Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Architectural Patterns
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 2 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.76% 3.03% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 3.36% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £738 £585 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% - -
75th Percentile £813 £615 -
90th Percentile - £651 -
North West median daily rate £492 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -18.00% +14.29% -17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £46.18
North West median hourly rate £61.00 - £46.18

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Architectural Patterns 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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 212 149 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 80.30% 90.30% 83.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 77 71
10th Percentile £160 £385 £263
25th Percentile £350 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +0.09% +2.38%
75th Percentile £680 £600 £653
90th Percentile £813 £643 £740
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 19 60
10th Percentile £34.57 £14.62 £15.83
25th Percentile £41.94 £23.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +58.12% -23.59% -11.47%
75th Percentile £71.50 £43.94 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £48.04
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.86
% change year-on-year +40.63% +34.14% -36.39%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Patterns relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Architectural Patterns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Architectural Patterns

Architectural Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Patterns within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 23 March 2026. 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
Preston -1 2 £775 +19.23% 4
Architectural Patterns
North West

Architectural Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DoDAF
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (50.00%) RMADS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Forcepoint