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 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 371 442
Rank change year-on-year +74 +71 +100
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 252 134 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.44% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 1.36% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 101 105
10th Percentile £413 £450 £475
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +2.39%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - -
25th Percentile £65.33 - £27.00
Median hourly rate £70.11 - £51.00
75th Percentile £74.33 - £75.75
90th Percentile £76.08 - £77.10
UK median hourly rate £70.11 - £51.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.05%

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 11,261 9,829 12,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.14% 32.02% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,092 5,904 8,289
10th Percentile £285 £295 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £744 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 309 457
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.87 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £39.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.38% -10.23% +25.71%
75th Percentile £58.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.89 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -18.82% +21.43%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 +47 97 £550 -4.35% 36
North of England 0 50 £575 -19.58% 18
South East -7 41 £525 -8.70% 22
Midlands -12 36 £550 -12.49% 8
South West +10 34 £663 -1.85% 12
West Midlands -5 33 £622 -4.82% 5
North West +2 27 £625 -8.09% 7
Yorkshire -11 21 £487 -31.89% 8
East of England - 5 £505 - 2
East Midlands -18 3 £500 -9.09% 2
North East - 2 £600 - 3
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 13 (5.16%) OpenStack
2 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.98%) SAS
4 3 (1.19%) CMS
4 3 (1.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.19%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.19%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.79%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Mule
6 1 (0.40%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.19%) Maximo
2 3 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 142 (56.35%) Azure
2 89 (35.32%) AWS
3 44 (17.46%) GCP
4 31 (12.30%) GitHub
4 31 (12.30%) SaaS
5 27 (10.71%) OpenShift
6 26 (10.32%) Entra ID
7 18 (7.14%) Google Workspace
8 15 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (5.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 14 (5.56%) IaaS
10 13 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (5.16%) PaaS
10 13 (5.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (3.97%) Azure Stack
13 9 (3.57%) Nutanix
14 8 (3.17%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (19.84%) Firewall
2 32 (12.70%) WAN
3 28 (11.11%) VPN
4 27 (10.71%) Network Security
5 17 (6.75%) BGP
6 16 (6.35%) DNS
6 16 (6.35%) LAN
7 14 (5.56%) MPLS
7 14 (5.56%) SD-WAN
8 9 (3.57%) DHCP
8 9 (3.57%) SNMP
8 9 (3.57%) Wireless
9 8 (3.17%) OSPF
9 8 (3.17%) TACACS
10 6 (2.38%) NGFW
10 6 (2.38%) TCP/IP
11 5 (1.98%) VLAN
11 5 (1.98%) VSAN
12 4 (1.59%) SAN
13 3 (1.19%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.38%) Big Data
3 5 (1.98%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.98%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.59%) Delta Lake
4 4 (1.59%) Power BI
5 3 (1.19%) Metadata
6 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.79%) DataStage
6 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.79%) Tableau
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) QlikView
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.75%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.95%) GitLab
3 7 (2.78%) Git
4 6 (2.38%) JIRA
5 2 (0.79%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.87%) Finance
3 25 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.97%) Banking
7 7 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.38%) Retail
9 5 (1.98%) Legal
10 4 (1.59%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.19%) Military
11 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.79%) Billing
12 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.79%) International Banking
12 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 71 (28.17%) Architect
2 38 (15.08%) Senior
3 30 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (7.14%) Consultant
5 16 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (5.95%) Lead
6 15 (5.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.16%) Azure Architect
8 12 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.76%) Developer
8 12 (4.76%) Network Architect
9 11 (4.37%) Enterprise Architect
9 11 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.97%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
11 9 (3.57%) Network Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.95%) REST
2 12 (4.76%) Kafka
3 10 (3.97%) Keycloak
4 9 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 9 (3.57%) JSON
5 8 (3.17%) NETCONF
5 8 (3.17%) YANG
6 7 (2.78%) XML
7 5 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (1.98%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 4 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.19%) CSS
9 3 (1.19%) HTML
9 3 (1.19%) MACH
10 2 (0.79%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.79%) OpenConfig
10 2 (0.79%) RESTCONF
10 2 (0.79%) RESTful
10 2 (0.79%) Swagger
10 2 (0.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 37 (14.68%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.76%) Replication
5 9 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.57%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.78%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.98%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.98%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.59%) IoT
9 4 (1.59%) Life Science
9 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.19%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.51%) Windows
2 26 (10.32%) Linux
3 21 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.59%) Android
6 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) Solaris
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) Unix
7 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.78%) DevOps
2 59 (23.41%) CI/CD
3 57 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (18.25%) Containerisation
5 46 (18.25%) Migration
6 38 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (14.68%) Roadmaps
8 34 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 32 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 30 (11.90%) Zero Trust
11 27 (10.71%) Cloud Security
12 26 (10.32%) High Availability
12 26 (10.32%) TOGAF
13 25 (9.92%) Agile
13 25 (9.92%) AI
14 24 (9.52%) Analytics
15 23 (9.13%) Incident Response
15 23 (9.13%) Microservices
16 21 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 70 (27.78%) Python
2 33 (13.10%) PowerShell
3 27 (10.71%) Bash
4 19 (7.54%) Bicep
5 12 (4.76%) Go
6 11 (4.37%) Java
6 11 (4.37%) SQL
7 5 (1.98%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.79%) Scala
9 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.40%) C
10 1 (0.40%) CodeQL
10 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.40%) R
10 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 60 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.25%) SC Cleared
3 44 (17.46%) Azure Certification
4 32 (12.70%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (9.13%) AWS Certification
6 18 (7.14%) CCIE
7 14 (5.56%) JNCIE
8 13 (5.16%) CISSP
8 13 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (3.97%) Degree
9 10 (3.97%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (3.17%) CCNP
10 8 (3.17%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.38%) CCNA
11 6 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.98%) CCSP
12 5 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.73%) GDPR
1 22 (8.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 22 (8.73%) NIST
2 7 (2.78%) QA
3 6 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.38%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.98%) PSD2
5 3 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.19%) GRC
5 3 (1.19%) NCSC
5 3 (1.19%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.79%) GxP
6 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) GMP
7 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.40%) ITGC
7 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (13.49%) Docker
2 30 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (7.54%) VMware NSX
4 17 (6.75%) Active Directory
5 12 (4.76%) vSphere
6 9 (3.57%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.98%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.19%) KVM
9 1 (0.40%) Ceph
9 1 (0.40%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) QEMU
9 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (27.38%) Terraform
2 57 (22.62%) Kubernetes
3 43 (17.06%) Ansible
4 19 (7.54%) Grafana
5 11 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.78%) Argo
7 7 (2.78%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.38%) Puppet
8 6 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.98%) Data Guard
9 5 (1.98%) NetBackup
9 5 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.59%) SCCM
11 3 (1.19%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.79%) CASB
12 2 (0.79%) Podman
12 2 (0.79%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.79%) vMotion
Vendors
1 50 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 39 (15.48%) VMware
3 26 (10.32%) Google
4 21 (8.33%) Cisco
5 14 (5.56%) Databricks
6 13 (5.16%) Oracle
7 10 (3.97%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.57%) Citrix
8 9 (3.57%) F5
8 9 (3.57%) Fortinet
8 9 (3.57%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.57%) Zscaler
9 8 (3.17%) Dynatrace
9 8 (3.17%) Juniper
10 7 (2.78%) OpenAI
10 7 (2.78%) Splunk
11 5 (1.98%) Commvault
11 5 (1.98%) Meraki
11 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.98%) SAP
82 Hybrid Cloud jobs in England