Hybrid Cloud Contracts in the West Midlands

Hybrid Cloud
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 108 115
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 +54
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 7 3 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.15% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% 0.46% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 13
10th Percentile £535 - £433
25th Percentile £569 - £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £688 - £625
90th Percentile £695 - £720
England median daily rate £591 £585 £600
% change year-on-year +1.07% -2.50% -

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 418 647 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.08% 33.23% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 410 525
10th Percentile £197 £307 £263
25th Percentile £406 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £632 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 47 19
10th Percentile £16.23 £10.42 £17.10
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.71 £17.99
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%
75th Percentile £31.49 £40.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in the West Midlands

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the West Midlands

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the West Midlands

Hybrid Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Coventry - 2 - - 2
Worcestershire 0 1 £700 +40.00%
Birmingham - 1 £525 - 2
Hybrid Cloud
England

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (42.86%) Apache
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) Flink
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (42.86%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Rocky
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
2 3 (42.86%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (28.57%) DataOps
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
3 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dell
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft