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 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 317 461
Rank change year-on-year +5 +144 -18
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 329 172 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.68% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 1.96% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 94 60
10th Percentile £413 £405 £438
25th Percentile £475 £466 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £612
90th Percentile £725 £751 £729
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £31.56 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £82.50 £96.56 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -26.70% - -

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 14,253 8,762 11,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.84% 34.76% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,885 5,618 7,314
10th Percentile £313 £303 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.57%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 780 411 846
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.20
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -12.00% +66.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.12 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.00 £36.27
% change year-on-year +40.32% -14.54% +61.59%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -5 131 £559 +3.95% 35
North of England -25 77 £514 -3.15% 16
South East -28 55 £631 +9.78% 29
Yorkshire -16 42 £500 -20.00% 8
Midlands -43 34 £500 -35.48% 6
West Midlands -39 30 £500 -44.44% 4
North West -35 28 £565 +18.95% 8
South West -21 23 £498 -19.76% 9
North East -23 13 £650 +8.33%
East of England -32 5 £530 -3.64% 4
East Midlands -8 4 £500 -13.04% 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 9 (2.74%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.43%) Confluence
2 8 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.22%) Apache
5 3 (0.91%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.61%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (0.91%) Fidessa
1 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Maximo
2 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 203 (61.70%) Azure
2 166 (50.46%) AWS
3 47 (14.29%) GCP
4 38 (11.55%) OpenShift
5 30 (9.12%) GitHub
6 28 (8.51%) SaaS
7 26 (7.90%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (6.69%) Entra ID
9 21 (6.38%) OCI
10 20 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (5.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 15 (4.56%) IaaS
12 15 (4.56%) Serverless
13 12 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.04%) Azure AKS
14 10 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.74%) PaaS
15 9 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 72 (21.88%) Firewall
2 53 (16.11%) WAN
3 46 (13.98%) BGP
4 41 (12.46%) DNS
4 41 (12.46%) VPN
5 40 (12.16%) Network Security
6 34 (10.33%) OSPF
7 33 (10.03%) SD-WAN
8 29 (8.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 28 (8.51%) LAN
10 25 (7.60%) VXLAN
11 23 (6.99%) BIG-IP
12 21 (6.38%) Ethernet VPN
13 19 (5.78%) MPLS
14 17 (5.17%) SAN
14 17 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (4.26%) DHCP
16 12 (3.65%) VLAN
16 12 (3.65%) WLAN
17 10 (3.04%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.82%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.61%) Metadata
3 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.61%) Power BI
3 2 (0.61%) Redis
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.30%) Big Data
4 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.30%) Firebird
4 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (8.21%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.29%) GitLab
3 18 (5.47%) Git
4 8 (2.43%) JIRA
5 4 (1.22%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 90 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 26 (7.90%) Finance
4 24 (7.29%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (6.08%) Banking
6 17 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.34%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.43%) Retail
9 4 (1.22%) Law
9 4 (1.22%) Local Government
10 3 (0.91%) Front Office
10 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Legal
10 3 (0.91%) Military
10 3 (0.91%) Publishing
11 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (32.83%) Architect
2 60 (18.24%) Senior
3 45 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (10.33%) Network Architect
5 31 (9.42%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (7.29%) Network Engineer
7 23 (6.99%) Senior Architect
8 22 (6.69%) Lead
8 22 (6.69%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (6.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (5.17%) Technical Architect
11 16 (4.86%) Cloud Architect
11 16 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) Security Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) Senior Network Architect
14 9 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (2.43%) Security Architect
