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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 251 373
Rank change year-on-year -11 +122 -62
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 186 92 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.71% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.51% 2.12% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 44 9
10th Percentile £337 £463 £473
25th Percentile £424 £513 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% +7.69%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £600
90th Percentile £668 £693 £643
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -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 £60.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -40.00% - -

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 7,423 4,338 5,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.66% 33.42% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,549 2,663 3,573
10th Percentile £270 £211 £208
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 305 744
10th Percentile £15.52 £16.67 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.90 £14.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.05 £34.07
Median % change year-on-year +40.41% -5.93% +56.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.52 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.96 £33.05 £34.21
% change year-on-year +23.93% -3.39% +55.50%

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 31 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 31 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 -35 79 £500 +0.25% 19
Yorkshire -22 46 £500 -20.00% 5
South East -40 41 £600 +3.67% 11
Midlands -38 28 £503 -22.69% 6
South West -14 27 £244 -60.69% 11
North West -37 26 £550 +15.79% 12
West Midlands -42 25 £513 -24.07% 5
Scotland +4 12 £595 +8.18% 1
North East -19 11 £650 - 2
East of England -34 4 £530 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -24 3 £503 -12.61% 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 (4.84%) Confluence
2 7 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.69%) Apache
3 5 (2.69%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.61%) IIS
4 3 (1.61%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.61%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.08%) CloudStack
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.69%) Maximo
2 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 125 (67.20%) Azure
2 93 (50.00%) AWS
3 35 (18.82%) OpenShift
4 33 (17.74%) GCP
5 19 (10.22%) SaaS
6 18 (9.68%) OCI
7 17 (9.14%) GitHub
8 13 (6.99%) IaaS
9 12 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.38%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.84%) Azure AKS
11 9 (4.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (4.30%) PaaS
13 7 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.69%) Nutanix
16 4 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 3 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (22.04%) Firewall
2 35 (18.82%) WAN
3 27 (14.52%) BGP
4 24 (12.90%) DNS
5 22 (11.83%) VXLAN
6 21 (11.29%) SD-WAN
7 20 (10.75%) OSPF
8 19 (10.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 19 (10.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 17 (9.14%) BIG-IP
10 13 (6.99%) LAN
11 12 (6.45%) VPN
12 11 (5.91%) SAN
13 10 (5.38%) Network Security
13 10 (5.38%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (4.84%) WLAN
15 8 (4.30%) MPLS
15 8 (4.30%) VSAN
16 5 (2.69%) DHCP
16 5 (2.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.54%) Big Data
3 1 (0.54%) Firebird
3 1 (0.54%) Metadata
3 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.54%) Power BI
3 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (11.83%) Jenkins
2 17 (9.14%) GitLab
3 10 (5.38%) Git
3 10 (5.38%) JIRA
4 4 (2.15%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.75%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.45%) Finance
4 10 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.30%) Banking
6 7 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.61%) Retail
8 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Advertising
9 1 (0.54%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Military
9 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (26.88%) Architect
2 40 (21.51%) Senior
3 29 (15.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (9.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (7.53%) Lead
6 13 (6.99%) Network Architect
7 12 (6.45%) Technical Architect
8 11 (5.91%) Network Engineer
8 11 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Senior Architect
11 8 (4.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Desktop Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Desktop Support
11 8 (4.30%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.69%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.37%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (5.91%) JSON
3 9 (4.84%) REST
4 7 (3.76%) Apache Avro
4 7 (3.76%) Kafka
4 7 (3.76%) NETCONF
4 7 (3.76%) Protocol Buffers
4 7 (3.76%) YANG
5 6 (3.23%) .NET
5 6 (3.23%) ARM Templates
6 4 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.15%) Loki
6 4 (2.15%) OAuth
6 4 (2.15%) OpenID
7 3 (1.61%) LDAP
7 3 (1.61%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.61%) SAML
8 2 (1.08%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.08%) 802.1X
8 2 (1.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.12%) Cloud Native
2 41 (22.04%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.91%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.38%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.30%) PKI
6 8 (4.30%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.23%) Replication
7 6 (3.23%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.69%) FlexPod
8 5 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.15%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.08%) Clustering
11 2 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.08%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.04%) Windows
2 37 (19.89%) Linux
3 23 (12.37%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.84%) VMS
6 6 (3.23%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.69%) CoreOS
7 5 (2.69%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.54%) CentOS
8 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (38.17%) CI/CD
2 61 (32.80%) DevOps
3 59 (31.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (26.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 44 (23.66%) Migration
6 36 (19.35%) Roadmaps
7 35 (18.82%) Load Balancing
8 34 (18.28%) Disaster Recovery
9 31 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 30 (16.13%) Zero Trust
11 29 (15.59%) Agile
11 29 (15.59%) High Availability
12 27 (14.52%) Network Design
12 27 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (13.44%) RBAC
14 22 (11.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 21 (11.29%) Observability
16 18 (9.68%) Network Architecture
17 16 (8.60%) Analytics
17 16 (8.60%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (32.80%) Python
2 36 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 24 (12.90%) Bash
4 11 (5.91%) Bicep
5 6 (3.23%) Go
5 6 (3.23%) Java
6 4 (2.15%) SQL
7 3 (1.61%) BeanShell
7 3 (1.61%) C#
8 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 46 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.44%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (11.83%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.91%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.91%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.38%) CCIE
7 9 (4.84%) CCNP
7 9 (4.84%) CISSP
7 9 (4.84%) Degree
7 9 (4.84%) OCP
7 9 (4.84%) Oracle Certification
8 7 (3.76%) CCNA
8 7 (3.76%) JNCIE
8 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.23%) CISM
10 5 (2.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.14%) NIST
2 11 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.84%) PCI DSS
4 8 (4.30%) GDPR
5 6 (3.23%) NCSC
6 5 (2.69%) NIST 800
7 4 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.15%) GRC
8 3 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.08%) QA
10 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (24.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (18.28%) Active Directory
3 32 (17.20%) vSphere
4 27 (14.52%) VMware NSX
5 12 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (5.38%) Hyper-V
6 10 (5.38%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (4.84%) Docker
8 5 (2.69%) NFS
9 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 79 (42.47%) Terraform
2 56 (30.11%) Ansible
2 56 (30.11%) Kubernetes
3 24 (12.90%) Grafana
4 16 (8.60%) vCenter Server
5 15 (8.06%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.91%) Argo
7 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.69%) Istio
8 5 (2.69%) SnapMirror
9 4 (2.15%) Rancher
10 3 (1.61%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.61%) vMotion
10 3 (1.61%) vRealize
11 2 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.08%) Check_MK
11 2 (1.08%) SCCM
11 2 (1.08%) SCOM
11 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 66 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 54 (29.03%) VMware
3 27 (14.52%) Palo Alto
4 24 (12.90%) Red Hat
5 22 (11.83%) F5
6 20 (10.75%) Cisco
7 19 (10.22%) Splunk
8 18 (9.68%) Aruba
9 16 (8.60%) Arista
10 11 (5.91%) Pure Storage
11 9 (4.84%) Google
11 9 (4.84%) IBM
12 8 (4.30%) CheckPoint
13 7 (3.76%) Fortinet
13 7 (3.76%) NetApp
14 5 (2.69%) Citrix
14 5 (2.69%) Juniper
15 4 (2.15%) SAP
16 3 (1.61%) Commvault
16 3 (1.61%) Zscaler