Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Cloud Security
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.42% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 £650 £538
% change year-on-year -30.77% +20.93% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.46 - -
North West median hourly rate £45.46 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Cloud Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 177 128 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 83.89% 72.73% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 43 125
10th Percentile £164 £259 £363
25th Percentile £366 £319 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £688
90th Percentile £655 £621 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 24 56
10th Percentile £32.15 £27.83 £20.58
25th Percentile £43.70 £35.36 £37.73
Median hourly rate £45.46 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -12.68% +22.18%
75th Percentile £69.80 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.61 £58.90
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +1.03% +55.56%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 21 November 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
Blackpool - 2 £450 -
Preston - 1 - -
Cloud Security
North West

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform