Hybrid Cloud Contracts in Cheshire

Hybrid Cloud
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 52 55 57
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 6 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% 0.60% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.80% 1.92% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile £463 - £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
North West median daily rate £524 £593 £525
% change year-on-year -11.60% +12.86% -12.50%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 158 156 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.19% 30.95% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 143
10th Percentile £314 £297 £263
25th Percentile £358 £425 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +13.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £553 £567 £580
90th Percentile £636 £606 £648
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 7
10th Percentile £29.46 £14.15 £21.89
25th Percentile £29.80 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +30.45% +47.26%
75th Percentile £33.75 £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile £55.50 - £66.25
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in Cheshire

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in Cheshire

Hybrid Cloud
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 3 £506 -
Warrington - 2 £525 - 3
Hybrid Cloud
North West

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Use Case
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Network Design
3 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Service Design
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) VB
2 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) CCIE
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) JNCIE
2 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) MCP
3 1 (16.67%) MCSA
3 1 (16.67%) MCSE
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) BitLocker
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) McAfee
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec