Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in Preston

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in 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 citing Cloud Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 0.78% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% - -
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 Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

Cloud Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 71 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 80.62% 91.03% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 44 22
10th Percentile £267 £354 £216
25th Percentile £444 £405 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -22.85% +35.10%
75th Percentile £673 £606 £649
90th Percentile £750 £667 £953
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +15.00% -2.44% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 25
10th Percentile £37.25 £24.03 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £69.00 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +140.00% +79.02% -63.86%
75th Percentile £71.50 £47.12 -
90th Percentile £80.00 £56.86 £27.58
Lancashire median hourly rate £61.57 £40.59 £25.30
% change year-on-year +51.69% +60.43% -44.86%

Cloud Operations
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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
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