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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 382 423
Rank change year-on-year +70 +41 +103
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 254 133 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 0.46% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 1.43% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 103 97
10th Percentile £413 £460 £470
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £550 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £36.60
25th Percentile £75.75 - £51.00
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £77.25 - £76.50
90th Percentile - - £77.40
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -18.92%

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 11,233 9,331 11,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.43% 32.47% 31.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,089 5,647 7,875
10th Percentile £285 £278 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -5.25% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 271 465
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.57
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.70 £20.51
Median hourly rate £28.06 £37.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.16% -15.43% +24.02%
75th Percentile £61.52 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £33.54 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.50% -21.08% +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 25 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
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 25 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 +37 98 £550 - 42
North of England -11 51 £550 -23.08% 32
South East -27 39 £525 -8.70% 43
South West +9 37 £650 -5.80% 17
Midlands -24 33 £550 -15.38% 24
West Midlands -14 30 £586 -16.29% 12
North West -8 27 £613 -9.93% 12
Yorkshire -19 23 £476 -33.39% 17
East of England - 4 £503 - 19
East Midlands -22 3 £500 -9.09% 10
North East -8 1 £600 - 3
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 13 (5.12%) OpenStack
2 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.57%) Confluence
3 4 (1.57%) SAS
3 4 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.18%) CMS
4 3 (1.18%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.18%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.79%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Mule
6 1 (0.39%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.18%) Maximo
2 3 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.39%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 146 (57.48%) Azure
2 95 (37.40%) AWS
3 40 (15.75%) GCP
4 30 (11.81%) OpenShift
5 29 (11.42%) GitHub
5 29 (11.42%) SaaS
6 28 (11.02%) Entra ID
7 17 (6.69%) Google Workspace
8 16 (6.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 14 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (5.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (4.33%) IaaS
12 10 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (3.94%) PaaS
13 9 (3.54%) Azure Stack
14 8 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (3.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (19.69%) Firewall
2 38 (14.96%) WAN
3 32 (12.60%) Network Security
4 30 (11.81%) VPN
5 20 (7.87%) LAN
6 17 (6.69%) BGP
7 16 (6.30%) SD-WAN
8 15 (5.91%) DNS
9 14 (5.51%) MPLS
10 10 (3.94%) SNMP
11 9 (3.54%) Wireless
12 8 (3.15%) DHCP
12 8 (3.15%) OSPF
12 8 (3.15%) TACACS
13 6 (2.36%) NGFW
13 6 (2.36%) TCP/IP
13 6 (2.36%) VSAN
14 5 (1.97%) VLAN
14 5 (1.97%) VXLAN
15 3 (1.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.97%) Big Data
3 5 (1.97%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.97%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.57%) Delta Lake
4 4 (1.57%) Metadata
4 4 (1.57%) Power BI
5 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.79%) DataStage
5 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.79%) Tableau
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.39%) QlikView
6 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (7.09%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.91%) GitLab
3 7 (2.76%) Git
4 6 (2.36%) JIRA
5 2 (0.79%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
General
1 92 (36.22%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.57%) Finance
3 26 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.09%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.15%) Banking
7 6 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (2.36%) Retail
8 5 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.57%) Legal
10 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.79%) Billing
11 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.79%) International Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Local Government
11 2 (0.79%) Military
11 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.39%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 72 (28.35%) Architect
2 38 (14.96%) Senior
3 28 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (6.69%) Lead
5 15 (5.91%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (5.91%) Consultant
5 15 (5.91%) Network Architect
6 14 (5.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.12%) Azure Architect
8 11 (4.33%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.33%) Network Engineer
