Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Preston

Cloud Engineer
Lancashire > Preston

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Preston is £391, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 2.96% 3.85% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.33% 4.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £316 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% - -
75th Percentile £475 £550 -
90th Percentile - £595 -
Lancashire median daily rate £391 £450 -
% change year-on-year -13.06% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Preston

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Preston. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Preston with a recognized job title 120 72 40
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.89% 92.31% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 46 28
10th Percentile £375 £300 £200
25th Percentile £519 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £463 £575
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -19.57% +33.54%
75th Percentile £712 £621 £646
90th Percentile £950 £671 £835
Lancashire median daily rate £600 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +26.32% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 5
10th Percentile £26.26 - £24.31
25th Percentile £37.25 £26.88 £25.30
Median hourly rate £69.00 £41.06 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.05% +46.64% -34.88%
75th Percentile £71.50 £70.16 £51.88
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.66 £61.25
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.56 £40.59 £40.33
% change year-on-year +12.23% +0.66% -12.11%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Preston

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Preston.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Preston

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Preston over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Preston

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston

For the 6 months to 17 August 2026, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Preston region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft