Enterprise Cloud Contract Job Trends in Preston

Enterprise Cloud
Lancashire > Preston

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Cloud in contract job vacancies in Preston. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 2.54% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £519 - -

All Generic Skills
Preston

Enterprise 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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 37 21 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 31.36% 28.00% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 7
10th Percentile £466 £146 £304
25th Percentile £519 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £750
Median % change year-on-year +49.88% -46.67% +63.49%
75th Percentile £670 £447 £981
90th Percentile £763 £555 £988
Lancashire median daily rate £587 £463 £650
% change year-on-year +26.92% -28.85% +35.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £64.09 £34.67 -
Median % change year-on-year +84.86% - -
75th Percentile £74.26 £47.12 -
90th Percentile £83.55 £60.39 -
Lancashire median hourly rate £64.09 £43.86 £11.50
% change year-on-year +46.14% +281.35% -71.67%

Enterprise Cloud
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 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (33.33%) SABSA
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
Enterprise Cloud jobs