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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 258 368
Rank change year-on-year -11 +110 -55
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 181 89 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.68% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.41% 2.03% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 43 9
10th Percentile £367 £463 £473
25th Percentile £425 £513 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -3.36% +7.69%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £600
90th Percentile £676 £741 £643
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -40.00% - -

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 7,500 4,389 6,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.61% 33.36% 28.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,571 2,670 3,570
10th Percentile £274 £210 £210
25th Percentile £400 £362 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £580 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 634 320 753
10th Percentile £15.72 £15.50 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £14.22
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.43 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.55% -7.34% +59.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.52 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.28 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £33.03 £35.50
% change year-on-year +28.08% -6.97% +59.51%

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 9 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
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 9 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 -35 74 £507 -2.97% 17
Yorkshire -29 40 £500 -20.00% 9
South East -37 40 £600 +4.35% 26
Midlands -40 32 £500 -25.93% 7
West Midlands -38 29 £500 -28.57% 7
North West -28 27 £550 +15.79% 7
South West -12 26 £400 -35.48% 10
North East -19 13 £650 - 1
Scotland -1 12 £595 +8.18% 3
East of England -34 4 £530 -3.64% 5
East Midlands -28 3 £503 -12.61%
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 7 (3.87%) Confluence
1 7 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.76%) Apache
2 5 (2.76%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.66%) IIS
3 3 (1.66%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.66%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.10%) CloudStack
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Maximo
2 2 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 120 (66.30%) Azure
2 90 (49.72%) AWS
3 27 (14.92%) GCP
3 27 (14.92%) OpenShift
4 21 (11.60%) SaaS
5 20 (11.05%) OCI
6 17 (9.39%) GitHub
7 13 (7.18%) IaaS
8 12 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (5.52%) Entra ID
10 9 (4.97%) Azure AKS
10 9 (4.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (4.42%) PaaS
12 7 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (2.21%) Nutanix
16 3 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (22.65%) Firewall
2 37 (20.44%) WAN
3 29 (16.02%) BGP
4 25 (13.81%) DNS
5 24 (13.26%) VXLAN
6 23 (12.71%) SD-WAN
7 22 (12.15%) OSPF
8 21 (11.60%) Ethernet VPN
8 21 (11.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 19 (10.50%) BIG-IP
10 13 (7.18%) LAN
11 12 (6.63%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (6.08%) SAN
12 11 (6.08%) VPN
12 11 (6.08%) WLAN
13 10 (5.52%) Network Security
14 8 (4.42%) MPLS
14 8 (4.42%) VSAN
15 6 (3.31%) DHCP
16 5 (2.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.55%) Big Data
3 1 (0.55%) Firebird
3 1 (0.55%) Metadata
3 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.55%) Power BI
3 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (12.15%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.94%) GitLab
3 12 (6.63%) Git
4 8 (4.42%) JIRA
5 4 (2.21%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.05%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.63%) Finance
4 10 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.42%) Banking
6 7 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Retail
8 1 (0.55%) Advertising
8 1 (0.55%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.55%) Legal
8 1 (0.55%) Military
8 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (28.18%) Architect
2 39 (21.55%) Senior
3 30 (16.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (9.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) Network Architect
6 13 (7.18%) Technical Architect
7 12 (6.63%) Lead
7 12 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.08%) Network Engineer
9 10 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Senior Architect
11 8 (4.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.31%) Desktop Engineer
13 6 (3.31%) Desktop Support
13 6 (3.31%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 6 (3.31%) Support Engineer
14 5 (2.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.71%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (5.52%) JSON
3 8 (4.42%) REST
4 7 (3.87%) Apache Avro
4 7 (3.87%) Kafka
4 7 (3.87%) NETCONF
4 7 (3.87%) Protocol Buffers
4 7 (3.87%) YANG
5 6 (3.31%) .NET
5 6 (3.31%) ARM Templates
6 4 (2.21%) Loki
6 4 (2.21%) OAuth
6 4 (2.21%) OpenID
7 3 (1.66%) LDAP
7 3 (1.66%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.66%) SAML
8 2 (1.10%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.10%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 44 (24.31%) Cloud Native
2 42 (23.20%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.08%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.42%) PKI
6 6 (3.31%) Replication
6 6 (3.31%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.76%) FlexPod
7 5 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.21%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.66%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.10%) Clustering
10 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.10%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.10%) Windows
2 33 (18.23%) Linux
3 24 (13.26%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.42%) VMS
6 6 (3.31%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (2.76%) CoreOS
7 5 (2.76%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.55%) CentOS
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (37.57%) CI/CD
2 65 (35.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (33.70%) DevOps
4 52 (28.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 47 (25.97%) Migration
6 36 (19.89%) Load Balancing
7 34 (18.78%) Disaster Recovery
8 32 (17.68%) Zero Trust
9 30 (16.57%) High Availability
10 29 (16.02%) Network Design
10 29 (16.02%) Roadmaps
11 26 (14.36%) Containerisation
12 25 (13.81%) Agile
12 25 (13.81%) RBAC
13 24 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (13.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 21 (11.60%) Observability
15 20 (11.05%) Network Architecture
16 16 (8.84%) Analytics
16 16 (8.84%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.25%) Python
2 33 (18.23%) PowerShell
3 23 (12.71%) Bash
4 11 (6.08%) Bicep
5 6 (3.31%) Go
5 6 (3.31%) Java
6 4 (2.21%) SQL
7 3 (1.66%) BeanShell
7 3 (1.66%) C#
8 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 47 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.68%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.81%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (12.15%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.08%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.08%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.52%) CCIE
7 9 (4.97%) CCNP
7 9 (4.97%) CISSP
7 9 (4.97%) Degree
7 9 (4.97%) OCP
7 9 (4.97%) Oracle Certification
8 7 (3.87%) CCNA
8 7 (3.87%) JNCIE
8 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.31%) CISM
10 5 (2.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.94%) NIST
2 12 (6.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.97%) PCI DSS
4 8 (4.42%) GDPR
5 7 (3.87%) NCSC
6 5 (2.76%) NIST 800
7 4 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.21%) GRC
8 3 (1.66%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (1.10%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.10%) QA
10 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (25.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (18.23%) Active Directory
2 33 (18.23%) vSphere
3 26 (14.36%) VMware NSX
4 11 (6.08%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (6.08%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (5.52%) Hyper-V
6 9 (4.97%) Docker
7 5 (2.76%) NFS
8 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 80 (44.20%) Terraform
2 55 (30.39%) Ansible
3 49 (27.07%) Kubernetes
4 22 (12.15%) Grafana
5 16 (8.84%) vCenter Server
6 13 (7.18%) Prometheus
7 11 (6.08%) Argo
8 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.76%) Istio
9 5 (2.76%) SnapMirror
10 4 (2.21%) Rancher
11 3 (1.66%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.66%) vMotion
11 3 (1.66%) vRealize
12 2 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.10%) Check_MK
12 2 (1.10%) SCCM
12 2 (1.10%) SCOM
13 1 (0.55%) CASB
13 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (35.91%) Microsoft
2 54 (29.83%) VMware
3 28 (15.47%) Palo Alto
4 24 (13.26%) F5
4 24 (13.26%) Red Hat
5 20 (11.05%) Aruba
5 20 (11.05%) Cisco
6 19 (10.50%) Splunk
7 18 (9.94%) Arista
8 11 (6.08%) Pure Storage
9 9 (4.97%) Google
9 9 (4.97%) IBM
10 8 (4.42%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.87%) Fortinet
11 7 (3.87%) NetApp
12 5 (2.76%) Juniper
13 4 (2.21%) Citrix
13 4 (2.21%) SAP
14 3 (1.66%) Commvault
14 3 (1.66%) ServiceNow