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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 465 425
Rank change year-on-year +118 -40 +88
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 207 109 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.25% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 0.83% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 76 163
10th Percentile £411 £413 £450
25th Percentile £484 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -11.46% -3.52%
75th Percentile £638 £603 £661
90th Percentile £750 £747 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £65.67 - £25.85
25th Percentile £71.39 - £27.00
Median hourly rate £81.86 - £78.00
75th Percentile £91.39 - £80.00
90th Percentile £96.56 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -43.24%

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 11,010 13,126 18,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.62% 30.28% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,820 8,335 12,771
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £665 £676
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 911 574
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £23.90
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +52.75% -11.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £77.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.05 £24.59
% change year-on-year -16.77% +46.60% +14.36%

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 5 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the UK

Hybrid Cloud
Top 15 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 5 July 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 +142 189 £575 +8.24% 784
UK excluding London +116 111 £575 -1.71% 458
London +65 72 £538 +2.38% 352
Work from Home +54 61 £575 +15.00% 389
North of England +48 48 £600 +2.56% 122
North West +34 33 £575 -1.71% 67
South East +46 27 £575 +3.37% 97
Midlands +18 15 £700 +40.00% 81
South West +39 12 £620 +15.89% 74
West Midlands +16 12 £800 +60.00% 38
Yorkshire +13 11 £625 +28.87% 48
East of England - 8 £550 - 51
Scotland +7 5 £550 - 18
North East - 4 £600 - 7
East Midlands +4 3 £575 - 43

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 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.90%) Apache
4 5 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.93%) Confluence
6 2 (0.97%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.48%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.48%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 123 (59.42%) Azure
2 82 (39.61%) AWS
3 45 (21.74%) GCP
4 44 (21.26%) SaaS
5 34 (16.43%) Entra ID
6 31 (14.98%) PaaS
7 25 (12.08%) IaaS
8 24 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (9.66%) GitHub
9 20 (9.66%) Serverless
10 19 (9.18%) Google Workspace
11 17 (8.21%) Azure AKS
12 16 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (3.86%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (22.22%) Firewall
2 32 (15.46%) VPN
3 15 (7.25%) Network Security
4 13 (6.28%) MPLS
5 11 (5.31%) DNS
5 11 (5.31%) WAN
6 10 (4.83%) SAN
7 9 (4.35%) VSAN
8 7 (3.38%) BGP
9 6 (2.90%) NAS
9 6 (2.90%) VLAN
10 5 (2.42%) DHCP
10 5 (2.42%) OSPF
10 5 (2.42%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.93%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (1.45%) LAN
12 3 (1.45%) NGFW
12 3 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (1.45%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.90%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.90%) Metadata
3 3 (1.45%) Big Data
3 3 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.97%) Delta Lake
4 2 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.97%) Flink
4 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.48%) SQLite
5 1 (0.48%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 18 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.25%) GitLab
3 10 (4.83%) Git
4 7 (3.38%) JIRA
5 2 (0.97%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.48%) Gatling
6 1 (0.48%) JMeter
6 1 (0.48%) JUnit
6 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.48%) Terragrunt
General
1 54 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.43%) Finance
3 28 (13.53%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.86%) Banking
7 6 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.90%) Legal
7 6 (2.90%) Marketing
7 6 (2.90%) Military
8 5 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.93%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.45%) Aviation
10 3 (1.45%) Law
10 3 (1.45%) Police
11 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.97%) Retail
11 2 (0.97%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 67 (32.37%) Architect
2 27 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (12.08%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (10.63%) Senior
5 19 (9.18%) Consultant
6 13 (6.28%) Azure Architect
7 12 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (5.31%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (5.31%) Lead
8 11 (5.31%) Network Engineer
9 9 (4.35%) AWS Architect
9 9 (4.35%) AWS Solution Architect
9 9 (4.35%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.86%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.38%) Developer
11 7 (3.38%) VMware Consultant
12 6 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.90%) Data Engineer
12 6 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.28%) REST
2 6 (2.90%) Middleware
3 5 (2.42%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.42%) SAML
4 4 (1.93%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.93%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (1.93%) JSON
4 4 (1.93%) Kafka
4 4 (1.93%) OAuth
4 4 (1.93%) PySpark
4 4 (1.93%) XML
5 3 (1.45%) CSS
5 3 (1.45%) HTML
5 3 (1.45%) OpenID
6 2 (0.97%) .NET
6 2 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.97%) Keycloak
6 2 (0.97%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.48%) gRPC
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.66%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.25%) Public Cloud
3 13 (6.28%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.90%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.90%) Reinsurance
7 5 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.93%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.45%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.97%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.97%) Digital Signage
10 2 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.97%) IoT
10 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.01%) Windows
2 28 (13.53%) Linux
3 24 (11.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.45%) CentOS
5 3 (1.45%) Unix
5 3 (1.45%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.97%) AIX
6 2 (0.97%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.97%) Solaris
7 1 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (24.64%) Agile
2 47 (22.71%) Migration
3 45 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (19.81%) DevOps
4 41 (19.81%) Roadmaps
5 39 (18.84%) CI/CD
6 35 (16.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 31 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (14.49%) Zero Trust
9 27 (13.04%) Containerisation
10 26 (12.56%) User Experience
11 25 (12.08%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (10.63%) Data Protection
13 20 (9.66%) Cloud Security
13 20 (9.66%) Cost Management
14 19 (9.18%) High Availability
15 18 (8.70%) Analytics
15 18 (8.70%) RBAC
16 17 (8.21%) Enterprise Architecture
17 16 (7.73%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.67%) Python
2 30 (14.49%) PowerShell
3 16 (7.73%) Bicep
4 10 (4.83%) SQL
5 9 (4.35%) Java
6 8 (3.86%) Bash
7 7 (3.38%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.93%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.45%) C#
9 3 (1.45%) Go
9 3 (1.45%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.45%) Perl
10 2 (0.97%) Groovy
10 2 (0.97%) Rust
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.48%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.48%) R
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (26.57%) Security Cleared
2 46 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.08%) Azure Certification
4 18 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (8.70%) Degree
5 12 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.80%) DV Cleared
6 11 (5.31%) CCIE
7 9 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.86%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.38%) CISSP
9 7 (3.38%) VCAP
10 6 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.90%) CCNA
10 6 (2.90%) CCNP
10 6 (2.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.42%) OCP
11 5 (2.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.18%) GDPR
2 16 (7.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (7.73%) NIST
3 6 (2.90%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.45%) NCSC
5 3 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.45%) SLA
6 2 (0.97%) GRC
6 2 (0.97%) QA
7 1 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) JSP 440
System Software
1 39 (18.84%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (10.63%) Docker
4 17 (8.21%) VMware NSX
5 14 (6.76%) vSphere
6 12 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.90%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.45%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.97%) Firmware
11 1 (0.48%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.48%) NFS
11 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 44 (21.26%) Terraform
2 43 (20.77%) Kubernetes
3 41 (19.81%) Ansible
4 12 (5.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (5.80%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (4.83%) PowerCLI
6 9 (4.35%) vCenter Server
7 8 (3.86%) Grafana
7 8 (3.86%) vRealize
8 6 (2.90%) Puppet
9 5 (2.42%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.93%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.93%) VxRail
11 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.97%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.97%) SCCM
12 1 (0.48%) CASB
12 1 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.48%) SCOM
12 1 (0.48%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 47 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 41 (19.81%) Google
3 38 (18.36%) VMware
4 22 (10.63%) Cisco
5 12 (5.80%) Citrix
5 12 (5.80%) F5
6 11 (5.31%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.83%) CheckPoint
8 9 (4.35%) Zscaler
9 8 (3.86%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.38%) Oracle
10 7 (3.38%) SAP
11 6 (2.90%) CyberArk
12 5 (2.42%) Dell
12 5 (2.42%) Veeam
13 4 (1.93%) Aruba
13 4 (1.93%) Databricks
13 4 (1.93%) HP
13 4 (1.93%) Juniper
13 4 (1.93%) Salesforce