Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in Preston

Technical Architecture
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 0.90% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £600 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 93 61 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 83.78% 91.04% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 37 23
10th Percentile £225 £285 £353
25th Percentile £488 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -11.45% +35.52%
75th Percentile £725 £630 £648
90th Percentile £833 £665 £930
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 34
10th Percentile £36.41 - £13.06
25th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £64.09 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +122.92% +79.02% -61.90%
75th Percentile £71.49 £47.12 £26.54
90th Percentile £73.98 £59.30 £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £64.09 £28.75 £31.68
% change year-on-year +122.92% -9.25% -25.46%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in Preston

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Technical Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft