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 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 243 351
Rank change year-on-year -16 +108 -20
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 208 109 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.77% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.62% 2.30% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 60 15
10th Percentile £402 £450 £460
25th Percentile £463 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £606
90th Percentile £703 £705 £741
UK median daily rate £556 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.84 - -
25th Percentile £33.20 - -
Median hourly rate £50.93 - -
75th Percentile £68.20 - -
90th Percentile £78.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -26.70% - -

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 7,945 4,748 6,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.11% 33.68% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,823 2,863 3,588
10th Percentile £280 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 678 370 745
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.13 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.37 £18.51 £14.41
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -15.85% +58.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.40 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +40.32% -14.00% +60.20%

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 3 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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 -39 79 £517 -13.86% 23
South East -26 61 £613 +6.52% 31
Yorkshire -20 43 £500 -20.00% 8
Midlands -40 36 £500 -28.57% 4
West Midlands -43 31 £500 -37.50% 2
North West -44 29 £558 -7.08% 15
South West -18 20 £550 -11.29% 13
North East -28 13 £650 +8.33%
Scotland +1 12 £595 +8.18% 4
East Midlands -12 5 £500 -13.04% 2
East of England -25 5 £530 -3.64% 4
Wales - 2 £635 - 1
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 9 (4.33%) Confluence
1 9 (4.33%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.40%) Apache
4 3 (1.44%) IIS
4 3 (1.44%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.44%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.96%) CloudStack
Applications
1 5 (2.40%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 131 (62.98%) Azure
2 112 (53.85%) AWS
3 35 (16.83%) GCP
4 28 (13.46%) OpenShift
5 27 (12.98%) SaaS
6 20 (9.62%) GitHub
6 20 (9.62%) OCI
7 14 (6.73%) Entra ID
7 14 (6.73%) IaaS
8 13 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.33%) PaaS
10 7 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.88%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (1.92%) Nutanix
13 4 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (24.04%) Firewall
2 46 (22.12%) WAN
3 39 (18.75%) BGP
4 33 (15.87%) DNS
5 28 (13.46%) SD-WAN
6 26 (12.50%) OSPF
7 25 (12.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 24 (11.54%) LAN
9 23 (11.06%) BIG-IP
9 23 (11.06%) VXLAN
10 21 (10.10%) Ethernet VPN
11 17 (8.17%) MPLS
12 16 (7.69%) VPN
13 15 (7.21%) Network Security
13 15 (7.21%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (5.77%) SAN
14 12 (5.77%) WLAN
15 9 (4.33%) TCP/IP
16 8 (3.85%) DHCP
16 8 (3.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.48%) Big Data
4 1 (0.48%) Firebird
4 1 (0.48%) Metadata
4 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 19 (9.13%) GitLab
3 13 (6.25%) Git
4 10 (4.81%) JIRA
5 4 (1.92%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.73%) Finance
4 13 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.81%) Banking
6 9 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Retail
10 2 (0.96%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Police
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (32.69%) Architect
2 43 (20.67%) Senior
3 34 (16.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (9.13%) Network Architect
4 19 (9.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (8.65%) Technical Architect
6 17 (8.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (7.69%) Lead
7 16 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.25%) Network Engineer
9 10 (4.81%) Senior Architect
10 9 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.37%) IP Architect
12 7 (3.37%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) Security Architect
14 5 (2.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.06%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (5.77%) JSON
3 11 (5.29%) NETCONF
3 11 (5.29%) YANG
4 10 (4.81%) REST
5 8 (3.85%) Kafka
6 7 (3.37%) Apache Avro
6 7 (3.37%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (2.88%) .NET
8 5 (2.40%) LDAP
8 5 (2.40%) SailPoint
9 4 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.92%) Loki
9 4 (1.92%) OAuth
9 4 (1.92%) OpenConfig
9 4 (1.92%) OpenID
9 4 (1.92%) RESTCONF
10 3 (1.44%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.44%) Middleware
10 3 (1.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 50 (24.04%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.73%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.29%) Private Cloud
6 9 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.85%) PKI
8 6 (2.88%) Replication
8 6 (2.88%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.40%) FlexPod
9 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.92%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.79%) Windows
2 34 (16.35%) Linux
3 24 (11.54%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.33%) VMS
6 6 (2.88%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.40%) CoreOS
8 4 (1.92%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (36.06%) CI/CD
2 71 (34.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (32.21%) DevOps
4 52 (25.00%) Migration
5 51 (24.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 42 (20.19%) Zero Trust
7 38 (18.27%) Disaster Recovery
8 37 (17.79%) Roadmaps
9 36 (17.31%) Load Balancing
9 36 (17.31%) Network Design
10 35 (16.83%) High Availability
11 29 (13.94%) Agile
12 28 (13.46%) Containerisation
13 27 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (12.02%) Network Architecture
15 24 (11.54%) Observability
15 24 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (11.06%) RBAC
17 20 (9.62%) Cloud Security
18 19 (9.13%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 73 (35.10%) Python
2 34 (16.35%) PowerShell
3 26 (12.50%) Bash
4 10 (4.81%) Java
5 8 (3.85%) Bicep
6 6 (2.88%) Go
6 6 (2.88%) SQL
7 5 (2.40%) BeanShell
8 3 (1.44%) C#
9 1 (0.48%) Groovy
9 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.83%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (15.87%) SC Cleared
4 23 (11.06%) DV Cleared
5 15 (7.21%) AWS Certification
5 15 (7.21%) CCIE
6 13 (6.25%) CCNP
6 13 (6.25%) Degree
7 11 (5.29%) JNCIE
7 11 (5.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (4.81%) Azure Certification
9 9 (4.33%) OCP
9 9 (4.33%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.37%) CCNA
10 7 (3.37%) CISSP
11 5 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.69%) NIST
2 12 (5.77%) NCSC
3 10 (4.81%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.85%) GDPR
5 7 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.92%) GRC
7 3 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.48%) PSD2
8 1 (0.48%) QA
8 1 (0.48%) SEPA
8 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (16.35%) Active Directory
3 33 (15.87%) vSphere
4 31 (14.90%) VMware NSX
5 13 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (5.77%) Docker
7 11 (5.29%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (4.81%) Hyper-V
9 5 (2.40%) NFS
10 2 (0.96%) KVM
10 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (39.90%) Terraform
2 63 (30.29%) Ansible
3 49 (23.56%) Kubernetes
4 26 (12.50%) Grafana
5 17 (8.17%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.21%) vCenter Server
7 12 (5.77%) Argo
8 5 (2.40%) Istio
8 5 (2.40%) SnapMirror
9 4 (1.92%) CASB
9 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.92%) Rancher
10 3 (1.44%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.44%) vMotion
10 3 (1.44%) vRealize
11 2 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.96%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.96%) SCCM
11 2 (0.96%) SCOM
11 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 60 (28.85%) VMware
3 34 (16.35%) Palo Alto
4 30 (14.42%) F5
5 27 (12.98%) Cisco
6 20 (9.62%) Red Hat
7 19 (9.13%) Arista
7 19 (9.13%) Aruba
7 19 (9.13%) Splunk
8 14 (6.73%) Google
9 11 (5.29%) Pure Storage
10 9 (4.33%) Fortinet
11 7 (3.37%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.37%) NetApp
11 7 (3.37%) SolarWinds
12 6 (2.88%) IBM
12 6 (2.88%) Juniper
13 5 (2.40%) CyberArk
14 4 (1.92%) Citrix
14 4 (1.92%) SAP
83 Hybrid Cloud jobs in the UK excluding London