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

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 48 47
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 10 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.63% 0.61% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.59% 1.66% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £585 £515
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +13.59% -6.36%
75th Percentile £488 - £554
90th Percentile £517 - £561
North West median daily rate £600 £585 £544
% change year-on-year +2.56% +7.52% -16.29%

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 218 181 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.45% 37.09% 44.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 113 103
10th Percentile £268 £326 £312
25th Percentile £357 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £489 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% -8.60% +9.18%
75th Percentile £537 £565 £586
90th Percentile £638 £632 £622
North West median daily rate £466 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.80% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £18.30 - £15.36
25th Percentile £21.38 - £22.62
Median hourly rate £29.00 £11.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +163.64% -72.50% +83.65%
75th Percentile £50.75 - £57.88
90th Percentile £62.30 - £66.25
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £27.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year +30.28% -23.24% +82.05%

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 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 4 £475 -
Macclesfield +3 3 - -
Chester - 1 - - 2
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 1 (10.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (10.00%) Mule
1 1 (10.00%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) BGP
2 4 (40.00%) MPLS
2 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 4 (40.00%) OSPF
2 4 (40.00%) VLAN
2 4 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Designer
2 4 (40.00%) Network Designer
2 4 (40.00%) Solutions Designer
3 3 (30.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Information Architect
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Fabric
1 3 (30.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Use Case
2 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) High Availability
4 4 (40.00%) IT Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) ITSM
4 4 (40.00%) Network Architecture
4 4 (40.00%) Network Design
4 4 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (40.00%) Service Design
4 4 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (30.00%) Conceptual Models
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) CCIE
2 4 (40.00%) CCNP
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (40.00%) JNCIE
2 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) F5
1 4 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) VMware