Collaborative Engineering Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Collaborative Engineering
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Collaborative Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.62% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Collaborative Engineering 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 257 169 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 79.32% 88.02% 72.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 82 60
10th Percentile £223 £351 £205
25th Percentile £350 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £506 £531
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% -4.80% +1.19%
75th Percentile £658 £586 £638
90th Percentile £712 £656 £741
North West median daily rate £492 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +6.96% -8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 24 49
10th Percentile £21.14 £16.09 -
25th Percentile £37.25 £25.84 £16.06
Median hourly rate £64.09 £40.83 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.99% +48.45% -35.67%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.40 £43.10
90th Percentile £74.26 £71.06 £48.00
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £32.00
% change year-on-year +73.91% -10.16% +4.78%

Collaborative Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Collaborative Engineering job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Collaborative Engineering
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 Collaborative Engineering within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 30 July 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 - 2 £575 -
Collaborative Engineering
North West

Collaborative Engineering
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Packer