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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 243 332
Rank change year-on-year -11 +89 -16
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 227 128 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.84% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.73% 2.49% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 68 22
10th Percentile £407 £440 £460
25th Percentile £500 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £588 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +0.43% +6.36%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £697
90th Percentile £717 £700 £766
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +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 £68.75 £81.86 -
% change year-on-year -16.01% - -

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 8,328 5,141 5,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.55% 33.72% 29.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,020 3,049 3,228
10th Percentile £298 £226 £220
25th Percentile £402 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 747 406 522
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.51 £15.65
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £68.85
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +49.02% -30.59% +15.25%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -42 82 £519 -13.47% 42
South East -23 76 £615 +17.14% 47
Yorkshire -10 44 £500 -20.00% 17
Midlands -35 36 £500 -28.57% 8
West Midlands -46 31 £500 -28.57% 4
North West -62 31 £565 -5.83% 23
South West -36 20 £575 -17.86% 18
North East -29 13 £650 +8.33% 2
Scotland -1 11 £595 +8.18% 3
East of England -16 6 £518 -5.91% 3
East Midlands -10 5 £478 +11.05% 4
Wales - 2 £635 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 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 (3.96%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.08%) Confluence
2 7 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.20%) Apache
4 3 (1.32%) IIS
4 3 (1.32%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.32%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.88%) CloudStack
Applications
1 7 (3.08%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.44%) Maximo
3 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 149 (65.64%) Azure
2 116 (51.10%) AWS
3 38 (16.74%) GCP
4 31 (13.66%) OpenShift
5 27 (11.89%) SaaS
6 25 (11.01%) Entra ID
7 24 (10.57%) GitHub
8 23 (10.13%) OCI
9 16 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (6.17%) IaaS
11 12 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (4.41%) PaaS
14 8 (3.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (3.08%) Azure AKS
15 7 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
17 5 (2.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 57 (25.11%) Firewall
2 46 (20.26%) WAN
3 44 (19.38%) DNS
4 40 (17.62%) BGP
5 28 (12.33%) SD-WAN
6 27 (11.89%) OSPF
7 25 (11.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 25 (11.01%) VPN
8 24 (10.57%) LAN
8 24 (10.57%) VXLAN
9 23 (10.13%) BIG-IP
10 22 (9.69%) Ethernet VPN
11 19 (8.37%) TCP/IP
12 18 (7.93%) DHCP
12 18 (7.93%) MPLS
13 17 (7.49%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (7.05%) Network Security
15 12 (5.29%) WLAN
16 11 (4.85%) SAN
17 9 (3.96%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.44%) Big Data
4 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.44%) Firebird
4 1 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.44%) GIS
4 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.44%) Metadata
4 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (11.45%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.69%) GitLab
3 17 (7.49%) Git
4 8 (3.52%) JIRA
5 5 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.76%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 70 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.22%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.49%) Finance
4 16 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.29%) Banking
7 7 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.64%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Military
10 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Retail
11 2 (0.88%) Law
11 2 (0.88%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Police
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (33.48%) Architect
2 50 (22.03%) Senior
3 37 (16.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (10.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (8.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (8.37%) Lead
6 19 (8.37%) Network Architect
6 19 (8.37%) Technical Architect
7 16 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (7.05%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (6.61%) Network Engineer
9 11 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.85%) Senior Architect
10 10 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.52%) Technical Leader
12 7 (3.08%) Consultant
12 7 (3.08%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (3.08%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (4.85%) JSON
2 11 (4.85%) NETCONF
2 11 (4.85%) YANG
3 10 (4.41%) ARM Templates
4 8 (3.52%) Kafka
4 8 (3.52%) REST
5 6 (2.64%) .NET
5 6 (2.64%) Apache Avro
5 6 (2.64%) OpenConfig
5 6 (2.64%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (2.64%) RESTCONF
6 5 (2.20%) LDAP
6 5 (2.20%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.76%) Loki
7 4 (1.76%) OAuth
7 4 (1.76%) OpenID
8 3 (1.32%) Middleware
8 3 (1.32%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (22.47%) Cloud Native
2 50 (22.03%) Data Centre
3 17 (7.49%) Onboarding
4 16 (7.05%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.73%) Private Cloud
6 11 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.52%) PKI
9 6 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.64%) ARM Cortex
9 6 (2.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.64%) Replication
9 6 (2.64%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.20%) FlexPod
10 5 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.20%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.20%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.32%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 47 (20.70%) Windows
2 46 (20.26%) Linux
3 38 (16.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.96%) VMS
6 6 (2.64%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.20%) CoreOS
8 4 (1.76%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.88%) Unix
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (37.00%) CI/CD
2 82 (36.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 75 (33.04%) DevOps
4 62 (27.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 55 (24.23%) Migration
6 46 (20.26%) Zero Trust
7 43 (18.94%) Disaster Recovery
8 38 (16.74%) High Availability
9 37 (16.30%) Load Balancing
9 37 (16.30%) Roadmaps
10 35 (15.42%) Network Design
11 31 (13.66%) Observability
12 30 (13.22%) Agile
13 29 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (11.89%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (11.45%) Containerisation
16 26 (11.45%) RBAC
16 26 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (33.48%) Python
2 42 (18.50%) PowerShell
3 36 (15.86%) Bash
4 18 (7.93%) Bicep
5 10 (4.41%) Java
6 6 (2.64%) Go
6 6 (2.64%) SQL
7 5 (2.20%) BeanShell
8 3 (1.32%) C#
9 1 (0.44%) Groovy
9 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 43 (18.94%) SC Cleared
3 33 (14.54%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (13.66%) DV Cleared
5 18 (7.93%) Degree
6 17 (7.49%) Azure Certification
7 15 (6.61%) AWS Certification
7 15 (6.61%) CCIE
8 14 (6.17%) CCNP
9 12 (5.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (4.85%) JNCIE
11 9 (3.96%) OCP
11 9 (3.96%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.08%) CISSP
13 7 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (2.20%) CCNA
16 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.49%) NIST
2 12 (5.29%) NCSC
3 10 (4.41%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.52%) GDPR
4 8 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.76%) GRC
7 3 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.44%) PSD2
8 1 (0.44%) QA
8 1 (0.44%) SEPA
8 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (21.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (19.38%) Active Directory
3 33 (14.54%) vSphere
4 31 (13.66%) VMware NSX
5 13 (5.73%) Docker
5 13 (5.73%) Hyper-V
5 13 (5.73%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (5.29%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.20%) NFS
8 2 (0.88%) KVM
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 98 (43.17%) Terraform
2 71 (31.28%) Ansible
3 52 (22.91%) Kubernetes
4 25 (11.01%) Grafana
5 17 (7.49%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.17%) vCenter Server
7 13 (5.73%) Argo
8 8 (3.52%) SCCM
9 7 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.64%) Istio
11 5 (2.20%) SnapMirror
12 4 (1.76%) CASB
12 4 (1.76%) Rancher
13 2 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.88%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.88%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.88%) vMotion
13 2 (0.88%) vRealize
13 2 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 89 (39.21%) Microsoft
2 62 (27.31%) VMware
3 38 (16.74%) Palo Alto
4 33 (14.54%) F5
5 31 (13.66%) Cisco
6 21 (9.25%) Red Hat
7 20 (8.81%) Aruba
8 19 (8.37%) Arista
9 17 (7.49%) Splunk
10 15 (6.61%) Google
11 12 (5.29%) Fortinet
12 11 (4.85%) Pure Storage
13 8 (3.52%) Juniper
14 7 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (3.08%) IBM
14 7 (3.08%) SolarWinds
15 6 (2.64%) CyberArk
15 6 (2.64%) NetApp
15 6 (2.64%) SAP
16 5 (2.20%) CheckPoint