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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 240 358
Rank change year-on-year -24 +118 -28
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 169 95 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.75% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 2.25% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 47 11
10th Percentile £313 £463 £363
25th Percentile £421 £534 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £611 £656 £606
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.87 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -83.14% - -

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 7,064 4,213 5,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.38% 33.10% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,374 2,582 3,565
10th Percentile £263 £205 £210
25th Percentile £389 £363 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.05% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 297 722
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.25 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.54 £30.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +58.47% +2.56% +33.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.50 £83.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £31.91 £31.25
% change year-on-year +33.85% +2.10% +38.98%

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 13 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
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 13 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 -38 70 £500 -4.53% 31
South East -38 43 £613 +5.15% 17
Yorkshire -19 42 £500 -26.47% 4
South West -16 26 £325 -47.58% 14
Midlands -42 25 £525 -19.23% 7
North West -31 22 £544 +4.07% 22
West Midlands -44 22 £550 -15.38% 7
Scotland +8 8 £550 - 2
North East -18 8 £550 - 5
East of England -31 4 £530 -3.64% 3
East Midlands -29 3 £503 -17.96%
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 (5.33%) Confluence
2 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.37%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.78%) Apache
5 2 (1.18%) IIS
5 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.18%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.59%) CloudStack
Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Maximo
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 105 (62.13%) Azure
2 80 (47.34%) AWS
3 36 (21.30%) OpenShift
4 24 (14.20%) GCP
5 20 (11.83%) GitHub
6 13 (7.69%) OCI
7 12 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.10%) SaaS
8 10 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (5.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (4.73%) Azure AKS
10 8 (4.73%) IaaS
11 7 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (3.55%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (3.55%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.96%) Nutanix
14 4 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (2.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (20.12%) Firewall
2 30 (17.75%) WAN
3 22 (13.02%) BGP
4 19 (11.24%) DNS
5 17 (10.06%) VXLAN
6 16 (9.47%) SD-WAN
7 15 (8.88%) OSPF
8 14 (8.28%) Ethernet VPN
8 14 (8.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 14 (8.28%) VPN
9 12 (7.10%) BIG-IP
9 12 (7.10%) LAN
10 11 (6.51%) SAN
11 10 (5.92%) Network Security
12 8 (4.73%) MPLS
13 7 (4.14%) VSAN
13 7 (4.14%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (3.55%) WLAN
15 5 (2.96%) NAS
16 4 (2.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.78%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.78%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.59%) Big Data
5 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.59%) Firebird
5 1 (0.59%) Metadata
5 1 (0.59%) Power BI
5 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (12.43%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.10%) GitLab
3 10 (5.92%) JIRA
4 8 (4.73%) Git
5 4 (2.37%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.47%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.51%) Finance
4 9 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.33%) Banking
4 9 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.96%) Retail
6 2 (1.18%) Billing
7 1 (0.59%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.59%) Legal
7 1 (0.59%) Military
7 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (24.85%) Architect
2 34 (20.12%) Senior
3 20 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (10.65%) Lead
5 14 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (7.10%) Network Architect
6 12 (7.10%) Technical Architect
7 11 (6.51%) Network Engineer
7 11 (6.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Desktop Support
9 8 (4.73%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Support Engineer
10 7 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.14%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.96%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (7.10%) JSON
3 10 (5.92%) Kafka
3 10 (5.92%) REST
4 7 (4.14%) Apache Avro
4 7 (4.14%) NETCONF
4 7 (4.14%) Protocol Buffers
4 7 (4.14%) YANG
5 6 (3.55%) .NET
5 6 (3.55%) ARM Templates
6 4 (2.37%) Loki
7 3 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.78%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.78%) OAuth
7 3 (1.78%) OpenConfig
7 3 (1.78%) RESTCONF
7 3 (1.78%) RESTful
8 2 (1.18%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.18%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.18%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.89%) Cloud Native
1 37 (21.89%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.73%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.14%) PKI
5 6 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.55%) Replication
5 6 (3.55%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.96%) FlexPod
7 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.18%) Clustering
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.18%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.71%) Linux
1 35 (20.71%) Windows
2 18 (10.65%) Windows Server
3 9 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (5.33%) VMS
4 6 (3.55%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (2.96%) CoreOS
6 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.59%) CentOS
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (37.28%) CI/CD
2 56 (33.14%) DevOps
3 48 (28.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (21.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 36 (21.30%) Migration
6 33 (19.53%) Containerisation
7 31 (18.34%) Disaster Recovery
8 30 (17.75%) Load Balancing
8 30 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (17.75%) Roadmaps
9 25 (14.79%) High Availability
10 24 (14.20%) Agile
11 23 (13.61%) Zero Trust
12 22 (13.02%) Network Design
12 22 (13.02%) RBAC
13 20 (11.83%) Observability
14 18 (10.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (10.06%) Microservices
15 17 (10.06%) Performance Optimisation
16 16 (9.47%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 58 (34.32%) Python
2 31 (18.34%) PowerShell
3 23 (13.61%) Bash
4 10 (5.92%) Bicep
5 9 (5.33%) Go
6 4 (2.37%) SQL
7 3 (1.78%) C#
7 3 (1.78%) Java
8 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.02%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (11.83%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.92%) AWS Certification
6 10 (5.92%) CCIE
7 9 (5.33%) Degree
7 9 (5.33%) OCP
7 9 (5.33%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (4.73%) CCNP
8 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (4.14%) CCNA
9 7 (4.14%) JNCIE
10 6 (3.55%) CISSP
11 5 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.96%) CISM
11 5 (2.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 5 (2.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.28%) NIST
2 10 (5.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.73%) GDPR
4 6 (3.55%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.96%) NCSC
5 5 (2.96%) NIST 800
6 4 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.37%) GRC
7 3 (1.78%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.18%) QA
9 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (23.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (16.57%) VMware NSX
3 26 (15.38%) vSphere
4 25 (14.79%) Active Directory
5 14 (8.28%) Docker
6 11 (6.51%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (4.14%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.96%) NFS
8 5 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.59%) Firmware
9 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (41.42%) Terraform
2 57 (33.73%) Kubernetes
3 51 (30.18%) Ansible
4 24 (14.20%) Grafana
5 15 (8.88%) vCenter Server
6 14 (8.28%) Prometheus
7 11 (6.51%) Argo
8 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.96%) Istio
9 5 (2.96%) SnapMirror
10 4 (2.37%) Rancher
10 4 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.78%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.78%) vMotion
11 3 (1.78%) vRealize
12 2 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.18%) SCOM
13 1 (0.59%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.59%) Nessus
13 1 (0.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 52 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 50 (29.59%) VMware
3 24 (14.20%) Palo Alto
4 23 (13.61%) Red Hat
5 19 (11.24%) Cisco
5 19 (11.24%) Splunk
6 18 (10.65%) F5
7 13 (7.69%) Aruba
8 11 (6.51%) Arista
8 11 (6.51%) Pure Storage
9 9 (5.33%) Google
10 8 (4.73%) CheckPoint
10 8 (4.73%) IBM
11 7 (4.14%) Fortinet
11 7 (4.14%) NetApp
12 6 (3.55%) Juniper
13 5 (2.96%) Zscaler
14 4 (2.37%) Citrix
14 4 (2.37%) SAP
15 3 (1.78%) Commvault