Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Private Cloud
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.04% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £425 £593 £440
% change year-on-year -28.27% +34.66% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £61.20 - -
25th Percentile £63.38 - -
Median hourly rate £69.38 - -
75th Percentile £73.01 - -
90th Percentile £73.76 - -
North West median hourly rate £69.38 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.49% - -

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

Private 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 75 20 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 39.06% 10.26% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 8 25
10th Percentile £170 £241 £316
25th Percentile £369 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% +1.71% -28.51%
75th Percentile £569 £563 £645
90th Percentile £588 £589 £695
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 12
10th Percentile £41.94 - £22.98
25th Percentile £47.12 - £37.73
Median hourly rate £70.16 £46.18 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +51.93% +0.65% +77.76%
75th Percentile £74.26 - £46.18
90th Percentile £78.30 - -
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £41.75
% change year-on-year +7.69% -22.16% +91.69%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Private 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 Private Cloud within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Preston - 1 - - 1
Private Cloud
North West

Private 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) WebEx
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Collaboration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware