Hybrid Cloud Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 351 331
Rank change year-on-year +105 -20 +93
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 109 35 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.17% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 0.57% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 15 71
10th Percentile £450 £460 £425
25th Percentile £513 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £630
90th Percentile £705 £741 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £24.13
25th Percentile - - £27.00
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.86 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -2.50%

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 4,789 6,115 7,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.84% 28.87% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 3,587 4,845
10th Percentile £220 £213 £235
25th Percentile £363 £379 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 745 391
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.41 £12.95
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +58.44% +4.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London

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 3 July 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
North of England +48 46 £600 +2.56% 130
North West +35 31 £600 +2.56% 74
South East +54 27 £575 -12.05% 136
Midlands +23 15 £700 +40.00% 85
South West +35 12 £620 +15.89% 86
West Midlands +17 12 £800 +60.00% 38
Yorkshire +14 11 £625 +28.87% 49
East of England - 8 £550 - 56
Scotland +4 5 £550 - 27
North East - 4 £600 - 7
East Midlands +3 3 £575 - 47
Hybrid Cloud
UK

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (4.59%) Apache
1 5 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.83%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.92%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.92%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 56 (51.38%) Azure
2 30 (27.52%) AWS
3 25 (22.94%) SaaS
4 19 (17.43%) Google Workspace
5 17 (15.60%) Entra ID
6 16 (14.68%) GCP
7 12 (11.01%) PaaS
8 11 (10.09%) IaaS
9 10 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.59%) GitHub
11 4 (3.67%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.67%) Cloudflare
11 4 (3.67%) Serverless
12 3 (2.75%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (2.75%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (2.75%) Azure Stack
12 3 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 24 (22.02%) Firewall
2 19 (17.43%) VPN
3 12 (11.01%) Network Security
4 8 (7.34%) MPLS
5 7 (6.42%) DNS
5 7 (6.42%) SAN
6 5 (4.59%) BGP
6 5 (4.59%) VSAN
6 5 (4.59%) WAN
7 4 (3.67%) NAS
7 4 (3.67%) OSPF
7 4 (3.67%) VLAN
8 3 (2.75%) DHCP
9 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) Metadata
2 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.83%) Flink
4 1 (0.92%) Big Data
4 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.92%) SQLite
4 1 (0.92%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Git
1 5 (4.59%) GitLab
2 4 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.92%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.18%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.09%) Finance
4 9 (8.26%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Military
5 5 (4.59%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Aviation
7 3 (2.75%) Banking
7 3 (2.75%) Legal
7 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.83%) Electronics
8 2 (1.83%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.83%) Marketing
8 2 (1.83%) Police
8 2 (1.83%) Swedish Language
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (23.85%) Architect
2 23 (21.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (11.01%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (10.09%) Senior
5 10 (9.17%) Lead
6 7 (6.42%) Network Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Consultant
7 6 (5.50%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) IT Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Designer
9 4 (3.67%) Network Architect
9 4 (3.67%) Network Designer
9 4 (3.67%) Solutions Designer
9 4 (3.67%) VMware Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.50%) Middleware
2 5 (4.59%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (3.67%) Kafka
3 4 (3.67%) PySpark
4 3 (2.75%) CSS
4 3 (2.75%) HTML
4 3 (2.75%) SAML
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (1.83%) JSON
5 2 (1.83%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.83%) OAuth
5 2 (1.83%) OpenID
5 2 (1.83%) REST
5 2 (1.83%) XML
6 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.92%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.92%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.34%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.42%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.42%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.75%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) CCTV
5 2 (1.83%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.83%) Digital Signage
5 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.83%) PKI
5 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.83%) Replication
5 2 (1.83%) Robotics
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Life Science
6 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.43%) Windows
2 15 (13.76%) Linux
2 15 (13.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.75%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.92%) AIX
5 1 (0.92%) CentOS
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.36%) Agile
2 26 (23.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (20.18%) Roadmaps
4 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (15.60%) Migration
5 17 (15.60%) User Experience
6 14 (12.84%) Benchmarking
6 14 (12.84%) Mobile Device Management
6 14 (12.84%) Zero Trust
7 13 (11.93%) CI/CD
7 13 (11.93%) DevOps
8 11 (10.09%) Containerisation
8 11 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (10.09%) Project Delivery
8 11 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (9.17%) Computer Science
9 10 (9.17%) Data Protection
9 10 (9.17%) Network Architecture
9 10 (9.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.85%) Python
2 15 (13.76%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.42%) Java
4 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.67%) Bash
5 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.75%) Bicep
6 3 (2.75%) C#
6 3 (2.75%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.75%) SQL
7 1 (0.92%) HiveQL
7 1 (0.92%) Perl
7 1 (0.92%) R
7 1 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (33.03%) Security Cleared
2 31 (28.44%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.93%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (10.09%) Degree
5 10 (9.17%) DV Cleared
6 9 (8.26%) Azure Certification
6 9 (8.26%) CCIE
6 9 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (5.50%) Master's Degree
8 5 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (4.59%) CCNP
8 5 (4.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (3.67%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.67%) JNCIE
9 4 (3.67%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (2.75%) CCNA
10 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.75%) VCAP
11 2 (1.83%) CISSP
11 2 (1.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.59%) GDPR
3 4 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.75%) NIST
5 2 (1.83%) SLA
6 1 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.92%) GRC
6 1 (0.92%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.92%) NCSC
6 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.92%) QA
6 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (19.27%) Active Directory
2 18 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (10.09%) Docker
3 11 (10.09%) vSphere
4 9 (8.26%) VMware NSX
5 7 (6.42%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.67%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.75%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.92%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (14.68%) Ansible
2 14 (12.84%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.17%) Terraform
4 8 (7.34%) vCenter Server
5 6 (5.50%) Grafana
5 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (4.59%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.67%) PowerCLI
7 4 (3.67%) vRealize
7 4 (3.67%) VxRail
8 2 (1.83%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.83%) Puppet
8 2 (1.83%) SCCM
9 1 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.92%) CASB
9 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.92%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (22.02%) Google
1 24 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 22 (20.18%) VMware
3 17 (15.60%) Cisco
4 11 (10.09%) Fortinet
5 9 (8.26%) Citrix
6 8 (7.34%) F5
7 7 (6.42%) CheckPoint
7 7 (6.42%) Zscaler
8 6 (5.50%) SAP
9 5 (4.59%) CyberArk
9 5 (4.59%) Oracle
10 4 (3.67%) Dell
10 4 (3.67%) HP
10 4 (3.67%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
11 3 (2.75%) Veeam
12 2 (1.83%) IBM
12 2 (1.83%) Ribbon
12 2 (1.83%) Tenable