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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 324 326
Rank change year-on-year +92 +2 +130
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 137 54 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.30% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.56% 1.04% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 35 67
10th Percentile £419 £460 £342
25th Percentile £500 £491 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £666
90th Percentile £708 £738 £718
UK median daily rate £575 £560 £575
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £24.70
25th Percentile - - £27.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.86 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 5,347 5,192 6,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.56% 28.96% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,192 2,939 4,373
10th Percentile £222 £213 £220
25th Percentile £363 £374 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £664 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 384 344
10th Percentile £14.78 £13.87 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.69 £20.97
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £48.37
Median % change year-on-year -47.69% +18.58% +122.06%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.00 £67.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.11 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +71.15%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud 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 19 September 2025.

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
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 19 September 2025. 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 +21 50 £600 +2.56% 16
North West +27 38 £600 +2.56% 11
South East +30 34 £525 -6.25% 26
Midlands -3 25 £700 - 7
South West +27 24 £700 +19.15% 16
West Midlands +7 21 £700 - 3
Yorkshire - 10 £588 - 4
Scotland -2 7 £500 +4.17% 6
East of England - 6 £505 - 12
East Midlands -8 4 £500 +11.11% 4
North East - 2 £600 - 1
Hybrid Cloud
UK

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (8.76%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.46%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.73%) Apache
3 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.73%) Mule
3 1 (0.73%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.73%) SAS
3 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.73%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.73%) Maximo
2 1 (0.73%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 61 (44.53%) Azure
2 50 (36.50%) AWS
3 27 (19.71%) SaaS
4 22 (16.06%) Google Workspace
5 19 (13.87%) GCP
6 16 (11.68%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.57%) Azure Stack
7 9 (6.57%) IaaS
7 9 (6.57%) OpenShift
7 9 (6.57%) PaaS
8 7 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.92%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (2.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (2.92%) Nutanix
11 3 (2.19%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (25.55%) Firewall
2 21 (15.33%) WAN
3 17 (12.41%) Network Security
3 17 (12.41%) VPN
4 16 (11.68%) BGP
4 16 (11.68%) MPLS
5 12 (8.76%) DNS
5 12 (8.76%) LAN
6 10 (7.30%) OSPF
7 8 (5.84%) SAN
8 7 (5.11%) SD-WAN
9 6 (4.38%) DHCP
9 6 (4.38%) SNMP
9 6 (4.38%) TACACS
9 6 (4.38%) Wireless
10 5 (3.65%) NGFW
11 4 (2.92%) NAS
11 4 (2.92%) TCP/IP
11 4 (2.92%) VLAN
12 3 (2.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.11%) Metadata
2 3 (2.19%) Big Data
2 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.46%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.73%) Flink
4 1 (0.73%) QlikView
4 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.73%) SQLite
4 1 (0.73%) Sqoop
4 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.57%) GitLab
2 6 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.65%) Git
4 2 (1.46%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.73%) JIRA
General
1 49 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.17%) Public Sector
3 17 (12.41%) Finance
4 9 (6.57%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.38%) Military
6 4 (2.92%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.19%) Banking
7 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.46%) Electronics
8 2 (1.46%) Legal
8 2 (1.46%) Marketing
9 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.73%) Police
9 1 (0.73%) Retail
9 1 (0.73%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (29.93%) Architect
2 22 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (12.41%) Senior
4 14 (10.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (9.49%) Network Architect
6 12 (8.76%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (7.30%) Designer
8 9 (6.57%) Consultant
8 9 (6.57%) Lead
9 8 (5.84%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) IP Architect
11 6 (4.38%) IP Designer
11 6 (4.38%) IP Specialist
11 6 (4.38%) IT Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Senior IT Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Developer
12 5 (3.65%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.30%) REST
2 6 (4.38%) NETCONF
2 6 (4.38%) YANG
3 5 (3.65%) JSON
3 5 (3.65%) Middleware
4 4 (2.92%) Kafka
5 3 (2.19%) CSS
5 3 (2.19%) HTML
5 3 (2.19%) XML
6 2 (1.46%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.73%) .NET
7 1 (0.73%) Express.js
7 1 (0.73%) J2EE
7 1 (0.73%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.73%) Node.js
7 1 (0.73%) ODBC
7 1 (0.73%) React
7 1 (0.73%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.73%) Spring
7 1 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.52%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.41%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.84%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.38%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.38%) Operational Technology
5 5 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.65%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (2.19%) Data Fabric
7 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.19%) Digital Signage
7 3 (2.19%) Replication
7 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.46%) CCTV
8 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.46%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.46%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.22%) Windows
2 11 (8.03%) Windows Server
3 10 (7.30%) Linux
4 1 (0.73%) CentOS
4 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.82%) Agile
2 27 (19.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (18.25%) DevOps
4 24 (17.52%) Roadmaps
5 23 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (15.33%) CI/CD
7 20 (14.60%) Network Architecture
8 19 (13.87%) Migration
8 19 (13.87%) Mobile Device Management
8 19 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (13.14%) Network Design
10 17 (12.41%) Benchmarking
10 17 (12.41%) TOGAF
10 17 (12.41%) User Experience
11 15 (10.95%) Microservices
11 15 (10.95%) Network Virtualisation
12 14 (10.22%) Zero Trust
13 13 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (8.76%) Artificial Intelligence
14 12 (8.76%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.98%) Python
2 8 (5.84%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.11%) Java
4 4 (2.92%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.19%) Bicep
5 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.19%) Kotlin
5 3 (2.19%) SQL
6 2 (1.46%) Bash
6 2 (1.46%) Go
7 1 (0.73%) HiveQL
7 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.73%) R
7 1 (0.73%) Ruby
7 1 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 33 (24.09%) SC Cleared
3 27 (19.71%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (14.60%) Azure Certification
5 18 (13.14%) CCIE
6 16 (11.68%) JNCIE
7 15 (10.95%) AWS Certification
8 11 (8.03%) Degree
9 10 (7.30%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (5.11%) CISSP
11 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
12 6 (4.38%) CCNP
13 5 (3.65%) CCNA
13 5 (3.65%) Master's Degree
13 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (2.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (2.92%) CCSP
15 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.65%) NIST
3 4 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.92%) GDPR
4 3 (2.19%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.19%) PSD2
5 2 (1.46%) GRC
5 2 (1.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.73%) GMP
6 1 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.73%) ITGC
6 1 (0.73%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.73%) NCSC
6 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.73%) PMO
6 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 20 (14.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (9.49%) VMware NSX
3 12 (8.76%) Active Directory
4 11 (8.03%) Docker
5 9 (6.57%) vSphere
6 4 (2.92%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.73%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.73%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (17.52%) Ansible
2 21 (15.33%) Terraform
3 16 (11.68%) Kubernetes
4 10 (7.30%) Grafana
5 5 (3.65%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.65%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.92%) vRealize
7 3 (2.19%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.19%) Puppet
8 2 (1.46%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.46%) SCCM
9 1 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.73%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (18.25%) Google
2 23 (16.79%) VMware
3 19 (13.87%) Microsoft
4 18 (13.14%) Cisco
5 10 (7.30%) F5
5 10 (7.30%) Fortinet
6 6 (4.38%) Juniper
7 5 (3.65%) Citrix
7 5 (3.65%) Oracle
7 5 (3.65%) SAP
8 4 (2.92%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.92%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.92%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.19%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.19%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.46%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.73%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.73%) Databricks
11 1 (0.73%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (0.73%) Zscaler