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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 114 135
Rank change year-on-year +18 +21 +32
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 16 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.96% 0.65% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.74% 2.22% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £405 £497 £559
25th Percentile £525 £500 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £556 £613
Median % change year-on-year +10.11% -9.18% +13.43%
75th Percentile £794 £717 £638
90th Percentile £865 £769 -
South East median daily rate £525 £608 £625
% change year-on-year -13.58% -2.80% +9.65%

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 585 677 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.11% 29.23% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 390 584
10th Percentile £300 £205 £264
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 47 28
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.63 £20.38
Median hourly rate £32.05 £27.50 £46.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% -41.33% +134.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.16 £69.21
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £75.73
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.37% +14.70% +122.22%

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

Hybrid Cloud
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 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the Thames Valley

Hybrid Cloud
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 11 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +24 16 £613 -16.24% 4
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 4 (25.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) GCP
4 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
5 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.25%) IaaS
6 1 (6.25%) OCI
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Network Security
2 4 (25.00%) BGP
2 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) LAN
2 4 (25.00%) MPLS
2 4 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (12.50%) OSPF
3 2 (12.50%) SNMP
3 2 (12.50%) TACACS
3 2 (12.50%) Wireless
4 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (6.25%) VPN
4 1 (6.25%) VSAN
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Designer
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (12.50%) IP Architect
3 2 (12.50%) IP Designer
3 2 (12.50%) IP Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Architect
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
1 2 (12.50%) NETCONF
1 2 (12.50%) REST
1 2 (12.50%) YANG
2 1 (6.25%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
1 7 (43.75%) TOGAF
2 6 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 6 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (31.25%) Application Security
3 5 (31.25%) DevSecOps
3 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (31.25%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (31.25%) Zero Trust
4 4 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) SDLC
4 4 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 4 (25.00%) SIEM
4 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (18.75%) Data Privacy
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (31.25%) AWS Certification
2 5 (31.25%) CISSP
3 4 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (25.00%) CCIE
3 4 (25.00%) CCSP
3 4 (25.00%) JNCIE
4 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (12.50%) Degree
5 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (12.50%) SANS
6 1 (6.25%) CEH
6 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (6.25%) GIAC
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (25.00%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) PCI DSS
2 3 (18.75%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) VMware NSX
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) F5
2 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 2 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.25%) Forcepoint
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Okta
3 1 (6.25%) Qualys
3 1 (6.25%) Rapid7