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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 322 441
Rank change year-on-year +2 +119 -9
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 407 240 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.74% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 2.08% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 138 87
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £500 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £634
90th Percentile £740 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £575 £560
% change year-on-year +0.87% +2.68% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.67 -
25th Percentile £62.18 £71.39 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £81.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.39 -
90th Percentile £84.03 £96.56 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.61 - -

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 18,270 11,516 11,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.79% 35.48% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,036 7,060 7,198
10th Percentile £320 £300 £300
25th Percentile £423 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £749 £763 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 564 504
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.13 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -38.14% +10.64%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.15 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +45.20% -47.69% +25.08%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hybrid Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend 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 8 September 2026.

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 8 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 18 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 8 September 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
England -10 370 £575 -2.95% 342
UK excluding London -27 231 £580 +0.87% 169
London -9 145 £575 - 197
Work from Home -11 126 £588 +6.82% 167
South East -20 88 £615 +17.14% 61
North of England -55 70 £568 -5.42% 32
Yorkshire -16 35 £557 -5.28% 13
Midlands -48 33 £488 -30.36% 27
North West -63 29 £575 -4.17% 16
West Midlands -40 27 £488 -30.36% 14
South West -44 25 £651 -6.96% 24
North East -33 12 £650 +8.33% 3
Scotland -22 9 £620 +15.35% 11
East Midlands -11 6 £478 -4.50% 13
East of England -27 6 £505 -6.48% 8
Wales - 3 £670 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 6
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (2.95%) OpenStack
2 11 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.21%) Apache
4 8 (1.97%) Confluence
5 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.74%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.74%) IIS
6 3 (0.74%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.49%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.49%) nginx
7 2 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.74%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Maximo
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 276 (67.81%) Azure
2 188 (46.19%) AWS
3 61 (14.99%) GCP
4 47 (11.55%) Entra ID
5 43 (10.57%) GitHub
6 41 (10.07%) SaaS
7 37 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (7.62%) OpenShift
10 27 (6.63%) Azure Monitor
10 27 (6.63%) OCI
11 22 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 21 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (4.67%) IaaS
14 17 (4.18%) Serverless
15 16 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (3.93%) Azure AKS
16 14 (3.44%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (3.19%) PaaS
17 13 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 102 (25.06%) Firewall
2 74 (18.18%) DNS
3 62 (15.23%) VPN
4 54 (13.27%) WAN
5 50 (12.29%) BGP
6 42 (10.32%) DHCP
6 42 (10.32%) Network Security
7 37 (9.09%) OSPF
8 32 (7.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 32 (7.86%) SD-WAN
9 31 (7.62%) TCP/IP
10 30 (7.37%) LAN
11 26 (6.39%) VXLAN
12 24 (5.90%) BIG-IP
13 22 (5.41%) Ethernet VPN
14 21 (5.16%) Wi-Fi
15 20 (4.91%) MPLS
16 19 (4.67%) VLAN
17 15 (3.69%) VSAN
18 12 (2.95%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.72%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.47%) Power BI
3 6 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.98%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.49%) Big Data
7 2 (0.49%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.49%) EDRMS
7 2 (0.49%) Redis
7 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.49%) Tableau
8 1 (0.25%) GIS
8 1 (0.25%) OLAP
8 1 (0.25%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 37 (9.09%) GitLab
2 34 (8.35%) Jenkins
3 30 (7.37%) Git
4 10 (2.46%) JIRA
5 6 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.74%) Maven
6 3 (0.74%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.25%) Hudson
7 1 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.25%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.25%) PVCS
General
1 130 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.29%) Finance
3 47 (11.55%) Public Sector
4 39 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.63%) Banking
6 25 (6.14%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.93%) Aerospace
7 16 (3.93%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.44%) Retail
9 7 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.47%) Legal
11 5 (1.23%) Local Government
11 5 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.98%) Automotive
12 4 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.98%) Law
12 4 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.98%) Military
12 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 141 (34.64%) Architect
2 94 (23.10%) Senior
3 65 (15.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 41 (10.07%) Solutions Architect
5 39 (9.58%) Network Engineer
6 38 (9.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 36 (8.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (6.63%) Network Architect
9 24 (5.90%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (5.90%) Lead
10 22 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
11 21 (5.16%) Senior Architect
12 19 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.67%) Technical Architect
13 18 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
14 17 (4.18%) Consultant
15 13 (3.19%) Enterprise Architect
15 13 (3.19%) Senior Network Engineer
16 12 (2.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 11 (2.70%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (39.07%) Terraform
2 25 (6.14%) ARM Templates
3 19 (4.67%) REST
4 13 (3.19%) JSON
5 9 (2.21%) Kafka
5 9 (2.21%) NETCONF
5 9 (2.21%) YANG
6 7 (1.72%) OAuth
6 7 (1.72%) OpenID
6 7 (1.72%) SailPoint
6 7 (1.72%) XML
7 6 (1.47%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.47%) LDAP
7 6 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (1.23%) SAML
8 5 (1.23%) YAML
9 4 (0.98%) .NET
9 4 (0.98%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 76 (18.67%) Data Centre
2 75 (18.43%) Cloud Native
3 35 (8.60%) Public Cloud
4 26 (6.39%) Onboarding
5 23 (5.65%) Private Cloud
6 22 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (4.42%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.70%) PKI
8 11 (2.70%) Replication
9 10 (2.46%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.21%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.21%) CMDB
11 7 (1.72%) ARM Cortex
11 7 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.72%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 86 (21.13%) Windows
2 72 (17.69%) Linux
3 68 (16.71%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.70%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.97%) Unix
7 7 (1.72%) VMS
8 4 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.49%) CentOS
9 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.25%) AIX
10 1 (0.25%) Android
10 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (37.35%) DevOps
2 150 (36.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (32.92%) CI/CD
4 112 (27.52%) Migration
5 101 (24.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 83 (20.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 78 (19.16%) Zero Trust
8 74 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
9 73 (17.94%) Technical Leadership
10 69 (16.95%) Roadmaps
11 66 (16.22%) Cloud Security
12 62 (15.23%) Agile
13 61 (14.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (14.00%) High Availability
15 53 (13.02%) Platform Engineering
16 52 (12.78%) ITIL
17 49 (12.04%) Load Balancing
17 49 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
18 47 (11.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 46 (11.30%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 117 (28.75%) Python
2 77 (18.92%) PowerShell
3 61 (14.99%) Bash
4 34 (8.35%) Bicep
5 19 (4.67%) Java
6 14 (3.44%) SQL
7 6 (1.47%) Go
7 6 (1.47%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.23%) BeanShell
9 4 (0.98%) Groovy
10 3 (0.74%) C#
11 2 (0.49%) Perl
12 1 (0.25%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.25%) COBOL
12 1 (0.25%) JCL
Qualifications
1 123 (30.22%) Security Cleared
2 88 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.79%) Cisco Certification
4 41 (10.07%) Azure Certification
5 37 (9.09%) Degree
5 37 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 29 (7.13%) CCNP
7 28 (6.88%) AWS Certification
8 21 (5.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 17 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (3.93%) CISSP
11 15 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.19%) CCIE
13 12 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (2.21%) JNCIE
16 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
16 6 (1.47%) VCAP
17 5 (1.23%) CCSE
17 5 (1.23%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.37%) NIST
2 20 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.69%) GDPR
4 14 (3.44%) NCSC
5 10 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.74%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.74%) SLA
8 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.49%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) COBIT
9 1 (0.25%) PMO
9 1 (0.25%) PSD2
9 1 (0.25%) QA
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (17.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (17.20%) Active Directory
3 39 (9.58%) vSphere
4 35 (8.60%) Docker
4 35 (8.60%) VMware NSX
5 25 (6.14%) Hyper-V
6 22 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.74%) KVM
8 3 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.25%) Ceph
9 1 (0.25%) NFS
9 1 (0.25%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.25%) oVirt
9 1 (0.25%) RACF
9 1 (0.25%) RHEV
9 1 (0.25%) Squid
9 1 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 110 (27.03%) Ansible
2 93 (22.85%) Kubernetes
3 29 (7.13%) Grafana
4 20 (4.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (4.67%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.18%) vCenter Server
7 13 (3.19%) SCCM
8 8 (1.97%) Argo
8 8 (1.97%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.72%) PowerCLI
9 7 (1.72%) SCOM
9 7 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.72%) systemd
10 6 (1.47%) Puppet
11 5 (1.23%) Istio
12 4 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.74%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.74%) Nagios
13 3 (0.74%) vMotion
13 3 (0.74%) yum
Vendors
1 154 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 94 (23.10%) VMware
3 52 (12.78%) Palo Alto
4 50 (12.29%) Cisco
5 40 (9.83%) F5
6 30 (7.37%) Google
7 25 (6.14%) Aruba
7 25 (6.14%) Fortinet
8 20 (4.91%) Juniper
8 20 (4.91%) Red Hat
9 19 (4.67%) Arista
10 15 (3.69%) Splunk
11 14 (3.44%) IBM
11 14 (3.44%) Zscaler
12 11 (2.70%) CheckPoint
13 9 (2.21%) Commvault
13 9 (2.21%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (2.21%) ServiceNow
14 8 (1.97%) CyberArk
14 8 (1.97%) Databricks