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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 232 314
Rank change year-on-year -24 +82 +7
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 237 138 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.89% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.71% 2.58% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 75 35
10th Percentile £413 £419 £460
25th Percentile £500 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £700
90th Percentile £725 £708 £738
UK median daily rate £578 £575 £555
% change year-on-year +0.43% +3.60% -5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £61.74 - -
25th Percentile £63.06 - -
Median hourly rate £69.61 - -
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £84.86 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -13.26% - -

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 8,748 5,347 5,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.04% 34.57% 28.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,074 3,186 2,923
10th Percentile £281 £220 £213
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £604
90th Percentile £688 £663 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 426 387
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.78 £13.80
25th Percentile £17.36 £18.50 £20.63
Median hourly rate £38.72 £30.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +28.84% -47.60% +17.04%
75th Percentile £69.75 £58.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
South East -15 90 £615 +17.14% 102
North of England -59 71 £568 -5.42% 72
Yorkshire -21 36 £557 -5.28% 24
Midlands -37 36 £500 -28.57% 60
West Midlands -43 30 £500 -28.57% 33
North West -51 28 £575 -4.17% 42
South West -40 27 £669 -4.46% 54
North East -30 13 £650 +8.33% 7
Scotland -21 9 £620 +24.00% 31
East Midlands -5 6 £478 -4.50% 27
East of England -29 6 £505 - 15
Wales - 3 £670 - 8
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 8
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 (3.80%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.53%) Apache
2 6 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.69%) Confluence
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.84%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.84%) IBM Transformation Extender
4 2 (0.84%) IIS
4 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.84%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.42%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.42%) Maximo
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 167 (70.46%) Azure
2 112 (47.26%) AWS
3 38 (16.03%) GCP
4 32 (13.50%) Entra ID
5 30 (12.66%) SaaS
6 26 (10.97%) OCI
7 22 (9.28%) OpenShift
8 20 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (8.02%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (7.17%) GitHub
11 13 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.64%) IaaS
13 10 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (3.38%) PaaS
15 8 (3.38%) Serverless
16 7 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (2.95%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (27.43%) Firewall
2 56 (23.63%) DNS
3 40 (16.88%) WAN
4 38 (16.03%) BGP
5 31 (13.08%) DHCP
5 31 (13.08%) VPN
6 25 (10.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 25 (10.55%) OSPF
6 25 (10.55%) SD-WAN
7 24 (10.13%) TCP/IP
8 23 (9.70%) BIG-IP
8 23 (9.70%) LAN
9 22 (9.28%) VXLAN
10 21 (8.86%) Ethernet VPN
11 17 (7.17%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (6.33%) MPLS
13 14 (5.91%) Network Security
14 12 (5.06%) VSAN
14 12 (5.06%) WLAN
15 7 (2.95%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.27%) Power BI
3 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.84%) EDRMS
3 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.42%) Big Data
4 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.42%) GIS
4 1 (0.42%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (11.39%) GitLab
2 24 (10.13%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.75%) Git
4 5 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.69%) JIRA
6 2 (0.84%) Maven
6 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.42%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 72 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.81%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.59%) Finance
5 16 (6.75%) Aerospace
6 15 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.80%) Banking
8 7 (2.95%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.53%) Retail
10 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.27%) Law
11 3 (1.27%) Military
11 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Legal
13 1 (0.42%) Advertising
13 1 (0.42%) Billing
13 1 (0.42%) Marketing
13 1 (0.42%) Police
13 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (32.91%) Architect
2 68 (28.69%) Senior
3 46 (19.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (12.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (9.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (8.86%) Network Engineer
6 21 (8.86%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (8.02%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (7.59%) Lead
9 17 (7.17%) Network Architect
10 16 (6.75%) Technical Architect
11 15 (6.33%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (4.64%) Senior Architect
13 10 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.22%) Technical Leader
14 8 (3.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.38%) Enterprise Architect
14 8 (3.38%) Senior Network Engineer
15 7 (2.95%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (40.93%) Terraform
2 17 (7.17%) ARM Templates
3 9 (3.80%) NETCONF
3 9 (3.80%) YANG
4 7 (2.95%) REST
5 6 (2.53%) SailPoint
6 5 (2.11%) JSON
6 5 (2.11%) Kafka
6 5 (2.11%) LDAP
6 5 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.69%) Middleware
7 4 (1.69%) OAuth
7 4 (1.69%) OpenConfig
7 4 (1.69%) RESTCONF
8 3 (1.27%) .NET
8 3 (1.27%) OpenID
8 3 (1.27%) SAML
9 2 (0.84%) Web Services
9 2 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.78%) Cloud Native
2 47 (19.83%) Data Centre
3 26 (10.97%) Public Cloud
4 19 (8.02%) Onboarding
5 18 (7.59%) Private Cloud
6 17 (7.17%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.38%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.95%) ARM Cortex
8 7 (2.95%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.95%) Replication
9 6 (2.53%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.11%) PKI
11 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.27%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 59 (24.89%) Windows
2 51 (21.52%) Windows Server
3 44 (18.57%) Linux
4 6 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.11%) VMS
6 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.69%) Unix
7 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (40.51%) Infrastructure as Code
2 88 (37.13%) DevOps
3 81 (34.18%) CI/CD
4 68 (28.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 55 (23.21%) Migration
6 53 (22.36%) Zero Trust
7 49 (20.68%) Disaster Recovery
8 48 (20.25%) Roadmaps
9 43 (18.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (16.03%) Agile
10 38 (16.03%) Load Balancing
11 37 (15.61%) Technical Leadership
12 36 (15.19%) Cybersecurity
12 36 (15.19%) High Availability
12 36 (15.19%) Platform Engineering
13 34 (14.35%) ITIL
14 33 (13.92%) Cloud Security
14 33 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (13.50%) Observability
16 31 (13.08%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 67 (28.27%) Python
2 49 (20.68%) PowerShell
3 38 (16.03%) Bash
4 25 (10.55%) Bicep
5 11 (4.64%) Java
6 5 (2.11%) BeanShell
7 4 (1.69%) Go
7 4 (1.69%) SQL
8 3 (1.27%) Groovy
8 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.84%) C#
10 1 (0.42%) COBOL
10 1 (0.42%) JCL
Qualifications
1 88 (37.13%) Security Cleared
2 61 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.92%) DV Cleared
4 31 (13.08%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (10.13%) Azure Certification
6 21 (8.86%) Degree
7 17 (7.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 14 (5.91%) AWS Certification
9 13 (5.49%) CCNP
10 12 (5.06%) CCIE
11 11 (4.64%) CISSP
12 9 (3.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (3.80%) JNCIE
12 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.53%) VCAP
15 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
16 3 (1.27%) CEH
16 3 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.59%) NIST
2 12 (5.06%) NCSC
3 10 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.11%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.69%) GDPR
7 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) PSD2
8 1 (0.42%) SEPA
8 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (21.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (20.25%) Active Directory
3 29 (12.24%) VMware NSX
4 28 (11.81%) vSphere
5 19 (8.02%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (7.17%) Docker
6 17 (7.17%) Hyper-V
7 12 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.84%) KVM
9 1 (0.42%) RACF
9 1 (0.42%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (30.38%) Ansible
2 48 (20.25%) Kubernetes
3 20 (8.44%) Grafana
4 14 (5.91%) vCenter Server
5 12 (5.06%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.80%) SCCM
7 7 (2.95%) Argo
8 6 (2.53%) PowerCLI
9 5 (2.11%) Istio
9 5 (2.11%) SCOM
10 4 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.27%) CASB
11 3 (1.27%) vMotion
12 2 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.84%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.84%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.84%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 2 (0.84%) vRealize
12 2 (0.84%) VxRail
Vendors
1 106 (44.73%) Microsoft
2 64 (27.00%) VMware
3 34 (14.35%) Palo Alto
4 31 (13.08%) F5
5 26 (10.97%) Cisco
6 20 (8.44%) Aruba
7 19 (8.02%) Arista
8 15 (6.33%) Google
9 12 (5.06%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.80%) IBM
11 8 (3.38%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (3.38%) Fortinet
12 7 (2.95%) CyberArk
12 7 (2.95%) Splunk
13 6 (2.53%) SAP
14 5 (2.11%) Juniper
14 5 (2.11%) Pure Storage
14 5 (2.11%) ServiceNow
14 5 (2.11%) SolarWinds
15 4 (1.69%) Databricks