Hybrid Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 120 132
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +74
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 27 18 9
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.98% 0.67% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.61% 2.32% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 9
10th Percentile £493 £412 -
25th Percentile £508 £488 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £654 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +14.04%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £760 £734 £728
England median daily rate £580 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +0.87% -4.17% -

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 1,036 777 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 37.77% 29.09% 31.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 461 586
10th Percentile £263 £200 £263
25th Percentile £386 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.30%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £604
90th Percentile £666 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 20 45
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.46 £17.83
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £20.51
Median hourly rate £25.08 £27.53 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +0.10% +56.61%
75th Percentile £40.46 £51.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.45 £69.50
England median hourly rate £29.50 £52.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -43.81% +13.69% +78.61%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 October 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 12 October 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 -5 23 £700 - 3
East Midlands -9 4 £500 +11.11%
Hybrid Cloud
England

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) Azure Stack
3 7 (25.93%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.81%) AWS
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub
6 2 (7.41%) IaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
6 2 (7.41%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) Firewall
2 7 (25.93%) Network Security
3 5 (18.52%) NGFW
3 5 (18.52%) VPN
3 5 (18.52%) WAN
4 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
5 3 (11.11%) DNS
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (3.70%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Big Data
1 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) QlikView
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jaeger
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
1 8 (29.63%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Network Architect
3 6 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Senior IT Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Network Security Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Product Owner
4 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Hadoop Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) JSON
1 2 (7.41%) Kafka
1 2 (7.41%) Keycloak
1 2 (7.41%) REST
1 2 (7.41%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) Express.js
2 1 (3.70%) MERN Stack
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Operational Technology
2 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 3 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) SCADA
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
1 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Management
1 7 (25.93%) Network Architecture
2 6 (22.22%) Network Design
3 5 (18.52%) Agile
3 5 (18.52%) DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
3 5 (18.52%) Zero Trust
4 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 3 (11.11%) Coaching
5 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 3 (11.11%) Data Architecture
5 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 3 (11.11%) Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Product Management
6 2 (7.41%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Go
1 3 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.41%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Bash
3 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
3 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
4 6 (22.22%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (7.41%) CCIE
6 2 (7.41%) CCNP
6 2 (7.41%) CISSP
7 1 (3.70%) CCNA
7 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.70%) Degree
7 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.70%) Server+ Certification
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Cisco
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.41%) Citrix
4 2 (7.41%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) Databricks
5 1 (3.70%) Meraki