Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in Chester

Technical Architecture
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.53% 4.76% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 4.84% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% - -
Cheshire median daily rate £485 £700 -
% change year-on-year -30.71% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

Technical Architecture 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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 88 62 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 67.18% 98.41% 70.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 14
10th Percentile £318 £325 £243
25th Percentile £412 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% -12.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £578 £700 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £723
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £469 £500
% change year-on-year -4.05% -6.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 7
10th Percentile £21.75 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £22.30 £26.49 £41.25
Median hourly rate £27.22 £50.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.56% +17.65% +29.27%
75th Percentile £37.23 £86.00 £45.63
90th Percentile £78.25 - £47.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £42.25 £26.66
% change year-on-year -23.73% +58.48% -4.72%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in Chester

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Technical Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Technical Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk