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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 254 365
Rank change year-on-year -6 +111 -39
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 207 104 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.75% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.62% 2.24% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 57 13
10th Percentile £397 £450 £460
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £611
90th Percentile £706 £705 £755
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 7,895 4,635 6,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.05% 33.64% 28.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,800 2,797 3,561
10th Percentile £281 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £593 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.64% -1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 367 752
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.13 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.51 £14.17
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.50 £35.58
Median % change year-on-year +44.13% -14.27% +58.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.15 £31.29 £35.65
% change year-on-year +34.73% -12.24% +58.44%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -40 79 £517 -13.86% 19
South East -35 58 £625 +8.70% 26
Yorkshire -20 43 £500 -20.00% 7
Midlands -39 35 £500 -35.48% 6
West Midlands -36 30 £500 -44.44% 3
North West -45 29 £558 -1.93% 12
South West -16 23 £498 -19.76% 7
North East -25 13 £650 +8.33%
Scotland -5 12 £595 +8.18% 5
East Midlands -14 5 £500 -13.04% 3
East of England -29 5 £530 -3.64% 3
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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 9 (4.35%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.42%) Apache
4 3 (1.45%) IIS
4 3 (1.45%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.45%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.97%) CloudStack
Applications
1 5 (2.42%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.97%) Maximo
2 2 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 131 (63.29%) Azure
2 109 (52.66%) AWS
3 34 (16.43%) GCP
4 30 (14.49%) OpenShift
5 27 (13.04%) SaaS
6 20 (9.66%) OCI
7 19 (9.18%) GitHub
8 14 (6.76%) Entra ID
8 14 (6.76%) IaaS
9 13 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.35%) PaaS
12 7 (3.38%) Azure AKS
12 7 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.93%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 50 (24.15%) Firewall
2 46 (22.22%) WAN
3 39 (18.84%) BGP
4 33 (15.94%) DNS
5 28 (13.53%) SD-WAN
6 26 (12.56%) OSPF
7 25 (12.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 24 (11.59%) LAN
9 23 (11.11%) BIG-IP
9 23 (11.11%) VXLAN
10 21 (10.14%) Ethernet VPN
11 18 (8.70%) VPN
12 17 (8.21%) MPLS
13 15 (7.25%) Network Security
13 15 (7.25%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (5.80%) SAN
14 12 (5.80%) WLAN
15 9 (4.35%) TCP/IP
16 8 (3.86%) DHCP
16 8 (3.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.42%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.48%) Big Data
4 1 (0.48%) Firebird
4 1 (0.48%) Metadata
4 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.70%) GitLab
3 13 (6.28%) Git
4 10 (4.83%) JIRA
5 4 (1.93%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.56%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.76%) Finance
4 13 (6.28%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.83%) Banking
6 9 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.42%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.45%) Retail
10 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Police
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (32.37%) Architect
2 43 (20.77%) Senior
3 34 (16.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (9.18%) Network Architect
4 19 (9.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (8.70%) Technical Architect
6 17 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (7.73%) Lead
8 15 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (6.28%) Network Engineer
10 11 (5.31%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) Senior Architect
12 8 (3.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.38%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (3.38%) IP Architect
13 7 (3.38%) Lead Architect
13 7 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
14 6 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
15 5 (2.42%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (5.80%) JSON
3 11 (5.31%) NETCONF
3 11 (5.31%) YANG
4 10 (4.83%) REST
5 7 (3.38%) Apache Avro
5 7 (3.38%) Kafka
5 7 (3.38%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (2.90%) .NET
7 5 (2.42%) LDAP
7 5 (2.42%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.93%) Loki
8 4 (1.93%) OAuth
8 4 (1.93%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.93%) OpenID
8 4 (1.93%) RESTCONF
9 3 (1.45%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.45%) Middleware
9 3 (1.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 50 (24.15%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.76%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.28%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.31%) Private Cloud
6 10 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.86%) PKI
9 6 (2.90%) Replication
9 6 (2.90%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.42%) FlexPod
10 5 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.45%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.36%) Windows
2 33 (15.94%) Linux
3 24 (11.59%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.35%) VMS
6 6 (2.90%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.42%) CoreOS
8 4 (1.93%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.27%) CI/CD
2 70 (33.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (32.37%) DevOps
4 53 (25.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 51 (24.64%) Migration
6 40 (19.32%) Zero Trust
7 37 (17.87%) Disaster Recovery
8 36 (17.39%) Load Balancing
8 36 (17.39%) Network Design
8 36 (17.39%) Roadmaps
9 34 (16.43%) High Availability
10 28 (13.53%) Agile
11 27 (13.04%) Containerisation
12 26 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (12.08%) Network Architecture
13 25 (12.08%) RBAC
14 24 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (11.11%) Observability
16 21 (10.14%) TOGAF
17 20 (9.66%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.82%) Python
2 34 (16.43%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.08%) Bash
4 10 (4.83%) Java
5 9 (4.35%) Bicep
6 6 (2.90%) Go
7 5 (2.42%) BeanShell
7 5 (2.42%) SQL
8 3 (1.45%) C#
9 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.91%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (15.94%) SC Cleared
4 25 (12.08%) DV Cleared
5 15 (7.25%) AWS Certification
5 15 (7.25%) CCIE
6 13 (6.28%) CCNP
6 13 (6.28%) Degree
7 12 (5.80%) Azure Certification
8 11 (5.31%) JNCIE
8 11 (5.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (4.35%) CISSP
9 9 (4.35%) OCP
9 9 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.38%) CCNA
11 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.21%) NIST
2 12 (5.80%) NCSC
3 9 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.35%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.86%) GDPR
5 4 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.93%) GRC
6 3 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.97%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.48%) PSD2
8 1 (0.48%) QA
8 1 (0.48%) SEPA
8 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (23.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (16.91%) Active Directory
3 33 (15.94%) vSphere
4 31 (14.98%) VMware NSX
5 13 (6.28%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (5.31%) Docker
6 11 (5.31%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (4.83%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.42%) NFS
9 2 (0.97%) KVM
9 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 84 (40.58%) Terraform
2 62 (29.95%) Ansible
3 49 (23.67%) Kubernetes
4 25 (12.08%) Grafana
5 16 (7.73%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.25%) vCenter Server
7 12 (5.80%) Argo
8 5 (2.42%) Istio
8 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.42%) SnapMirror
9 4 (1.93%) CASB
9 4 (1.93%) Rancher
10 3 (1.45%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.45%) vMotion
10 3 (1.45%) vRealize
11 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.97%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.97%) SCCM
11 2 (0.97%) SCOM
11 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (35.27%) Microsoft
2 60 (28.99%) VMware
3 34 (16.43%) Palo Alto
4 30 (14.49%) F5
5 27 (13.04%) Cisco
6 22 (10.63%) Red Hat
7 19 (9.18%) Arista
7 19 (9.18%) Aruba
7 19 (9.18%) Splunk
8 13 (6.28%) Google
9 11 (5.31%) Pure Storage
10 9 (4.35%) Fortinet
11 8 (3.86%) IBM
12 7 (3.38%) CheckPoint
12 7 (3.38%) NetApp
12 7 (3.38%) SolarWinds
13 6 (2.90%) Juniper
14 5 (2.42%) CyberArk
15 4 (1.93%) Citrix
15 4 (1.93%) SAP