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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 246 352
Rank change year-on-year -23 +106 -27
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 212 115 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.78% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.59% 2.32% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 64 19
10th Percentile £402 £454 £460
25th Percentile £466 £510 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +13.86% -8.18%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £700 £714
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £531
% change year-on-year -2.09% +8.24% -11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.84 - -
25th Percentile £33.20 - -
Median hourly rate £50.93 - -
75th Percentile £68.20 - -
90th Percentile £78.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -26.70% - -

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 8,173 4,958 6,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.39% 33.59% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,001 2,964 3,538
10th Percentile £283 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 678 395 712
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.13 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.37 £18.51 £14.67
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year +37.16% -11.64% +3.64%
75th Percentile £70.50 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.26 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -13.70% +21.67%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -42 78 £515 -14.25% 32
South East -26 65 £600 +4.35% 26
Yorkshire -22 43 £500 -20.00% 8
Midlands -38 37 £500 -28.57% 7
West Midlands -49 32 £500 -28.57% 3
North West -49 28 £565 -5.83% 23
South West -27 19 £575 -12.88% 10
North East -29 13 £650 +8.33% 1
Scotland -2 12 £595 +8.18% 6
East of England -23 6 £518 -5.91% 4
East Midlands -10 5 £500 -13.04% 4
Wales - 2 £635 - 4
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 (5.19%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.25%) Confluence
3 7 (3.30%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.36%) Apache
5 3 (1.42%) IIS
5 3 (1.42%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.42%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.94%) CloudStack
Applications
1 7 (3.30%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.47%) Maximo
3 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 132 (62.26%) Azure
2 115 (54.25%) AWS
3 36 (16.98%) GCP
4 31 (14.62%) OpenShift
5 27 (12.74%) SaaS
6 21 (9.91%) GitHub
7 20 (9.43%) OCI
8 15 (7.08%) Entra ID
9 14 (6.60%) IaaS
10 13 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (4.72%) PaaS
12 8 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.83%) Azure AKS
15 5 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (2.36%) Serverless
16 4 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (1.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 4 (1.89%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 51 (24.06%) Firewall
2 47 (22.17%) WAN
3 41 (19.34%) BGP
4 33 (15.57%) DNS
5 27 (12.74%) SD-WAN
6 26 (12.26%) LAN
6 26 (12.26%) OSPF
7 25 (11.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 23 (10.85%) BIG-IP
8 23 (10.85%) VXLAN
9 21 (9.91%) Ethernet VPN
10 19 (8.96%) MPLS
11 17 (8.02%) VPN
11 17 (8.02%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (6.60%) Network Security
13 12 (5.66%) SAN
13 12 (5.66%) WLAN
14 11 (5.19%) TCP/IP
15 8 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (3.77%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.47%) Big Data
4 1 (0.47%) Firebird
4 1 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.47%) GIS
4 1 (0.47%) Metadata
4 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (11.32%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.96%) GitLab
3 13 (6.13%) Git
4 10 (4.72%) JIRA
5 4 (1.89%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.60%) Finance
4 13 (6.13%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.72%) Banking
7 7 (3.30%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.42%) Retail
10 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (33.96%) Architect
2 42 (19.81%) Senior
3 34 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (9.43%) Network Architect
5 19 (8.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (8.96%) Technical Architect
6 18 (8.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (7.55%) Lead
7 16 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.13%) Network Engineer
9 10 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.25%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.30%) IP Architect
12 7 (3.30%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.83%) Consultant
