Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Preston

Private Cloud
Lancashire > Preston

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in Preston. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.19% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £69.38 - -

All Generic Skills
Preston

Private 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 24 5 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 28.57% 10.64% 27.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 13
10th Percentile £213 £184 £372
25th Percentile £300 £220 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £280 £475
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -41.05% +100.00%
75th Percentile £550 £340 £500
90th Percentile - £376 £500
Lancashire median daily rate £530 £509 £500
% change year-on-year +4.13% +1.71% -28.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £41.94 - £19.83
25th Percentile £43.24 - £37.55
Median hourly rate £47.12 - £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.26%
75th Percentile £64.40 - £45.88
90th Percentile £72.21 - £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £70.16 £46.18 £45.88
% change year-on-year +51.93% +0.65% +77.76%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Preston

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Private 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) WebEx
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware