Hybrid Cloud Contracts in the Midlands

Hybrid Cloud
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 130 142
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 +62
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 11 3 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 0.11% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 0.35% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile £533 - £433
25th Percentile £563 - £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £675 - £625
90th Percentile £690 - £718
England median daily rate £591 £585 £600
% change year-on-year +1.07% -2.50% -

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in the Midlands

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the Midlands

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the Midlands

Hybrid Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +18 7 £650 +30.00% 7
East Midlands - 4 £613 - 23
Hybrid Cloud
England

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (27.27%) Apache
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Stack
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) 3G
1 1 (9.09%) 3GPP
1 1 (9.09%) 4G
1 1 (9.09%) 5G
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) LTE
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) Flink
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Games
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (27.27%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Rocky
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
1 4 (36.36%) Workflow
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) RBAC
2 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
2 3 (27.27%) Storage Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
3 2 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (18.18%) DataOps
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) Validation
3 2 (18.18%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Docker
3 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) Perforce
2 1 (9.09%) VMware