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 7 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 262 309
Rank change year-on-year +7 +47 +66
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 148 80 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.57% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 1.80% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 62 54
10th Percentile £312 £460 £421
25th Percentile £425 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £618 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.98% +2.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £686 £684
90th Percentile £700 £750 £709
UK median daily rate £533 £604 £575
% change year-on-year -11.76% +4.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £75.30
25th Percentile £75.75 - £75.75
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £76.50
75th Percentile £77.25 - £77.25
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £76.50

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 5,950 4,456 5,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.55% 31.59% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,689 2,493 3,741
10th Percentile £204 £200 £210
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 469 242 398
10th Percentile £13.18 £18.18 £15.55
25th Percentile £17.23 £22.72 £18.54
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -26.97% +108.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £82.03 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £33.54 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.01% -16.15% +60.00%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 West +22 41 £600 -13.04% 13
North of England -26 37 £487 -28.38% 21
South East -19 35 £538 -10.23% 22
Midlands -26 32 £550 -15.38% 11
West Midlands -20 29 £550 -21.43% 4
Yorkshire -28 23 £476 -33.39% 7
Scotland +11 14 £450 -7.31% 6
North West -19 13 £543 -9.77% 11
East of England - 4 £503 - 11
East Midlands -27 3 £500 -9.09% 7
North East -15 1 £600 - 3
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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 13 (8.78%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.03%) Confluence
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.35%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.68%) Mule
4 1 (0.68%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Maximo
2 3 (2.03%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.68%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 97 (65.54%) Azure
2 64 (43.24%) AWS
3 29 (19.59%) OpenShift
4 24 (16.22%) GCP
5 17 (11.49%) Entra ID
6 15 (10.14%) GitHub
6 15 (10.14%) SaaS
7 12 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (6.76%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (6.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (6.76%) Serverless
9 9 (6.08%) Azure AKS
9 9 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (5.41%) IaaS
11 7 (4.73%) PaaS
11 7 (4.73%) Snowflake
12 6 (4.05%) Azure Stack
13 5 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (18.24%) Firewall
1 27 (18.24%) WAN
2 17 (11.49%) Network Security
2 17 (11.49%) VPN
3 16 (10.81%) BGP
4 14 (9.46%) LAN
4 14 (9.46%) MPLS
5 10 (6.76%) SD-WAN
6 8 (5.41%) OSPF
6 8 (5.41%) SNMP
6 8 (5.41%) TACACS
7 7 (4.73%) Wireless
8 6 (4.05%) DNS
8 6 (4.05%) NGFW
9 5 (3.38%) TCP/IP
10 3 (2.03%) VXLAN
11 2 (1.35%) DHCP
11 2 (1.35%) Internet
11 2 (1.35%) SAN
11 2 (1.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.03%) Big Data
4 3 (2.03%) Power BI
5 2 (1.35%) Metadata
5 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.35%) Tableau
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.68%) Impala
6 1 (0.68%) QlikView
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.05%) GitLab
3 3 (2.03%) Git
3 3 (2.03%) JIRA
4 2 (1.35%) Jaeger
General
1 64 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.78%) Finance
4 11 (7.43%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.38%) Retail
7 4 (2.70%) Banking
8 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Billing
9 2 (1.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Military
10 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (31.08%) Architect
2 24 (16.22%) Senior
3 17 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (8.78%) Data Engineer
6 12 (8.11%) Network Architect
7 10 (6.76%) Lead
7 10 (6.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.41%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.41%) IP Specialist
9 8 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Developer
10 7 (4.73%) Security Architect
11 6 (4.05%) Designer
11 6 (4.05%) IP Architect
11 6 (4.05%) IP Designer
11 6 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.38%) IT Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.11%) REST
2 11 (7.43%) Kafka
3 10 (6.76%) Keycloak
4 9 (6.08%) ARM Templates
5 8 (5.41%) NETCONF
5 8 (5.41%) YANG
6 6 (4.05%) JSON
7 5 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.35%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.35%) OpenConfig
9 2 (1.35%) React
9 2 (1.35%) RESTCONF
9 2 (1.35%) RESTful
9 2 (1.35%) Spring
9 2 (1.35%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.35%) Swagger
10 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.68%) MERN Stack
10 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.30%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.51%) Data Centre
3 13 (8.78%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (7.43%) Public Cloud
5 8 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.41%) Operational Technology
6 7 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.73%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.38%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.38%) Replication
8 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.03%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.35%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.35%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.35%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.35%) SCADA
10 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.35%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.81%) Windows
2 13 (8.78%) Linux
3 7 (4.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.35%) CentOS
4 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) VMS
5 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.49%) DevOps
2 36 (24.32%) CI/CD
3 31 (20.95%) Roadmaps
4 28 (18.92%) Containerisation
5 27 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (15.54%) Migration
9 21 (14.19%) Zero Trust
10 20 (13.51%) Agile
10 20 (13.51%) TOGAF
11 19 (12.84%) SIEM
12 18 (12.16%) Cloud Security
13 17 (11.49%) Microservices
13 17 (11.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (10.81%) High Availability
14 16 (10.81%) Identity Access Management
14 16 (10.81%) Network Architecture
14 16 (10.81%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.73%) Python
2 15 (10.14%) PowerShell
3 12 (8.11%) Go
4 11 (7.43%) Bicep
5 8 (5.41%) Bash
6 3 (2.03%) Java
6 3 (2.03%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.03%) SQL
7 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.68%) Scala
7 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (28.38%) Security Cleared
2 33 (22.30%) Azure Certification
3 31 (20.95%) SC Cleared
4 27 (18.24%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (12.16%) CCIE
6 16 (10.81%) AWS Certification
6 16 (10.81%) CISSP
7 14 (9.46%) JNCIE
8 13 (8.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (6.76%) DV Cleared
10 8 (5.41%) CISM
10 8 (5.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 6 (4.05%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (3.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (3.38%) CCNP
12 5 (3.38%) CCSP
12 5 (3.38%) Degree
13 3 (2.03%) CCNA
14 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (10.81%) NIST
3 8 (5.41%) GDPR
3 8 (5.41%) NIST 800
4 5 (3.38%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.38%) PSD2
5 4 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.35%) NCSC
6 2 (1.35%) QA
7 1 (0.68%) GMP
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) ITGC
7 1 (0.68%) PMO
7 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (16.89%) Docker
2 17 (11.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (8.78%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.11%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.05%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.70%) vSphere
7 3 (2.03%) KVM
7 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.68%) Ceph
8 1 (0.68%) QEMU
8 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (29.73%) Kubernetes
2 42 (28.38%) Terraform
3 35 (23.65%) Ansible
4 11 (7.43%) Grafana
5 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.70%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.03%) Argo
8 2 (1.35%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (1.35%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.35%) Kibana
8 2 (1.35%) Puppet
8 2 (1.35%) SCCM
9 1 (0.68%) Nessus
9 1 (0.68%) Podman
9 1 (0.68%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 36 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.54%) VMware
3 15 (10.14%) Cisco
4 11 (7.43%) Red Hat
5 9 (6.08%) F5
5 9 (6.08%) Fortinet
5 9 (6.08%) Juniper
5 9 (6.08%) Palo Alto
6 8 (5.41%) IBM
7 7 (4.73%) Greenplum
8 6 (4.05%) Google
8 6 (4.05%) Oracle
9 4 (2.70%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.70%) Zscaler
10 3 (2.03%) Citrix
10 3 (2.03%) Dell
10 3 (2.03%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.03%) Splunk
10 3 (2.03%) Veeam