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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 245 310
Rank change year-on-year -13 +65 +9
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 234 136 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.87% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.61% 2.50% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 79 38
10th Percentile £413 £415 £460
25th Percentile £515 £488 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +3.60%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £697
90th Percentile £728 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £593 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +7.73% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £61.74 - -
25th Percentile £63.06 - -
Median hourly rate £69.61 - -
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £84.86 - -
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 8,954 5,448 5,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.62% 34.76% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,067 3,268 2,865
10th Percentile £280 £225 £205
25th Percentile £404 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £580 £600
90th Percentile £688 £664 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.71% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,016 441 341
10th Percentile £13.58 £13.90 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.24 £17.30 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.27 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +28.12% -48.96% +14.70%
75th Percentile £67.55 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.13 £49.75
% change year-on-year +28.00% -43.47% +10.56%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -11 88 £615 +17.14% 86
North of England -54 64 £575 -4.17% 72
Midlands -45 35 £500 -23.08% 41
Yorkshire -8 32 £568 +3.18% 22
South West -30 31 £675 -3.57% 52
West Midlands -34 29 £500 -28.57% 26
North West -62 25 £575 -4.17% 45
North East -31 13 £650 +8.33% 6
Scotland -26 11 £645 +43.33% 22
East of England -24 7 £563 +11.94% 15
East Midlands -12 6 £478 -4.50% 15
Wales - 4 £670 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 5
Channel Islands - 1 - -
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 11 (4.70%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.56%) Apache
2 6 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.71%) Confluence
4 3 (1.28%) IBM Transformation Extender
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.85%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.85%) IIS
5 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.43%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (2.14%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.43%) Maximo
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 162 (69.23%) Azure
2 106 (45.30%) AWS
3 40 (17.09%) GCP
4 32 (13.68%) SaaS
5 30 (12.82%) Entra ID
6 26 (11.11%) OCI
7 19 (8.12%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (7.69%) OpenShift
9 17 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (5.56%) GitHub
11 12 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.70%) IaaS
13 10 (4.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (3.85%) PaaS
15 8 (3.42%) Serverless
16 7 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (2.99%) AWS Direct Connect
16 7 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 62 (26.50%) Firewall
2 52 (22.22%) DNS
3 40 (17.09%) BGP
3 40 (17.09%) WAN
4 32 (13.68%) VPN
5 31 (13.25%) DHCP
6 27 (11.54%) SD-WAN
7 25 (10.68%) OSPF
8 24 (10.26%) TCP/IP
9 23 (9.83%) BIG-IP
9 23 (9.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 22 (9.40%) VXLAN
11 21 (8.97%) Ethernet VPN
11 21 (8.97%) LAN
12 17 (7.26%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (6.41%) MPLS
13 15 (6.41%) Network Security
14 12 (5.13%) WLAN
15 10 (4.27%) VSAN
16 7 (2.99%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.28%) Power BI
4 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.85%) EDRMS
4 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.43%) Big Data
5 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.43%) GIS
5 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (11.54%) GitLab
2 19 (8.12%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.84%) Git
4 5 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.71%) JIRA
6 2 (0.85%) Maven
6 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.43%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.12%) Finance
5 17 (7.26%) Aerospace
6 14 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.42%) Banking
7 8 (3.42%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.56%) Retail
10 5 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Law
11 3 (1.28%) Military
11 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.43%) Aviation
13 1 (0.43%) Billing
13 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 82 (35.04%) Architect
2 66 (28.21%) Senior
3 44 (18.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (13.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 27 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
6 23 (9.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (8.55%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (8.12%) Network Engineer
9 17 (7.26%) Cloud Architect
9 17 (7.26%) Network Architect
10 14 (5.98%) Lead
10 14 (5.98%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.27%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.27%) Technical Leader
12 9 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.85%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.42%) Enterprise Architect
13 8 (3.42%) Security Architect
13 8 (3.42%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (39.74%) Terraform
2 16 (6.84%) ARM Templates
3 9 (3.85%) NETCONF
3 9 (3.85%) YANG
4 8 (3.42%) REST
5 7 (2.99%) Kafka
6 6 (2.56%) Middleware
6 6 (2.56%) SailPoint
7 5 (2.14%) JSON
7 5 (2.14%) LDAP
8 4 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.71%) Keycloak
8 4 (1.71%) OAuth
8 4 (1.71%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.71%) RESTCONF
9 3 (1.28%) .NET
9 3 (1.28%) OpenID
9 3 (1.28%) SAML
10 2 (0.85%) Web Services
10 2 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.37%) Cloud Native
2 49 (20.94%) Data Centre
3 26 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 20 (8.55%) Onboarding
4 20 (8.55%) Private Cloud
5 19 (8.12%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.42%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.99%) ARM Cortex
7 7 (2.99%) Operational Technology
8 6 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.14%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.71%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.71%) PKI
11 3 (1.28%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 55 (23.50%) Windows
2 45 (19.23%) Windows Server
3 40 (17.09%) Linux
4 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.71%) Unix
5 3 (1.28%) VMS
6 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (41.88%) Infrastructure as Code
2 86 (36.75%) DevOps
3 77 (32.91%) CI/CD
4 64 (27.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 54 (23.08%) Zero Trust
6 51 (21.79%) Migration
6 51 (21.79%) Roadmaps
7 44 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (17.52%) Agile
9 40 (17.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 40 (17.09%) Technical Leadership
10 38 (16.24%) Platform Engineering
11 37 (15.81%) Cybersecurity
12 34 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (14.10%) ITIL
14 32 (13.68%) Cloud Security
14 32 (13.68%) Load Balancing
14 32 (13.68%) Network Design
15 31 (13.25%) High Availability
15 31 (13.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 64 (27.35%) Python
2 45 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 31 (13.25%) Bash
4 25 (10.68%) Bicep
5 11 (4.70%) Java
6 6 (2.56%) Go
7 5 (2.14%) BeanShell
8 4 (1.71%) SQL
9 3 (1.28%) Groovy
9 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.85%) C#
11 1 (0.43%) COBOL
11 1 (0.43%) JCL
Qualifications
1 90 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 62 (26.50%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.96%) DV Cleared
4 31 (13.25%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (11.11%) Azure Certification
6 21 (8.97%) Degree
7 16 (6.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 14 (5.98%) AWS Certification
9 13 (5.56%) CCNP
10 12 (5.13%) CCIE
11 11 (4.70%) CISSP
12 9 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (3.85%) JNCIE
12 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (2.14%) VCAP
15 4 (1.71%) Master's Degree
16 3 (1.28%) CEH
16 3 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.56%) NIST
2 10 (4.27%) NCSC
3 6 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.14%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.85%) GDPR
8 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) PSD2
8 1 (0.43%) SEPA
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (18.80%) Active Directory
1 44 (18.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (10.26%) vSphere
3 21 (8.97%) VMware NSX
4 19 (8.12%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (6.84%) Docker
5 16 (6.84%) Hyper-V
6 9 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.85%) KVM
7 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) RACF
8 1 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 66 (28.21%) Ansible
2 44 (18.80%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.41%) Grafana
4 12 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.27%) vCenter Server
6 9 (3.85%) SCCM
7 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.14%) Istio
8 5 (2.14%) PowerCLI
8 5 (2.14%) SCOM
9 4 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.28%) Argo
10 3 (1.28%) CASB
10 3 (1.28%) Tivoli
10 3 (1.28%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.85%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.85%) VxRail
12 1 (0.43%) Cilium
12 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 106 (45.30%) Microsoft
2 57 (24.36%) VMware
3 32 (13.68%) Palo Alto
4 29 (12.39%) F5
5 24 (10.26%) Cisco
6 20 (8.55%) Aruba
7 19 (8.12%) Arista
8 16 (6.84%) Google
9 9 (3.85%) IBM
10 8 (3.42%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (3.42%) Fortinet
11 7 (2.99%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.99%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.99%) SAP
12 5 (2.14%) Juniper
12 5 (2.14%) SaltStack
12 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.14%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.71%) Databricks
13 4 (1.71%) Oracle