Hybrid Cloud Contract Job Trends in Reading

Hybrid Cloud
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 92 -
Rank change year-on-year +37 - -
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 16 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 2.44% 0.28% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.62% 0.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £640 £706 -
25th Percentile £643 £714 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £731 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £719 £752 -
90th Percentile £753 £762 -
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £731 -
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 210 342 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 32.06% 31.75% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 170 225
10th Percentile £345 £315 £207
25th Percentile £423 £409 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +11.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £35.86 £35.98 £62.21
25th Percentile £51.88 £52.81 £62.91
Median hourly rate £58.00 £59.05 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% -8.18% +16.93%
75th Percentile - £63.22 £66.77
90th Percentile £64.90 £71.24 £67.36
Berkshire median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £62.13
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.44% +6.65%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend in Reading

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in Reading over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in Reading

Hybrid Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 12 (75.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) OpenShift
4 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) BGP
1 12 (75.00%) LAN
1 12 (75.00%) MPLS
1 12 (75.00%) WAN
2 6 (37.50%) OSPF
2 6 (37.50%) SNMP
2 6 (37.50%) TACACS
2 6 (37.50%) Wireless
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (6.25%) VSAN
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Designer
2 6 (37.50%) IP Architect
2 6 (37.50%) IP Designer
2 6 (37.50%) IP Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Service Transition Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Architect
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) NETCONF
1 6 (37.50%) REST
1 6 (37.50%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (43.75%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 8 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 8 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 6 (37.50%) Microservices
3 6 (37.50%) Network Architecture
3 6 (37.50%) Network Design
3 6 (37.50%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (12.50%) Compliance Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) Secure Coding
4 2 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (75.00%) CCIE
2 12 (75.00%) JNCIE
3 8 (50.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
5 2 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (12.50%) CCSP
5 2 (12.50%) CISSP
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
1 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 2 (12.50%) PSD2
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (43.75%) VMware NSX
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Ansible
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Cisco
2 6 (37.50%) F5
2 6 (37.50%) Fortinet
2 6 (37.50%) Juniper
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle