Hybrid Cloud Contracts in the Thames Valley

Hybrid Cloud
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 78 136 140
Rank change year-on-year +58 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 24 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.59% 0.34% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.40% 1.12% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 7
10th Percentile £500 £619 £537
25th Percentile £561 £642 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £685 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +14.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £630 £729 £638
90th Percentile £740 £753 £647
South East median daily rate £600 £608 £613
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.82% +2.08%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the Thames Valley

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the Thames Valley

Hybrid Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +34 12 £575 -16.06% 15
Buckinghamshire - 12 £620 - 9
Hybrid Cloud
South East

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (8.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
1 12 (50.00%) PaaS
1 12 (50.00%) SaaS
2 11 (45.83%) IaaS
3 8 (33.33%) AWS
4 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure API Management
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) VSAN
2 5 (20.83%) BGP
2 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
2 5 (20.83%) VPN
3 4 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (16.67%) MPLS
3 4 (16.67%) NGFW
3 4 (16.67%) OSPF
3 4 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 4 (16.67%) WAN
4 3 (12.50%) DNS
4 3 (12.50%) Firewall
4 3 (12.50%) VLAN
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (8.33%) Network Security
6 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Architect
2 12 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 11 (45.83%) Senior
3 11 (45.83%) Senior Architect
3 11 (45.83%) Senior Technical Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Senior VMware Architect
6 2 (8.33%) VMware Architect
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Architect
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) SailPoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) SAML
2 2 (8.33%) Middleware
2 2 (8.33%) OAuth
2 2 (8.33%) OpenID
3 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) PKI
2 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) TOGAF
2 14 (58.33%) DevSecOps
3 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 11 (45.83%) Containerisation
3 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (45.83%) Microservices
4 10 (41.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 10 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (41.67%) ITIL
4 10 (41.67%) Zachman Framework
5 9 (37.50%) IT Strategy
6 8 (33.33%) Use Case
7 7 (29.17%) Requirements Management
7 7 (29.17%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
9 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (20.83%) Virtual Environments
10 4 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Bash
1 2 (8.33%) C#
1 2 (8.33%) Java
1 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.33%) Python
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) MCSE
2 11 (45.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (45.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (8.33%) CCNP
6 2 (8.33%) CISSP
6 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (8.33%) Degree
6 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
6 2 (8.33%) SANS
7 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (4.17%) CCIE
7 1 (4.17%) CCSK
7 1 (4.17%) CCSP
7 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (4.17%) OSCP
7 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) NIST
2 11 (45.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (45.83%) NCSC
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) CASB
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) VMware
2 13 (54.17%) Cisco
3 12 (50.00%) Palo Alto
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
5 3 (12.50%) SAP
6 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) IBM
6 1 (4.17%) Okta
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle
6 1 (4.17%) Rapid7