Hybrid Cloud Contracts in the South East

Hybrid Cloud
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 162 195
Rank change year-on-year +32 +33 +48
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 33 23 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.93% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.95% 1.62% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 9
10th Percentile £300 £494 £522
25th Percentile £450 £503 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -10.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £694 £650
90th Percentile £775 £769 £678
England median daily rate £600 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +11.63% -14.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
England median hourly rate £81.86 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.36%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,120 1,418 1,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.69% 29.23% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 833 1,263
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £361 £390 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £614
90th Percentile £674 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 142 96
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £22.43 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.47 £57.35 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.64% +11.90% +124.39%
75th Percentile £61.68 £65.00 £64.93
90th Percentile £79.30 £75.16 £74.63
England median hourly rate £30.50 £47.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -36.13% +11.05% +65.38%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in the South East

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the South East over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the South East

Hybrid Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +20 18 £613 -16.24% 3
Thames Valley +7 18 £613 +13.43% 5
Hampshire +27 6 £525 -8.30% 5
East Sussex - 4 £298 -
Surrey - 2 £525 - 4
West Sussex - 2 £525 -
Kent -2 1 £615 -18.00% 2
Hybrid Cloud
England

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (18.18%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) Azure
2 19 (57.58%) AWS
3 8 (24.24%) GCP
4 7 (21.21%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.06%) Cloudflare
6 2 (6.06%) IaaS
6 2 (6.06%) Nutanix
6 2 (6.06%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) Firewall
2 8 (24.24%) MPLS
2 8 (24.24%) WAN
3 6 (18.18%) BGP
3 6 (18.18%) LAN
4 5 (15.15%) Network Security
5 4 (12.12%) VPN
6 3 (9.09%) OSPF
6 3 (9.09%) SNMP
6 3 (9.09%) TACACS
6 3 (9.09%) Wireless
7 2 (6.06%) DHCP
7 2 (6.06%) DNS
8 1 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (3.03%) SAN
8 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.03%) VoIP
8 1 (3.03%) VSAN
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.03%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Architect
2 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Security Architect
3 3 (9.09%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Designer
3 3 (9.09%) IP Architect
3 3 (9.09%) IP Designer
3 3 (9.09%) IP Specialist
3 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Nutanix Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) REST
2 3 (9.09%) CSS
2 3 (9.09%) HTML
2 3 (9.09%) NETCONF
2 3 (9.09%) YANG
3 2 (6.06%) JSON
3 2 (6.06%) Middleware
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (3.03%) ODBC
4 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
4 1 (3.03%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
3 4 (12.12%) Security Posture
4 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 10 (30.30%) Agile
3 9 (27.27%) TOGAF
4 8 (24.24%) DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.21%) Network Virtualisation
5 7 (21.21%) Zero Trust
6 6 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (18.18%) Microservices
6 6 (18.18%) Network Design
6 6 (18.18%) SDLC
6 6 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
6 6 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (15.15%) Application Security
7 5 (15.15%) Network Architecture
7 5 (15.15%) Security Architecture
7 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) Java
2 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 3 (9.09%) Kotlin
3 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (48.48%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (24.24%) AWS Certification
2 8 (24.24%) CCIE
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Certification
4 6 (18.18%) JNCIE
5 5 (15.15%) CISSP
6 4 (12.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (12.12%) CCNA
6 4 (12.12%) CCSP
6 4 (12.12%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
7 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (6.06%) Degree
7 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (6.06%) SANS
7 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
8 1 (3.03%) CEH
8 1 (3.03%) GIAC
8 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 4 (12.12%) NIST
3 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 3 (9.09%) PSD2
4 1 (3.03%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (3.03%) JSP 440
4 1 (3.03%) NCSC
4 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
1 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
3 2 (6.06%) vSphere
4 1 (3.03%) DFS Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Grafana
3 4 (12.12%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.03%) CASB
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Cisco
1 5 (15.15%) F5
1 5 (15.15%) Fortinet
1 5 (15.15%) VMware
2 4 (12.12%) Citrix
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) Juniper
3 3 (9.09%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.06%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.03%) Forcepoint
5 1 (3.03%) Google
5 1 (3.03%) Okta
5 1 (3.03%) Qualys
5 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow