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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 307 456
Rank change year-on-year +5 +149 -16
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 349 199 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.73% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% 2.10% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 117 69
10th Percentile £413 £410 £435
25th Percentile £481 £480 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £644 £644 £600
90th Percentile £738 £751 £705
UK median daily rate £568 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -1.30% +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 14,954 9,481 11,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.23% 34.83% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,288 6,018 7,214
10th Percentile £317 £306 £293
25th Percentile £420 £410 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 803 468 735
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -17.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72.25 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.87 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -21.05% +20.63%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -5 133 £570 +3.64% 27
North of England -46 82 £517 -13.86% 23
South East -13 70 £615 +6.95% 20
Yorkshire -8 45 £500 -20.00% 6
Midlands -38 37 £500 -25.93% 5
West Midlands -44 32 £500 -28.57% 3
North West -55 30 £570 -5.00% 15
South West -35 19 £575 -12.88% 10
North East -23 13 £650 +8.33% 2
East of England -21 6 £518 -5.91% 1
East Midlands -11 5 £500 -0.50% 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 14 (4.01%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.29%) Confluence
3 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.43%) Apache
5 3 (0.86%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.57%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.01%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.57%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Maximo
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 217 (62.18%) Azure
2 174 (49.86%) AWS
3 48 (13.75%) GCP
4 38 (10.89%) OpenShift
5 36 (10.32%) GitHub
6 31 (8.88%) SaaS
7 27 (7.74%) Entra ID
7 27 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (6.59%) OCI
9 20 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (5.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 16 (4.58%) IaaS
12 15 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (4.01%) Serverless
14 11 (3.15%) PaaS
15 10 (2.87%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 81 (23.21%) Firewall
2 54 (15.47%) WAN
3 51 (14.61%) BGP
4 49 (14.04%) DNS
5 48 (13.75%) VPN
6 42 (12.03%) Network Security
7 36 (10.32%) OSPF
8 31 (8.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 31 (8.88%) LAN
8 31 (8.88%) SD-WAN
9 24 (6.88%) VXLAN
10 23 (6.59%) BIG-IP
11 22 (6.30%) MPLS
12 21 (6.02%) DHCP
12 21 (6.02%) Ethernet VPN
13 20 (5.73%) TCP/IP
13 20 (5.73%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (4.58%) SAN
14 16 (4.58%) VLAN
15 12 (3.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (1.72%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (0.86%) Metadata
2 3 (0.86%) NoSQL
2 3 (0.86%) Power BI
3 2 (0.57%) Big Data
3 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.57%) Redis
4 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.29%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (0.29%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.29%) Firebird
4 1 (0.29%) Flink
4 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.29%) HBase
4 1 (0.29%) Impala
4 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (8.31%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.45%) GitLab
3 22 (6.30%) Git
4 8 (2.29%) JIRA
5 4 (1.15%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
General
1 92 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.04%) Public Sector
3 34 (9.74%) Finance
4 24 (6.88%) Banking
5 23 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (4.30%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.87%) Retail
9 5 (1.43%) Local Government
9 5 (1.43%) Military
9 5 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Legal
10 3 (0.86%) Publishing
11 2 (0.57%) Automotive
11 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.57%) Front Office
11 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 117 (33.52%) Architect
2 69 (19.77%) Senior
3 53 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (10.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (9.46%) Network Architect
6 29 (8.31%) Network Engineer
7 28 (8.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (7.74%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (7.16%) Senior Architect
10 21 (6.02%) Lead
11 19 (5.44%) Technical Architect
12 17 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
14 14 (4.01%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (3.72%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.15%) Security Engineer
17 10 (2.87%) Enterprise Architect
17 10 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
17 10 (2.87%) Senior Network Architect
18 9 (2.58%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.16%) OpenTelemetry
2 22 (6.30%) REST
3 16 (4.58%) Kafka
4 13 (3.72%) NETCONF
4 13 (3.72%) YANG
5 12 (3.44%) JSON
6 9 (2.58%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.29%) Apache Avro
7 8 (2.29%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (1.72%) .NET
8 6 (1.72%) LDAP
8 6 (1.72%) Middleware
8 6 (1.72%) OpenConfig
8 6 (1.72%) RESTCONF
8 6 (1.72%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.43%) 802.1X
9 5 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.15%) Loki
10 4 (1.15%) Spring
11 3 (0.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (20.34%) Data Centre
2 62 (17.77%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.30%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.44%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.87%) Private Cloud
6 14 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.87%) Replication
9 9 (2.58%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (2.29%) PKI
11 7 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.01%) Operational Technology
11 7 (2.01%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.43%) FlexPod
12 5 (1.43%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.15%) BYOD
13 4 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.62%) Linux
2 52 (14.90%) Windows
3 38 (10.89%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.58%) VMS
6 6 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (1.43%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.57%) CentOS
8 2 (0.57%) Unix
9 1 (0.29%) AIX
9 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (32.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 112 (32.09%) CI/CD
3 109 (31.23%) DevOps
4 89 (25.50%) Migration
5 79 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 66 (18.91%) Zero Trust
7 56 (16.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 53 (15.19%) Roadmaps
9 52 (14.90%) Cloud Security
10 51 (14.61%) High Availability
11 49 (14.04%) Containerisation
12 48 (13.75%) Network Design
13 45 (12.89%) Observability
14 44 (12.61%) Load Balancing
15 42 (12.03%) Agile
16 41 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
16 41 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (10.60%) Analytics
17 37 (10.60%) RBAC
18 34 (9.74%) AI
Programming Languages
1 111 (31.81%) Python
2 52 (14.90%) PowerShell
3 45 (12.89%) Bash
4 21 (6.02%) Bicep
5 16 (4.58%) SQL
6 11 (3.15%) Java
7 7 (2.01%) Go
8 5 (1.43%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.86%) C#
10 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.29%) C
11 1 (0.29%) Groovy
11 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.29%) R
11 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 95 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 60 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.89%) Cisco Certification
4 33 (9.46%) DV Cleared
5 25 (7.16%) AWS Certification
6 24 (6.88%) Degree
7 23 (6.59%) Azure Certification
8 22 (6.30%) CCNP
9 16 (4.58%) CCIE
10 13 (3.72%) JNCIE
10 13 (3.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.58%) OCP
13 9 (2.58%) Oracle Certification
14 8 (2.29%) CCNA
14 8 (2.29%) CISSP
15 5 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.03%) NIST
2 22 (6.30%) GDPR
3 19 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.72%) NCSC
5 12 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.15%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.43%) GRC
8 4 (1.15%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.86%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.57%) SLA
11 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.29%) QA
11 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (16.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (14.90%) Active Directory
3 41 (11.75%) vSphere
4 35 (10.03%) VMware NSX
5 22 (6.30%) Docker
6 18 (5.16%) Hyper-V
7 17 (4.87%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (4.01%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.43%) NFS
10 4 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.86%) KVM
12 1 (0.29%) Ceph
12 1 (0.29%) Firmware
12 1 (0.29%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.29%) Squid
12 1 (0.29%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 128 (36.68%) Terraform
2 92 (26.36%) Ansible
3 78 (22.35%) Kubernetes
4 34 (9.74%) Grafana
5 23 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.16%) vCenter Server
7 13 (3.72%) Argo
8 11 (3.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.01%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.01%) SCCM
10 6 (1.72%) Puppet
11 5 (1.43%) Istio
11 5 (1.43%) SnapMirror
11 5 (1.43%) systemd
12 4 (1.15%) CASB
12 4 (1.15%) Rancher
12 4 (1.15%) SCOM
12 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.86%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.86%) yum
Vendors
1 108 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 73 (20.92%) VMware
3 46 (13.18%) Cisco
3 46 (13.18%) Palo Alto
4 39 (11.17%) F5
5 28 (8.02%) Red Hat
6 25 (7.16%) Splunk
7 24 (6.88%) Fortinet
8 23 (6.59%) Google
9 22 (6.30%) Aruba
10 19 (5.44%) Arista
10 19 (5.44%) Juniper
11 13 (3.72%) Zscaler
12 12 (3.44%) Pure Storage
13 11 (3.15%) CheckPoint
14 9 (2.58%) SolarWinds
15 8 (2.29%) NetApp
16 7 (2.01%) CyberArk
16 7 (2.01%) ServiceNow
17 6 (1.72%) Commvault