Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Technical Architecture
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire 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 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.70% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £534 £630 £700
% change year-on-year -15.24% -10.00% +40.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 223 152 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 77.97% 90.48% 79.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 82 70
10th Percentile £165 £391 £313
25th Percentile £380 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% -4.84% +7.14%
75th Percentile £680 £600 £656
90th Percentile £838 £630 £783
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 18 53
10th Percentile £36.64 £14.48 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £23.43 £16.06
Median hourly rate £52.78 £28.75 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year +83.57% +12.30% -39.76%
75th Percentile £71.60 £40.42 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £58.87 £48.00
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £21.00
% change year-on-year +43.14% +51.24% -40.00%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Technical Architecture
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 Technical Architecture within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
Burnley - 2 £600 - 1
Technical Architecture
North West

Technical Architecture
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Hyperautomation
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management