Hybrid Cloud Contracts

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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 490 439
Rank change year-on-year +152 -51 +55
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 187 110 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.25% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 0.83% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 80 177
10th Percentile £462 £425 £448
25th Percentile £513 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.23% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £616 £675
90th Percentile £750 £729 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £598 £575
% change year-on-year +0.42% +3.91% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £38.28
25th Percentile - - £63.81
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £78.50
90th Percentile - - £79.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud.

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud.

Hourly rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 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 +137 170 £583 -0.43% 221
UK excluding London +126 104 £600 +0.42% 132
London +45 63 £550 +4.76% 95
Work from Home +62 55 £600 +14.29% 105
South East +69 36 £600 -1.23% 44
North of England +55 34 £537 -8.98% 22
North West +23 17 £524 -11.60% 11
South West +52 13 £620 +37.78% 22
Midlands +32 11 £650 +30.00% 31
Yorkshire +22 9 £715 +47.42% 11
West Midlands +20 7 £650 +30.00% 7
North East - 7 - -
Scotland +10 6 £588 +2.17% 7
East of England - 6 £550 - 7
East Midlands - 4 £613 - 24
Wales +5 1 £700 - 3

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 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.81%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.67%) Apache
3 5 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.14%) Confluence
5 2 (1.07%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.07%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.53%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 111 (59.36%) Azure
2 77 (41.18%) AWS
3 41 (21.93%) SaaS
4 32 (17.11%) PaaS
5 31 (16.58%) GCP
6 30 (16.04%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (15.51%) Entra ID
8 26 (13.90%) IaaS
9 18 (9.63%) Serverless
10 14 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (7.49%) GitHub
11 13 (6.95%) Azure AKS
12 9 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.28%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (4.28%) OpenShift
14 7 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.74%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (3.21%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 33 (17.65%) VPN
2 32 (17.11%) Firewall
3 19 (10.16%) MPLS
4 18 (9.63%) WAN
5 16 (8.56%) DNS
5 16 (8.56%) VSAN
6 15 (8.02%) BGP
7 14 (7.49%) Network Security
8 11 (5.88%) OSPF
9 10 (5.35%) SD-WAN
10 7 (3.74%) IPsec
10 7 (3.74%) NGFW
10 7 (3.74%) TCP/IP
10 7 (3.74%) VLAN
11 6 (3.21%) DHCP
12 5 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (2.67%) NAS
12 5 (2.67%) SAN
13 4 (2.14%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (2.14%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.21%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.60%) Metadata
3 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.07%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.07%) Flink
4 2 (1.07%) Spark SQL
4 2 (1.07%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.53%) Big Data
5 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (9.63%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.56%) GitLab
3 11 (5.88%) Git
4 8 (4.28%) JIRA
5 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.53%) Gatling
6 1 (0.53%) JMeter
6 1 (0.53%) JUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.97%) Public Sector
3 22 (11.76%) Finance
4 17 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.49%) Banking
6 7 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.74%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (3.21%) Marketing
8 5 (2.67%) Legal
9 4 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.60%) Aviation
10 3 (1.60%) Military
11 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Electronics
11 2 (1.07%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.07%) Police
11 2 (1.07%) Publishing
11 2 (1.07%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 72 (38.50%) Architect
2 27 (14.44%) Senior
3 26 (13.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (11.23%) Consultant
6 18 (9.63%) Technical Architect
7 14 (7.49%) Senior Architect
8 11 (5.88%) Security Architect
8 11 (5.88%) Senior Technical Architect
9 10 (5.35%) AWS Architect
9 10 (5.35%) Lead
9 10 (5.35%) Security Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) AWS Solution Architect
10 9 (4.81%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.28%) DevSecOps Architect
11 8 (4.28%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 8 (4.28%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.28%) REST
2 6 (3.21%) Middleware
3 5 (2.67%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.67%) Kafka
3 5 (2.67%) OAuth
3 5 (2.67%) SAML
4 4 (2.14%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.14%) PySpark
5 3 (1.60%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (1.60%) OpenID
6 2 (1.07%) .NET
6 2 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.07%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.07%) Node.js
6 2 (1.07%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.07%) Spring
7 1 (0.53%) CSS
7 1 (0.53%) HTML
7 1 (0.53%) SOAP
7 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.90%) Public Cloud
2 13 (6.95%) PKI
3 11 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 10 (5.35%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.35%) Private Cloud
5 8 (4.28%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.28%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.21%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.60%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.60%) Replication
9 2 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.07%) Robotics
9 2 (1.07%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 42 (22.46%) Windows
2 35 (18.72%) Windows Server
3 31 (16.58%) Linux
4 10 (5.35%) CentOS
5 9 (4.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (3.74%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.21%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.07%) AIX
9 2 (1.07%) Android
9 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.07%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.07%) Unix
10 1 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.53%) Rocky
10 1 (0.53%) Solaris
10 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.13%) Agile
2 43 (22.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (20.86%) Migration
3 39 (20.86%) Roadmaps
4 38 (20.32%) DevSecOps
5 37 (19.79%) CI/CD
6 36 (19.25%) DevOps
6 36 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 34 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (15.51%) Zero Trust
9 28 (14.97%) Identity Access Management
10 21 (11.23%) Analytics
10 21 (11.23%) TOGAF
10 21 (11.23%) Use Case
11 19 (10.16%) Microservices
12 18 (9.63%) Data Protection
13 17 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
13 17 (9.09%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 41 (21.93%) Python
2 37 (19.79%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.88%) Bicep
4 9 (4.81%) SQL
5 7 (3.74%) Bash
5 7 (3.74%) Java
6 5 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.14%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.60%) C#
8 3 (1.60%) Perl
9 2 (1.07%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.07%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.07%) VB
9 2 (1.07%) VBScript
10 1 (0.53%) Groovy
10 1 (0.53%) PHP
10 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (31.02%) Security Cleared
2 45 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (9.63%) DV Cleared
5 16 (8.56%) AWS Certification
5 16 (8.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 15 (8.02%) Degree
6 15 (8.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (7.49%) CISSP
8 13 (6.95%) Azure Certification
8 13 (6.95%) MCSE
9 10 (5.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.35%) CEH
10 9 (4.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (4.81%) CCSP
10 9 (4.81%) OSCP
11 8 (4.28%) CCIE
11 8 (4.28%) CISM
11 8 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (3.74%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.97%) NIST
2 14 (7.49%) NCSC
3 12 (6.42%) GDPR
3 12 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (5.35%) PCI DSS
6 8 (4.28%) COBIT
7 5 (2.67%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.14%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.60%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.07%) QA
10 2 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (1.07%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (20.86%) Active Directory
3 25 (13.37%) VMware NSX
4 21 (11.23%) Docker
5 20 (10.70%) vSphere
6 10 (5.35%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.21%) BitLocker
7 6 (3.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (3.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.07%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.53%) NFS
Systems Management
1 45 (24.06%) Kubernetes
2 43 (22.99%) Ansible
3 41 (21.93%) Terraform
4 15 (8.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (8.02%) vCenter Server
5 11 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (4.28%) FortiGate
6 8 (4.28%) PowerCLI
6 8 (4.28%) vRealize
7 7 (3.74%) Nessus
8 6 (3.21%) Puppet
9 5 (2.67%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.14%) Grafana
10 4 (2.14%) VxRail
11 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.60%) SCCM
12 2 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.53%) CASB
13 1 (0.53%) SCOM
13 1 (0.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 56 (29.95%) VMware
2 49 (26.20%) Microsoft
3 30 (16.04%) Cisco
4 24 (12.83%) Google
5 18 (9.63%) Fortinet
6 16 (8.56%) Palo Alto
7 13 (6.95%) Red Hat
8 12 (6.42%) CheckPoint
9 10 (5.35%) Citrix
10 9 (4.81%) F5
10 9 (4.81%) Zscaler
11 7 (3.74%) CyberArk
12 6 (3.21%) SAP
13 5 (2.67%) Dell
13 5 (2.67%) HP
13 5 (2.67%) Oracle
13 5 (2.67%) Veeam
14 4 (2.14%) Okta
15 3 (1.60%) Aruba
15 3 (1.60%) Ping Identity