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 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 241 339
Rank change year-on-year -14 +98 -29
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 235 129 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.85% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.83% 2.52% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 69 22
10th Percentile £400 £443 £460
25th Percentile £483 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +2.56% +6.36%
75th Percentile £647 £638 £697
90th Percentile £725 £700 £766
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £43.42 - -
25th Percentile £62.62 - -
Median hourly rate £68.22 - -
75th Percentile £77.31 - -
90th Percentile £84.17 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

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 8,293 5,129 5,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.49% 33.77% 29.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,988 3,046 3,211
10th Percentile £290 £226 £220
25th Percentile £405 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 746 403 511
10th Percentile £14.68 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.37 £16.68
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -33.33% +1.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.00 £69.84
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £44.74
% change year-on-year +49.02% -34.06% +11.85%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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
South East -16 82 £615 +17.14% 60
North of England -33 81 £519 -13.47% 50
Yorkshire -14 43 £500 -20.00% 19
Midlands -41 35 £488 -30.36% 9
North West -59 31 £565 -5.83% 29
West Midlands -45 30 £488 -30.36% 5
South West -44 20 £575 -17.86% 21
North East -30 13 £650 +8.33% 2
Scotland -5 11 £595 +8.18% 8
East of England -16 7 £505 -8.18% 8
East Midlands -6 5 £478 +11.05% 4
Wales - 3 £670 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 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 9 (3.83%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.98%) Confluence
2 7 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.55%) Apache
4 3 (1.28%) IIS
4 3 (1.28%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.28%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 7 (2.98%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.43%) Maximo
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 157 (66.81%) Azure
2 120 (51.06%) AWS
3 41 (17.45%) GCP
4 32 (13.62%) OpenShift
5 27 (11.49%) Entra ID
5 27 (11.49%) SaaS
6 25 (10.64%) OCI
7 23 (9.79%) GitHub
8 17 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.96%) IaaS
10 12 (5.11%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (4.26%) PaaS
12 8 (3.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (3.40%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.98%) Azure AKS
14 6 (2.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 60 (25.53%) Firewall
2 46 (19.57%) DNS
2 46 (19.57%) WAN
3 40 (17.02%) BGP
4 28 (11.91%) SD-WAN
4 28 (11.91%) VPN
5 27 (11.49%) OSPF
6 25 (10.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 24 (10.21%) LAN
7 24 (10.21%) VXLAN
8 23 (9.79%) BIG-IP
9 22 (9.36%) DHCP
9 22 (9.36%) Ethernet VPN
10 21 (8.94%) TCP/IP
11 18 (7.66%) MPLS
12 17 (7.23%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (6.81%) Network Security
14 12 (5.11%) WLAN
15 11 (4.68%) SAN
16 10 (4.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.85%) Power BI
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.43%) Big Data
4 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.43%) Firebird
4 1 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.43%) GIS
4 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.43%) Metadata
4 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.21%) GitLab
3 16 (6.81%) Git
4 7 (2.98%) JIRA
5 5 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.70%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 74 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.19%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.81%) Finance
5 14 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.11%) Banking
7 11 (4.68%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.98%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.70%) Retail
10 3 (1.28%) Military
10 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Police
12 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (32.77%) Architect
2 55 (23.40%) Senior
3 38 (16.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (10.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (8.51%) Lead
5 20 (8.51%) Technical Architect
6 19 (8.09%) Network Architect
7 18 (7.66%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (7.23%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (6.38%) Network Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Senior Architect
11 10 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.83%) Technical Leader
13 8 (3.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (2.98%) Enterprise Architect
14 7 (2.98%) Lead Architect
14 7 (2.98%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.09%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (5.11%) ARM Templates
3 11 (4.68%) JSON
3 11 (4.68%) NETCONF
3 11 (4.68%) YANG
4 9 (3.83%) Kafka
5 8 (3.40%) REST
6 6 (2.55%) .NET
6 6 (2.55%) Apache Avro
6 6 (2.55%) OpenConfig
6 6 (2.55%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (2.55%) RESTCONF
7 5 (2.13%) LDAP
7 5 (2.13%) OAuth
7 5 (2.13%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.70%) Loki
8 4 (1.70%) OpenID
8 4 (1.70%) SAML
9 3 (1.28%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 51 (21.70%) Cloud Native
2 50 (21.28%) Data Centre
3 18 (7.66%) Public Cloud
4 17 (7.23%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.53%) Private Cloud
6 11 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.40%) PKI
9 6 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.55%) ARM Cortex
9 6 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.55%) Operational Technology
9 6 (2.55%) Replication
9 6 (2.55%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.13%) FlexPod
10 5 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.28%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.28%) Windows
2 47 (20.00%) Linux
3 41 (17.45%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.83%) VMS
6 6 (2.55%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.13%) CoreOS
8 4 (1.70%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.85%) Unix
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (37.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 84 (35.74%) CI/CD
3 79 (33.62%) DevOps
4 63 (26.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 59 (25.11%) Migration
6 49 (20.85%) Zero Trust
7 45 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
8 39 (16.60%) Roadmaps
9 36 (15.32%) High Availability
9 36 (15.32%) Load Balancing
10 35 (14.89%) Network Design
10 35 (14.89%) Observability
11 33 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (13.19%) Agile
12 31 (13.19%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (12.77%) Cloud Security
14 29 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (11.91%) ITIL
16 27 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 78 (33.19%) Python
2 47 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 38 (16.17%) Bash
4 20 (8.51%) Bicep
5 10 (4.26%) Java
6 6 (2.55%) Go
6 6 (2.55%) SQL
7 5 (2.13%) BeanShell
8 3 (1.28%) C#
9 1 (0.43%) Groovy
9 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (32.34%) Security Cleared
2 47 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.89%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (13.19%) DV Cleared
5 20 (8.51%) Azure Certification
6 19 (8.09%) Degree
7 18 (7.66%) AWS Certification
8 15 (6.38%) CCIE
9 14 (5.96%) CCNP
10 13 (5.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (4.68%) JNCIE
12 9 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.83%) CISSP
12 9 (3.83%) OCP
12 9 (3.83%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (2.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (2.13%) CCNA
16 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.66%) NIST
2 13 (5.53%) NCSC
3 10 (4.26%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.83%) GDPR
4 9 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.70%) GRC
7 3 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.43%) PSD2
8 1 (0.43%) QA
8 1 (0.43%) SEPA
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (21.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (19.57%) Active Directory
3 34 (14.47%) vSphere
4 31 (13.19%) VMware NSX
5 16 (6.81%) Docker
6 15 (6.38%) Hyper-V
7 14 (5.96%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (5.53%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (2.13%) NFS
10 2 (0.85%) KVM
10 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 104 (44.26%) Terraform
2 73 (31.06%) Ansible
3 54 (22.98%) Kubernetes
4 25 (10.64%) Grafana
5 18 (7.66%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.96%) vCenter Server
7 11 (4.68%) Argo
8 8 (3.40%) Istio
8 8 (3.40%) SCCM
9 7 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.13%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.70%) CASB
11 4 (1.70%) Rancher
12 3 (1.28%) vMotion
13 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.85%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.85%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.85%) SCOM
13 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 94 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 65 (27.66%) VMware
3 38 (16.17%) Palo Alto
4 33 (14.04%) F5
5 31 (13.19%) Cisco
6 20 (8.51%) Aruba
6 20 (8.51%) Red Hat
7 19 (8.09%) Arista
8 17 (7.23%) Google
9 15 (6.38%) Splunk
10 12 (5.11%) Fortinet
11 9 (3.83%) Pure Storage
12 8 (3.40%) Juniper
13 7 (2.98%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (2.98%) IBM
13 7 (2.98%) SolarWinds
14 6 (2.55%) CyberArk
14 6 (2.55%) NetApp
14 6 (2.55%) SAP
15 5 (2.13%) CheckPoint