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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 443 505
Rank change year-on-year -39 +62 -77
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 91 271 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.47% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.71% 1.43% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 171 272
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% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £768 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £595 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +3.48% -4.17% +23.08%
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 12,885 18,988 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.25% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 13,052 20,257
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 627 724
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.56% -12.33%

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 15 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 12 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 15 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 -28 80 £585 -2.50% 81
London +40 46 £538 -14.34% 29
Work from Home +47 36 £500 -16.67% 30
UK excluding London -46 24 £595 +3.48% 59
South East +5 9 £685 +9.60% 9
North of England +12 6 £585 +19.39% 19
South West +6 5 £675 +12.50% 12
North West +10 4 £585 +14.43% 11
Midlands +11 3 £500 -9.09% 9
West Midlands -2 3 £500 -9.09% 7
Yorkshire +20 2 £485 +115.56% 3
Scotland +21 1 - - 4

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 (5.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.20%) SAS
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.10%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (41.76%) Azure
2 34 (37.36%) AWS
3 16 (17.58%) SaaS
4 7 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 6 (6.59%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (5.49%) GCP
6 5 (5.49%) Serverless
7 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.40%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.40%) Cloudflare
7 4 (4.40%) IaaS
7 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.40%) PaaS
8 3 (3.30%) Azure App Service
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.38%) Firewall
2 11 (12.09%) VPN
2 11 (12.09%) WAN
3 7 (7.69%) DNS
4 6 (6.59%) 5G
4 6 (6.59%) MPLS
4 6 (6.59%) SD-WAN
5 5 (5.49%) HTTP
5 5 (5.49%) HTTPS
5 5 (5.49%) IPsec
6 4 (4.40%) IPv4
7 3 (3.30%) OSPF
8 2 (2.20%) BGP
8 2 (2.20%) DHCP
8 2 (2.20%) EIGRP
8 2 (2.20%) LAN
8 2 (2.20%) Network Security
8 2 (2.20%) SCCP
8 2 (2.20%) SSL
8 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.49%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.40%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.30%) GIS
5 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.20%) DB2
5 2 (2.20%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.20%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.20%) Scylla
6 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.10%) Flink
6 1 (1.10%) Metadata
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (8.79%) JIRA
2 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Maven
3 1 (1.10%) Poetry
General
1 25 (27.47%) Finance
2 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.69%) Legal
6 6 (6.59%) Law
6 6 (6.59%) Telecoms
7 5 (5.49%) Banking
7 5 (5.49%) Police
8 3 (3.30%) Retail
9 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.10%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.10%) German Language
10 1 (1.10%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (30.77%) Architect
2 13 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 10 (10.99%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Consultant
4 8 (8.79%) Network Architect
4 8 (8.79%) Senior
5 7 (7.69%) Azure Architect
5 7 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 6 (6.59%) Development Manager
6 6 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Network Manager
6 6 (6.59%) Procurement Manager
6 6 (6.59%) Security Consultant
7 5 (5.49%) Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Network Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) Telecoms Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) OpenAPI
1 5 (5.49%) REST
1 5 (5.49%) Swagger
2 4 (4.40%) SAML
2 4 (4.40%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.30%) .NET
3 3 (3.30%) YAML
4 2 (2.20%) JPA
4 2 (2.20%) React
4 2 (2.20%) Spring
5 1 (1.10%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.10%) Kafka
5 1 (1.10%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.10%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.10%) OpenID
5 1 (1.10%) Plotly
5 1 (1.10%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.10%) SciPy
5 1 (1.10%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.10%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.78%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.79%) PKI
3 7 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.40%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.19%) Windows
2 6 (6.59%) Linux
3 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) DevOps
2 24 (26.37%) Agile
3 23 (25.27%) Roadmaps
4 22 (24.18%) Migration
5 18 (19.78%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (18.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (17.58%) Service Design
8 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (13.19%) Business Strategy
9 12 (13.19%) CI/CD
10 11 (12.09%) Cloud Security
11 9 (9.89%) SIEM
12 8 (8.79%) Data Modelling
12 8 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (8.79%) Technology Roadmap
12 8 (8.79%) Translating Business Requirements
12 8 (8.79%) Zero Trust
13 7 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (7.69%) Project Delivery
13 7 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.29%) Python
2 11 (12.09%) PowerShell
2 11 (12.09%) SQL
3 4 (4.40%) Bicep
3 4 (4.40%) Java
3 4 (4.40%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.20%) Bash
5 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.89%) CCIE
2 9 (9.89%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (9.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.49%) CTC Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) Degree
5 4 (4.40%) CISSP
5 4 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.30%) CCNP
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) CISM
7 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.10%) MCSE
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (7.69%) QA
2 5 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (4.40%) NIST
4 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.10%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (10.99%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.49%) Docker
3 3 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Terraform
2 10 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.69%) Ansible
4 5 (5.49%) FortiGate
5 3 (3.30%) Nessus
5 3 (3.30%) Puppet
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.09%) Cisco
3 7 (7.69%) SAP
4 6 (6.59%) Oracle
5 5 (5.49%) Atlassian
5 5 (5.49%) Zscaler
6 4 (4.40%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.40%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.30%) Cadence
7 3 (3.30%) Citrix
7 3 (3.30%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.30%) ESRI
7 3 (3.30%) F5
7 3 (3.30%) New Relic
7 3 (3.30%) Ping Identity
7 3 (3.30%) Rapid7
7 3 (3.30%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.30%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.30%) VMware