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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 248 338
Rank change year-on-year -3 +90 -20
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 234 130 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.85% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.81% 2.51% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 71 23
10th Percentile £402 £415 £460
25th Percentile £490 £501 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £694
90th Percentile £725 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £48.00 - -
25th Percentile £63.06 - -
Median hourly rate £69.61 - -
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £84.03 - -
UK median hourly rate £69.61 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -14.97% - -

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 8,324 5,187 5,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.43% 34.01% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,984 3,074 3,151
10th Percentile £300 £230 £218
25th Percentile £406 £363 £400
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 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 772 407 495
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.94 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.11 £17.81
Median hourly rate £43.96 £29.33 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.88% -34.82% +11.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.76 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +48.34% -34.44% +20.00%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 86 £615 +17.14% 67
North of England -55 74 £530 -11.67% 40
Yorkshire -19 37 £507 -18.88% 15
Midlands -39 35 £488 -30.36% 7
North West -47 30 £570 -5.00% 23
West Midlands -44 29 £488 -30.36% 5
South West -31 24 £651 -6.96% 20
North East -33 13 £650 +8.33% 2
Scotland -7 9 £595 +8.18% 9
East of England -21 7 £505 -8.18% 6
East Midlands -6 6 £478 +11.05% 2
Wales - 3 £670 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 2
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 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.56%) Apache
3 6 (2.56%) Confluence
4 3 (1.28%) IIS
4 3 (1.28%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.28%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 7 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.43%) Maximo
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 158 (67.52%) Azure
2 115 (49.15%) AWS
3 39 (16.67%) GCP
4 28 (11.97%) Entra ID
5 27 (11.54%) OpenShift
5 27 (11.54%) SaaS
6 25 (10.68%) OCI
7 23 (9.83%) GitHub
8 19 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (5.13%) IaaS
12 8 (3.42%) PaaS
12 8 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.99%) Azure AKS
13 7 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 7 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (2.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (26.07%) Firewall
2 46 (19.66%) DNS
3 45 (19.23%) WAN
4 39 (16.67%) BGP
5 27 (11.54%) SD-WAN
5 27 (11.54%) VPN
6 26 (11.11%) OSPF
7 25 (10.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 24 (10.26%) DHCP
8 24 (10.26%) LAN
9 23 (9.83%) BIG-IP
10 22 (9.40%) TCP/IP
10 22 (9.40%) VXLAN
11 21 (8.97%) Ethernet VPN
12 17 (7.26%) MPLS
12 17 (7.26%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (6.84%) Network Security
14 12 (5.13%) WLAN
15 10 (4.27%) VSAN
16 9 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.85%) Power BI
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.43%) Big Data
4 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.43%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.43%) Firebird
4 1 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.43%) GIS
4 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.11%) GitLab
3 17 (7.26%) Git
4 6 (2.56%) JIRA
5 4 (1.71%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 73 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 22 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.41%) Finance
5 13 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.13%) Aerospace
7 10 (4.27%) Banking
8 7 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.71%) Retail
10 3 (1.28%) Military
10 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Police
12 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (32.48%) Architect
2 57 (24.36%) Senior
3 41 (17.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (8.55%) Technical Architect
6 19 (8.12%) Lead
7 18 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (7.26%) Network Architect
8 17 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (6.84%) Network Engineer
10 12 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.70%) Senior Architect
12 9 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.85%) Technical Leader
13 8 (3.42%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.42%) Consultant
14 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Architect
14 7 (2.99%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.41%) OpenTelemetry
2 13 (5.56%) ARM Templates
3 11 (4.70%) NETCONF
3 11 (4.70%) YANG
4 8 (3.42%) JSON
4 8 (3.42%) REST
5 6 (2.56%) .NET
5 6 (2.56%) Kafka
5 6 (2.56%) OpenConfig
5 6 (2.56%) RESTCONF
6 5 (2.14%) LDAP
6 5 (2.14%) OAuth
6 5 (2.14%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.71%) Loki
7 4 (1.71%) OpenID
7 4 (1.71%) SAML
8 3 (1.28%) Apache Avro
8 3 (1.28%) Middleware
8 3 (1.28%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 51 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 46 (19.66%) Data Centre
3 18 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 18 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 12 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.42%) PKI
8 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.56%) ARM Cortex
9 6 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.56%) Operational Technology
9 6 (2.56%) Replication
10 5 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.14%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.28%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.08%) Windows
2 46 (19.66%) Linux
2 46 (19.66%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.56%) VMS
5 4 (1.71%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (1.71%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.28%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.85%) Unix
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (39.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 86 (36.75%) CI/CD
3 85 (36.32%) DevOps
4 66 (28.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 56 (23.93%) Migration
6 50 (21.37%) Zero Trust
7 45 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
8 40 (17.09%) Roadmaps
9 36 (15.38%) High Availability
10 35 (14.96%) Load Balancing
11 34 (14.53%) Network Design
11 34 (14.53%) Observability
11 34 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (14.53%) Technical Leadership
12 33 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (13.68%) Agile
13 32 (13.68%) ITIL
14 30 (12.82%) Cloud Security
15 28 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 74 (31.62%) Python
2 52 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 39 (16.67%) Bash
4 20 (8.55%) Bicep
5 10 (4.27%) Java
6 7 (2.99%) SQL
7 6 (2.56%) Go
8 5 (2.14%) BeanShell
9 3 (1.28%) C#
10 1 (0.43%) Groovy
10 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 53 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 33 (14.10%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (13.68%) DV Cleared
5 20 (8.55%) Azure Certification
6 19 (8.12%) Degree
7 16 (6.84%) AWS Certification
8 14 (5.98%) CCIE
9 13 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (5.13%) CCNP
11 11 (4.70%) JNCIE
12 10 (4.27%) CISSP
13 8 (3.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (2.99%) OCP
14 7 (2.99%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (1.28%) CCNA
15 3 (1.28%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.12%) NIST
2 13 (5.56%) NCSC
3 10 (4.27%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.85%) GDPR
4 9 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.71%) GRC
7 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.43%) PSD2
8 1 (0.43%) SEPA
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (22.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (20.09%) Active Directory
3 31 (13.25%) VMware NSX
3 31 (13.25%) vSphere
4 16 (6.84%) Docker
5 15 (6.41%) Hyper-V
6 13 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.28%) NFS
9 2 (0.85%) KVM
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 102 (43.59%) Terraform
2 71 (30.34%) Ansible
3 50 (21.37%) Kubernetes
4 25 (10.68%) Grafana
5 16 (6.84%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.56%) vCenter Server
7 10 (4.27%) Argo
8 8 (3.42%) Istio
8 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (3.42%) SCCM
9 5 (2.14%) SCOM
10 4 (1.71%) Rancher
11 3 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.28%) CASB
11 3 (1.28%) SnapMirror
11 3 (1.28%) vMotion
12 2 (0.85%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.85%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 98 (41.88%) Microsoft
2 67 (28.63%) VMware
3 36 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 33 (14.10%) F5
5 29 (12.39%) Cisco
6 19 (8.12%) Aruba
7 18 (7.69%) Arista
8 17 (7.26%) Red Hat
9 14 (5.98%) Google
10 11 (4.70%) Splunk
11 10 (4.27%) Fortinet
12 8 (3.42%) Pure Storage
13 7 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (2.99%) IBM
14 6 (2.56%) CyberArk
14 6 (2.56%) Juniper
14 6 (2.56%) SAP
14 6 (2.56%) SolarWinds
15 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
16 4 (1.71%) NetApp