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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 243 315
Rank change year-on-year -15 +72 +1
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 235 137 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.87% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.62% 2.50% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 80 38
10th Percentile £413 £415 £460
25th Percentile £515 £475 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -2.17% -
75th Percentile £670 £638 £697
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% -
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 £63.72 -
% change year-on-year +11.43% - -

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 8,954 5,489 5,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.80% 34.82% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,041 3,292 2,816
10th Percentile £275 £225 £205
25th Percentile £405 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £694 £664 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £526
% change year-on-year +1.32% -1.49% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,040 451 328
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.18
25th Percentile £17.16 £17.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £35.51 £27.54 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.94% -50.60% +9.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.54 £47.50
% change year-on-year +30.74% -42.03% +6.15%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -6 89 £615 +17.14% 71
North of England -44 65 £575 -4.17% 78
Midlands -41 35 £500 -23.08% 41
Yorkshire -13 33 £568 +5.58% 17
South West -33 30 £675 -3.57% 53
West Midlands -38 29 £500 -28.57% 27
North West -54 25 £575 -4.17% 51
North East -28 13 £650 +8.33% 10
Scotland -15 11 £648 +43.89% 20
East of England -33 7 £563 +11.94% 16
East Midlands -10 6 £478 -4.50% 14
Wales - 4 £670 - 7
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 3
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 11 (4.68%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.13%) Apache
3 4 (1.70%) Confluence
3 4 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.28%) IBM Transformation Extender
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.85%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.43%) CICS
6 1 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.43%) Maximo
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 164 (69.79%) Azure
2 104 (44.26%) AWS
3 41 (17.45%) GCP
4 34 (14.47%) Entra ID
5 32 (13.62%) SaaS
6 26 (11.06%) OCI
7 23 (9.79%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (8.09%) OpenShift
9 17 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (5.53%) GitHub
11 12 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (5.11%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (4.68%) IaaS
13 10 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.83%) PaaS
15 8 (3.40%) Serverless
16 7 (2.98%) AWS Direct Connect
16 7 (2.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 6 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (27.23%) Firewall
2 55 (23.40%) DNS
3 40 (17.02%) BGP
4 38 (16.17%) WAN
5 35 (14.89%) DHCP
5 35 (14.89%) VPN
6 27 (11.49%) SD-WAN
6 27 (11.49%) TCP/IP
7 25 (10.64%) OSPF
8 23 (9.79%) BIG-IP
8 23 (9.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 22 (9.36%) VXLAN
10 21 (8.94%) Ethernet VPN
11 19 (8.09%) LAN
12 17 (7.23%) Network Security
12 17 (7.23%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (6.38%) MPLS
14 12 (5.11%) WLAN
15 10 (4.26%) VSAN
16 8 (3.40%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.55%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.28%) Power BI
4 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.85%) EDRMS
4 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.43%) Big Data
5 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.43%) GIS
5 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (11.91%) GitLab
2 20 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.23%) Git
4 5 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.70%) JIRA
6 2 (0.85%) Maven
6 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.43%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 22 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.66%) Finance
5 17 (7.23%) Aerospace
6 13 (5.53%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.40%) Banking
7 8 (3.40%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.98%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.13%) Retail
10 4 (1.70%) Military
11 3 (1.28%) Law
11 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Billing
13 1 (0.43%) Legal
13 1 (0.43%) Marketing
13 1 (0.43%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 79 (33.62%) Architect
2 68 (28.94%) Senior
3 47 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 33 (14.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 27 (11.49%) Solutions Architect
6 23 (9.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (8.94%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (8.09%) Network Engineer
9 16 (6.81%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (6.38%) Network Architect
11 11 (4.68%) Lead
11 11 (4.68%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) Senior Architect
14 8 (3.40%) Enterprise Architect
14 8 (3.40%) Security Architect
14 8 (3.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.40%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (40.85%) Terraform
2 20 (8.51%) ARM Templates
3 9 (3.83%) NETCONF
3 9 (3.83%) YANG
4 8 (3.40%) REST
5 7 (2.98%) Kafka
6 6 (2.55%) Middleware
6 6 (2.55%) SailPoint
7 5 (2.13%) LDAP
8 4 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.70%) JSON
8 4 (1.70%) Keycloak
8 4 (1.70%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.70%) RESTCONF
9 3 (1.28%) OAuth
10 2 (0.85%) .NET
10 2 (0.85%) OpenID
10 2 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.85%) SAML
10 2 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.85%) Cloud Native
2 47 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 24 (10.21%) Public Cloud
4 23 (9.79%) Onboarding
5 20 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (7.66%) Private Cloud
7 10 (4.26%) ARM Cortex
8 9 (3.83%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.98%) Operational Technology
10 6 (2.55%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (2.13%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.70%) Mainframe
13 3 (1.28%) Blockchain
13 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (1.28%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 59 (25.11%) Windows
2 49 (20.85%) Windows Server
3 44 (18.72%) Linux
4 4 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.70%) Unix
5 3 (1.28%) VMS
6 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (42.98%) Infrastructure as Code
2 89 (37.87%) DevOps
3 80 (34.04%) CI/CD
4 67 (28.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 53 (22.55%) Zero Trust
6 52 (22.13%) Migration
7 49 (20.85%) Roadmaps
8 46 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (17.87%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (17.45%) Agile
11 40 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (16.60%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (16.17%) Disaster Recovery
14 36 (15.32%) ITIL
15 34 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (14.04%) Observability
17 32 (13.62%) Cloud Security
17 32 (13.62%) Load Balancing
18 31 (13.19%) Network Design
19 30 (12.77%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 65 (27.66%) Python
2 48 (20.43%) PowerShell
3 36 (15.32%) Bash
4 28 (11.91%) Bicep
5 10 (4.26%) Java
6 6 (2.55%) Go
7 5 (2.13%) BeanShell
8 4 (1.70%) SQL
9 3 (1.28%) Groovy
9 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.43%) C#
10 1 (0.43%) COBOL
10 1 (0.43%) JCL
Qualifications
1 92 (39.15%) Security Cleared
2 62 (26.38%) SC Cleared
3 37 (15.74%) DV Cleared
4 29 (12.34%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (11.06%) Azure Certification
6 20 (8.51%) Degree
7 14 (5.96%) AWS Certification
7 14 (5.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (5.11%) CCIE
9 11 (4.68%) CCNP
9 11 (4.68%) CISSP
10 9 (3.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (3.83%) JNCIE
10 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.13%) VCAP
13 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.53%) NIST
2 10 (4.26%) NCSC
3 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.85%) GDPR
8 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) GxP
8 1 (0.43%) PSD2
8 1 (0.43%) SEPA
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (20.85%) Active Directory
2 44 (18.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (10.21%) vSphere
4 20 (8.51%) VMware NSX
5 19 (8.09%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (6.81%) Hyper-V
7 15 (6.38%) Docker
8 9 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.85%) KVM
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.43%) RACF
10 1 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 69 (29.36%) Ansible
2 45 (19.15%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.38%) Grafana
4 12 (5.11%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.11%) SCCM
5 11 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (4.26%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.13%) Istio
7 5 (2.13%) PowerCLI
7 5 (2.13%) SCOM
8 4 (1.70%) Argo
9 3 (1.28%) CASB
9 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.28%) Tivoli
9 3 (1.28%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.85%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.85%) VxRail
11 1 (0.43%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.43%) vMotion
Vendors
1 107 (45.53%) Microsoft
2 54 (22.98%) VMware
3 31 (13.19%) Palo Alto
4 29 (12.34%) F5
5 24 (10.21%) Cisco
6 20 (8.51%) Aruba
7 19 (8.09%) Arista
8 16 (6.81%) Google
9 11 (4.68%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (3.40%) Fortinet
10 8 (3.40%) IBM
11 7 (2.98%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.98%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.98%) SAP
12 5 (2.13%) Juniper
12 5 (2.13%) SaltStack
12 5 (2.13%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.13%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.70%) Databricks
13 4 (1.70%) Oracle