Hybrid Cloud Contracts in the North West

Hybrid Cloud
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 103 132 145
Rank change year-on-year +29 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 17 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 0.18% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.04% 0.67% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 7
10th Percentile £459 - £448
25th Percentile £463 £585 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% +12.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £701 - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in the North West

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in the North West

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the North West

Hybrid Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +22 7 £601 +0.21% 24
Cheshire +3 6 £500 -14.53% 7
Hybrid Cloud
England

Hybrid Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
2 6 (35.29%) Google Workspace
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) SaaS
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) VPN
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
3 3 (17.65%) Network Security
4 2 (11.76%) BGP
4 2 (11.76%) MPLS
4 2 (11.76%) OSPF
4 2 (11.76%) VLAN
5 1 (5.88%) DNS
5 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Aviation
4 1 (5.88%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Publishing
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Architect
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Designer
3 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps Architect
3 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Network Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Security Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Wintel Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Onboarding
2 3 (17.65%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Blockchain
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
1 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
2 5 (29.41%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) User Experience
2 6 (35.29%) Privileged Access Management
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) RBAC
3 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (23.53%) Network Architecture
4 4 (23.53%) Use Case
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
5 3 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (11.76%) IT Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (11.76%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) VB
3 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
4 2 (11.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (11.76%) CCIE
4 2 (11.76%) CCNP
4 2 (11.76%) CCSP
4 2 (11.76%) CEH
4 2 (11.76%) CISM
4 2 (11.76%) CISSP
4 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.76%) JNCIE
4 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 2 (11.76%) OSCP
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.88%) MCP
5 1 (5.88%) MCSE
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) COBIT
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) BitLocker
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (11.76%) Docker
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (29.41%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.88%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Google
3 5 (29.41%) CyberArk
3 5 (29.41%) VMware
4 4 (23.53%) CheckPoint
4 4 (23.53%) Citrix
4 4 (23.53%) Zscaler
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco
5 2 (11.76%) F5
5 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.88%) McAfee
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.88%) Symantec