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 have cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 439 501
Rank change year-on-year -53 +62 -59
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 98 271 381
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.47% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 1.41% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 170 267
10th Percentile £441 £425 £463
25th Percentile £481 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £620 £675 £688
90th Percentile £768 £776 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £595 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +3.48% -4.17% +22.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Generic Skills
UK

Hybrid Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,029 19,238 28,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.28% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,389 13,217 20,227
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 636 716
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.02
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.66% -12.42%

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 11 May 2024.

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 13 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 11 May 2024. 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 84 £568 -5.42% 66
London +37 48 £525 -16.67% 27
Work from Home +43 38 £550 -8.33% 24
UK excluding London -38 27 £595 +3.48% 49
South East +4 9 £685 +9.60% 11
North of England +26 7 £590 +20.41% 12
South West +1 6 £450 -25.00% 8
North West +9 5 £593 +15.89% 8
Midlands +8 3 £500 -9.09% 8
West Midlands -5 3 £500 -9.09% 8
Yorkshire +17 2 £485 +115.56% 2
Scotland +17 1 - - 6
Wales +14 1 - - 1

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 5 (5.10%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.04%) SAS
4 1 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.88%) Azure
2 37 (37.76%) AWS
3 16 (16.33%) SaaS
4 8 (8.16%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.12%) Azure AKS
5 6 (6.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 6 (6.12%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.10%) GCP
6 5 (5.10%) IaaS
6 5 (5.10%) PaaS
6 5 (5.10%) Serverless
7 4 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.08%) Cloudflare
8 3 (3.06%) Azure App Service
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Storage
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.29%) Firewall
2 11 (11.22%) VPN
2 11 (11.22%) WAN
3 7 (7.14%) DNS
4 6 (6.12%) 5G
4 6 (6.12%) MPLS
4 6 (6.12%) SD-WAN
5 5 (5.10%) HTTP
5 5 (5.10%) HTTPS
5 5 (5.10%) IPsec
6 4 (4.08%) IPv4
7 3 (3.06%) Network Security
7 3 (3.06%) OSPF
8 2 (2.04%) BGP
8 2 (2.04%) DHCP
8 2 (2.04%) EIGRP
8 2 (2.04%) LAN
8 2 (2.04%) SCCP
8 2 (2.04%) SSL
8 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.10%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.08%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.06%) GIS
5 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.04%) Big Data
5 2 (2.04%) DB2
5 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.04%) Flink
5 2 (2.04%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.04%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.04%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.04%) Scylla
6 1 (1.02%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) JIRA
2 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.04%) Git
3 2 (2.04%) Poetry
4 1 (1.02%) Maven
General
1 25 (25.51%) Finance
2 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.14%) Legal
5 6 (6.12%) Law
5 6 (6.12%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.10%) Banking
6 5 (5.10%) Police
7 3 (3.06%) Retail
8 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.02%) Arabic Language
9 1 (1.02%) German Language
9 1 (1.02%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (29.59%) Architect
2 13 (13.27%) Cloud Architect
3 11 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (8.16%) Azure Architect
4 8 (8.16%) Consultant
4 8 (8.16%) Network Architect
4 8 (8.16%) Project Manager
4 8 (8.16%) Senior
5 6 (6.12%) Development Manager
5 6 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Network Manager
5 6 (6.12%) Procurement Manager
5 6 (6.12%) Security Consultant
6 5 (5.10%) Analyst
6 5 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Network Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.10%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) OpenAPI
1 5 (5.10%) REST
1 5 (5.10%) Swagger
2 4 (4.08%) SAML
2 4 (4.08%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.08%) YAML
3 3 (3.06%) .NET
4 2 (2.04%) Great Expectations
4 2 (2.04%) JPA
4 2 (2.04%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (2.04%) LAPP Stack
4 2 (2.04%) Pandas
4 2 (2.04%) Plotly
4 2 (2.04%) React
4 2 (2.04%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.04%) SciPy
4 2 (2.04%) Seaborn
4 2 (2.04%) Spring
5 1 (1.02%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.02%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.41%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.16%) PKI
2 8 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.10%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.02%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.02%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.02%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.02%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.33%) Windows
2 8 (8.16%) Linux
3 7 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.59%) DevOps
2 26 (26.53%) Agile
3 25 (25.51%) Migration
4 24 (24.49%) Roadmaps
5 19 (19.39%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (16.33%) Service Design
8 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (13.27%) CI/CD
10 12 (12.24%) Business Strategy
10 12 (12.24%) Cloud Security
11 9 (9.18%) SIEM
12 8 (8.16%) Data Modelling
12 8 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (8.16%) Technology Roadmap
12 8 (8.16%) Translating Business Requirements
12 8 (8.16%) Zero Trust
13 7 (7.14%) Microservices
13 7 (7.14%) Project Delivery
13 7 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.31%) Python
2 12 (12.24%) PowerShell
2 12 (12.24%) SQL
3 4 (4.08%) Java
3 4 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (3.06%) Bicep
5 2 (2.04%) Bash
5 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.18%) CCIE
3 9 (9.18%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (6.12%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.10%) CISSP
5 5 (5.10%) CTC Cleared
5 5 (5.10%) Degree
6 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.06%) CCNP
8 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.02%) CISM
8 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.02%) MCSE
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.14%) QA
3 6 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (5.10%) NIST
5 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.02%) GDPR
7 1 (1.02%) GxP
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.12%) Docker
3 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.24%) Terraform
3 7 (7.14%) Ansible
4 5 (5.10%) FortiGate
5 4 (4.08%) Nessus
6 3 (3.06%) Puppet
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.24%) Cisco
3 7 (7.14%) Oracle
3 7 (7.14%) SAP
4 5 (5.10%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.10%) Zscaler
5 4 (4.08%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.08%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.08%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.08%) Rapid7
5 4 (4.08%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.06%) Cadence
6 3 (3.06%) Citrix
6 3 (3.06%) Databricks
6 3 (3.06%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.06%) ESRI
6 3 (3.06%) New Relic
6 3 (3.06%) Ping Identity
6 3 (3.06%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.06%) VMware