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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 258 368
Rank change year-on-year -13 +110 -24
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 159 86 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.67% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% 2.01% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 57 26
10th Percentile £311 £460 £459
25th Percentile £424 £538 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £680 £684
90th Percentile £649 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £75.00

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 6,522 4,286 6,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.90% 33.30% 29.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,060 2,604 3,789
10th Percentile £205 £200 £206
25th Percentile £359 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 260 679
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.43 £21.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.75 £31.76 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% +15.49% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.95 £83.47 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £29.72
% change year-on-year +4.62% +9.35% +32.18%

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 9 March 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
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 9 March 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 -25 54 £500 -26.47% 24
Yorkshire -15 45 £500 -30.07% 10
South West -2 37 £550 -21.43% 8
South East -51 32 £575 -4.17% 34
Midlands -46 28 £550 -9.39% 6
West Midlands -38 26 £550 -9.39% 5
Scotland +23 17 £450 -40.00% 3
North West -30 8 £500 -4.53% 14
East of England -31 2 £500 -33.42% 6
East Midlands -35 2 £500 -18.37% 1
North East -16 1 £450 -
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 (5.03%) Confluence
2 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.89%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.26%) Apache
3 2 (1.26%) IIS
3 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Maximo
2 3 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.63%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 101 (63.52%) Azure
2 66 (41.51%) AWS
3 38 (23.90%) OpenShift
4 30 (18.87%) GCP
5 24 (15.09%) GitHub
6 12 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.55%) SaaS
7 11 (6.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (6.92%) Entra ID
7 11 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (6.29%) IaaS
8 10 (6.29%) Serverless
9 9 (5.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (5.03%) PaaS
11 7 (4.40%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.40%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.14%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.09%) Firewall
2 17 (10.69%) WAN
3 14 (8.81%) VPN
4 13 (8.18%) Network Security
5 10 (6.29%) BGP
5 10 (6.29%) DNS
6 7 (4.40%) MPLS
6 7 (4.40%) SAN
6 7 (4.40%) SD-WAN
7 6 (3.77%) LAN
7 6 (3.77%) VXLAN
8 5 (3.14%) SNMP
8 5 (3.14%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.52%) OSPF
9 4 (2.52%) TACACS
9 4 (2.52%) VSAN
10 3 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (1.89%) Internet
10 3 (1.89%) VLAN
11 2 (1.26%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.52%) Power BI
5 2 (1.26%) Metadata
5 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.63%) Big Data
6 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.63%) Firebird
6 1 (0.63%) Impala
6 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (10.06%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.66%) Git
2 9 (5.66%) JIRA
3 3 (1.89%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.95%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.29%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (6.29%) Finance
5 8 (5.03%) Banking
6 4 (2.52%) Retail
7 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.26%) Billing
8 2 (1.26%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (26.42%) Architect
2 21 (13.21%) Senior
3 18 (11.32%) Data Engineer
4 12 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (7.55%) Lead
5 10 (6.29%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (5.66%) Data Architect
6 9 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.03%) Desktop Engineer
7 8 (5.03%) Desktop Support
7 8 (5.03%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 8 (5.03%) Network Architect
7 8 (5.03%) Support Engineer
8 7 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.77%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.14%) Network Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.32%) OpenTelemetry
2 17 (10.69%) Kafka
3 11 (6.92%) JSON
4 10 (6.29%) Keycloak
5 9 (5.66%) REST
6 8 (5.03%) ARM Templates
7 7 (4.40%) Apache Avro
7 7 (4.40%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (3.77%) NETCONF
8 6 (3.77%) YANG
9 5 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.52%) OpenConfig
10 4 (2.52%) RESTCONF
11 3 (1.89%) .NET
11 3 (1.89%) Loki
11 3 (1.89%) RESTful
12 2 (1.26%) Middleware
12 2 (1.26%) OAuth
12 2 (1.26%) OpenAPI
12 2 (1.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.87%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.95%) Data Centre
3 12 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.66%) Security Posture
5 8 (5.03%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.40%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (3.14%) FlexPod
7 5 (3.14%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.52%) PKI
8 4 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.89%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.89%) Replication
10 2 (1.26%) Clustering
10 2 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.13%) Linux
2 28 (17.61%) Windows
3 8 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (5.03%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.40%) VMS
5 6 (3.77%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (3.14%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.26%) CentOS
7 2 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (37.74%) DevOps
2 51 (32.08%) CI/CD
3 39 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (23.27%) Containerisation
5 36 (22.64%) Migration
6 32 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (16.98%) Roadmaps
8 26 (16.35%) Agile
9 22 (13.84%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (12.58%) RBAC
11 19 (11.95%) ETL
11 19 (11.95%) High Availability
12 18 (11.32%) Analytics
12 18 (11.32%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (10.69%) Data Engineering
13 17 (10.69%) SIEM
14 15 (9.43%) AI
14 15 (9.43%) Identity Access Management
14 15 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 59 (37.11%) Python
2 27 (16.98%) PowerShell
3 19 (11.95%) Bash
4 15 (9.43%) Go
5 11 (6.92%) Bicep
6 3 (1.89%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.89%) SQL
7 2 (1.26%) Java
7 2 (1.26%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.63%) C#
8 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (27.04%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.84%) Azure Certification
4 20 (12.58%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (11.95%) DV Cleared
6 12 (7.55%) AWS Certification
6 12 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (6.29%) CCIE
7 10 (6.29%) CISSP
8 7 (4.40%) CCNA
8 7 (4.40%) CISM
8 7 (4.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 6 (3.77%) JNCIE
9 6 (3.77%) OCP
9 6 (3.77%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (3.14%) CCNP
10 5 (3.14%) Degree
11 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.26%) CCSE
12 2 (1.26%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.43%) NIST
2 14 (8.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (6.29%) GDPR
4 7 (4.40%) NIST 800
4 7 (4.40%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.14%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (3.14%) NCSC
6 3 (1.89%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.89%) GRC
6 3 (1.89%) QA
7 2 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.26%) PSD2
8 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (15.72%) Docker
3 22 (13.84%) Active Directory
4 17 (10.69%) VMware NSX
4 17 (10.69%) vSphere
5 9 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (5.03%) Hyper-V
7 5 (3.14%) NFS
8 3 (1.89%) KVM
9 1 (0.63%) Ceph
9 1 (0.63%) Firmware
9 1 (0.63%) QEMU
9 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (41.51%) Kubernetes
2 60 (37.74%) Terraform
3 41 (25.79%) Ansible
4 19 (11.95%) Grafana
5 14 (8.81%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (6.29%) vCenter Server
7 9 (5.66%) Argo
8 5 (3.14%) SnapMirror
9 4 (2.52%) Istio
10 3 (1.89%) Rancher
10 3 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.26%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.26%) Kibana
11 2 (1.26%) SCCM
12 1 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.63%) Nessus
12 1 (0.63%) Podman
12 1 (0.63%) vMotion
Vendors
1 50 (31.45%) Microsoft
2 34 (21.38%) VMware
3 21 (13.21%) Red Hat
4 16 (10.06%) Cisco
5 14 (8.81%) Splunk
6 10 (6.29%) Palo Alto
7 9 (5.66%) Google
8 8 (5.03%) IBM
8 8 (5.03%) NetApp
9 7 (4.40%) Fortinet
9 7 (4.40%) Greenplum
9 7 (4.40%) Juniper
9 7 (4.40%) Pure Storage
10 5 (3.14%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.14%) F5
10 5 (3.14%) Zscaler
11 4 (2.52%) Citrix
11 4 (2.52%) Oracle
12 3 (1.89%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.89%) SAP