Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in Preston

Technical Discovery
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Technical Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £225 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - -
75th Percentile £275 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £250 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

Technical Discovery 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 70 70 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 76.92% 93.33% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 47 19
10th Percentile £213 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £447 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £530 £593
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -10.61% +47.30%
75th Percentile £803 £600 £695
90th Percentile £900 £671 £978
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £538 £519
% change year-on-year +2.23% +3.71% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 31
10th Percentile £36.97 £24.76 £11.77
25th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +48.47% +79.02% -62.21%
75th Percentile £70.19 £31.07 -
90th Percentile £72.33 £43.39 £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £56.44 £28.75 £25.60
% change year-on-year +96.31% +12.30% -39.76%

Technical Discovery
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler