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 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 263 374
Rank change year-on-year +2 +111 -41
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 203 96 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.71% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 2.10% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 48 13
10th Percentile £393 £450 £460
25th Percentile £463 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +5.31%
75th Percentile £642 £625 £611
90th Percentile £700 £758 £755
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
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 7,793 4,565 6,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.93% 33.82% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,749 2,760 3,551
10th Percentile £281 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -1.04% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 674 350 760
10th Percentile £15.72 £15.31 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £14.17
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.63 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +39.00% -11.29% +62.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.41 £36.00
% change year-on-year +31.13% -9.97% +60.11%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -40 77 £514 -2.05% 15
South East -29 54 £625 +8.70% 24
Yorkshire -21 42 £500 -20.00% 8
Midlands -33 34 £500 -35.48% 6
West Midlands -37 30 £500 -44.44% 4
North West -41 28 £565 +18.95% 7
South West -15 26 £498 -19.76% 9
North East -28 13 £650 +8.33%
Scotland -7 12 £595 +8.18% 4
East of England -30 5 £530 -3.64% 5
East Midlands -16 4 £500 -13.04% 2
Wales - 2 £635 - 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 (4.43%) Confluence
2 8 (3.94%) OpenStack
3 7 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.46%) Apache
5 3 (1.48%) IIS
5 3 (1.48%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.48%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.99%) CloudStack
Applications
1 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Maximo
2 3 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 128 (63.05%) Azure
2 106 (52.22%) AWS
3 32 (15.76%) OpenShift
4 31 (15.27%) GCP
5 25 (12.32%) SaaS
6 20 (9.85%) OCI
7 17 (8.37%) GitHub
8 13 (6.40%) Entra ID
8 13 (6.40%) IaaS
9 12 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.43%) Azure AKS
10 9 (4.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (3.94%) PaaS
12 7 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.97%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 48 (23.65%) Firewall
2 43 (21.18%) WAN
3 37 (18.23%) BGP
4 31 (15.27%) DNS
5 27 (13.30%) SD-WAN
6 25 (12.32%) OSPF
7 24 (11.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 23 (11.33%) VXLAN
9 22 (10.84%) BIG-IP
10 21 (10.34%) Ethernet VPN
10 21 (10.34%) LAN
11 19 (9.36%) VPN
12 15 (7.39%) MPLS
13 14 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (6.40%) Network Security
15 12 (5.91%) SAN
15 12 (5.91%) WLAN
16 8 (3.94%) DHCP
16 8 (3.94%) VSAN
17 7 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.48%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.49%) Big Data
4 1 (0.49%) Firebird
4 1 (0.49%) Metadata
4 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (10.84%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.87%) GitLab
3 13 (6.40%) Git
4 10 (4.93%) JIRA
5 4 (1.97%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.81%) Public Sector
3 12 (5.91%) Documentation Skills
3 12 (5.91%) Finance
4 9 (4.43%) Banking
5 7 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.48%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.99%) Retail
8 1 (0.49%) Advertising
8 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.49%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.49%) Legal
8 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.49%) Military
8 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Police
8 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (30.05%) Architect
2 43 (21.18%) Senior
3 34 (16.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (9.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (8.37%) Network Architect
6 16 (7.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (7.88%) Technical Architect
7 15 (7.39%) Lead
8 14 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (6.40%) Network Engineer
10 10 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.93%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.45%) IP Architect
12 7 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.96%) Lead Architect
14 5 (2.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (5.91%) JSON
3 10 (4.93%) NETCONF
3 10 (4.93%) REST
3 10 (4.93%) YANG
4 7 (3.45%) Apache Avro
4 7 (3.45%) Kafka
4 7 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (2.96%) .NET
5 6 (2.96%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.46%) LDAP
6 5 (2.46%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.97%) Loki
7 4 (1.97%) OAuth
7 4 (1.97%) OpenID
8 3 (1.48%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.48%) Middleware
8 3 (1.48%) RESTCONF
8 3 (1.48%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 46 (22.66%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (6.40%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.40%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.43%) Private Cloud
5 8 (3.94%) PKI
6 6 (2.96%) Replication
6 6 (2.96%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.46%) FlexPod
7 5 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.48%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Clustering
10 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.72%) Windows
2 33 (16.26%) Linux
3 24 (11.82%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.94%) VMS
6 6 (2.96%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.46%) CoreOS
8 4 (1.97%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.48%) CI/CD
2 69 (33.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (32.51%) DevOps
4 55 (27.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 50 (24.63%) Migration
6 37 (18.23%) Zero Trust
7 36 (17.73%) Load Balancing
8 35 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 35 (17.24%) Network Design
8 35 (17.24%) Roadmaps
9 34 (16.75%) High Availability
10 27 (13.30%) Agile
10 27 (13.30%) Containerisation
10 27 (13.30%) RBAC
11 26 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.82%) Network Architecture
12 24 (11.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 22 (10.84%) Observability
13 22 (10.84%) TOGAF
14 19 (9.36%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.00%) Python
2 32 (15.76%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.33%) Bash
4 11 (5.42%) Bicep
5 10 (4.93%) Java
6 6 (2.96%) Go
7 5 (2.46%) BeanShell
7 5 (2.46%) SQL
8 3 (1.48%) C#
9 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (26.60%) Security Cleared
2 34 (16.75%) SC Cleared
3 31 (15.27%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (13.30%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 13 (6.40%) Azure Certification
6 13 (6.40%) CCIE
7 12 (5.91%) CCNP
8 10 (4.93%) CISSP
8 10 (4.93%) Degree
8 10 (4.93%) JNCIE
8 10 (4.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (4.43%) OCP
9 9 (4.43%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.45%) CCNA
12 6 (2.96%) CISM
13 5 (2.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 3 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.87%) NIST
2 12 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (5.42%) NCSC
4 9 (4.43%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.94%) GDPR
6 5 (2.46%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.97%) GRC
8 3 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.99%) QA
10 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (23.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (16.75%) Active Directory
3 33 (16.26%) vSphere
4 30 (14.78%) VMware NSX
5 13 (6.40%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (5.42%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (4.93%) Docker
7 10 (4.93%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.46%) NFS
9 2 (0.99%) KVM
9 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 84 (41.38%) Terraform
2 60 (29.56%) Ansible
3 49 (24.14%) Kubernetes
4 25 (12.32%) Grafana
5 16 (7.88%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.39%) vCenter Server
7 11 (5.42%) Argo
8 5 (2.46%) Istio
8 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.46%) SnapMirror
9 4 (1.97%) Rancher
10 3 (1.48%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.48%) vMotion
10 3 (1.48%) vRealize
11 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.99%) CASB
11 2 (0.99%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.99%) SCCM
11 2 (0.99%) SCOM
11 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (35.47%) Microsoft
2 58 (28.57%) VMware
3 33 (16.26%) Palo Alto
4 28 (13.79%) F5
5 25 (12.32%) Cisco
5 25 (12.32%) Red Hat
6 19 (9.36%) Arista
6 19 (9.36%) Aruba
6 19 (9.36%) Splunk
7 11 (5.42%) Google
7 11 (5.42%) IBM
7 11 (5.42%) Pure Storage
8 8 (3.94%) Fortinet
9 7 (3.45%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.45%) NetApp
10 6 (2.96%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.46%) CyberArk
11 5 (2.46%) Juniper
12 4 (1.97%) Citrix
12 4 (1.97%) SAP