9 10 (3.94%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.94%) Developer
9 10 (3.94%) Enterprise Architect
9 10 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (3.94%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.15%) Infrastructure Manager
11 8 (3.15%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.12%) REST
2 12 (4.72%) Kafka
3 10 (3.94%) Keycloak
4 9 (3.54%) ARM Templates
5 8 (3.15%) NETCONF
5 8 (3.15%) YANG
6 6 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.36%) JSON
7 5 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (1.97%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 3 (1.18%) MACH
8 3 (1.18%) OAuth
8 3 (1.18%) SAML
8 3 (1.18%) XML
9 2 (0.79%) LDAP
9 2 (0.79%) OpenID
9 2 (0.79%) RESTful
9 2 (0.79%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.79%) Spring
9 2 (0.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.93%) Cloud Native
2 40 (15.75%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.51%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.12%) Replication
5 11 (4.33%) Operational Technology
6 10 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.76%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.97%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.97%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.97%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.57%) IoT
11 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.18%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.60%) Windows
2 25 (9.84%) Linux
3 21 (8.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.57%) Android
4 4 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.18%) VMS
6 2 (0.79%) CentOS
6 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (26.77%) DevOps
2 56 (22.05%) CI/CD
3 54 (21.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (18.50%) Containerisation
5 47 (18.50%) Migration
6 40 (15.75%) Roadmaps
7 39 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 31 (12.20%) Zero Trust
10 29 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (11.02%) Cloud Security
12 25 (9.84%) AI
12 25 (9.84%) High Availability
12 25 (9.84%) Incident Response
12 25 (9.84%) Microservices
13 24 (9.45%) RBAC
13 24 (9.45%) TOGAF
14 23 (9.06%) Analytics
14 23 (9.06%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 64 (25.20%) Python
2 38 (14.96%) PowerShell
3 27 (10.63%) Bash
4 17 (6.69%) Bicep
5 12 (4.72%) Go
6 11 (4.33%) SQL
7 10 (3.94%) Java
8 5 (1.97%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.39%) Scala
10 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (24.41%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.11%) SC Cleared
3 40 (15.75%) Azure Certification
4 34 (13.39%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (8.27%) AWS Certification
6 19 (7.48%) CCIE
7 14 (5.51%) CISSP
7 14 (5.51%) JNCIE
8 13 (5.12%) Degree
9 12 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (4.33%) CCNP
11 8 (3.15%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (2.76%) DV Cleared
13 6 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 5 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (1.97%) CCSP
14 5 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.27%) GDPR
2 20 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (7.87%) NIST
3 7 (2.76%) QA
4 6 (2.36%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.97%) PSD2
5 5 (1.97%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.18%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.18%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.79%) GRC
7 2 (0.79%) GxP
7 2 (0.79%) NCSC
8 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.39%) GMP
8 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.39%) ITGC
System Software
1 33 (12.99%) Docker
2 28 (11.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (8.66%) Active Directory
4 20 (7.87%) VMware NSX
5 13 (5.12%) vSphere
6 8 (3.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.97%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.18%) KVM
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.39%) Ceph
10 1 (0.39%) Firmware
10 1 (0.39%) QEMU
10 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (27.17%) Terraform
2 57 (22.44%) Kubernetes
3 45 (17.72%) Ansible
4 18 (7.09%) Grafana
5 14 (5.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (4.72%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (3.15%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.76%) Argo
9 6 (2.36%) Puppet
10 5 (1.97%) Data Guard
10 5 (1.97%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.57%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.57%) SCCM
12 3 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.79%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.79%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.79%) vMotion
Vendors
1 54 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 37 (14.57%) VMware
3 24 (9.45%) Cisco
3 24 (9.45%) Google
4 14 (5.51%) Databricks
5 13 (5.12%) Fortinet
5 13 (5.12%) Palo Alto
6 11 (4.33%) Juniper
6 11 (4.33%) Oracle
6 11 (4.33%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.94%) Zscaler
8 9 (3.54%) F5
9 8 (3.15%) Dynatrace
9 8 (3.15%) Splunk
10 7 (2.76%) CheckPoint
10 7 (2.76%) OpenAI
11 6 (2.36%) Citrix
11 6 (2.36%) SAP
12 5 (1.97%) Commvault
12 5 (1.97%) IBM