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 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 228 332
Rank change year-on-year -22 +104 -10
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 235 141 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.85% 0.93% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.77% 2.69% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 78 30
10th Percentile £413 £448 £460
25th Percentile £501 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £600 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +5.73% +3.18%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £697
90th Percentile £725 £731 £741
UK median daily rate £580 £575 £560
% change year-on-year +0.87% +2.68% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £61.74 - -
25th Percentile £63.06 - -
Median hourly rate £69.61 - -
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £84.86 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -13.26% - -

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 8,473 5,249 5,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.68% 34.44% 28.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,993 3,127 3,003
10th Percentile £281 £220 £213
25th Percentile £403 £363 £390
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 £660 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 861 409 441
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.22 £18.27
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -42.86% +15.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -34.44% +4.65%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 90 £615 +14.41% 56
North of England -60 69 £571 -4.79% 43
Midlands -43 35 £500 -28.57% 25
Yorkshire -16 34 £563 -4.17% 17
North West -58 29 £575 -4.17% 22
West Midlands -39 28 £500 -28.57% 13
South West -40 25 £651 -6.96% 23
North East -36 12 £650 +8.33% 4
Scotland -17 10 £595 +10.70% 15
East Midlands -11 7 £478 +2.14% 12
East of England -27 6 £505 -6.48% 8
Wales - 3 £670 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 5
Channel Islands - 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 (3.83%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.98%) Apache
2 7 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.70%) Confluence
4 3 (1.28%) IIS
4 3 (1.28%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.28%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.85%) CloudStack
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.70%) 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%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.43%) Maximo
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 163 (69.36%) Azure
2 112 (47.66%) AWS
3 37 (15.74%) GCP
4 30 (12.77%) Entra ID
4 30 (12.77%) SaaS
5 25 (10.64%) OCI
6 23 (9.79%) OpenShift
7 20 (8.51%) GitHub
7 20 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (8.09%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (4.68%) IaaS
12 9 (3.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 9 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (3.83%) Serverless
13 8 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.40%) PaaS
13 8 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.98%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (27.23%) Firewall
2 55 (23.40%) DNS
3 41 (17.45%) WAN
4 38 (16.17%) BGP
5 30 (12.77%) VPN
6 29 (12.34%) DHCP
7 26 (11.06%) SD-WAN
8 25 (10.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 25 (10.64%) OSPF
9 23 (9.79%) BIG-IP
9 23 (9.79%) LAN
9 23 (9.79%) TCP/IP
10 22 (9.36%) VXLAN
11 21 (8.94%) Ethernet VPN
12 17 (7.23%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (6.38%) MPLS
14 14 (5.96%) Network Security
15 13 (5.53%) VSAN
16 12 (5.11%) WLAN
17 7 (2.98%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.28%) Power BI
3 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.85%) EDRMS
3 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
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%) 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 27 (11.49%) GitLab
2 23 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.96%) Git
4 4 (1.70%) JIRA
4 4 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.85%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.43%) Maven
6 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.34%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.66%) Finance
5 16 (6.81%) Aerospace
6 14 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.83%) Banking
8 7 (2.98%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.13%) Retail
10 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.28%) Law
11 3 (1.28%) Military
11 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Legal
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Billing
13 1 (0.43%) Marketing
13 1 (0.43%) Police
13 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (34.04%) Architect
2 67 (28.51%) Senior
3 44 (18.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (12.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (8.94%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (8.51%) Network Engineer
7 20 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (7.66%) Lead
9 17 (7.23%) Network Architect
10 16 (6.81%) Technical Architect
11 14 (5.96%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (4.68%) Senior Architect
13 10 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.26%) Technical Leader
14 9 (3.83%) Enterprise Architect
15 8 (3.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (3.40%) Consultant
15 8 (3.40%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (42.55%) Terraform
2 17 (7.23%) ARM Templates
3 9 (3.83%) NETCONF
3 9 (3.83%) YANG
4 7 (2.98%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (2.98%) REST
5 6 (2.55%) JSON
5 6 (2.55%) SailPoint
6 5 (2.13%) LDAP
6 5 (2.13%) OAuth
7 4 (1.70%) .NET
7 4 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.70%) Kafka
7 4 (1.70%) OpenConfig
7 4 (1.70%) OpenID
7 4 (1.70%) RESTCONF
7 4 (1.70%) SAML
8 2 (0.85%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.85%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.85%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.98%) Cloud Native
2 47 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 25 (10.64%) Public Cloud
4 19 (8.09%) Onboarding
5 18 (7.66%) Private Cloud
6 17 (7.23%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.40%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.98%) ARM Cortex
9 6 (2.55%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.55%) Operational Technology
9 6 (2.55%) PKI
9 6 (2.55%) Replication
10 5 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.70%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.28%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.83%) Windows
2 51 (21.70%) Windows Server
3 42 (17.87%) Linux
4 6 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.70%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.70%) VMS
6 3 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 86 (36.60%) DevOps
3 79 (33.62%) CI/CD
4 67 (28.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 57 (24.26%) Migration
6 53 (22.55%) Zero Trust
7 47 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 46 (19.57%) Disaster Recovery
9 40 (17.02%) Load Balancing
9 40 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (16.17%) Platform Engineering
11 37 (15.74%) Agile
11 37 (15.74%) Technical Leadership
12 35 (14.89%) High Availability
13 34 (14.47%) ITIL
14 33 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
15 32 (13.62%) Cloud Security
15 32 (13.62%) Network Design
16 31 (13.19%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 67 (28.51%) Python
2 52 (22.13%) PowerShell
3 40 (17.02%) Bash
4 25 (10.64%) Bicep
5 11 (4.68%) Java
6 5 (2.13%) BeanShell
7 4 (1.70%) SQL
8 3 (1.28%) Go
9 2 (0.85%) C#
9 2 (0.85%) Groovy
9 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (36.60%) Security Cleared
2 59 (25.11%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.19%) DV Cleared
4 30 (12.77%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (9.36%) Azure Certification
6 21 (8.94%) Degree
7 17 (7.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 14 (5.96%) AWS Certification
9 12 (5.11%) CCIE
9 12 (5.11%) CCNP
10 11 (4.68%) CISSP
11 9 (3.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.83%) JNCIE
11 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.55%) VCAP
14 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
15 3 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.66%) NIST
2 12 (5.11%) NCSC
3 10 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.55%) GDPR
4 6 (2.55%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.85%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.43%) PSD2
7 1 (0.43%) SEPA
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (22.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 31 (13.19%) VMware NSX
4 30 (12.77%) vSphere
5 19 (8.09%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (6.81%) Docker
6 16 (6.81%) Hyper-V
7 10 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.85%) KVM
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (30.64%) Ansible
2 49 (20.85%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.94%) Grafana
4 15 (6.38%) vCenter Server
5 13 (5.53%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.83%) SCCM
7 8 (3.40%) Argo
8 6 (2.55%) Istio
8 6 (2.55%) PowerCLI
9 5 (2.13%) SCOM
10 3 (1.28%) CASB
10 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.28%) vMotion
11 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.85%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.85%) vRealize
11 2 (0.85%) VxRail
12 1 (0.43%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 104 (44.26%) Microsoft
2 66 (28.09%) VMware
3 34 (14.47%) Palo Alto
4 31 (13.19%) F5
5 25 (10.64%) Cisco
6 20 (8.51%) Aruba
7 19 (8.09%) Arista
8 14 (5.96%) Google
9 13 (5.53%) Red Hat
10 8 (3.40%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (3.40%) Fortinet
10 8 (3.40%) Splunk
11 7 (2.98%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.98%) IBM
12 6 (2.55%) Pure Storage
12 6 (2.55%) SAP
13 5 (2.13%) Juniper
13 5 (2.13%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.13%) SolarWinds
14 4 (1.70%) SaltStack