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 18 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 246 360
Rank change year-on-year -28 +114 -33
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 169 94 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.73% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.36% 2.19% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 46 10
10th Percentile £330 £463 £486
25th Percentile £422 £526 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% -3.77% +3.91%
75th Percentile £606 £636 £608
90th Percentile £673 £690 £696
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.91% +4.55% -8.33%
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 £16.87 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -83.14% - -

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 7,152 4,291 5,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.25% 33.16% 28.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,415 2,628 3,536
10th Percentile £263 £205 £210
25th Percentile £393 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £587 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.43% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 304 722
10th Percentile £15.74 £16.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.62 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.54 £30.39 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.43% +1.30% +36.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.64 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £83.35 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year +33.82% +0.83% +40.09%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -37 72 £500 -4.53% 27
Yorkshire -25 43 £500 -26.47% 6
South East -46 42 £600 +1.48% 19
South West -9 25 £244 -60.69% 14
Midlands -50 24 £515 -15.92% 8
North West -33 23 £550 +5.26% 16
West Midlands -44 21 £538 -17.31% 8
Scotland +4 8 £550 - 10
North East -19 8 £550 - 5
East of England -32 4 £530 -3.64% 3
East Midlands -27 3 £503 -12.61%
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 9 (5.33%) Confluence
2 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.37%) Apache
3 4 (2.37%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.18%) CloudStack
4 2 (1.18%) IIS
4 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Maximo
2 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 107 (63.31%) Azure
2 83 (49.11%) AWS
3 36 (21.30%) OpenShift
4 24 (14.20%) GCP
5 19 (11.24%) GitHub
6 14 (8.28%) OCI
7 12 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.10%) SaaS
8 10 (5.92%) IaaS
9 9 (5.33%) Azure AKS
9 9 (5.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.55%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (3.55%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.96%) Nutanix
13 4 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.37%) PaaS
14 3 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.30%) Firewall
2 31 (18.34%) WAN
3 23 (13.61%) BGP
4 19 (11.24%) DNS
5 18 (10.65%) VXLAN
6 17 (10.06%) SD-WAN
7 16 (9.47%) OSPF
8 15 (8.88%) Ethernet VPN
8 15 (8.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (7.69%) BIG-IP
10 12 (7.10%) LAN
10 12 (7.10%) VPN
11 11 (6.51%) SAN
12 10 (5.92%) Network Security
13 8 (4.73%) MPLS
13 8 (4.73%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (4.14%) VSAN
14 7 (4.14%) WLAN
15 5 (2.96%) NAS
16 4 (2.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.78%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.78%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.59%) Big Data
4 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.59%) Firebird
4 1 (0.59%) Metadata
4 1 (0.59%) Power BI
4 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (12.43%) Jenkins
2 13 (7.69%) GitLab
3 10 (5.92%) JIRA
4 8 (4.73%) Git
5 4 (2.37%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.06%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.51%) Finance
4 9 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.33%) Banking
4 9 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.78%) Retail
6 2 (1.18%) Billing
7 1 (0.59%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.59%) Legal
7 1 (0.59%) Military
7 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (26.04%) Architect
2 35 (20.71%) Senior
3 21 (12.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (8.88%) Lead
5 14 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (7.10%) Network Architect
6 12 (7.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.10%) Technical Architect
7 11 (6.51%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Desktop Support
9 8 (4.73%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Senior Architect
9 8 (4.73%) Support Engineer
10 7 (4.14%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (7.10%) JSON
3 10 (5.92%) REST
4 9 (5.33%) Kafka
5 7 (4.14%) Apache Avro
5 7 (4.14%) NETCONF
5 7 (4.14%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (4.14%) YANG
6 6 (3.55%) .NET
6 6 (3.55%) ARM Templates
7 4 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.37%) Loki
8 3 (1.78%) OAuth
8 3 (1.78%) OpenConfig
8 3 (1.78%) RESTCONF
8 3 (1.78%) RESTful
9 2 (1.18%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.18%) Middleware
9 2 (1.18%) OpenID
9 2 (1.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.49%) Cloud Native
2 37 (21.89%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.33%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.14%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.14%) PKI
7 6 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.55%) Replication
7 6 (3.55%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.96%) FlexPod
9 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.18%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.18%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.30%) Linux
1 36 (21.30%) Windows
2 18 (10.65%) Windows Server
3 9 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (5.33%) VMS
4 6 (3.55%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (2.96%) CoreOS
5 5 (2.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.59%) CentOS
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 57 (33.73%) DevOps
3 50 (29.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (22.49%) Migration
6 32 (18.93%) Containerisation
6 32 (18.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 31 (18.34%) Load Balancing
7 31 (18.34%) Roadmaps
8 30 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (15.98%) High Availability
10 24 (14.20%) Agile
10 24 (14.20%) Network Design
11 22 (13.02%) RBAC
11 22 (13.02%) Zero Trust
12 21 (12.43%) Observability
13 19 (11.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 17 (10.06%) Microservices
14 17 (10.06%) Performance Optimisation
15 16 (9.47%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 59 (34.91%) Python
2 31 (18.34%) PowerShell
3 23 (13.61%) Bash
4 11 (6.51%) Bicep
5 8 (4.73%) Go
6 4 (2.37%) SQL
7 3 (1.78%) C#
7 3 (1.78%) Java
8 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.57%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.61%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (12.43%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 11 (6.51%) AWS Certification
7 10 (5.92%) CCIE
8 9 (5.33%) CCNP
8 9 (5.33%) OCP
8 9 (5.33%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (4.73%) Degree
10 7 (4.14%) CCNA
10 7 (4.14%) JNCIE
10 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.55%) CISSP
11 6 (3.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (2.96%) CISM
12 5 (2.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.28%) NIST
2 10 (5.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.73%) GDPR
4 6 (3.55%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.96%) NCSC
5 5 (2.96%) NIST 800
6 4 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.37%) GRC
7 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.18%) QA
8 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (24.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (16.57%) vSphere
3 26 (15.38%) VMware NSX
4 25 (14.79%) Active Directory
5 13 (7.69%) Docker
6 11 (6.51%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (4.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.96%) NFS
8 5 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 72 (42.60%) Terraform
2 58 (34.32%) Kubernetes
3 51 (30.18%) Ansible
4 25 (14.79%) Grafana
5 15 (8.88%) Prometheus
5 15 (8.88%) vCenter Server
6 11 (6.51%) Argo
7 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.96%) Istio
8 5 (2.96%) SnapMirror
9 4 (2.37%) Rancher
10 3 (1.78%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.78%) vMotion
10 3 (1.78%) vRealize
11 2 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.18%) Check_MK
11 2 (1.18%) SCOM
11 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.59%) Nessus
Vendors
1 53 (31.36%) Microsoft
2 49 (28.99%) VMware
3 23 (13.61%) Palo Alto
3 23 (13.61%) Red Hat
4 20 (11.83%) Cisco
5 19 (11.24%) F5
5 19 (11.24%) Splunk
6 14 (8.28%) Aruba
7 12 (7.10%) Arista
8 11 (6.51%) Pure Storage
9 9 (5.33%) Google
10 8 (4.73%) CheckPoint
10 8 (4.73%) Fortinet
10 8 (4.73%) IBM
11 7 (4.14%) NetApp
12 6 (3.55%) Juniper
13 5 (2.96%) Citrix
14 4 (2.37%) SAP
15 3 (1.78%) Commvault
15 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow