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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 231 331
Rank change year-on-year -8 +100 -2
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 238 140 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.91% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.82% 2.68% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 77 30
10th Percentile £408 £414 £460
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +1.36%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £669
90th Percentile £724 £738 £741
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £57.16 - -
25th Percentile £64.28 - -
Median hourly rate £71.00 - -
75th Percentile £80.46 - -
90th Percentile £85.03 - -
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 8,426 5,226 5,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.49% 34.13% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,006 3,103 3,086
10th Percentile £282 £225 £213
25th Percentile £404 £363 £398
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 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 417 464
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.78 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -38.78% +7.91%
75th Percentile £69.96 £62.24 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.30 £77.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +36.67% -33.33% +2.86%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -19 87 £615 +14.41% 20
North of England -55 72 £566 -5.63% 14
Midlands -38 37 £488 -30.36% 8
Yorkshire -14 36 £557 -5.28% 6
West Midlands -49 30 £488 -30.36% 4
North West -59 29 £575 -4.17% 5
South West -41 26 £640 -8.57% 10
North East -32 13 £650 +8.33% 3
Scotland -12 10 £595 +10.70% 1
East Midlands -10 7 £478 +11.05% 4
East of England -26 6 £505 -8.18% 2
Wales - 3 £670 -
Channel Islands - 1 - -
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 (3.78%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.94%) Apache
2 7 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.10%) Confluence
4 3 (1.26%) IIS
4 3 (1.26%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.26%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.84%) CloudStack
Applications
1 6 (2.52%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.42%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.42%) Maximo
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 163 (68.49%) Azure
2 115 (48.32%) AWS
3 40 (16.81%) GCP
4 30 (12.61%) Entra ID
4 30 (12.61%) SaaS
5 26 (10.92%) OCI
6 22 (9.24%) OpenShift
7 20 (8.40%) GitHub
7 20 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (4.62%) IaaS
12 10 (4.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (3.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.36%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (3.36%) PaaS
14 8 (3.36%) Serverless
15 7 (2.94%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (25.63%) Firewall
2 53 (22.27%) DNS
3 43 (18.07%) WAN
4 40 (16.81%) BGP
5 28 (11.76%) VPN
6 27 (11.34%) DHCP
6 27 (11.34%) SD-WAN
7 26 (10.92%) OSPF
8 25 (10.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 23 (9.66%) BIG-IP
9 23 (9.66%) LAN
9 23 (9.66%) VXLAN
10 22 (9.24%) Ethernet VPN
10 22 (9.24%) TCP/IP
11 17 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (6.72%) MPLS
13 15 (6.30%) Network Security
14 12 (5.04%) VSAN
14 12 (5.04%) WLAN
15 8 (3.36%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.26%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.26%) Power BI
2 3 (1.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.84%) EDRMS
3 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.42%) Big Data
4 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.42%) Firebird
4 1 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.42%) GIS
4 1 (0.42%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (11.34%) GitLab
2 24 (10.08%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.72%) Git
4 5 (2.10%) JIRA
5 4 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.84%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 76 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.18%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.56%) Finance
5 14 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 14 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.20%) Banking
7 7 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.10%) Retail
9 4 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.26%) Law
10 3 (1.26%) Military
10 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Marketing
12 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (34.45%) Architect
2 64 (26.89%) Senior
3 42 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (8.40%) Network Engineer
7 19 (7.98%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (7.56%) Lead
8 18 (7.56%) Network Architect
9 17 (7.14%) Technical Architect
10 14 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (4.62%) Senior Architect
12 10 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.20%) Technical Leader
13 9 (3.78%) Consultant
13 9 (3.78%) Enterprise Architect
14 8 (3.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.36%) Senior Network Engineer
15 7 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (42.44%) Terraform
2 16 (6.72%) ARM Templates
3 10 (4.20%) NETCONF
3 10 (4.20%) YANG
4 8 (3.36%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (3.36%) REST
5 6 (2.52%) JSON
5 6 (2.52%) SailPoint
6 5 (2.10%) LDAP
6 5 (2.10%) OAuth
6 5 (2.10%) OpenConfig
6 5 (2.10%) RESTCONF
7 4 (1.68%) .NET
7 4 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.68%) Kafka
7 4 (1.68%) OpenID
7 4 (1.68%) SAML
8 3 (1.26%) Middleware
9 2 (0.84%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (22.27%) Cloud Native
2 49 (20.59%) Data Centre
3 24 (10.08%) Public Cloud
4 19 (7.98%) Onboarding
5 18 (7.56%) Private Cloud
6 17 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.94%) ARM Cortex
8 7 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.52%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.52%) Operational Technology
9 6 (2.52%) PKI
9 6 (2.52%) Replication
10 5 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.10%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.26%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.53%) Windows
2 49 (20.59%) Windows Server
3 41 (17.23%) Linux
4 7 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.68%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.68%) VMS
6 2 (0.84%) Unix
7 1 (0.42%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (39.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 85 (35.71%) DevOps
3 82 (34.45%) CI/CD
4 67 (28.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 56 (23.53%) Migration
6 52 (21.85%) Zero Trust
7 48 (20.17%) Roadmaps
8 45 (18.91%) Disaster Recovery
9 40 (16.81%) Load Balancing
10 39 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (15.97%) Technical Leadership
12 37 (15.55%) Platform Engineering
13 36 (15.13%) Agile
14 35 (14.71%) High Availability
15 33 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (13.87%) Cybersecurity
15 33 (13.87%) Network Design
16 32 (13.45%) ITIL
16 32 (13.45%) Observability
17 31 (13.03%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 67 (28.15%) Python
2 50 (21.01%) PowerShell
3 38 (15.97%) Bash
4 23 (9.66%) Bicep
5 10 (4.20%) Java
6 5 (2.10%) BeanShell
6 5 (2.10%) SQL
7 4 (1.68%) Go
8 2 (0.84%) C#
9 1 (0.42%) Groovy
9 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 56 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.45%) Cisco Certification
3 32 (13.45%) DV Cleared
4 21 (8.82%) Azure Certification
5 20 (8.40%) Degree
6 16 (6.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 15 (6.30%) AWS Certification
8 13 (5.46%) CCIE
9 12 (5.04%) CCNP
10 11 (4.62%) CISSP
11 10 (4.20%) JNCIE
12 9 (3.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (2.52%) VCAP
15 4 (1.68%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.68%) OCP
15 4 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.56%) NIST
2 12 (5.04%) NCSC
3 10 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.52%) GDPR
4 6 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.84%) GRC
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.42%) PSD2
7 1 (0.42%) SEPA
7 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (19.75%) Active Directory
3 30 (12.61%) VMware NSX
3 30 (12.61%) vSphere
4 18 (7.56%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (6.30%) Docker
6 14 (5.88%) Hyper-V
7 10 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.84%) KVM
9 1 (0.42%) Firmware
9 1 (0.42%) NFS
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (30.25%) Ansible
2 48 (20.17%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.82%) Grafana
4 14 (5.88%) vCenter Server
5 12 (5.04%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.78%) SCCM
7 8 (3.36%) Argo
8 6 (2.52%) Istio
8 6 (2.52%) PowerCLI
9 5 (2.10%) SCOM
10 3 (1.26%) CASB
10 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.26%) vMotion
11 2 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.84%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.84%) vRealize
11 2 (0.84%) VxRail
12 1 (0.42%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.42%) SELinux
Vendors
1 103 (43.28%) Microsoft
2 64 (26.89%) VMware
3 34 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 32 (13.45%) F5
5 27 (11.34%) Cisco
6 20 (8.40%) Aruba
7 19 (7.98%) Arista
8 16 (6.72%) Google
9 13 (5.46%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.78%) Fortinet
11 8 (3.36%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (3.36%) Splunk
12 7 (2.94%) CyberArk
12 7 (2.94%) IBM
13 6 (2.52%) Juniper
13 6 (2.52%) Pure Storage
13 6 (2.52%) SAP
13 6 (2.52%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.10%) ServiceNow
15 4 (1.68%) SaltStack