Enterprise Cloud Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Enterprise Cloud
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Cloud in contract job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.38% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £367 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -26.60% - -3.89%

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

Enterprise 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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 71 41 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 27.20% 23.30% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 25
10th Percentile £169 £350 £313
25th Percentile £316 £400 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% -11.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £656
90th Percentile £765 £630 £900
North West median daily rate £456 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 10 10
10th Percentile £39.13 £22.61 £11.25
25th Percentile - £25.29 -
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.12% +91.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £60.61 £30.63 -
90th Percentile £74.26 £44.98 £46.18
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £29.52 £25.25
% change year-on-year +54.02% +16.89% -9.76%

Enterprise Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Enterprise Cloud job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Enterprise Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Enterprise Cloud
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 Enterprise Cloud within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. 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
Preston - 1 - -
Enterprise Cloud
North West

Enterprise Cloud
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft