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

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 123 132
Rank change year-on-year +28 +9 +39
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 39 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.76% 0.12% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.28% 0.46% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 14
10th Percentile £463 - £482
25th Percentile £499 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £544
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +7.52% -14.65%
75th Percentile £638 - £626
90th Percentile £639 - £646
England median daily rate £600 £550 £618
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.93% +2.92%
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 £81.86 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.36%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 738 656 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.24% 26.78% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 403 553
10th Percentile £302 £300 £259
25th Percentile £376 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £588
90th Percentile £645 £733 £657
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 39
10th Percentile £22.50 £11.25 £16.20
25th Percentile £26.88 £16.85 £17.05
Median hourly rate £47.12 £31.00 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% -23.12% +100.32%
75th Percentile £67.25 £57.50 £51.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £93.90 £67.60
England median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £45.82
% change year-on-year -35.90% +9.12% +76.23%

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

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Hybrid Cloud

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 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Hybrid Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
DemandTrendContract 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 25 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 24 £613 - 16
Cheshire -18 10 £475 -18.80% 1
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 1 (2.56%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.56%) Mule
1 1 (2.56%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) Google Workspace
2 21 (53.85%) SaaS
3 8 (20.51%) AWS
4 6 (15.38%) Azure
5 4 (10.26%) GCP
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) Firewall
2 6 (15.38%) VPN
3 4 (10.26%) BGP
3 4 (10.26%) MPLS
3 4 (10.26%) Network Security
3 4 (10.26%) OSPF
3 4 (10.26%) VLAN
4 2 (5.13%) DHCP
4 2 (5.13%) DNS
4 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.13%) VSAN
5 1 (2.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Metadata
General
1 13 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.26%) Military
3 3 (7.69%) Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Senior
3 7 (17.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Designer
5 4 (10.26%) Network Designer
5 4 (10.26%) Solutions Designer
6 3 (7.69%) Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Information Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.56%) J2EE
2 1 (2.56%) JSON
2 1 (2.56%) Spring
2 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.56%) Web Services
2 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.69%) Data Fabric
2 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.69%) Digital Signage
2 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
2 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Mobile Device Management
2 18 (46.15%) User Experience
3 17 (43.59%) Benchmarking
4 14 (35.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (17.95%) Use Case
6 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 6 (15.38%) High Availability
7 5 (12.82%) Agile
8 4 (10.26%) IT Strategy
8 4 (10.26%) ITSM
8 4 (10.26%) Network Architecture
8 4 (10.26%) Network Design
8 4 (10.26%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
8 4 (10.26%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (10.26%) Technology Strategy
8 4 (10.26%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) Degree
4 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (10.26%) CCIE
5 4 (10.26%) CCNP
5 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (10.26%) JNCIE
5 4 (10.26%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) GMP
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) BitLocker
2 2 (5.13%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (10.26%) Ansible
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.13%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.56%) Grafana
6 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (58.97%) Google
2 5 (12.82%) VMware
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco
3 4 (10.26%) F5
3 4 (10.26%) Fortinet
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) CheckPoint
4 2 (5.13%) Citrix
4 2 (5.13%) CyberArk
4 2 (5.13%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.56%) Dell
5 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.56%) NetApp
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) Veeam