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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 2.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £543 - -
25th Percentile £578 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £660 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £650 - -

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 154 69 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 81.48% 92.00% 79.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 46 21
10th Percentile £310 £349 £200
25th Percentile £463 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £455 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -20.87% +29.58%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £627
90th Percentile £685 £675 £975
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £488 £497
% change year-on-year +12.82% -1.81% -9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 6
10th Percentile £37.25 £23.32 £24.48
25th Percentile £60.00 £30.68 £25.98
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.56% +44.98% -29.16%
75th Percentile £76.33 £53.21 £48.16
90th Percentile £80.00 £63.64 £59.69
Lancashire median hourly rate £52.97 £51.16 £40.33
% change year-on-year +3.54% +26.87% -12.68%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in Preston over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in Preston

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 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 4 (80.00%) Operations Management
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) AIOps
5 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) Key Management
5 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft