Hybrid Cloud Contract Job Trends

Hybrid Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 444 426
Rank change year-on-year +108 -18 +106
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 238 123 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.32% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 1.05% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 88 152
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £466 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £560 £550
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £65.67 - £26.43
25th Percentile £71.39 - £39.75
Median hourly rate £81.86 - £78.00
75th Percentile £91.39 - £79.50
90th Percentile £96.56 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -15.68%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,699 11,679 16,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 30.27% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,165 7,215 11,181
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -1.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £813 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 494 434
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.06 £16.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +14.06% +65.42%
75th Percentile £55.25 £70.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £74.63 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -47.69% +25.00% +108.55%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 September 2025. 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
England +117 219 £600 +9.09% 105
UK excluding London +88 138 £575 +2.68% 73
London +48 81 £593 +12.86% 55
Work from Home +57 73 £550 +1.15% 42
North of England +31 51 £600 +2.56% 14
North West +22 38 £600 +2.56% 7
South East +25 34 £525 -6.25% 27
Midlands +3 25 £700 - 11
South West +33 24 £700 +21.74% 8
West Midlands +4 21 £700 - 6
Yorkshire - 11 £588 - 5
East of England - 7 £518 - 10
Scotland +2 6 £525 +9.38% 2
East Midlands -5 4 £500 +11.11% 4
North East - 2 £600 - 2

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.04%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.68%) SAS
4 3 (1.26%) CMS
4 3 (1.26%) Confluence
4 3 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.84%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.84%) Apache
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Mule
6 1 (0.42%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 4 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.42%) Maximo
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 132 (55.46%) Azure
2 91 (38.24%) AWS
3 38 (15.97%) GCP
3 38 (15.97%) SaaS
4 30 (12.61%) Entra ID
5 22 (9.24%) Google Workspace
6 20 (8.40%) IaaS
6 20 (8.40%) PaaS
7 18 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (6.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 14 (5.88%) GitHub
10 13 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.04%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.20%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (4.20%) Azure Stack
12 10 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.78%) Azure AKS
13 9 (3.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 58 (24.37%) Firewall
2 34 (14.29%) VPN
3 28 (11.76%) WAN
4 24 (10.08%) Network Security
5 19 (7.98%) BGP
5 19 (7.98%) MPLS
6 16 (6.72%) DNS
7 13 (5.46%) SD-WAN
8 12 (5.04%) LAN
8 12 (5.04%) OSPF
9 10 (4.20%) SAN
10 8 (3.36%) SNMP
10 8 (3.36%) VSAN
11 7 (2.94%) DHCP
12 6 (2.52%) TACACS
12 6 (2.52%) VLAN
12 6 (2.52%) Wireless
13 5 (2.10%) NAS
13 5 (2.10%) NGFW
13 5 (2.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.94%) Metadata
2 6 (2.52%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.10%) Big Data
3 5 (2.10%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.10%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.68%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.26%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.42%) Flink
7 1 (0.42%) QlikView
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.42%) SQLite
7 1 (0.42%) Sqoop
7 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.04%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.62%) GitLab
3 8 (3.36%) Git
4 5 (2.10%) JIRA
5 2 (0.84%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 69 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.07%) Finance
3 33 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.62%) Banking
4 11 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.94%) Military
7 6 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.10%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.68%) Legal
9 4 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.68%) Marketing
10 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.26%) Law
10 3 (1.26%) Police
10 3 (1.26%) Retail
11 2 (0.84%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 76 (31.93%) Architect
2 28 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (11.76%) Senior
3 21 (8.82%) Consultant
4 17 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.30%) Network Architect
5 15 (6.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (5.88%) Azure Architect
6 14 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
7 11 (4.62%) Lead
8 10 (4.20%) Designer
8 10 (4.20%) Developer
8 10 (4.20%) Enterprise Architect
9 8 (3.36%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.36%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (3.36%) Project Manager
10 7 (2.94%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (2.94%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.46%) REST
2 7 (2.94%) JSON
3 6 (2.52%) NETCONF
3 6 (2.52%) YANG
4 5 (2.10%) Middleware
4 5 (2.10%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 5 (2.10%) XML
5 4 (1.68%) Kafka
6 3 (1.26%) .NET
6 3 (1.26%) CSS
6 3 (1.26%) HTML
6 3 (1.26%) MACH
7 2 (0.84%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.42%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.42%) gRPC
8 1 (0.42%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.42%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 29 (12.18%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.62%) Private Cloud
4 10 (4.20%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.36%) Replication
6 7 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.94%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.52%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.10%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.68%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.26%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.26%) Digital Signage
10 3 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.34%) Windows
2 23 (9.66%) Windows Server
3 20 (8.40%) Linux
4 3 (1.26%) Android
4 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.84%) Solaris
6 1 (0.42%) CentOS
6 1 (0.42%) Unix
6 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (22.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 51 (21.43%) Migration
3 49 (20.59%) DevOps
4 45 (18.91%) Agile
5 43 (18.07%) CI/CD
6 34 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 30 (12.61%) Roadmaps
8 28 (11.76%) Cloud Security
9 26 (10.92%) Containerisation
9 26 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (10.50%) TOGAF
10 25 (10.50%) User Experience
10 25 (10.50%) Zero Trust
11 23 (9.66%) Network Architecture
11 23 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (9.24%) Artificial Intelligence
12 22 (9.24%) Network Virtualisation
12 22 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (8.82%) Analytics
14 19 (7.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (19.75%) Python
2 25 (10.50%) PowerShell
3 18 (7.56%) Bicep
4 13 (5.46%) SQL
5 10 (4.20%) Java
6 8 (3.36%) Bash
7 5 (2.10%) Go
7 5 (2.10%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.68%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.68%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.84%) Rust
10 2 (0.84%) Scala
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.42%) Groovy
11 1 (0.42%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.42%) Perl
11 1 (0.42%) R
11 1 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.13%) Azure Certification
4 32 (13.45%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (8.40%) CCIE
6 18 (7.56%) AWS Certification
7 17 (7.14%) Degree
7 17 (7.14%) JNCIE
8 12 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (4.20%) CCNP
9 10 (4.20%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (3.78%) CISSP
10 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.94%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.94%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.52%) CCNA
12 6 (2.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.68%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.82%) GDPR
2 20 (8.40%) NIST
3 16 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.68%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.68%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.26%) GRC
5 3 (1.26%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.26%) NCSC
5 3 (1.26%) PSD2
6 2 (0.84%) SLA
7 1 (0.42%) GMP
7 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.42%) ITGC
7 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.42%) QA
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (13.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (12.61%) Active Directory
3 21 (8.82%) Docker
4 19 (7.98%) VMware NSX
5 14 (5.88%) vSphere
6 9 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.52%) Hyper-V
7 6 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (2.10%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.84%) Firmware
9 2 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.42%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 53 (22.27%) Terraform
2 35 (14.71%) Ansible
2 35 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.04%) Grafana
4 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.94%) Puppet
5 7 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.94%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.52%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.10%) Data Guard
7 5 (2.10%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (2.10%) PowerCLI
7 5 (2.10%) vRealize
8 4 (1.68%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.68%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (1.26%) SCCM
10 2 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.84%) CASB
10 2 (0.84%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.97%) VMware
3 36 (15.13%) Google
4 22 (9.24%) Cisco
5 12 (5.04%) Oracle
6 11 (4.62%) F5
7 10 (4.20%) Fortinet
8 9 (3.78%) Citrix
8 9 (3.78%) Databricks
9 8 (3.36%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.94%) Juniper
10 7 (2.94%) SAP
11 5 (2.10%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.10%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.68%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.68%) Dell
12 4 (1.68%) OpenAI
13 3 (1.26%) Commvault
13 3 (1.26%) Qualys
13 3 (1.26%) Tenable