Hybrid Cloud Contracts 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 453 444
Rank change year-on-year +151 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 168 80 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.22% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 0.72% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 58 130
10th Percentile £450 £441 £425
25th Percentile £494 £486 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.42% -
75th Percentile £675 £634 £675
90th Percentile £750 £768 £814
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £43.95
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £86.00
UK median hourly rate £100.00 - £78.00

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 8,237 11,180 16,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.02% 30.66% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 7,335 11,397
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 820 580
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £33.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% +48.99% -16.66%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.90 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +0.83% +40.09% -18.24%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in England

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in England.

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in England

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in England

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 15 May 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 +69 68 £550 +4.76% 180
North of England +45 34 £524 -10.47% 66
South East +65 27 £591 -13.69% 93
North West +23 18 £523 -10.68% 32
Midlands +29 13 £650 +30.00% 47
South West +50 11 £620 -8.15% 37
Yorkshire +23 9 £680 +40.21% 26
West Midlands +21 9 £650 +30.00% 19
East of England - 7 £550 - 26
North East - 7 - - 8
East Midlands - 4 £613 - 26
Hybrid Cloud
UK

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.98%) Apache
2 5 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.38%) Confluence
3 4 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.19%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 102 (60.71%) Azure
2 79 (47.02%) AWS
3 33 (19.64%) GCP
4 29 (17.26%) Entra ID
5 28 (16.67%) SaaS
6 23 (13.69%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (12.50%) PaaS
8 17 (10.12%) Serverless
9 16 (9.52%) IaaS
10 15 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (8.93%) GitHub
11 14 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (7.74%) Azure AKS
13 8 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (3.57%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 35 (20.83%) Firewall
2 33 (19.64%) VPN
3 21 (12.50%) MPLS
4 18 (10.71%) WAN
5 17 (10.12%) BGP
5 17 (10.12%) Network Security
6 16 (9.52%) DNS
7 12 (7.14%) OSPF
8 11 (6.55%) SD-WAN
9 9 (5.36%) VSAN
10 7 (4.17%) IPsec
10 7 (4.17%) NGFW
10 7 (4.17%) TCP/IP
11 6 (3.57%) DHCP
12 5 (2.98%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (2.98%) VLAN
13 4 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (2.38%) NAS
13 4 (2.38%) SAN
14 3 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.57%) Data Lake
1 6 (3.57%) Metadata
2 5 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.19%) Big Data
3 2 (1.19%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.19%) Flink
3 2 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.19%) Spark SQL
4 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.60%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 19 (11.31%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.93%) GitLab
3 11 (6.55%) Git
4 8 (4.76%) JIRA
5 2 (1.19%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.60%) Gatling
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) JUnit
6 1 (0.60%) Selenium
6 1 (0.60%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.67%) Finance
3 24 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.95%) Banking
6 9 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.57%) Marketing
9 5 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.98%) Legal
10 4 (2.38%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.79%) Aviation
11 3 (1.79%) Military
12 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.19%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.19%) Police
12 2 (1.19%) Publishing
12 2 (1.19%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 56 (33.33%) Architect
2 24 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (12.50%) Senior
4 18 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.74%) Consultant
6 12 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Lead
7 11 (6.55%) Security Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Technical Architect
8 9 (5.36%) AWS Architect
8 9 (5.36%) Azure Architect
8 9 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
9 8 (4.76%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Senior Architect
10 7 (4.17%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.17%) IT Engineer
10 7 (4.17%) Security Architect
11 6 (3.57%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.17%) REST
2 6 (3.57%) Middleware
2 6 (3.57%) SAML
3 5 (2.98%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.98%) OAuth
4 4 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.38%) Kafka
4 4 (2.38%) OpenID
4 4 (2.38%) PySpark
5 3 (1.79%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (1.79%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.19%) .NET
6 2 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.19%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.19%) Node.js
7 1 (0.60%) CSS
7 1 (0.60%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.60%) HTML
7 1 (0.60%) LDAP
7 1 (0.60%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.90%) Public Cloud
2 14 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.95%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.17%) PKI
6 6 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.57%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.98%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.98%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.38%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.19%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.19%) Replication
10 2 (1.19%) Robotics
10 2 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.24%) Windows
2 29 (17.26%) Windows Server
3 27 (16.07%) Linux
4 6 (3.57%) CentOS
4 6 (3.57%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.19%) Android
7 2 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.19%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.60%) AIX
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.60%) Rocky
8 1 (0.60%) Solaris
8 1 (0.60%) Unix
8 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.79%) Agile
2 41 (24.40%) Migration
3 38 (22.62%) DevOps
3 38 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 34 (20.24%) Roadmaps
6 32 (19.05%) Zero Trust
7 31 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 29 (17.26%) Containerisation
10 25 (14.88%) Identity Access Management
11 24 (14.29%) DevSecOps
12 21 (12.50%) Analytics
12 21 (12.50%) Data Protection
13 17 (10.12%) RBAC
14 16 (9.52%) Cost Management
14 16 (9.52%) High Availability
15 15 (8.93%) Artificial Intelligence
15 15 (8.93%) Enterprise Architecture
15 15 (8.93%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.21%) Python
2 31 (18.45%) PowerShell
3 11 (6.55%) Bicep
4 10 (5.95%) SQL
5 6 (3.57%) Bash
5 6 (3.57%) Java
6 5 (2.98%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.79%) C#
9 2 (1.19%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.19%) Perl
9 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.19%) VB
9 2 (1.19%) VBScript
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.60%) PHP
10 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (24.40%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (9.52%) AWS Certification
4 16 (9.52%) Degree
5 15 (8.93%) Azure Certification
6 11 (6.55%) CISSP
6 11 (6.55%) DV Cleared
7 10 (5.95%) CCIE
7 10 (5.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (4.17%) CCNP
10 7 (4.17%) MCSE
11 6 (3.57%) CEH
11 6 (3.57%) Master's Degree
11 6 (3.57%) VCAP
12 5 (2.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (2.98%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.90%) NIST
2 14 (8.33%) GDPR
3 13 (7.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.76%) NCSC
5 6 (3.57%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.98%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.38%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.38%) COBIT
7 4 (2.38%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.79%) QA
9 2 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (19.64%) Active Directory
2 28 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (12.50%) Docker
4 17 (10.12%) VMware NSX
5 13 (7.74%) vSphere
6 9 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.57%) BitLocker
8 5 (2.98%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.79%) Hyper-V
10 2 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (22.62%) Kubernetes
1 38 (22.62%) Terraform
2 37 (22.02%) Ansible
3 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (6.55%) vCenter Server
5 8 (4.76%) FortiGate
6 7 (4.17%) PowerCLI
6 7 (4.17%) vRealize
7 5 (2.98%) Puppet
8 4 (2.38%) Grafana
8 4 (2.38%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.38%) SCCM
8 4 (2.38%) VxRail
9 3 (1.79%) Nessus
9 3 (1.79%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.60%) CASB
11 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.60%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 38 (22.62%) Microsoft
1 38 (22.62%) VMware
2 26 (15.48%) Cisco
3 24 (14.29%) Google
4 18 (10.71%) Fortinet
5 12 (7.14%) CheckPoint
6 10 (5.95%) F5
6 10 (5.95%) Palo Alto
7 9 (5.36%) Citrix
7 9 (5.36%) Zscaler
8 8 (4.76%) CyberArk
8 8 (4.76%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.57%) HP
10 5 (2.98%) Dell
10 5 (2.98%) SAP
10 5 (2.98%) Veeam
11 4 (2.38%) Aruba
11 4 (2.38%) Juniper
11 4 (2.38%) Okta
11 4 (2.38%) Oracle