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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 265 367
Rank change year-on-year +4 +102 -39
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 200 93 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.69% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.59% 2.04% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 46 12
10th Percentile £387 £456 £464
25th Percentile £463 £513 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -3.77% +8.14%
75th Percentile £640 £625 £633
90th Percentile £700 £763 £762
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
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 7,734 4,549 6,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.85% 33.85% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,702 2,747 3,585
10th Percentile £281 £220 £211
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £592 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 671 343 773
10th Percentile £15.72 £15.36 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.82 £18.87 £14.41
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.76 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.41% -10.54% +61.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.35 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.60 £32.79 £35.65
% change year-on-year +29.93% -8.02% +58.55%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -32 76 £514 -1.86% 15
South East -33 52 £625 +8.70% 27
Yorkshire -23 42 £500 -20.00% 7
Midlands -38 34 £500 -35.48% 6
West Midlands -38 30 £500 -44.44% 5
South West -13 27 £445 -28.23% 7
North West -34 27 £558 +17.37% 8
North East -29 13 £650 +8.33%
Scotland +1 12 £595 +8.18% 3
East Midlands -16 4 £500 -13.04% 1
East of England -30 4 £530 -3.64% 5
Wales - 2 £635 - 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 9 (4.50%) Confluence
2 7 (3.50%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.50%) Apache
4 3 (1.50%) IIS
4 3 (1.50%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.50%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.00%) CloudStack
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Maximo
2 3 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 126 (63.00%) Azure
2 104 (52.00%) AWS
3 31 (15.50%) OpenShift
4 30 (15.00%) GCP
5 25 (12.50%) SaaS
6 20 (10.00%) OCI
7 17 (8.50%) GitHub
8 13 (6.50%) IaaS
9 12 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.00%) Entra ID
9 12 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.50%) Azure AKS
10 9 (4.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (4.00%) PaaS
12 7 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 45 (22.50%) Firewall
2 40 (20.00%) WAN
3 34 (17.00%) BGP
4 30 (15.00%) DNS
5 25 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 24 (12.00%) OSPF
7 23 (11.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 23 (11.50%) VXLAN
8 21 (10.50%) BIG-IP
8 21 (10.50%) Ethernet VPN
9 18 (9.00%) LAN
10 16 (8.00%) VPN
11 13 (6.50%) MPLS
11 13 (6.50%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (6.00%) Network Security
12 12 (6.00%) SAN
12 12 (6.00%) WLAN
13 8 (4.00%) DHCP
13 8 (4.00%) VSAN
14 6 (3.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.50%) Big Data
4 1 (0.50%) Firebird
4 1 (0.50%) Metadata
4 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (11.00%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.00%) GitLab
3 13 (6.50%) Git
4 10 (5.00%) JIRA
5 4 (2.00%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.00%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
3 12 (6.00%) Finance
4 9 (4.50%) Banking
5 6 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.00%) Retail
7 1 (0.50%) Advertising
7 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.50%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.50%) Legal
7 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.50%) Military
7 1 (0.50%) Police
7 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (30.00%) Architect
2 42 (21.00%) Senior
3 34 (17.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (9.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (8.00%) Network Architect
6 15 (7.50%) Technical Architect
7 14 (7.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.50%) Lead
9 12 (6.00%) Network Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) Senior Architect
11 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.50%) IP Architect
12 7 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
14 5 (2.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (6.00%) JSON
3 10 (5.00%) REST
4 9 (4.50%) NETCONF
4 9 (4.50%) YANG
5 7 (3.50%) Apache Avro
5 7 (3.50%) Kafka
5 7 (3.50%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (3.00%) .NET
6 6 (3.00%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.50%) LDAP
7 5 (2.50%) SailPoint
8 4 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.00%) Loki
8 4 (2.00%) OAuth
8 4 (2.00%) OpenID
9 3 (1.50%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.50%) Middleware
9 3 (1.50%) SAML
10 2 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 44 (22.00%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.50%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (6.50%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.00%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.00%) PKI
7 7 (3.50%) Private Cloud
8 6 (3.00%) Replication
8 6 (3.00%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.50%) FlexPod
9 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.50%) Operational Technology
12 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.00%) Clustering
12 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (19.50%) Windows
2 33 (16.50%) Linux
3 24 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.00%) VMS
6 6 (3.00%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.50%) CoreOS
8 4 (2.00%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (34.50%) CI/CD
1 69 (34.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 66 (33.00%) DevOps
3 55 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 49 (24.50%) Migration
5 36 (18.00%) Load Balancing
5 36 (18.00%) Zero Trust
6 34 (17.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 34 (17.00%) Network Design
6 34 (17.00%) Roadmaps
7 33 (16.50%) High Availability
8 27 (13.50%) Containerisation
8 27 (13.50%) RBAC
9 26 (13.00%) Agile
9 26 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (11.50%) Network Architecture
12 22 (11.00%) Observability
13 21 (10.50%) TOGAF
14 18 (9.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.50%) Python
2 33 (16.50%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.50%) Bash
4 11 (5.50%) Bicep
5 10 (5.00%) Java
6 6 (3.00%) Go
7 5 (2.50%) BeanShell
7 5 (2.50%) SQL
8 3 (1.50%) C#
9 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (26.50%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.50%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (13.00%) DV Cleared
5 14 (7.00%) AWS Certification
6 13 (6.50%) Azure Certification
7 11 (5.50%) CCIE
7 11 (5.50%) CCNP
8 10 (5.00%) CISSP
9 9 (4.50%) Degree
9 9 (4.50%) JNCIE
9 9 (4.50%) OCP
9 9 (4.50%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (4.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.50%) CCNA
12 6 (3.00%) CISM
13 5 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.00%) NIST
2 12 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.00%) NCSC
4 9 (4.50%) PCI DSS
5 8 (4.00%) GDPR
6 5 (2.50%) NIST 800
7 4 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.00%) GRC
8 3 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.00%) QA
10 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (23.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (17.50%) Active Directory
3 33 (16.50%) vSphere
4 29 (14.50%) VMware NSX
5 13 (6.50%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (5.50%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (5.00%) Docker
7 10 (5.00%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.50%) NFS
9 2 (1.00%) KVM
9 2 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (41.50%) Terraform
2 58 (29.00%) Ansible
3 49 (24.50%) Kubernetes
4 25 (12.50%) Grafana
5 16 (8.00%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.50%) vCenter Server
7 11 (5.50%) Argo
8 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.50%) Istio
9 5 (2.50%) SnapMirror
10 4 (2.00%) Rancher
11 3 (1.50%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.50%) vMotion
11 3 (1.50%) vRealize
12 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.00%) Check_MK
12 2 (1.00%) SCCM
12 2 (1.00%) SCOM
13 1 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 71 (35.50%) Microsoft
2 57 (28.50%) VMware
3 31 (15.50%) Palo Alto
4 26 (13.00%) F5
5 25 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 22 (11.00%) Cisco
7 19 (9.50%) Arista
7 19 (9.50%) Aruba
7 19 (9.50%) Splunk
8 11 (5.50%) IBM
8 11 (5.50%) Pure Storage
9 10 (5.00%) Google
10 7 (3.50%) CheckPoint
10 7 (3.50%) NetApp
11 6 (3.00%) Fortinet
12 5 (2.50%) CyberArk
12 5 (2.50%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.00%) Citrix
13 4 (2.00%) Juniper
13 4 (2.00%) SAP