Hybrid Cloud Contracts in the North of England

Hybrid Cloud
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 131 178 205
Rank change year-on-year +47 +27 +9
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 35 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.06% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.47% 0.54% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 9
10th Percentile £463 £474 £213
25th Percentile £492 £585 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £590 £523
Median % change year-on-year -8.98% +12.92% -12.92%
75th Percentile £715 £599 £600
90th Percentile £750 £600 -
England median daily rate £591 £585 £600
% change year-on-year +1.07% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £100.00 - £78.00

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Hybrid Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in the North of England

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the North of England

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the North of England

Hybrid Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +29 17 £524 -11.60% 13
Yorkshire +16 10 £715 +47.42% 11
North East - 7 - -
Hybrid Cloud
England

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.86%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) Entra ID
2 6 (17.14%) Google Workspace
3 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) SaaS
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 6 (17.14%) VPN
3 5 (14.29%) DNS
4 4 (11.43%) NAS
4 4 (11.43%) SAN
5 3 (8.57%) Network Security
6 2 (5.71%) BGP
6 2 (5.71%) MPLS
6 2 (5.71%) OSPF
6 2 (5.71%) VLAN
7 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
1 4 (11.43%) GitLab
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
3 7 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (17.14%) Banking
5 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (8.57%) Aviation
7 2 (5.71%) Finance
7 2 (5.71%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (5.71%) Legal
7 2 (5.71%) Police
7 2 (5.71%) Swedish Language
8 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Military
8 1 (2.86%) Publishing
8 1 (2.86%) Retail
8 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Architect
3 7 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Consultant
5 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) DevSecOps Architect
6 4 (11.43%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 4 (11.43%) Security Architect
6 4 (11.43%) Security Consultant
7 3 (8.57%) IT Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) IT Security Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Architect
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Designer
8 2 (5.71%) Network Designer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Solutions Designer
8 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (17.14%) Onboarding
2 5 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Robotics
5 1 (2.86%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Windows
2 13 (37.14%) Windows Server
3 11 (31.43%) Linux
4 5 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.86%) Android
5 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (28.57%) Migration
3 9 (25.71%) Security Management
4 8 (22.86%) User Experience
5 7 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 7 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 6 (17.14%) Data Protection
6 6 (17.14%) Network Architecture
6 6 (17.14%) Privileged Access Management
7 5 (14.29%) Agile
7 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (14.29%) DevOps
7 5 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (14.29%) Information Security
7 5 (14.29%) Information Security Management
7 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (14.29%) ISMS
7 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.29%) RBAC
8 4 (11.43%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (14.29%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.71%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) VB
5 1 (2.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (14.29%) Degree
4 4 (11.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (11.43%) CCSP
4 4 (11.43%) CEH
4 4 (11.43%) CISM
4 4 (11.43%) CISSP
4 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (11.43%) OSCP
5 2 (5.71%) CCIE
5 2 (5.71%) CCNP
5 2 (5.71%) JNCIE
5 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.86%) MCP
6 1 (2.86%) MCSA
6 1 (2.86%) MCSE
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.43%) COBIT
2 4 (11.43%) NIST
2 4 (11.43%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (14.29%) BitLocker
3 5 (14.29%) vSphere
4 4 (11.43%) VMware NSX
5 3 (8.57%) Docker
5 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (17.14%) Ansible
3 5 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (11.43%) vCenter Server
4 4 (11.43%) vRealize
5 3 (8.57%) Grafana
5 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
6 2 (5.71%) FortiGate
6 2 (5.71%) Terraform
7 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.86%) SCCM
7 1 (2.86%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) VMware
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.00%) Cisco
3 7 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 6 (17.14%) Google
4 6 (17.14%) HP
5 5 (14.29%) CyberArk
5 5 (14.29%) Veeam
6 4 (11.43%) CheckPoint
6 4 (11.43%) Citrix
6 4 (11.43%) Zscaler
7 2 (5.71%) F5
7 2 (5.71%) Ribbon
7 2 (5.71%) Tenable
8 1 (2.86%) Ariba
8 1 (2.86%) Aruba
8 1 (2.86%) McAfee
8 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.86%) SAP
8 1 (2.86%) Symantec