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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 103 116
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 +69
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 21 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.23% 0.26% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.33% 0.88% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 10
10th Percentile £513 - £530
25th Percentile £612 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £613
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +22.50%
75th Percentile - £738 £716
90th Percentile £880 - £738
England median daily rate £600 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 630 568 698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 36.78% 29.80% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 359 437
10th Percentile £238 £248 £275
25th Percentile £400 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £648 £750 £728
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 24
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.13 £18.78
25th Percentile £23.76 £18.50 £21.15
Median hourly rate £33.91 £33.93 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% +23.38% +44.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £49.38 £30.00
90th Percentile - £56.75 £50.75
England median hourly rate £32.05 £48.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -34.26% +13.37% +65.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Hybrid Cloud

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 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the West Midlands

Hybrid Cloud
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Herefordshire - 9 £700 -
Worcestershire +4 8 £700 +40.00%
Coventry - 5 £503 -
Birmingham +1 3 £622 -14.21% 7
Solihull - 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 2 (9.52%) Apache
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (80.95%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) Azure Stack
2 9 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) IaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) Nutanix
4 2 (9.52%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (23.81%) Network Security
3 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 3 (14.29%) WAN
4 2 (9.52%) NGFW
4 2 (9.52%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Jaeger
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Senior
2 6 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Senior IT Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Product Owner
4 2 (9.52%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (9.52%) JSON
1 2 (9.52%) PySpark
1 2 (9.52%) REST
1 2 (9.52%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Onboarding
2 3 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 3 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Replication
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
1 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 3 (14.29%) Network Design
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (9.52%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (9.52%) Product Backlog
5 2 (9.52%) Product Requirements
5 2 (9.52%) Product Strategy
5 2 (9.52%) Scrum
5 2 (9.52%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 2 (9.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 6 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Cisco
1 3 (14.29%) VMware
2 2 (9.52%) Citrix
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Salesforce