Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Public Cloud
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.70% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £350 £537 £800
% change year-on-year -34.82% -32.88% +41.59%

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

Public 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 73 44 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 25.52% 25.58% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 27
10th Percentile £325 £354 £313
25th Percentile £413 £416 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -11.45% +33.61%
75th Percentile £625 £578 £653
90th Percentile £688 £628 £863
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 9
10th Percentile £21.14 £24.15 £11.25
25th Percentile £32.53 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £51.28 £34.67 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.89% +131.13% -32.96%
75th Percentile £65.94 £56.26 -
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.75 £21.24
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £40.59 £25.25
% change year-on-year +8.30% +60.75% -5.61%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Public 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 Public Cloud within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
Blackpool - 2 £675 - 1
Public Cloud
North West

Public 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle