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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 315 453
Rank change year-on-year +4 +138 -20
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 299 170 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.70% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 2.05% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 101 67
10th Percentile £387 £460 £441
25th Percentile £463 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £583 £585
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% -0.43% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £616
90th Percentile £705 £750 £742
UK median daily rate £530 £579 £550
% change year-on-year -8.42% +5.23% -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 13,088 8,307 11,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.46% 34.14% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,292 5,439 7,516
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -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% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 322 825
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.40 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £46.23 £33.91 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.33% +13.03% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.15 £84.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% +8.33% +33.42%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +19 132 £550 - 31
North of England -46 64 £500 -6.89% 22
South East -43 43 £625 +4.17% 22
Yorkshire -25 41 £500 -30.07% 4
South West -15 29 £400 -35.48% 15
Midlands -54 26 £550 -15.38% 7
West Midlands -43 23 £550 -15.38% 7
North West -35 20 £538 +2.63% 14
North East -19 5 £450 - 4
East of England -40 4 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -29 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 (3.34%) Confluence
2 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.67%) 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 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Maximo
2 5 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.34%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (1.34%) Fidessa
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 178 (59.53%) Azure
2 131 (43.81%) AWS
3 47 (15.72%) OpenShift
4 37 (12.37%) GCP
5 32 (10.70%) GitHub
6 23 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 15 (5.02%) SaaS
9 13 (4.35%) Entra ID
10 12 (4.01%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.01%) Azure AKS
10 12 (4.01%) Serverless
11 10 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (3.34%) IaaS
11 10 (3.34%) OCI
11 10 (3.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.68%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (15.05%) Firewall
2 38 (12.71%) WAN
3 37 (12.37%) Network Security
4 35 (11.71%) VPN
5 24 (8.03%) DNS
6 23 (7.69%) BGP
7 19 (6.35%) LAN
7 19 (6.35%) SD-WAN
8 16 (5.35%) OSPF
8 16 (5.35%) VXLAN
9 13 (4.35%) SAN
10 12 (4.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 11 (3.68%) MPLS
11 11 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (3.34%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (3.01%) VSAN
14 8 (2.68%) BIG-IP
15 7 (2.34%) Software-Defined Networking
16 6 (2.01%) Internet
16 6 (2.01%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.67%) Metadata
3 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.34%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.00%) Big Data
4 3 (1.00%) Power BI
5 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.67%) DataStage
5 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.67%) Redis
5 2 (0.67%) 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 (10.37%) Jenkins
2 17 (5.69%) GitLab
3 12 (4.01%) JIRA
4 11 (3.68%) Git
5 4 (1.34%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 101 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.70%) Public Sector
3 28 (9.36%) Finance
4 25 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.35%) Banking
7 11 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.68%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.34%) Retail
10 6 (2.01%) Legal
11 4 (1.34%) Front Office
11 4 (1.34%) Law
12 2 (0.67%) Billing
12 2 (0.67%) Marketing
12 2 (0.67%) 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 92 (30.77%) Architect
2 48 (16.05%) Senior
3 28 (9.36%) Lead
4 26 (8.70%) Network Architect
5 25 (8.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (7.36%) Network Engineer
7 19 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (5.35%) Senior Architect
10 14 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (4.35%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.68%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.34%) Senior Network Architect
14 9 (3.01%) Enterprise Architect
14 9 (3.01%) Security Engineer
15 8 (2.68%) Desktop Engineer
15 8 (2.68%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.03%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (6.69%) Kafka
3 18 (6.02%) REST
4 14 (4.68%) JSON
5 9 (3.01%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.68%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.68%) Middleware
6 8 (2.68%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.34%) NETCONF
7 7 (2.34%) YANG
8 6 (2.01%) .NET
9 5 (1.67%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.67%) SAML
10 4 (1.34%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.34%) JMS
10 4 (1.34%) Loki
10 4 (1.34%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.34%) RESTCONF
10 4 (1.34%) Spring
10 4 (1.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 52 (17.39%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.34%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.34%) Replication
6 8 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.34%) PKI
7 7 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.01%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.67%) FlexPod
9 5 (1.67%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.34%) BYOD
10 4 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.34%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.38%) Linux
2 44 (14.72%) Windows
3 25 (8.36%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.01%) VMS
5 8 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.01%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (1.67%) CoreOS
8 4 (1.34%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.67%) CentOS
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (28.43%) CI/CD
2 83 (27.76%) DevOps
3 68 (22.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (22.41%) Migration
5 58 (19.40%) Containerisation
6 56 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (15.72%) Roadmaps
8 46 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (13.71%) Disaster Recovery
10 40 (13.38%) Cloud Security
11 35 (11.71%) Agile
11 35 (11.71%) High Availability
11 35 (11.71%) Zero Trust
12 33 (11.04%) RBAC
13 31 (10.37%) Observability
14 30 (10.03%) Load Balancing
14 30 (10.03%) Runbook
15 29 (9.70%) Analytics
15 29 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (8.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.43%) Python
2 50 (16.72%) PowerShell
3 37 (12.37%) Bash
4 17 (5.69%) Bicep
5 12 (4.01%) Go
6 11 (3.68%) Java
7 10 (3.34%) SQL
8 3 (1.00%) C#
8 3 (1.00%) R
8 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.33%) C
9 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 74 (24.75%) Security Cleared
2 49 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.36%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (7.36%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.69%) Azure Certification
6 19 (6.35%) Degree
7 14 (4.68%) CCNP
8 12 (4.01%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.68%) CCIE
9 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (3.01%) OCP
10 9 (3.01%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (2.68%) CCNA
12 7 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.34%) CISSP
12 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.34%) JNCIE
13 6 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (2.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 6 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.03%) NIST
2 22 (7.36%) GDPR
3 20 (6.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.34%) NIST 800
6 6 (2.01%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.67%) GRC
7 5 (1.67%) NCSC
7 5 (1.67%) QA
8 4 (1.34%) ISO 22301
9 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (14.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (11.37%) Active Directory
3 32 (10.70%) VMware NSX
4 29 (9.70%) vSphere
5 22 (7.36%) Docker
6 13 (4.35%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.67%) NFS
8 5 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.67%) KVM
11 1 (0.33%) Firmware
11 1 (0.33%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 101 (33.78%) Terraform
2 82 (27.42%) Kubernetes
3 66 (22.07%) Ansible
4 28 (9.36%) Grafana
5 18 (6.02%) vCenter Server
6 16 (5.35%) Argo
7 15 (5.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (4.68%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.67%) Istio
10 5 (1.67%) Puppet
10 5 (1.67%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.34%) Rancher
12 3 (1.00%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.00%) SCOM
13 2 (0.67%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.67%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 85 (28.43%) Microsoft
2 56 (18.73%) VMware
3 34 (11.37%) Red Hat
4 30 (10.03%) Cisco
5 29 (9.70%) Splunk
6 28 (9.36%) Palo Alto
7 17 (5.69%) F5
8 16 (5.35%) Aruba
8 16 (5.35%) Fortinet
8 16 (5.35%) Google
8 16 (5.35%) Pure Storage
9 14 (4.68%) CheckPoint
9 14 (4.68%) Juniper
10 13 (4.35%) Zscaler
11 9 (3.01%) Arista
11 9 (3.01%) IBM
11 9 (3.01%) NetApp
12 8 (2.68%) SAP
13 7 (2.34%) Databricks
13 7 (2.34%) OpenAI