Cloud Security Contract Job Trends in Preston

Cloud Security
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Cloud Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 3.51% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £578 - -
25th Percentile £666 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - -
75th Percentile £894 - -
90th Percentile £928 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £675 £575 £400
% change year-on-year +17.39% +43.75% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

Cloud Security 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 95 63 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 83.33% 88.73% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 39 22
10th Percentile £225 £146 £216
25th Percentile £466 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -12.43% +37.45%
75th Percentile £712 £630 £649
90th Percentile £825 £663 £953
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 35
10th Percentile £35.74 - £13.49
25th Percentile £38.96 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £66.55 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +131.46% +79.02% -61.90%
75th Percentile £71.50 £47.12 £27.48
90th Percentile £74.26 £59.30 £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £64.09 £28.75 £35.36
% change year-on-year +122.92% -18.69% -16.46%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Preston

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Cloud Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Preston over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Preston

Cloud Security
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) SABSA
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft