Hybrid Cloud Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Hybrid Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 248 372
Rank change year-on-year -28 +124 -54
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 185 90 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.67% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% 2.00% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 43 10
10th Percentile £375 £463 £450
25th Percentile £453 £513 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.54% +6.31%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £770 £627
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -40.00% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,583 4,492 6,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.63% 33.59% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,615 2,731 3,573
10th Percentile £275 £220 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £580 £600
90th Percentile £681 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 644 335 766
10th Percentile £15.72 £15.50 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.43 £18.87 £14.26
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.98% -6.26% +59.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.44
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.93 £33.05 £35.58
% change year-on-year +26.87% -7.10% +58.22%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London

Hybrid Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 June 2026. 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
North of England -41 74 £514 -1.63% 13
South East -36 44 £625 +8.70% 27
Yorkshire -21 41 £500 -20.00% 7
Midlands -34 33 £500 -35.48% 6
West Midlands -40 30 £500 -44.44% 4
North West -36 26 £550 +15.79% 6
South West -13 25 £423 -31.85% 13
North East -27 13 £650 -
Scotland -10 12 £595 +8.18% 2
East of England -33 4 £530 -3.64% 8
East Midlands -22 3 £503 -12.61% 2
Hybrid Cloud
UK

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (3.78%) Confluence
1 7 (3.78%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.24%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.70%) Apache
4 3 (1.62%) IIS
4 3 (1.62%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.62%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.08%) CloudStack
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.70%) Maximo
2 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 120 (64.86%) Azure
2 92 (49.73%) AWS
3 29 (15.68%) OpenShift
4 27 (14.59%) GCP
5 22 (11.89%) SaaS
6 20 (10.81%) OCI
7 17 (9.19%) GitHub
8 13 (7.03%) IaaS
9 12 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.41%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.86%) Azure AKS
11 9 (4.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (4.32%) PaaS
13 7 (3.78%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (3.24%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (2.16%) Nutanix
17 3 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (21.62%) Firewall
2 37 (20.00%) WAN
3 30 (16.22%) BGP
4 25 (13.51%) DNS
5 23 (12.43%) SD-WAN
5 23 (12.43%) VXLAN
6 22 (11.89%) OSPF
7 21 (11.35%) Ethernet VPN
7 21 (11.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 19 (10.27%) BIG-IP
9 13 (7.03%) LAN
10 12 (6.49%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (5.95%) SAN
11 11 (5.95%) VPN
11 11 (5.95%) WLAN
12 10 (5.41%) MPLS
12 10 (5.41%) Network Security
13 8 (4.32%) VSAN
14 6 (3.24%) DHCP
15 5 (2.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.54%) Big Data
3 1 (0.54%) Firebird
3 1 (0.54%) Metadata
3 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.54%) Power BI
3 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (11.89%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.73%) GitLab
3 12 (6.49%) Git
4 8 (4.32%) JIRA
5 4 (2.16%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.35%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.49%) Finance
4 10 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.32%) Banking
6 6 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.08%) Retail
8 1 (0.54%) Advertising
8 1 (0.54%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.54%) Legal
8 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.54%) Military
8 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (29.19%) Architect
2 39 (21.08%) Senior
3 31 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (9.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (7.57%) Network Architect
6 13 (7.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (7.03%) Technical Architect
7 12 (6.49%) Lead
8 11 (5.95%) Network Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Senior Architect
11 8 (4.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.24%) IP Architect
14 5 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (2.70%) Data Engineer
14 5 (2.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (5.41%) JSON
3 9 (4.86%) REST
4 8 (4.32%) NETCONF
4 8 (4.32%) YANG
5 7 (3.78%) Apache Avro
5 7 (3.78%) Kafka
5 7 (3.78%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (3.24%) .NET
6 6 (3.24%) ARM Templates
7 4 (2.16%) Loki
7 4 (2.16%) OAuth
7 4 (2.16%) OpenID
8 3 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.62%) LDAP
8 3 (1.62%) SailPoint
8 3 (1.62%) SAML
9 2 (1.08%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.08%) OpenConfig
9 2 (1.08%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 41 (22.16%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.49%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.95%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.32%) PKI
7 6 (3.24%) Replication
7 6 (3.24%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.70%) FlexPod
8 5 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.62%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.62%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 39 (21.08%) Windows
2 34 (18.38%) Linux
3 24 (12.97%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.32%) VMS
6 6 (3.24%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.70%) CoreOS
7 5 (2.70%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.54%) CentOS
8 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (37.30%) CI/CD
2 67 (36.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (34.59%) DevOps
4 53 (28.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 49 (26.49%) Migration
6 36 (19.46%) Load Balancing
7 34 (18.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 32 (17.30%) Network Design
8 32 (17.30%) Zero Trust
9 31 (16.76%) High Availability
10 30 (16.22%) Roadmaps
11 27 (14.59%) Containerisation
12 25 (13.51%) Agile
12 25 (13.51%) RBAC
13 24 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (12.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 21 (11.35%) Network Architecture
14 21 (11.35%) Observability
15 16 (8.65%) Analytics
15 16 (8.65%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 63 (34.05%) Python
2 32 (17.30%) PowerShell
3 23 (12.43%) Bash
4 11 (5.95%) Bicep
5 6 (3.24%) Go
5 6 (3.24%) Java
6 4 (2.16%) SQL
7 3 (1.62%) BeanShell
7 3 (1.62%) C#
8 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (24.86%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.76%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (11.89%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.95%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.95%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.95%) CCIE
6 9 (4.86%) OCP
6 9 (4.86%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (4.32%) CCNP
7 8 (4.32%) CISSP
7 8 (4.32%) Degree
7 8 (4.32%) JNCIE
8 7 (3.78%) CCNA
8 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.24%) CISM
10 5 (2.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (1.62%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.73%) NIST
2 12 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.86%) PCI DSS
4 8 (4.32%) GDPR
5 7 (3.78%) NCSC
6 5 (2.70%) NIST 800
7 4 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.16%) GRC
8 3 (1.62%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.08%) QA
10 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (24.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (17.84%) vSphere
3 32 (17.30%) Active Directory
4 26 (14.05%) VMware NSX
5 12 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (5.95%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (5.41%) Docker
7 10 (5.41%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.70%) NFS
9 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.54%) Firmware
10 1 (0.54%) KVM
Systems Management
1 82 (44.32%) Terraform
2 56 (30.27%) Ansible
3 50 (27.03%) Kubernetes
4 23 (12.43%) Grafana
5 16 (8.65%) vCenter Server
6 14 (7.57%) Prometheus
7 11 (5.95%) Argo
8 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.70%) Istio
9 5 (2.70%) SnapMirror
10 4 (2.16%) Rancher
11 3 (1.62%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.62%) vMotion
11 3 (1.62%) vRealize
12 2 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.08%) Check_MK
12 2 (1.08%) SCCM
12 2 (1.08%) SCOM
13 1 (0.54%) CASB
13 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (35.68%) Microsoft
2 54 (29.19%) VMware
3 27 (14.59%) Palo Alto
4 25 (13.51%) Red Hat
5 24 (12.97%) F5
6 19 (10.27%) Aruba
6 19 (10.27%) Cisco
6 19 (10.27%) Splunk
7 18 (9.73%) Arista
8 11 (5.95%) Pure Storage
9 9 (4.86%) Google
9 9 (4.86%) IBM
10 7 (3.78%) CheckPoint
10 7 (3.78%) NetApp
11 6 (3.24%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.16%) Citrix
12 4 (2.16%) Juniper
12 4 (2.16%) SAP
13 3 (1.62%) Commvault
13 3 (1.62%) ServiceNow