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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 239 341
Rank change year-on-year -21 +102 -22
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 221 121 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.81% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.69% 2.41% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 67 21
10th Percentile £405 £436 £460
25th Percentile £475 £501 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £688
90th Percentile £704 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £568 £575 £544
% change year-on-year -1.30% +5.75% -9.38%
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 8,223 5,013 5,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.47% 33.58% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,014 2,979 3,418
10th Percentile £281 £225 £220
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £575 £600
90th Percentile £685 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 699 402 596
10th Percentile £15.72 £15.09 £12.15
25th Percentile £20.41 £18.51 £15.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.25 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +45.32% -26.67% -9.16%
75th Percentile £70.41 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.11%

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 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 24 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 24 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 -30 83 £515 -14.25% 34
South East -22 70 £615 +14.41% 37
Yorkshire -11 45 £500 -20.00% 10
Midlands -37 37 £500 -28.57% 6
West Midlands -47 32 £500 -28.57% 4
North West -46 31 £565 -5.83% 21
South West -41 18 £575 -17.86% 15
North East -25 13 £650 +8.33% 3
Scotland -4 11 £595 +8.18% 2
East of England -21 6 £518 -5.91% 3
East Midlands -10 5 £500 -0.50% 2
Wales - 2 £635 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 -
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 (4.07%) OpenStack
2 8 (3.62%) Confluence
3 7 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.26%) Apache
5 3 (1.36%) IIS
5 3 (1.36%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.36%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.90%) CloudStack
Applications
1 7 (3.17%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.45%) Maximo
3 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 142 (64.25%) Azure
2 117 (52.94%) AWS
3 38 (17.19%) GCP
4 31 (14.03%) OpenShift
5 27 (12.22%) SaaS
6 24 (10.86%) GitHub
7 23 (10.41%) OCI
8 22 (9.95%) Entra ID
9 14 (6.33%) IaaS
10 13 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (4.52%) PaaS
13 8 (3.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 7 (3.17%) Azure AKS
14 7 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (2.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 55 (24.89%) Firewall
2 46 (20.81%) WAN
3 42 (19.00%) DNS
4 40 (18.10%) BGP
5 28 (12.67%) SD-WAN
6 27 (12.22%) OSPF
7 25 (11.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 24 (10.86%) LAN
8 24 (10.86%) VPN
8 24 (10.86%) VXLAN
9 23 (10.41%) BIG-IP
10 22 (9.95%) Ethernet VPN
11 18 (8.14%) MPLS
11 18 (8.14%) TCP/IP
12 17 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (7.24%) DHCP
13 16 (7.24%) Network Security
14 12 (5.43%) WLAN
15 11 (4.98%) SAN
16 9 (4.07%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.45%) Big Data
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) Firebird
4 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.45%) GIS
4 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (12.22%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.50%) GitLab
3 17 (7.69%) Git
4 9 (4.07%) JIRA
5 5 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.81%) Jaeger
General
1 66 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.57%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.24%) Finance
4 13 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (5.43%) Banking
6 7 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.81%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Military
8 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Retail
9 1 (0.45%) Advertising
9 1 (0.45%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Police
9 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (33.48%) Architect
2 49 (22.17%) Senior
3 37 (16.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (10.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (8.60%) Network Architect
5 19 (8.60%) Technical Architect
6 18 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (7.69%) Network Engineer
8 16 (7.24%) Lead
8 16 (7.24%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.98%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.17%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.71%) Consultant
13 6 (2.71%) Enterprise Architect
13 6 (2.71%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.41%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (5.43%) JSON
3 11 (4.98%) NETCONF
3 11 (4.98%) YANG
4 9 (4.07%) Kafka
5 8 (3.62%) ARM Templates
5 8 (3.62%) REST
6 7 (3.17%) Apache Avro
6 7 (3.17%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (2.71%) .NET
7 6 (2.71%) OpenConfig
7 6 (2.71%) RESTCONF
8 5 (2.26%) LDAP
8 5 (2.26%) SailPoint
9 4 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.81%) Loki
9 4 (1.81%) OAuth
9 4 (1.81%) OpenID
10 3 (1.36%) Middleware
10 3 (1.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 50 (22.62%) Data Centre
3 17 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 16 (7.24%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.88%) Private Cloud
6 11 (4.98%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.62%) PKI
9 6 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.71%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.71%) Replication
9 6 (2.71%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.26%) ARM Cortex
10 5 (2.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.26%) FlexPod
10 5 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.26%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.36%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (19.00%) Linux
2 41 (18.55%) Windows
3 32 (14.48%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.07%) VMS
6 6 (2.71%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.26%) CoreOS
8 4 (1.81%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.90%) Unix
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (38.01%) CI/CD
2 79 (35.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 73 (33.03%) DevOps
4 59 (26.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 54 (24.43%) Migration
6 44 (19.91%) Zero Trust
7 41 (18.55%) Disaster Recovery
8 38 (17.19%) High Availability
9 37 (16.74%) Load Balancing
10 36 (16.29%) Roadmaps
11 35 (15.84%) Network Design
12 31 (14.03%) Observability
13 30 (13.57%) Agile
13 30 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (12.22%) Containerisation
14 27 (12.22%) RBAC
15 25 (11.31%) Cloud Security
15 25 (11.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 24 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (33.94%) Python
2 38 (17.19%) PowerShell
3 35 (15.84%) Bash
4 16 (7.24%) Bicep
5 10 (4.52%) Java
6 6 (2.71%) Go
6 6 (2.71%) SQL
7 5 (2.26%) BeanShell
8 3 (1.36%) C#
9 1 (0.45%) Groovy
9 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (30.32%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 34 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (13.12%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.69%) Degree
6 16 (7.24%) AWS Certification
7 15 (6.79%) Azure Certification
7 15 (6.79%) CCIE
8 14 (6.33%) CCNP
9 11 (4.98%) JNCIE
9 11 (4.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (4.07%) OCP
10 9 (4.07%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.17%) CISSP
12 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.71%) CCNA
14 5 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
15 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.69%) NIST
2 12 (5.43%) NCSC
3 10 (4.52%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.62%) GDPR
4 8 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.81%) GRC
7 3 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.45%) PSD2
8 1 (0.45%) QA
8 1 (0.45%) SEPA
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (20.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (18.10%) Active Directory
3 34 (15.38%) vSphere
4 30 (13.57%) VMware NSX
5 13 (5.88%) Docker
5 13 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (4.52%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.26%) NFS
9 2 (0.90%) KVM
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 96 (43.44%) Terraform
2 70 (31.67%) Ansible
3 52 (23.53%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.76%) Grafana
5 18 (8.14%) Prometheus
6 15 (6.79%) vCenter Server
7 13 (5.88%) Argo
8 7 (3.17%) SCCM
9 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.26%) Istio
10 5 (2.26%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.81%) CASB
11 4 (1.81%) Rancher
12 2 (0.90%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.90%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.90%) SCOM
12 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.90%) vMotion
12 2 (0.90%) vRealize
12 2 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 83 (37.56%) Microsoft
2 58 (26.24%) VMware
3 36 (16.29%) Palo Alto
4 33 (14.93%) F5
5 31 (14.03%) Cisco
6 21 (9.50%) Red Hat
7 19 (8.60%) Arista
7 19 (8.60%) Aruba
7 19 (8.60%) Splunk
8 15 (6.79%) Google
9 12 (5.43%) Fortinet
10 11 (4.98%) Pure Storage
11 8 (3.62%) Juniper
12 7 (3.17%) CheckPoint
12 7 (3.17%) IBM
12 7 (3.17%) SolarWinds
13 6 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (2.71%) NetApp
13 6 (2.71%) SAP
14 5 (2.26%) CyberArk