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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 309 423
Rank change year-on-year +2 +114 +3
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 371 214 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.78% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 2.18% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 124 76
10th Percentile £413 £408 £450
25th Percentile £500 £475 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £616
90th Percentile £757 £775 £731
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £62.18 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £82.16 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -13.26% - -

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 15,323 9,821 10,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.54% 35.65% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,362 6,198 6,538
10th Percentile £325 £303 £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 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 955 500 506
10th Percentile £14.85 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £19.53
Median hourly rate £41.00 £32.72 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.30% -34.56% +8.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.71 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -33.33% +2.66%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -7 142 £575 +4.55% 27
South East -15 88 £615 +14.41% 29
North of England -51 69 £565 -5.83% 17
Midlands -48 37 £488 -30.36% 8
Yorkshire -16 34 £550 -6.38% 7
West Midlands -36 30 £488 -30.36% 7
North West -49 28 £575 -4.17% 7
South West -39 26 £640 -8.57% 12
North East -30 13 £650 +8.33% 3
East Midlands -13 7 £478 +11.05% 1
East of England -23 6 £505 -8.18% 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 8 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.62%) Apache
4 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.08%) Confluence
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.81%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.54%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.81%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 248 (66.85%) Azure
2 176 (47.44%) AWS
3 54 (14.56%) GCP
4 46 (12.40%) Entra ID
5 38 (10.24%) SaaS
6 37 (9.97%) GitHub
7 34 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (7.01%) Azure Monitor
9 26 (7.01%) OCI
10 25 (6.74%) OpenShift
11 23 (6.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 21 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.58%) Serverless
14 14 (3.77%) IaaS
15 13 (3.50%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (3.23%) Azure AKS
17 11 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 93 (25.07%) Firewall
2 68 (18.33%) DNS
3 60 (16.17%) VPN
4 57 (15.36%) WAN
5 51 (13.75%) BGP
6 42 (11.32%) Network Security
7 39 (10.51%) DHCP
8 36 (9.70%) OSPF
9 34 (9.16%) SD-WAN
10 31 (8.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 30 (8.09%) TCP/IP
12 29 (7.82%) LAN
13 26 (7.01%) VXLAN
14 23 (6.20%) BIG-IP
14 23 (6.20%) Ethernet VPN
15 22 (5.93%) MPLS
16 21 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
17 18 (4.85%) VLAN
18 14 (3.77%) VSAN
19 13 (3.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (1.62%) Power BI
3 5 (1.35%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.54%) Big Data
6 2 (0.54%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.54%) Metadata
6 2 (0.54%) Redis
6 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.54%) Tableau
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.27%) HBase
7 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (9.43%) GitLab
2 29 (7.82%) Jenkins
3 26 (7.01%) Git
4 4 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.81%) JIRA
6 2 (0.54%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 108 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 39 (10.51%) Public Sector
3 38 (10.24%) Finance
4 37 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.47%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (5.66%) Banking
7 15 (4.04%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.77%) Retail
9 13 (3.50%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.35%) Legal
10 5 (1.35%) Local Government
11 4 (1.08%) Automotive
11 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.08%) Military
11 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Billing
12 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Law
12 3 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (33.69%) Architect
2 85 (22.91%) Senior
3 57 (15.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (10.24%) Network Engineer
5 34 (9.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
7 29 (7.82%) Network Architect
8 21 (5.66%) Senior Architect
9 20 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (5.39%) Lead
10 19 (5.12%) Cloud Architect
11 18 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.04%) Technical Architect
13 14 (3.77%) Consultant
14 13 (3.50%) Senior Network Engineer
15 11 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
15 11 (2.96%) Security Engineer
16 10 (2.70%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (39.35%) Terraform
2 20 (5.39%) ARM Templates
2 20 (5.39%) REST
3 11 (2.96%) NETCONF
3 11 (2.96%) YANG
4 9 (2.43%) Kafka
5 8 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (1.89%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.62%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.62%) LDAP
7 6 (1.62%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.62%) RESTCONF
8 5 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.35%) JSON
9 4 (1.08%) .NET
9 4 (1.08%) OAuth
9 4 (1.08%) OpenID
9 4 (1.08%) RESTful
9 4 (1.08%) YAML
10 3 (0.81%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 72 (19.41%) Data Centre
2 58 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 29 (7.82%) Public Cloud
4 26 (7.01%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.20%) Private Cloud
6 17 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
8 13 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.70%) PKI
9 10 (2.70%) Replication
10 9 (2.43%) CMDB
11 8 (2.16%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.16%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.89%) ARM Cortex
12 7 (1.89%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.89%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 79 (21.29%) Windows
2 66 (17.79%) Linux
3 62 (16.71%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.96%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.35%) Unix
7 4 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.08%) VMS
8 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.27%) AIX
10 1 (0.27%) Android
10 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (36.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 134 (36.12%) DevOps
3 121 (32.61%) CI/CD
4 97 (26.15%) Migration
5 91 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 74 (19.95%) Zero Trust
7 64 (17.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 61 (16.44%) Cloud Security
9 60 (16.17%) Roadmaps
9 60 (16.17%) Technical Leadership
10 59 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 53 (14.29%) High Availability
12 50 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (13.21%) Load Balancing
14 48 (12.94%) Agile
14 48 (12.94%) Observability
15 47 (12.67%) ITIL
16 46 (12.40%) Platform Engineering
17 44 (11.86%) Network Design
17 44 (11.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 111 (29.92%) Python
2 73 (19.68%) PowerShell
3 57 (15.36%) Bash
4 29 (7.82%) Bicep
5 17 (4.58%) SQL
6 9 (2.43%) Java
7 7 (1.89%) Go
8 5 (1.35%) 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
Qualifications
1 112 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 78 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 47 (12.67%) Cisco Certification
4 37 (9.97%) DV Cleared
5 34 (9.16%) Azure Certification
6 31 (8.36%) Degree
7 27 (7.28%) AWS Certification
8 26 (7.01%) CCNP
9 19 (5.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.77%) CCIE
10 14 (3.77%) CISSP
11 13 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (2.96%) JNCIE
12 11 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (1.62%) VCAP
15 5 (1.35%) Master's Degree
16 4 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.63%) NIST
2 20 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.85%) GDPR
4 13 (3.50%) NCSC
5 10 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.89%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.89%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.81%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) QA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (17.79%) Active Directory
2 65 (17.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (10.24%) vSphere
4 33 (8.89%) VMware NSX
5 27 (7.28%) Docker
6 22 (5.93%) Hyper-V
7 21 (5.66%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.81%) KVM
9 3 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.27%) Ceph
10 1 (0.27%) Firmware
10 1 (0.27%) NFS
10 1 (0.27%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.27%) oVirt
10 1 (0.27%) RHEV
10 1 (0.27%) Squid
10 1 (0.27%) Varnish
10 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 101 (27.22%) Ansible
2 78 (21.02%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.28%) Grafana
4 19 (5.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (4.85%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.31%) vCenter Server
7 13 (3.50%) SCCM
8 8 (2.16%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.89%) Argo
9 7 (1.89%) PowerCLI
9 7 (1.89%) Puppet
9 7 (1.89%) SCOM
9 7 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.89%) systemd
10 6 (1.62%) Istio
11 3 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.81%) CASB
11 3 (0.81%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.81%) vMotion
11 3 (0.81%) yum
Vendors
1 138 (37.20%) Microsoft
2 82 (22.10%) VMware
3 49 (13.21%) Cisco
4 48 (12.94%) Palo Alto
5 40 (10.78%) F5
6 29 (7.82%) Google
7 25 (6.74%) Fortinet
8 24 (6.47%) Aruba
9 21 (5.66%) Juniper
10 19 (5.12%) Arista
11 17 (4.58%) Red Hat
12 14 (3.77%) Splunk
13 13 (3.50%) Zscaler
14 10 (2.70%) ServiceNow
15 9 (2.43%) CheckPoint
15 9 (2.43%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (2.43%) CyberArk
16 8 (2.16%) SolarWinds
17 7 (1.89%) Commvault
17 7 (1.89%) SAP
90 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England