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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 249 350
Rank change year-on-year -20 +101 -32
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 221 119 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.80% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.70% 2.38% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 65 18
10th Percentile £401 £450 £460
25th Percentile £469 £503 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £608
90th Percentile £705 £700 £721
UK median daily rate £568 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -1.30% +9.52% -12.50%
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 8,200 4,990 5,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.39% 33.59% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,006 2,962 3,452
10th Percentile £289 £225 £220
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £575 £600
90th Percentile £687 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 688 401 620
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.09 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.51 £14.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% -12.70%
75th Percentile £70.06 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.00 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -22.08% +10.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -39 82 £517 -13.86% 31
South East -28 70 £615 +6.95% 29
Yorkshire -19 45 £500 -20.00% 11
Midlands -30 38 £500 -25.93% 6
West Midlands -37 33 £500 -28.57% 4
North West -50 30 £570 -5.00% 18
South West -36 18 £563 -14.77% 10
North East -32 13 £650 +8.33% 2
Scotland -9 12 £595 +8.18% 3
East of England -24 6 £518 -5.91% 3
East Midlands -11 5 £500 -0.50% 2
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 9 (4.07%) Confluence
1 9 (4.07%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.26%) Apache
4 3 (1.36%) IIS
4 3 (1.36%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.90%) CloudStack
Applications
1 7 (3.17%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.45%) Maximo
3 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 141 (63.80%) Azure
2 117 (52.94%) AWS
3 37 (16.74%) GCP
4 31 (14.03%) OpenShift
5 27 (12.22%) SaaS
6 23 (10.41%) GitHub
7 22 (9.95%) OCI
8 21 (9.50%) Entra ID
9 14 (6.33%) IaaS
10 13 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.52%) PaaS
13 9 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.17%) Azure AKS
14 7 (3.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 7 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (2.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 55 (24.89%) Firewall
2 45 (20.36%) WAN
3 41 (18.55%) DNS
4 39 (17.65%) BGP
5 27 (12.22%) SD-WAN
6 26 (11.76%) OSPF
7 25 (11.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 24 (10.86%) LAN
9 23 (10.41%) BIG-IP
9 23 (10.41%) VPN
9 23 (10.41%) VXLAN
10 21 (9.50%) Ethernet VPN
11 17 (7.69%) MPLS
11 17 (7.69%) TCP/IP
11 17 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (7.24%) Network Security
13 15 (6.79%) DHCP
14 12 (5.43%) SAN
14 12 (5.43%) WLAN
15 8 (3.62%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.45%) Big Data
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) Firebird
4 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.45%) GIS
4 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (11.31%) Jenkins
2 20 (9.05%) GitLab
3 15 (6.79%) Git
4 10 (4.52%) JIRA
5 4 (1.81%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.12%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.24%) Finance
4 14 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.43%) Banking
7 7 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.36%) Military
9 3 (1.36%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
11 1 (0.45%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (33.03%) Architect
2 49 (22.17%) Senior
3 38 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (10.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (8.60%) Network Architect
6 18 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (8.14%) Technical Architect
7 16 (7.24%) Lead
7 16 (7.24%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (6.79%) Network Engineer
9 14 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.98%) Senior Architect
11 10 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.62%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.17%) Lead Architect
14 6 (2.71%) Consultant
14 6 (2.71%) Enterprise Architect
14 6 (2.71%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.41%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (4.98%) JSON
2 11 (4.98%) NETCONF
2 11 (4.98%) YANG
3 9 (4.07%) Kafka
4 8 (3.62%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.17%) Apache Avro
5 7 (3.17%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (3.17%) REST
6 6 (2.71%) .NET
6 6 (2.71%) OpenConfig
6 6 (2.71%) RESTCONF
7 5 (2.26%) LDAP
7 5 (2.26%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.81%) Loki
8 4 (1.81%) OAuth
8 4 (1.81%) OpenID
9 3 (1.36%) Middleware
9 3 (1.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 50 (22.62%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 16 (7.24%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.88%) Private Cloud
6 10 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.62%) PKI
8 6 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.71%) Replication
8 6 (2.71%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.26%) ARM Cortex
9 5 (2.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.26%) FlexPod
9 5 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.26%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.81%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.36%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.36%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 43 (19.46%) Linux
1 43 (19.46%) Windows
2 31 (14.03%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.07%) VMS
5 6 (2.71%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (2.26%) CoreOS
7 4 (1.81%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) Unix
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (37.56%) CI/CD
2 79 (35.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (32.58%) DevOps
4 59 (26.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 53 (23.98%) Migration
6 43 (19.46%) Zero Trust
7 39 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
8 37 (16.74%) Roadmaps
9 36 (16.29%) High Availability
9 36 (16.29%) Load Balancing
10 35 (15.84%) Network Design
11 31 (14.03%) Agile
11 31 (14.03%) Observability
12 28 (12.67%) Containerisation
12 28 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (12.22%) RBAC
14 25 (11.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 24 (10.86%) Platform Engineering
16 22 (9.95%) Cloud Security
16 22 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 75 (33.94%) Python
2 39 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 35 (15.84%) Bash
4 16 (7.24%) Bicep
5 10 (4.52%) Java
6 6 (2.71%) Go
6 6 (2.71%) SQL
7 5 (2.26%) BeanShell
8 3 (1.36%) C#
9 1 (0.45%) Groovy
9 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (29.86%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 34 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 30 (13.57%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 17 (7.69%) Degree
6 14 (6.33%) Azure Certification
6 14 (6.33%) CCIE
7 13 (5.88%) CCNP
8 11 (4.98%) JNCIE
8 11 (4.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (4.07%) OCP
9 9 (4.07%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.17%) CCNA
11 7 (3.17%) CISSP
12 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.69%) NIST
2 12 (5.43%) NCSC
3 10 (4.52%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.62%) GDPR
5 7 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.81%) GRC
7 3 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.45%) PSD2
8 1 (0.45%) QA
8 1 (0.45%) SEPA
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (21.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (18.10%) Active Directory
3 34 (15.38%) vSphere
4 30 (13.57%) VMware NSX
5 13 (5.88%) Docker
5 13 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (4.52%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.26%) NFS
9 2 (0.90%) KVM
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 95 (42.99%) Terraform
2 70 (31.67%) Ansible
3 52 (23.53%) Kubernetes
4 27 (12.22%) Grafana
5 18 (8.14%) Prometheus
6 15 (6.79%) vCenter Server
7 13 (5.88%) Argo
8 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (3.17%) SCCM
9 5 (2.26%) Istio
9 5 (2.26%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.81%) CASB
10 4 (1.81%) Rancher
11 3 (1.36%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.36%) vMotion
11 3 (1.36%) vRealize
12 2 (0.90%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.90%) SCOM
12 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 83 (37.56%) Microsoft
2 59 (26.70%) VMware
3 35 (15.84%) Palo Alto
4 32 (14.48%) F5
5 31 (14.03%) Cisco
6 21 (9.50%) Red Hat
7 19 (8.60%) Arista
7 19 (8.60%) Aruba
7 19 (8.60%) Splunk
8 15 (6.79%) Google
9 12 (5.43%) Fortinet
10 11 (4.98%) Pure Storage
11 8 (3.62%) Juniper
12 7 (3.17%) CheckPoint
12 7 (3.17%) IBM
12 7 (3.17%) NetApp
12 7 (3.17%) SolarWinds
13 6 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (2.26%) CyberArk
14 5 (2.26%) SAP