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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 246 354
Rank change year-on-year -21 +108 -24
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 210 112 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.77% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.57% 2.29% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 62 18
10th Percentile £400 £451 £460
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £608
90th Percentile £700 £700 £721
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -2.17% +6.98% -10.42%
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 8,169 4,889 6,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.42% 33.40% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,984 2,942 3,587
10th Percentile £280 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £592 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.62% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 686 381 735
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.13 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £14.42
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.49 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.60% -12.53% +2.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.45 £78.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +41.81% -13.94% +30.99%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -48 79 £517 -13.86% 31
South East -20 62 £600 +4.35% 26
Yorkshire -18 43 £500 -20.00% 6
Midlands -40 36 £500 -28.57% 2
West Midlands -46 31 £500 -28.57% 1
North West -45 29 £558 -3.04% 25
South West -27 20 £550 -11.29% 19
North East -23 13 £650 +8.33%
Scotland 0 12 £595 +8.18% 9
East of England -25 6 £518 -5.91% 2
East Midlands -11 5 £500 -13.04% 1
Wales - 2 £635 - 3
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 10 (4.76%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.29%) Confluence
3 7 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.38%) Apache
5 3 (1.43%) IIS
5 3 (1.43%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.43%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.95%) CloudStack
Applications
1 6 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 132 (62.86%) Azure
2 113 (53.81%) AWS
3 35 (16.67%) GCP
4 29 (13.81%) OpenShift
5 27 (12.86%) SaaS
6 21 (10.00%) GitHub
7 20 (9.52%) OCI
8 14 (6.67%) Entra ID
8 14 (6.67%) IaaS
9 13 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.76%) PaaS
11 8 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.86%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 4 (1.90%) Nutanix
15 4 (1.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (23.81%) Firewall
2 47 (22.38%) WAN
3 40 (19.05%) BGP
4 33 (15.71%) DNS
5 28 (13.33%) SD-WAN
6 26 (12.38%) OSPF
7 25 (11.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 25 (11.90%) LAN
8 23 (10.95%) BIG-IP
8 23 (10.95%) VXLAN
9 21 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
10 18 (8.57%) MPLS
11 16 (7.62%) VPN
11 16 (7.62%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (7.14%) Network Security
13 12 (5.71%) SAN
13 12 (5.71%) WLAN
14 10 (4.76%) TCP/IP
15 8 (3.81%) DHCP
15 8 (3.81%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.43%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.95%) 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 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 19 (9.05%) GitLab
3 13 (6.19%) Git
4 10 (4.76%) JIRA
5 4 (1.90%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.67%) Finance
4 13 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.76%) Banking
6 6 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.43%) Retail
9 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Advertising
10 1 (0.48%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.48%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Police
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (33.33%) Architect
2 43 (20.48%) Senior
3 34 (16.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (9.52%) Network Architect
5 19 (9.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (8.57%) Technical Architect
7 17 (8.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (7.62%) Lead
8 16 (7.62%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (6.19%) Network Engineer
10 10 (4.76%) Senior Architect
11 9 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.33%) IP Architect
13 7 (3.33%) Lead Architect
14 6 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (2.86%) Security Architect
15 5 (2.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.95%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (5.71%) JSON
2 12 (5.71%) NETCONF
2 12 (5.71%) YANG
3 10 (4.76%) REST
4 8 (3.81%) Kafka
5 7 (3.33%) Apache Avro
5 7 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (2.86%) .NET
7 5 (2.38%) LDAP
7 5 (2.38%) OpenConfig
7 5 (2.38%) RESTCONF
7 5 (2.38%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.90%) Loki
8 4 (1.90%) OAuth
8 4 (1.90%) OpenID
9 3 (1.43%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.43%) Middleware
9 3 (1.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.76%) Cloud Native
2 51 (24.29%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.19%) Onboarding
5 12 (5.71%) Private Cloud
6 9 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.81%) PKI
8 6 (2.86%) Replication
8 6 (2.86%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.38%) FlexPod
9 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.90%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.43%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.62%) Windows
2 34 (16.19%) Linux
3 24 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.29%) VMS
6 6 (2.86%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.38%) CoreOS
8 4 (1.90%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (36.19%) CI/CD
2 72 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 68 (32.38%) DevOps
4 52 (24.76%) Migration
5 51 (24.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (20.48%) Zero Trust
7 38 (18.10%) Disaster Recovery
8 37 (17.62%) Network Design
8 37 (17.62%) Roadmaps
9 36 (17.14%) High Availability
9 36 (17.14%) Load Balancing
10 29 (13.81%) Agile
11 28 (13.33%) Containerisation
12 27 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (11.90%) Network Architecture
13 25 (11.90%) Observability
13 25 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (10.95%) RBAC
15 20 (9.52%) Cloud Security
16 19 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 74 (35.24%) Python
2 34 (16.19%) PowerShell
3 26 (12.38%) Bash
4 10 (4.76%) Java
5 8 (3.81%) Bicep
6 6 (2.86%) Go
6 6 (2.86%) SQL
7 5 (2.38%) BeanShell
8 3 (1.43%) C#
9 1 (0.48%) Groovy
9 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 36 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (15.71%) SC Cleared
4 23 (10.95%) DV Cleared
5 16 (7.62%) CCIE
6 15 (7.14%) AWS Certification
7 13 (6.19%) CCNP
7 13 (6.19%) Degree
8 12 (5.71%) JNCIE
9 11 (5.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (4.76%) Azure Certification
11 9 (4.29%) OCP
11 9 (4.29%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.33%) CCNA
12 7 (3.33%) CISSP
13 5 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.62%) NIST
2 12 (5.71%) NCSC
3 10 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.81%) GDPR
5 7 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.90%) GRC
7 3 (1.43%) 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 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (16.19%) Active Directory
3 33 (15.71%) vSphere
4 31 (14.76%) VMware NSX
5 13 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (5.71%) Docker
7 11 (5.24%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (4.76%) Hyper-V
9 5 (2.38%) NFS
10 2 (0.95%) KVM
10 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 84 (40.00%) Terraform
2 64 (30.48%) Ansible
3 49 (23.33%) Kubernetes
4 26 (12.38%) Grafana
5 17 (8.10%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.14%) vCenter Server
7 12 (5.71%) Argo
8 5 (2.38%) Istio
8 5 (2.38%) SnapMirror
9 4 (1.90%) CASB
9 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.90%) Rancher
10 3 (1.43%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.43%) vMotion
10 3 (1.43%) vRealize
11 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.95%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.95%) SCCM
11 2 (0.95%) SCOM
11 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (34.76%) Microsoft
2 60 (28.57%) VMware
3 34 (16.19%) Palo Alto
4 31 (14.76%) F5
5 28 (13.33%) Cisco
6 20 (9.52%) Red Hat
7 19 (9.05%) Arista
7 19 (9.05%) Aruba
7 19 (9.05%) Splunk
8 14 (6.67%) Google
9 11 (5.24%) Pure Storage
10 10 (4.76%) Fortinet
11 7 (3.33%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.33%) Juniper
11 7 (3.33%) NetApp
11 7 (3.33%) SolarWinds
12 6 (2.86%) IBM
13 5 (2.38%) CyberArk
14 4 (1.90%) Citrix
14 4 (1.90%) SAP