13 6 (2.83%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.85%) OpenTelemetry
2 13 (6.13%) NETCONF
2 13 (6.13%) YANG
3 12 (5.66%) JSON
4 10 (4.72%) REST
5 8 (3.77%) Kafka
6 7 (3.30%) Apache Avro
6 7 (3.30%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (2.83%) .NET
7 6 (2.83%) OpenConfig
7 6 (2.83%) RESTCONF
8 5 (2.36%) LDAP
8 5 (2.36%) SailPoint
9 4 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.89%) Loki
9 4 (1.89%) OAuth
9 4 (1.89%) OpenID
10 3 (1.42%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.42%) Middleware
10 3 (1.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.53%) Cloud Native
1 52 (24.53%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.55%) Public Cloud
3 13 (6.13%) Private Cloud
4 12 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.77%) PKI
8 6 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.83%) Replication
8 6 (2.83%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.36%) FlexPod
9 5 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.36%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.94%) Clustering
11 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 35 (16.51%) Linux
1 35 (16.51%) Windows
2 24 (11.32%) Windows Server
3 11 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.25%) VMS
5 6 (2.83%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (2.36%) CoreOS
7 4 (1.89%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (36.32%) CI/CD
2 73 (34.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (32.55%) DevOps
4 53 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 52 (24.53%) Migration
6 43 (20.28%) Zero Trust
7 39 (18.40%) Disaster Recovery
8 38 (17.92%) Network Design
9 37 (17.45%) Roadmaps
10 36 (16.98%) High Availability
10 36 (16.98%) Load Balancing
11 30 (14.15%) Agile
12 28 (13.21%) Containerisation
12 28 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (11.79%) Observability
13 25 (11.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (11.32%) Network Architecture
15 23 (10.85%) RBAC
16 22 (10.38%) Cloud Security
17 20 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 75 (35.38%) Python
2 32 (15.09%) PowerShell
3 26 (12.26%) Bash
4 10 (4.72%) Java
5 9 (4.25%) Bicep
6 6 (2.83%) Go
6 6 (2.83%) SQL
7 5 (2.36%) BeanShell
8 3 (1.42%) C#
9 1 (0.47%) Groovy
9 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (26.89%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.98%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (16.51%) SC Cleared
4 25 (11.79%) DV Cleared
5 17 (8.02%) AWS Certification
6 16 (7.55%) CCIE
7 14 (6.60%) Degree
8 13 (6.13%) Azure Certification
8 13 (6.13%) CCNP
8 13 (6.13%) JNCIE
9 11 (5.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (4.25%) OCP
10 9 (4.25%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.30%) CCNA
12 7 (3.30%) CISSP
13 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
15 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.02%) NIST
2 12 (5.66%) NCSC
3 10 (4.72%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.77%) GDPR
5 7 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.89%) GRC
7 3 (1.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.47%) PSD2
8 1 (0.47%) QA
8 1 (0.47%) SEPA
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (22.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (15.57%) Active Directory
2 33 (15.57%) vSphere
3 31 (14.62%) VMware NSX
4 13 (6.13%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (5.66%) Docker
6 11 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (4.72%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.36%) NFS
9 2 (0.94%) KVM
9 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 85 (40.09%) Terraform
2 66 (31.13%) Ansible
3 50 (23.58%) Kubernetes
4 26 (12.26%) Grafana
5 17 (8.02%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.08%) vCenter Server
7 12 (5.66%) Argo
8 5 (2.36%) Istio
8 5 (2.36%) SnapMirror
9 4 (1.89%) CASB
9 4 (1.89%) Rancher
10 3 (1.42%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.42%) vMotion
10 3 (1.42%) vRealize
11 2 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.94%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.94%) SCCM
11 2 (0.94%) SCOM
11 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 75 (35.38%) Microsoft
2 60 (28.30%) VMware
3 34 (16.04%) Palo Alto
4 32 (15.09%) F5
5 29 (13.68%) Cisco
6 21 (9.91%) Red Hat
7 19 (8.96%) Arista
7 19 (8.96%) Aruba
7 19 (8.96%) Splunk
8 15 (7.08%) Google
9 11 (5.19%) Fortinet
9 11 (5.19%) Pure Storage
10 8 (3.77%) Juniper
11 7 (3.30%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.30%) IBM
11 7 (3.30%) NetApp
11 7 (3.30%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.36%) CyberArk
12 5 (2.36%) SAP
13 4 (1.89%) Citrix