Hybrid Cloud Contract Job Trends in London

Hybrid Cloud
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 284 327
Rank change year-on-year -8 +43 +52
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 131 64 51
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 1.42% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 45 45
10th Percentile £450 £438 £441
25th Percentile £484 £481 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.70%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £638
90th Percentile £794 £751 £768
England median daily rate £530 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -7.91% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
England median hourly rate £76.50 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.50% - -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,232 4,522 5,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.04% 35.77% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,016 3,065 4,203
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £439 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 72 164
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.75 £18.90
Median hourly rate £32.56 £34.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +28.70% -22.86%
75th Percentile £58.57 £50.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.13 £80.55 £66.23
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year +29.89% +26.13% +23.33%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hybrid Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend in London

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in London over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in London

Hybrid Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Central London +5 26 £600 - 13
South London - 3 £425 -
Hybrid Cloud
England

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.76%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.76%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (3.05%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (55.73%) Azure
2 56 (42.75%) AWS
3 15 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.16%) GCP
5 11 (8.40%) OpenShift
6 9 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (6.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (6.11%) Entra ID
7 8 (6.11%) GitHub
7 8 (6.11%) Serverless
8 7 (5.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.82%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.82%) IaaS
10 5 (3.82%) SaaS
11 4 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (19.85%) Network Security
2 19 (14.50%) VPN
3 16 (12.21%) Firewall
4 11 (8.40%) WAN
5 10 (7.63%) DNS
6 8 (6.11%) LAN
7 7 (5.34%) SD-WAN
8 6 (4.58%) DHCP
8 6 (4.58%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (3.82%) BGP
9 5 (3.82%) DKIM
9 5 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (3.05%) DMZ
10 4 (3.05%) Internet
10 4 (3.05%) OSPF
11 3 (2.29%) DMARC
11 3 (2.29%) MPLS
11 3 (2.29%) VLAN
12 2 (1.53%) 5G
12 2 (1.53%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.29%) Metadata
3 2 (1.53%) Big Data
3 2 (1.53%) DataStage
3 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) Power BI
4 1 (0.76%) Redis
4 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.87%) GitLab
3 5 (3.82%) Git
4 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.53%) JIRA
General
1 36 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.98%) Finance
3 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.16%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (6.87%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (6.11%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.82%) Banking
8 4 (3.05%) Front Office
8 4 (3.05%) Law
9 3 (2.29%) Legal
10 2 (1.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.76%) Aviation
11 1 (0.76%) Electronics
11 1 (0.76%) International Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (35.11%) Architect
2 19 (14.50%) Senior
3 15 (11.45%) Network Architect
4 14 (10.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.63%) Network Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (6.11%) Lead
8 8 (6.11%) Senior Architect
8 8 (6.11%) Senior Network Architect
8 8 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.34%) Enterprise Architect
10 6 (4.58%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Security Architect
11 5 (3.82%) Security Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Azure Architect
12 4 (3.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.87%) REST
2 7 (5.34%) Kafka
3 6 (4.58%) Middleware
4 5 (3.82%) SAML
5 4 (3.05%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (3.05%) JMS
5 4 (3.05%) OAuth
5 4 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.29%) JSON
6 3 (2.29%) OpenID
6 3 (2.29%) Spring
6 3 (2.29%) XML
7 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.53%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.53%) Flash
7 2 (1.53%) LDAP
7 2 (1.53%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.53%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.53%) XSLT
8 1 (0.76%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.74%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.21%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.82%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.05%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.05%) BYOD
5 4 (3.05%) Equities
5 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.29%) CMDB
6 3 (2.29%) IoT
6 3 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.29%) PKI
6 3 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.16%) Windows
2 10 (7.63%) Linux
2 10 (7.63%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.76%) Android
3 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (26.72%) Migration
2 29 (22.14%) Cloud Security
2 29 (22.14%) DevOps
2 29 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (21.37%) CI/CD
4 26 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (18.32%) Containerisation
6 19 (14.50%) AI
7 18 (13.74%) Roadmaps
7 18 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (12.98%) Runbook
9 16 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (12.21%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (12.21%) Zero Trust
10 14 (10.69%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (9.92%) Agile
11 13 (9.92%) Machine Learning
11 13 (9.92%) Observability
12 11 (8.40%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 30 (22.90%) Python
2 20 (15.27%) PowerShell
3 12 (9.16%) Bash
4 10 (7.63%) Java
5 6 (4.58%) SQL
6 5 (3.82%) Bicep
7 3 (2.29%) R
7 3 (2.29%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.76%) C
8 1 (0.76%) Go
8 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.11%) Degree
4 7 (5.34%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.58%) CCNP
5 6 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.58%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (3.82%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.53%) APMG
9 2 (1.53%) CCSE
10 1 (0.76%) CBAP
10 1 (0.76%) CITP
10 1 (0.76%) ISEB
10 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.45%) NIST
2 13 (9.92%) GDPR
3 8 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.05%) ISO 22301
5 4 (3.05%) QA
6 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.76%) GRC
7 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (9.16%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.58%) Docker
3 5 (3.82%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.82%) vSphere
4 4 (3.05%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.76%) OpenSSH
6 1 (0.76%) Varnish
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (26.72%) Terraform
2 22 (16.79%) Kubernetes
3 18 (13.74%) Ansible
4 8 (6.11%) Grafana
5 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.82%) Argo
7 4 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.29%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (2.29%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.53%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.53%) Puppet
10 1 (0.76%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.76%) SCCM
10 1 (0.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (24.43%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.40%) Cisco
3 10 (7.63%) Splunk
4 9 (6.87%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.34%) Fortinet
5 7 (5.34%) OpenAI
5 7 (5.34%) Palo Alto
5 7 (5.34%) VMware
6 6 (4.58%) Aruba
6 6 (4.58%) Zscaler
7 5 (3.82%) CheckPoint
7 5 (3.82%) Google
7 5 (3.82%) Juniper
8 4 (3.05%) AppDynamics
8 4 (3.05%) Bloomberg
8 4 (3.05%) Charles River
8 4 (3.05%) Commvault
8 4 (3.05%) Databricks
8 4 (3.05%) Foundry
9 3 (2.29%) Guidewire