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 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 236 360
Rank change year-on-year -39 +124 -37
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 168 101 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.79% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.34% 2.38% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 55 12
10th Percentile £313 £461 £376
25th Percentile £422 £534 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% +0.42% +3.91%
75th Percentile £606 £675 £603
90th Percentile £679 £750 £680
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -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 7,172 4,246 6,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.60% 33.21% 29.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,454 2,609 3,624
10th Percentile £250 £208 £208
25th Percentile £381 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -1.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £596
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 308 721
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.72 £14.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +57.43% +12.42% +28.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.64 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.43 £83.26 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +38.46% +7.76% +34.13%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -28 66 £500 -5.84% 25
South East -39 43 £613 +2.08% 25
Yorkshire -26 41 £500 -30.07% 4
South West -20 28 £363 -41.53% 19
Midlands -57 25 £550 -15.38% 10
West Midlands -42 22 £550 -15.38% 9
North West -38 21 £538 +2.63% 18
Scotland +4 10 £550 -6.38% 3
North East -20 6 £450 - 3
East of England -36 4 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -30 3 £503 -17.96% 1
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 9 (5.36%) Confluence
2 4 (2.38%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.19%) Apache
3 2 (1.19%) IIS
3 2 (1.19%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.57%) Maximo
2 3 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 104 (61.90%) Azure
2 75 (44.64%) AWS
3 37 (22.02%) OpenShift
4 22 (13.10%) GCP
5 21 (12.50%) GitHub
6 13 (7.74%) SaaS
7 12 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 10 (5.95%) OCI
9 9 (5.36%) Azure AKS
9 9 (5.36%) IaaS
9 9 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (3.57%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.57%) PaaS
13 5 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.98%) Nutanix
14 4 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 30 (17.86%) Firewall
2 28 (16.67%) WAN
3 20 (11.90%) BGP
4 18 (10.71%) DNS
5 15 (8.93%) VPN
6 14 (8.33%) VXLAN
7 13 (7.74%) SD-WAN
8 12 (7.14%) LAN
8 12 (7.14%) OSPF
9 11 (6.55%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (6.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 10 (5.95%) Network Security
10 10 (5.95%) SAN
11 9 (5.36%) BIG-IP
11 9 (5.36%) MPLS
12 7 (4.17%) VSAN
13 6 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (2.98%) SNMP
14 5 (2.98%) WLAN
15 4 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.19%) Metadata
4 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.19%) Power BI
4 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.60%) Big Data
5 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.60%) Firebird
5 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.95%) JIRA
3 9 (5.36%) GitLab
4 7 (4.17%) Git
5 4 (2.38%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.14%) Finance
4 10 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.36%) Banking
6 5 (2.98%) Retail
7 2 (1.19%) Billing
7 2 (1.19%) Legal
8 1 (0.60%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Military
8 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (26.79%) Architect
2 31 (18.45%) Senior
3 18 (10.71%) Lead
4 16 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (7.14%) Network Architect
6 12 (7.14%) Technical Architect
7 11 (6.55%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Desktop Support
10 8 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Support Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Senior Architect
11 7 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.98%) IP Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (7.14%) JSON
3 11 (6.55%) Kafka
3 11 (6.55%) REST
4 8 (4.76%) NETCONF
4 8 (4.76%) YANG
5 7 (4.17%) Apache Avro
5 7 (4.17%) ARM Templates
5 7 (4.17%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (3.57%) .NET
7 4 (2.38%) Keycloak
7 4 (2.38%) Loki
7 4 (2.38%) OpenConfig
7 4 (2.38%) RESTCONF
8 3 (1.79%) OAuth
8 3 (1.79%) RESTful
9 2 (1.19%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.19%) OpenID
9 2 (1.19%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.62%) Cloud Native
2 34 (20.24%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.17%) PKI
5 7 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.17%) Replication
6 6 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.98%) FlexPod
8 4 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.19%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.19%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.19%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.24%) Linux
2 32 (19.05%) Windows
3 15 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (5.36%) VMS
5 6 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (2.98%) CoreOS
7 3 (1.79%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.60%) CentOS
8 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (35.12%) CI/CD
2 54 (32.14%) DevOps
3 43 (25.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (19.64%) Containerisation
4 33 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (19.05%) Migration
6 31 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (18.45%) Roadmaps
7 29 (17.26%) Disaster Recovery
8 27 (16.07%) Load Balancing
9 24 (14.29%) Agile
10 23 (13.69%) High Availability
10 23 (13.69%) RBAC
11 20 (11.90%) Network Design
11 20 (11.90%) Zero Trust
12 19 (11.31%) Analytics
12 19 (11.31%) Observability
13 17 (10.12%) Microservices
13 17 (10.12%) Performance Optimisation
14 16 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (33.93%) Python
2 31 (18.45%) PowerShell
3 23 (13.69%) Bash
4 11 (6.55%) Bicep
5 10 (5.95%) Go
6 4 (2.38%) SQL
7 3 (1.79%) C#
7 3 (1.79%) Java
8 2 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 14 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 11 (6.55%) CCIE
7 9 (5.36%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.36%) Degree
7 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (5.36%) OCP
7 9 (5.36%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (4.76%) JNCIE
9 7 (4.17%) CCNA
9 7 (4.17%) CCNP
9 7 (4.17%) CISSP
10 6 (3.57%) CISM
10 6 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.93%) NIST
2 11 (6.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (5.36%) GDPR
4 6 (3.57%) NIST 800
4 6 (3.57%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.98%) NCSC
6 4 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (2.38%) GRC
7 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.19%) QA
9 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (22.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 23 (13.69%) Active Directory
3 23 (13.69%) vSphere
4 15 (8.93%) Docker
5 10 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.57%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.98%) NFS
8 3 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.60%) Firmware
9 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 67 (39.88%) Terraform
2 58 (34.52%) Kubernetes
3 49 (29.17%) Ansible
4 23 (13.69%) Grafana
5 15 (8.93%) vCenter Server
6 13 (7.74%) Prometheus
7 11 (6.55%) Argo
8 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.98%) Istio
9 5 (2.98%) SnapMirror
10 4 (2.38%) Rancher
10 4 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.79%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.79%) vMotion
11 3 (1.79%) vRealize
12 2 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.19%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.19%) SCOM
13 1 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.60%) Nessus
Vendors
1 54 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 47 (27.98%) VMware
3 24 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 21 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 19 (11.31%) Splunk
6 18 (10.71%) Cisco
7 16 (9.52%) F5
8 11 (6.55%) Pure Storage
9 10 (5.95%) Aruba
10 9 (5.36%) Google
10 9 (5.36%) IBM
11 8 (4.76%) Arista
11 8 (4.76%) CheckPoint
12 7 (4.17%) Fortinet
12 7 (4.17%) Juniper
12 7 (4.17%) NetApp
13 5 (2.98%) SAP
13 5 (2.98%) Zscaler
14 4 (2.38%) Citrix
15 3 (1.79%) Salesforce