16 7 (2.13%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.60%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (6.08%) REST
3 15 (4.56%) Kafka
4 12 (3.65%) JSON
5 10 (3.04%) NETCONF
5 10 (3.04%) YANG
6 8 (2.43%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.43%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.13%) ARM Templates
7 7 (2.13%) Middleware
8 6 (1.82%) .NET
8 6 (1.82%) LDAP
8 6 (1.82%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.22%) Loki
11 3 (0.91%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.91%) JMS
11 3 (0.91%) OpenConfig
11 3 (0.91%) RESTCONF
11 3 (0.91%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 68 (20.67%) Data Centre
2 65 (19.76%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.17%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.26%) Private Cloud
5 11 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.74%) Replication
7 7 (2.13%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.82%) PKI
9 5 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.52%) FlexPod
9 5 (1.52%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (14.89%) Windows
2 47 (14.29%) Linux
3 33 (10.03%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.43%) VMS
6 7 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.82%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.52%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.61%) CentOS
10 1 (0.30%) AIX
10 1 (0.30%) Unix
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (31.91%) CI/CD
2 103 (31.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 99 (30.09%) DevOps
4 85 (25.84%) Migration
5 71 (21.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 59 (17.93%) Zero Trust
7 54 (16.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 50 (15.20%) Containerisation
9 48 (14.59%) High Availability
10 47 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 46 (13.98%) Cloud Security
12 44 (13.37%) Network Design
13 43 (13.07%) Agile
13 43 (13.07%) Load Balancing
14 41 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (11.55%) Technical Leadership
16 36 (10.94%) Observability
16 36 (10.94%) RBAC
17 34 (10.33%) Runbook
18 30 (9.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 99 (30.09%) Python
2 49 (14.89%) PowerShell
3 34 (10.33%) Bash
4 16 (4.86%) Bicep
5 14 (4.26%) SQL
6 11 (3.34%) Java
7 7 (2.13%) Go
8 5 (1.52%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.91%) C#
9 3 (0.91%) R
9 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) C
11 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 84 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 55 (16.72%) SC Cleared
3 40 (12.16%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (7.90%) DV Cleared
5 22 (6.69%) Degree
6 21 (6.38%) CCNP
7 20 (6.08%) AWS Certification
7 20 (6.08%) Azure Certification
8 14 (4.26%) CCIE
9 13 (3.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (3.04%) JNCIE
11 9 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (2.74%) OCP
11 9 (2.74%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (2.43%) CCNA
12 8 (2.43%) CISSP
13 6 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.22%) CISM
14 4 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.03%) NIST
2 21 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (6.08%) GDPR
4 13 (3.95%) NCSC
5 12 (3.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (3.04%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.52%) GRC
8 4 (1.22%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.91%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.61%) SLA
10 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.30%) QA
System Software
1 59 (17.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 40 (12.16%) vSphere
4 34 (10.33%) VMware NSX
5 20 (6.08%) Hyper-V
6 19 (5.78%) Docker
7 17 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.56%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.52%) KVM
9 5 (1.52%) NFS
9 5 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.30%) Squid
10 1 (0.30%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 118 (35.87%) Terraform
2 82 (24.92%) Ansible
3 74 (22.49%) Kubernetes
4 33 (10.03%) Grafana
5 21 (6.38%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.17%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.65%) Argo
8 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.43%) Puppet
10 6 (1.82%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.52%) Istio
11 5 (1.52%) SnapMirror
12 4 (1.22%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.22%) Rancher
12 4 (1.22%) SCOM
13 3 (0.91%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.91%) PowerCLI
13 3 (0.91%) SCCM
13 3 (0.91%) systemd
13 3 (0.91%) yum
Vendors
1 96 (29.18%) Microsoft
2 72 (21.88%) VMware
3 45 (13.68%) Palo Alto
4 38 (11.55%) Cisco
5 33 (10.03%) F5
6 31 (9.42%) Red Hat
7 26 (7.90%) Splunk
8 23 (6.99%) Aruba
9 20 (6.08%) Google
10 19 (5.78%) Arista
10 19 (5.78%) Fortinet
11 14 (4.26%) Pure Storage
12 13 (3.95%) Juniper
13 12 (3.65%) CheckPoint
14 11 (3.34%) Zscaler
15 9 (2.74%) SolarWinds
16 8 (2.43%) NetApp
17 7 (2.13%) CyberArk
18 6 (1.82%) Commvault
19 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow