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 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 314 461
Rank change year-on-year +7 +147 -18
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 334 187 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.71% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 2.04% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 107 69
10th Percentile £413 £406 £435
25th Percentile £477 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £600
90th Percentile £730 £751 £705
UK median daily rate £556 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +9.52% -12.50%
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 14,476 9,159 11,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.92% 34.77% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,979 5,852 7,380
10th Percentile £313 £305 £281
25th Percentile £415 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 787 434 832
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +47.06%
75th Percentile £70.41 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.70 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.90 £36.27
% change year-on-year +42.25% -14.80% +53.40%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -10 129 £559 +3.95% 54
North of England -41 79 £517 -13.86% 23
South East -21 62 £600 +4.35% 31
Yorkshire -22 43 £500 -20.00% 8
Midlands -34 36 £500 -28.57% 4
West Midlands -44 31 £500 -37.50% 2
North West -42 29 £558 -7.08% 15
South West -24 20 £550 -11.29% 13
North East -26 13 £650 +8.33%
East Midlands -13 5 £500 -13.04% 2
East of England -32 5 £530 -3.64% 4
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 (2.99%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.40%) Confluence
3 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.10%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.20%) Apache
5 3 (0.90%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.60%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (0.90%) Fidessa
1 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 207 (61.98%) Azure
2 170 (50.90%) AWS
3 50 (14.97%) GCP
4 35 (10.48%) OpenShift
5 33 (9.88%) GitHub
6 30 (8.98%) SaaS
7 27 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (6.59%) Entra ID
9 21 (6.29%) OCI
10 20 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (5.09%) Serverless
12 16 (4.79%) IaaS
13 15 (4.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 15 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.29%) PaaS
15 10 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.99%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 72 (21.56%) Firewall
2 55 (16.47%) WAN
3 47 (14.07%) BGP
4 42 (12.57%) DNS
5 41 (12.28%) Network Security
6 40 (11.98%) VPN
7 34 (10.18%) OSPF
8 33 (9.88%) SD-WAN
9 30 (8.98%) LAN
10 29 (8.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 25 (7.49%) VXLAN
12 23 (6.89%) BIG-IP
13 21 (6.29%) Ethernet VPN
14 20 (5.99%) MPLS
15 18 (5.39%) Wi-Fi
16 15 (4.49%) SAN
17 14 (4.19%) DHCP
18 12 (3.59%) VLAN
18 12 (3.59%) WLAN
19 11 (3.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (1.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.60%) Metadata
2 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.60%) Power BI
2 2 (0.60%) Redis
3 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.30%) Big Data
3 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.30%) Firebird
3 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (8.38%) Jenkins
2 25 (7.49%) GitLab
3 18 (5.39%) Git
4 8 (2.40%) JIRA
5 4 (1.20%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 90 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.37%) Public Sector
3 27 (8.08%) Finance
4 23 (6.89%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (5.99%) Banking
6 17 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.69%) Retail
9 6 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Local Government
11 3 (0.90%) Front Office
11 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Law
11 3 (0.90%) Legal
11 3 (0.90%) Military
11 3 (0.90%) Publishing
12 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (33.83%) Architect
2 59 (17.66%) Senior
3 46 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (10.18%) Network Architect
5 33 (9.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (6.89%) Network Engineer
6 23 (6.89%) Senior Architect
6 23 (6.89%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (6.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (6.29%) Lead
9 18 (5.39%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (5.39%) Technical Architect
10 15 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.29%) Security Engineer
13 11 (3.29%) Senior Network Architect
14 10 (2.99%) Security Architect
15 9 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
16 8 (2.40%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.49%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (5.99%) REST
3 16 (4.79%) Kafka
4 12 (3.59%) JSON
5 11 (3.29%) NETCONF
5 11 (3.29%) YANG
6 8 (2.40%) Apache Avro
6 8 (2.40%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (2.10%) Middleware
8 6 (1.80%) .NET
8 6 (1.80%) LDAP
8 6 (1.80%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.50%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.20%) Loki
10 4 (1.20%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.20%) RESTCONF
11 3 (0.90%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.90%) JMS
11 3 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (20.66%) Data Centre
2 64 (19.16%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.39%) Public Cloud
4 16 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.49%) Private Cloud
6 14 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.69%) Replication
8 7 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.80%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.80%) PKI
10 5 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.50%) FlexPod
10 5 (1.50%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.07%) Windows
2 46 (13.77%) Linux
3 33 (9.88%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.69%) VMS
6 7 (2.10%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.80%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.50%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.60%) CentOS
10 1 (0.30%) AIX
10 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.30%) Unix
10 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (32.04%) CI/CD
2 106 (31.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 103 (30.84%) DevOps
4 87 (26.05%) Migration
5 70 (20.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 63 (18.86%) Zero Trust
7 53 (15.87%) Disaster Recovery
8 50 (14.97%) Containerisation
9 49 (14.67%) Cloud Security
9 49 (14.67%) Roadmaps
10 48 (14.37%) High Availability
11 45 (13.47%) Network Design
12 43 (12.87%) Load Balancing
13 41 (12.28%) Agile
13 41 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
14 39 (11.68%) Observability
15 35 (10.48%) RBAC
16 32 (9.58%) Runbook
17 30 (8.98%) AI
Programming Languages
1 103 (30.84%) Python
2 48 (14.37%) PowerShell
3 37 (11.08%) Bash
4 16 (4.79%) Bicep
5 15 (4.49%) SQL
6 11 (3.29%) Java
7 7 (2.10%) Go
8 5 (1.50%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.90%) C#
10 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) C
11 1 (0.30%) Groovy
11 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.30%) R
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (25.75%) Security Cleared
2 57 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 43 (12.87%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (7.19%) DV Cleared
5 22 (6.59%) Degree
6 21 (6.29%) AWS Certification
6 21 (6.29%) CCNP
7 20 (5.99%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.49%) CCIE
9 13 (3.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (3.29%) JNCIE
11 9 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.69%) OCP
11 9 (2.69%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (2.40%) CCNA
12 8 (2.40%) CISSP
12 8 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.18%) NIST
2 20 (5.99%) GDPR
3 19 (5.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.89%) NCSC
5 12 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.29%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.50%) GRC
8 4 (1.20%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.60%) SLA
9 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.30%) QA
System Software
1 58 (17.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (13.77%) Active Directory
3 40 (11.98%) vSphere
4 34 (10.18%) VMware NSX
5 21 (6.29%) Docker
6 18 (5.39%) Hyper-V
7 17 (5.09%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (3.89%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.50%) NFS
10 4 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.90%) KVM
12 1 (0.30%) Firmware
12 1 (0.30%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.30%) Squid
12 1 (0.30%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 117 (35.03%) Terraform
2 82 (24.55%) Ansible
3 75 (22.46%) Kubernetes
4 34 (10.18%) Grafana
5 22 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.09%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.59%) Argo
8 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.40%) Puppet
10 6 (1.80%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.50%) Istio
11 5 (1.50%) SnapMirror
12 4 (1.20%) CASB
12 4 (1.20%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.20%) Rancher
12 4 (1.20%) SCCM
12 4 (1.20%) SCOM
13 3 (0.90%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.90%) systemd
13 3 (0.90%) yum
Vendors
1 96 (28.74%) Microsoft
2 71 (21.26%) VMware
3 44 (13.17%) Palo Alto
4 39 (11.68%) Cisco
5 34 (10.18%) F5
6 27 (8.08%) Red Hat
7 26 (7.78%) Splunk
8 23 (6.89%) Aruba
8 23 (6.89%) Google
9 20 (5.99%) Fortinet
10 19 (5.69%) Arista
11 14 (4.19%) Juniper
12 12 (3.59%) CheckPoint
12 12 (3.59%) Pure Storage
13 11 (3.29%) Zscaler
14 9 (2.69%) SolarWinds
15 8 (2.40%) NetApp
16 7 (2.10%) CyberArk
17 6 (1.80%) Commvault
18 5 (1.50%) ServiceNow
124 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England