Hybrid Cloud Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Hybrid Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 249 302 360
Rank change year-on-year +53 +58 +65
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 55 43 118
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.28% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 0.98% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 77
10th Percentile £518 £430 £486
25th Percentile £525 £447 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £675
90th Percentile £751 £755 £696
UK median daily rate £583 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +5.91% -8.33% -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Hybrid Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hybrid Cloud trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Hybrid Cloud.

Hybrid Cloud daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hybrid Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hybrid Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Hybrid Cloud.

Hybrid Cloud hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 33 (60.00%) Azure
2 24 (43.64%) AWS
3 20 (36.36%) PaaS
4 19 (34.55%) SaaS
5 16 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (27.27%) IaaS
7 12 (21.82%) Entra ID
8 9 (16.36%) Azure AKS
8 9 (16.36%) GCP
8 9 (16.36%) Serverless
9 7 (12.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (10.91%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (10.91%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (10.91%) GitHub
11 5 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (7.27%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (7.27%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) VSAN
2 7 (12.73%) Firewall
3 6 (10.91%) DNS
4 5 (9.09%) BGP
4 5 (9.09%) DHCP
4 5 (9.09%) VPN
5 3 (5.45%) MPLS
5 3 (5.45%) OSPF
5 3 (5.45%) SD-WAN
5 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.45%) WAN
6 2 (3.64%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (3.64%) Network Security
6 2 (3.64%) NGFW
6 2 (3.64%) Unified Communications
6 2 (3.64%) VLAN
7 1 (1.82%) HTTP
7 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.82%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.91%) GitLab
3 2 (3.64%) Git
4 1 (1.82%) JIRA
4 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.82%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.64%) Aviation
4 2 (3.64%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Legal
4 2 (3.64%) Police
4 2 (3.64%) Swedish Language
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Games
5 1 (1.82%) Law
5 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (56.36%) Architect
2 13 (23.64%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (21.82%) Senior
4 11 (20.00%) Senior Architect
5 8 (14.55%) Cloud Architect
5 8 (14.55%) Consultant
5 8 (14.55%) Senior Technical Architect
5 8 (14.55%) Technical Architect
6 7 (12.73%) AWS Architect
7 6 (10.91%) AWS Solution Architect
8 4 (7.27%) Azure Architect
8 4 (7.27%) Azure Consultant
8 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
8 4 (7.27%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) ARM Templates
1 4 (7.27%) REST
2 3 (5.45%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (3.64%) .NET
3 2 (3.64%) SAML
4 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.82%) Flask
4 1 (1.82%) Kafka
4 1 (1.82%) OAuth
4 1 (1.82%) React
4 1 (1.82%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Public Cloud
2 8 (14.55%) PKI
3 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.45%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.64%) Robotics
6 1 (1.82%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.82%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Windows
2 7 (12.73%) Linux
2 7 (12.73%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
3 17 (30.91%) Identity Access Management
3 17 (30.91%) Migration
4 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
4 13 (23.64%) DevOps
5 12 (21.82%) Use Case
6 11 (20.00%) Agile
6 11 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 10 (18.18%) DevSecOps
8 9 (16.36%) Continuous Delivery
8 9 (16.36%) Data Protection
8 9 (16.36%) Microservices
8 9 (16.36%) TOGAF
9 8 (14.55%) ITIL
10 7 (12.73%) Cloud Security
10 7 (12.73%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (12.73%) Cost Management
10 7 (12.73%) High Availability
11 6 (10.91%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 8 (14.55%) Python
3 6 (10.91%) Bicep
4 3 (5.45%) SQL
5 1 (1.82%) Bash
5 1 (1.82%) C#
5 1 (1.82%) Java
5 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 17 (30.91%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (12.73%) MCSE
6 5 (9.09%) AWS Certification
6 5 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.27%) OCP
7 4 (7.27%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (5.45%) Degree
8 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.64%) CCNP
9 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.64%) VCAP
10 1 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.82%) OSCP
10 1 (1.82%) SANS
10 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) NIST
2 8 (14.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (14.55%) NCSC
3 5 (9.09%) GDPR
4 3 (5.45%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.82%) QA
5 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (25.45%) Active Directory
3 11 (20.00%) VMware NSX
4 4 (7.27%) Docker
4 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (29.09%) Terraform
2 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 9 (16.36%) Ansible
4 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.45%) FortiGate
5 3 (5.45%) Grafana
6 2 (3.64%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.82%) vRealize
7 1 (1.82%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (34.55%) VMware
2 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
3 10 (18.18%) Cisco
4 9 (16.36%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.64%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.64%) Ribbon
5 2 (3.64%) Tenable
6 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.82%) Dell
6 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.82%) Google
6 1 (1.82%) IBM
6 1 (1.82%) Okta
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) Perforce
6 1 (1.82%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.82%) Red Hat