Hybrid/Remote Hybrid Cloud Contract Job Trends

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 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 266 299
Rank change year-on-year +35 +33 +129
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 77 59 74
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 1.61% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 39 55
10th Percentile £335 £412 £425
25th Percentile £447 £497 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -2.61% -
75th Percentile £638 £640 £650
90th Percentile £713 £723 £741
UK median daily rate £550 £584 £575
% change year-on-year -5.78% +1.52% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.11 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -16.90%

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 3,543 3,654 5,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.85% 31.03% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,215 2,329 3,594
10th Percentile £331 £325 £325
25th Percentile £420 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £673
90th Percentile £750 £800 £760
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 65 120
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £19.99
25th Percentile £21.38 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £38.00 £45.63
Median % change year-on-year +19.63% -16.73% -23.95%
75th Percentile £66.75 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.03 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.27 £42.40
% change year-on-year -18.21% -21.54% +21.15%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hybrid Cloud and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Hybrid Cloud job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hybrid Cloud over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hybrid Cloud daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Hybrid Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.79%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.60%) Ethereum
2 2 (2.60%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) IIS
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.30%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 47 (61.04%) Azure
2 33 (42.86%) AWS
3 15 (19.48%) GCP
4 11 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 10 (12.99%) Entra ID
5 10 (12.99%) SaaS
6 8 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (10.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (10.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (9.09%) GitHub
7 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (9.09%) IaaS
7 7 (9.09%) PaaS
7 7 (9.09%) Serverless
8 5 (6.49%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (6.49%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (6.49%) Nutanix
9 4 (5.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (5.19%) Azure Functions
9 4 (5.19%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.08%) Firewall
2 13 (16.88%) WAN
3 12 (15.58%) VPN
4 7 (9.09%) LAN
5 6 (7.79%) BGP
5 6 (7.79%) DNS
5 6 (7.79%) MPLS
5 6 (7.79%) OSPF
5 6 (7.79%) SNMP
5 6 (7.79%) TACACS
5 6 (7.79%) Wireless
6 5 (6.49%) Network Security
6 5 (6.49%) SD-WAN
7 3 (3.90%) NGFW
8 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.30%) DHCP
9 1 (1.30%) MQTT
9 1 (1.30%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (5.19%) Data Lake
1 4 (5.19%) Delta Lake
2 3 (3.90%) Big Data
3 2 (2.60%) DataStage
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.90%) GitLab
2 3 (3.90%) JIRA
3 1 (1.30%) Git
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Finance
3 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.39%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.30%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (36.36%) Architect
2 11 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 10 (12.99%) Senior
4 9 (11.69%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Network Architect
6 6 (7.79%) Designer
6 6 (7.79%) IP Designer
7 5 (6.49%) Security Architect
7 5 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) Nutanix Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Desktop Support
9 3 (3.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Manager
9 3 (3.90%) Lead
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) JSON
1 3 (3.90%) REST
2 2 (2.60%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (2.60%) XML
2 2 (2.60%) XSLT
3 1 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.30%) Express.js
3 1 (1.30%) LDAP
3 1 (1.30%) MERN Stack
3 1 (1.30%) Node.js
3 1 (1.30%) OAuth
3 1 (1.30%) OpenID
3 1 (1.30%) React
3 1 (1.30%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.49%) Operational Technology
3 5 (6.49%) Reinsurance
4 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.90%) IoT
5 3 (3.90%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.60%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.60%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.60%) Life Science
6 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.60%) SCADA
6 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.48%) Windows
2 8 (10.39%) Linux
3 7 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 26 (33.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (27.27%) Migration
4 19 (24.68%) DevOps
5 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
7 13 (16.88%) Cloud Security
8 12 (15.58%) Containerisation
8 12 (15.58%) High Availability
9 11 (14.29%) Incident Response
9 11 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 11 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (11.69%) Agile
11 9 (11.69%) Cost Management
12 8 (10.39%) AI
12 8 (10.39%) RBAC
12 8 (10.39%) Validation
12 8 (10.39%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.78%) PowerShell
1 16 (20.78%) Python
2 12 (15.58%) Bicep
3 6 (7.79%) SQL
4 4 (5.19%) Bash
5 3 (3.90%) Java
6 1 (1.30%) Go
6 1 (1.30%) R
6 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 12 (15.58%) Security Cleared
3 11 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 11 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
5 8 (10.39%) CCIE
5 8 (10.39%) Degree
6 6 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (7.79%) JNCIE
7 5 (6.49%) CISSP
8 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.90%) CCNP
10 2 (2.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.60%) CCSP
11 1 (1.30%) CCSE
11 1 (1.30%) CISM
11 1 (1.30%) RHCE
11 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) GDPR
2 11 (14.29%) NIST
3 10 (12.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.60%) PSD2
4 2 (2.60%) QA
4 2 (2.60%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.30%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (22.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (19.48%) Active Directory
3 13 (16.88%) Docker
4 6 (7.79%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (40.26%) Terraform
2 19 (24.68%) Kubernetes
3 13 (16.88%) Ansible
4 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (5.19%) Grafana
5 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.60%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.30%) SCCM
7 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 17 (22.08%) VMware
3 10 (12.99%) Cisco
3 10 (12.99%) Google
4 8 (10.39%) Databricks
5 7 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 7 (9.09%) Juniper
6 6 (7.79%) F5
7 4 (5.19%) CheckPoint
7 4 (5.19%) OpenAI
7 4 (5.19%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.90%) Citrix
9 2 (2.60%) Brocade
9 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
9 2 (2.60%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (2.60%) IBM
9 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.30%) Dell
10 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.30%) Ping Identity