Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Technical Architecture
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 3.08% - 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% - 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £541 - -
25th Percentile £546 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 - £463
75th Percentile £585 - £469
90th Percentile £599 - £608
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £633
% change year-on-year -4.76% -17.00% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 103 183 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 79.23% 86.32% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 105 77
10th Percentile £353 £363 £200
25th Percentile £438 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +13.32%
75th Percentile £546 £582 £575
90th Percentile £638 £670 £627
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 30 9
10th Percentile £25.20 £10.95 £19.26
25th Percentile £27.14 £23.49 £41.00
Median hourly rate £41.71 £52.19 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% -0.59% +7.45%
75th Percentile £58.27 £69.83 £55.85
90th Percentile £62.44 £72.77 £68.68
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £34.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% +18.60% +55.32%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in Cumbria

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Technical Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architecture within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 5 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness - 4 £555 - 2
Technical Architecture
North West

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAN Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Application Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Capita