Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Preston

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Lancashire > Preston

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Preston is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 0.78% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £450 - -

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 114 72 40
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.37% 92.31% 65.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 45 28
10th Percentile £375 £290 £200
25th Percentile £519 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -21.74% +31.84%
75th Percentile £712 £610 £646
90th Percentile £950 £665 £835
Lancashire median daily rate £600 £475 £484
% change year-on-year +26.32% -1.86% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 5
10th Percentile £26.26 - £24.31
25th Percentile £37.25 £26.88 £25.30
Median hourly rate £69.00 £40.83 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.01% +45.80% -34.12%
75th Percentile £71.50 £64.40 £51.88
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.10 £61.25
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.56 £37.29 £40.33
% change year-on-year +22.17% -7.53% -9.26%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston

For the 6 months to 14 August 2026, Cloud Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop

Cloud Infrastructure 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop