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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 232 364
Rank change year-on-year -47 +132 -31
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 161 105 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.82% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 2.47% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 59 15
10th Percentile £315 £462 £418
25th Percentile £421 £538 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +0.84% +4.62%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £600
90th Percentile £650 £750 £657
UK median daily rate £525 £579 £550
% change year-on-year -9.29% +5.23% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £21.91 - -
25th Percentile £30.89 - -
Median hourly rate £46.68 - -
75th Percentile £62.39 - -
90th Percentile £71.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.68 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -53.32% - -

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 6,975 4,246 6,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.84% 33.24% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,343 2,631 3,668
10th Percentile £231 £205 £206
25th Percentile £375 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £595
90th Percentile £675 £669 £687
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 296 709
10th Percentile £15.75 £16.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.98 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +25.00% +17.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.24 £83.71 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +16.07% +24.44%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -39 57 £500 -6.89% 28
Yorkshire -31 42 £500 -30.07% 6
South East -52 41 £625 +4.17% 26
South West -12 30 £445 -28.23% 15
Midlands -48 29 £550 -15.38% 3
West Midlands -42 26 £550 -15.38% 2
North West -50 14 £500 -4.53% 16
Scotland +6 10 £550 -12.00% 5
East of England -33 4 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -35 3 £503 -17.96% 1
North East -20 1 £450 - 6
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 8 (4.97%) Confluence
2 5 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.86%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.24%) Apache
4 2 (1.24%) IIS
4 2 (1.24%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.24%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.73%) Maximo
2 3 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 97 (60.25%) Azure
2 66 (40.99%) AWS
3 38 (23.60%) OpenShift
4 27 (16.77%) GCP
5 24 (14.91%) GitHub
6 12 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.83%) SaaS
8 10 (6.21%) IaaS
8 10 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (5.59%) Azure AKS
9 9 (5.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (5.59%) Entra ID
10 8 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (4.35%) PaaS
12 5 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.11%) Nutanix
13 3 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.15%) Firewall
2 20 (12.42%) WAN
3 18 (11.18%) DNS
4 14 (8.70%) VPN
5 11 (6.83%) Network Security
6 10 (6.21%) BGP
6 10 (6.21%) LAN
6 10 (6.21%) SAN
7 8 (4.97%) VSAN
8 7 (4.35%) MPLS
8 7 (4.35%) VXLAN
9 6 (3.73%) SD-WAN
10 5 (3.11%) SNMP
11 4 (2.48%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (2.48%) NAS
11 4 (2.48%) OSPF
11 4 (2.48%) TACACS
11 4 (2.48%) TCP/IP
12 3 (1.86%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (1.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.24%) Metadata
4 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.24%) Power BI
4 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.62%) Big Data
5 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.62%) Firebird
5 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (11.80%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.59%) JIRA
3 6 (3.73%) Git
4 3 (1.86%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.62%) GitLab
General
1 66 (40.99%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.07%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.45%) Finance
4 11 (6.83%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.97%) Banking
7 5 (3.11%) Retail
8 2 (1.24%) Billing
8 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Legal
9 1 (0.62%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Police
9 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (28.57%) Architect
2 26 (16.15%) Senior
3 18 (11.18%) Lead
4 12 (7.45%) Data Engineer
4 12 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (7.45%) Technical Architect
5 10 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (6.21%) Network Architect
6 8 (4.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.97%) Desktop Engineer
6 8 (4.97%) Desktop Support
6 8 (4.97%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 8 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (4.97%) Network Engineer
6 8 (4.97%) Support Engineer
7 7 (4.35%) Senior Architect
7 7 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.11%) IP Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.66%) OpenTelemetry
2 14 (8.70%) Kafka
3 12 (7.45%) JSON
4 9 (5.59%) REST
5 8 (4.97%) ARM Templates
6 7 (4.35%) Apache Avro
6 7 (4.35%) Keycloak
6 7 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (3.73%) NETCONF
7 6 (3.73%) YANG
8 5 (3.11%) .NET
9 4 (2.48%) OpenConfig
9 4 (2.48%) RESTCONF
10 3 (1.86%) Loki
10 3 (1.86%) OAuth
10 3 (1.86%) RESTful
11 2 (1.24%) .NET Core
11 2 (1.24%) 802.1X
11 2 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.88%) Cloud Native
2 25 (15.53%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.97%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.35%) PKI
5 7 (4.35%) Replication
5 7 (4.35%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.11%) FlexPod
7 5 (3.11%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.86%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.24%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.24%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.12%) Linux
2 31 (19.25%) Windows
3 14 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (5.59%) VMS
6 6 (3.73%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (3.11%) CoreOS
8 4 (2.48%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.24%) CentOS
10 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.68%) CI/CD
1 51 (31.68%) DevOps
2 37 (22.98%) Containerisation
2 37 (22.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (21.74%) Migration
4 31 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (18.63%) Roadmaps
6 29 (18.01%) Disaster Recovery
7 25 (15.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (14.91%) RBAC
9 23 (14.29%) Agile
10 19 (11.80%) High Availability
11 18 (11.18%) Analytics
11 18 (11.18%) Load Balancing
11 18 (11.18%) Observability
12 17 (10.56%) Performance Optimisation
13 16 (9.94%) ETL
13 16 (9.94%) Zero Trust
14 15 (9.32%) DevSecOps
14 15 (9.32%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 51 (31.68%) Python
2 29 (18.01%) PowerShell
3 23 (14.29%) Bash
4 12 (7.45%) Go
5 10 (6.21%) Bicep
6 4 (2.48%) SQL
7 3 (1.86%) C#
7 3 (1.86%) Java
8 2 (1.24%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.53%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.66%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (13.04%) DV Cleared
5 19 (11.80%) Azure Certification
6 11 (6.83%) AWS Certification
7 10 (6.21%) CCIE
7 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (5.59%) CISSP
8 9 (5.59%) OCP
8 9 (5.59%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (4.97%) Degree
10 7 (4.35%) CCNP
11 6 (3.73%) CCNA
11 6 (3.73%) CISM
11 6 (3.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 6 (3.73%) JNCIE
12 4 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.56%) NIST
2 14 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.83%) GDPR
4 7 (4.35%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.73%) NIST 800
6 5 (3.11%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (3.11%) NCSC
7 4 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.86%) GRC
8 3 (1.86%) QA
9 2 (1.24%) PSD2
10 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (22.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (18.01%) VMware NSX
3 24 (14.91%) vSphere
4 23 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 22 (13.66%) Docker
6 10 (6.21%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.73%) Hyper-V
8 5 (3.11%) NFS
9 4 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.62%) Ceph
10 1 (0.62%) Firmware
10 1 (0.62%) KVM
10 1 (0.62%) QEMU
10 1 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 63 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 61 (37.89%) Terraform
3 42 (26.09%) Ansible
4 22 (13.66%) Grafana
5 16 (9.94%) vCenter Server
6 12 (7.45%) Argo
6 12 (7.45%) Prometheus
7 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (3.11%) SnapMirror
9 4 (2.48%) Istio
9 4 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.86%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.86%) Rancher
10 3 (1.86%) vMotion
10 3 (1.86%) vRealize
11 2 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.24%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.62%) Nessus
12 1 (0.62%) Podman
12 1 (0.62%) SCOM
Vendors
1 53 (32.92%) Microsoft
2 47 (29.19%) VMware
3 25 (15.53%) Red Hat
4 20 (12.42%) Cisco
5 19 (11.80%) Splunk
6 14 (8.70%) Palo Alto
7 11 (6.83%) Pure Storage
8 9 (5.59%) Google
8 9 (5.59%) IBM
9 8 (4.97%) F5
9 8 (4.97%) NetApp
10 7 (4.35%) CheckPoint
10 7 (4.35%) Fortinet
10 7 (4.35%) Juniper
11 5 (3.11%) Zscaler
12 4 (2.48%) Citrix
13 3 (1.86%) Dell
13 3 (1.86%) Oracle
13 3 (1.86%) Salesforce
13 3 (1.86%) SAP