%) Entra ID
11 12 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.96%) Azure AKS
11 12 (3.96%) Serverless
12 11 (3.63%) OCI
13 10 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.30%) IaaS
13 10 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (2.64%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 48 (15.84%) Firewall
2 40 (13.20%) Network Security
3 39 (12.87%) WAN
4 35 (11.55%) VPN
5 25 (8.25%) DNS
6 24 (7.92%) BGP
7 20 (6.60%) SD-WAN
8 19 (6.27%) LAN
9 17 (5.61%) OSPF
9 17 (5.61%) VXLAN
10 13 (4.29%) SAN
11 12 (3.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 11 (3.63%) Ethernet VPN
12 11 (3.63%) MPLS
12 11 (3.63%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (3.30%) VSAN
14 8 (2.64%) BIG-IP
15 7 (2.31%) Software-Defined Networking
16 6 (1.98%) Internet
16 6 (1.98%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.65%) Metadata
3 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.32%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.99%) Big Data
4 3 (0.99%) Power BI
5 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.66%) DataStage
5 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.66%) Redis
5 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.33%) Firebird
6 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (10.23%) Jenkins
2 17 (5.61%) GitLab
3 12 (3.96%) JIRA
4 11 (3.63%) Git
5 4 (1.32%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 103 (33.99%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.56%) Public Sector
3 29 (9.57%) Finance
4 26 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.92%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.28%) Banking
7 12 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.64%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.31%) Retail
10 6 (1.98%) Legal
11 4 (1.32%) Front Office
11 4 (1.32%) Law
12 2 (0.66%) Billing
12 2 (0.66%) Marketing
12 2 (0.66%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.33%) International Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 94 (31.02%) Architect
2 48 (15.84%) Senior
3 29 (9.57%) Lead
4 26 (8.58%) Network Architect
5 25 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (7.59%) Network Engineer
7 19 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (5.28%) Senior Architect
10 14 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (4.29%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.63%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.30%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.30%) Senior Network Architect
14 9 (2.97%) Enterprise Architect
14 9 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.91%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (6.60%) Kafka
3 18 (5.94%) REST
4 14 (4.62%) JSON
5 10 (3.30%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.64%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.64%) Middleware
6 8 (2.64%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.31%) NETCONF
7 7 (2.31%) YANG
8 6 (1.98%) .NET
9 5 (1.65%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.65%) SAML
10 4 (1.32%) JMS
10 4 (1.32%) Loki
10 4 (1.32%) OAuth
10 4 (1.32%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.32%) RESTCONF
10 4 (1.32%) Spring
10 4 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (17.82%) Cloud Native
2 53 (17.49%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.63%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.63%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.30%) Replication
6 9 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.64%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.31%) PKI
9 6 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.65%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.65%) FlexPod
10 5 (1.65%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.32%) BYOD
11 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.32%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.51%) Linux
2 44 (14.52%) Windows
3 25 (8.25%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.97%) VMS
5 6 (1.98%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (1.65%) CoreOS
7 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.66%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (28.71%) CI/CD
2 85 (28.05%) DevOps
3 71 (23.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (22.77%) Migration
5 59 (19.47%) Containerisation
6 58 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (16.17%) Roadmaps
8 46 (15.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (13.53%) Cloud Security
9 41 (13.53%) Disaster Recovery
10 37 (12.21%) Zero Trust
11 35 (11.55%) Agile
11 35 (11.55%) High Availability
12 34 (11.22%) RBAC
13 31 (10.23%) Observability
14 30 (9.90%) Analytics
14 30 (9.90%) Load Balancing
14 30 (9.90%) Runbook
15 29 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (8.58%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 87 (28.71%) Python
2 51 (16.83%) PowerShell
3 38 (12.54%) Bash
4 18 (5.94%) Bicep
5 12 (3.96%) Go
6 11 (3.63%) Java
7 10 (3.30%) SQL
8 3 (0.99%) C#
8 3 (0.99%) R
8 3 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.33%) C
9 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 74 (24.42%) Security Cleared
2 49 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.90%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (7.26%) DV Cleared
5 21 (6.93%) Azure Certification
6 19 (6.27%) Degree
7 15 (4.95%) CCNP
8 13 (4.29%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.96%) CCIE
10 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (2.97%) OCP
11 9 (2.97%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (2.64%) CCNA
12 8 (2.64%) CISSP
13 7 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.31%) JNCIE
14 6 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 6 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.23%) NIST
2 23 (7.59%) GDPR
3 21 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.31%) NIST 800
5 7 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.65%) GRC
6 5 (1.65%) NCSC
6 5 (1.65%) QA
7 4 (1.32%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 45 (14.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (11.22%) Active Directory
3 33 (10.89%) VMware NSX
4 30 (9.90%) vSphere
5 24 (7.92%) Docker
6 13 (4.29%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.65%) NFS
10 4 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.66%) KVM
12 1 (0.33%) Firmware
12 1 (0.33%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 104 (34.32%) Terraform
2 83 (27.39%) Kubernetes
3 68 (22.44%) Ansible
4 28 (9.24%) Grafana
5 19 (6.27%) vCenter Server
6 17 (5.61%) Argo
7 15 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (4.62%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.65%) Istio
10 5 (1.65%) Puppet
10 5 (1.65%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.32%) Rancher
12 3 (0.99%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.99%) SCOM
13 2 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.66%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 85 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 57 (18.81%) VMware
3 35 (11.55%) Red Hat
4 32 (10.56%) Cisco
5 30 (9.90%) Palo Alto
6 29 (9.57%) Splunk
7 18 (5.94%) F5
8 16 (5.28%) Aruba
8 16 (5.28%) Fortinet
8 16 (5.28%) Google
8 16 (5.28%) Pure Storage
9 14 (4.62%) CheckPoint
9 14 (4.62%) Juniper
10 13 (4.29%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.30%) NetApp
12 9 (2.97%) Arista
12 9 (2.97%) IBM
13 8 (2.64%) Databricks
13 8 (2.64%) SAP
14 7 (2.31%) OpenAI