Architect Contracts in Edinburgh

Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £664 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 37 29
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +14
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 67 85 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.28% 6.59% 7.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.68% 6.89% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 52 92
10th Percentile £525 £563 £513
25th Percentile £608 £593 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £664 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £719 £775 £705
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
Scotland median daily rate £675 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +12.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 772 1,233 1,868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.58% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 880 1,282
10th Percentile £204 £249 £230
25th Percentile £404 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £555
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 13 23
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.07 £11.98
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -1.12% -62.61%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £64.90 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
% change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 32 (47.76%) Public Sector
2 26 (38.81%) Social Skills
3 24 (35.82%) Azure
4 18 (26.87%) Finance
4 18 (26.87%) Roadmaps
5 15 (22.39%) Migration
6 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
7 13 (19.40%) AWS
8 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (17.91%) LAN
9 11 (16.42%) WAN
9 11 (16.42%) Java
9 11 (16.42%) SaaS
9 11 (16.42%) Agile
9 11 (16.42%) IaaS
10 10 (14.93%) Mentoring
10 10 (14.93%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (14.93%) Degree
10 10 (14.93%) Security Architecture
10 10 (14.93%) Data Protection
10 10 (14.93%) VMware
11 9 (13.43%) Service Management
11 9 (13.43%) Active Directory
11 9 (13.43%) SOAP
11 9 (13.43%) Data Architecture
11 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
11 9 (13.43%) Disclosure Scotland
11 9 (13.43%) REST
12 8 (11.94%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (11.94%) Storage Management

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.97%) IIS
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.82%) Azure
2 13 (19.40%) AWS
3 11 (16.42%) IaaS
3 11 (16.42%) SaaS
4 8 (11.94%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (10.45%) PaaS
6 6 (8.96%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (8.96%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 6 (8.96%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.97%) GCP
8 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (4.48%) iPaaS
10 1 (1.49%) Apigee
10 1 (1.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.91%) LAN
2 11 (16.42%) WAN
3 3 (4.48%) SAN
4 2 (2.99%) VSAN
5 1 (1.49%) ATM
5 1 (1.49%) FabricPath
5 1 (1.49%) Firewall
5 1 (1.49%) HTTP
5 1 (1.49%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.49%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.49%) Wireless
5 1 (1.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.97%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.48%) Power BI
4 1 (1.49%) Big Data
4 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.49%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.49%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) JIRA
General
1 32 (47.76%) Public Sector
2 26 (38.81%) Social Skills
3 18 (26.87%) Finance
4 10 (14.93%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (11.94%) Back Office
6 7 (10.45%) Banking
7 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.43%) REST
1 9 (13.43%) SOAP
2 7 (10.45%) Middleware
3 6 (8.96%) SAML
4 5 (7.46%) OpenID
5 4 (5.97%) .NET
6 3 (4.48%) J2EE
6 3 (4.48%) Kafka
6 3 (4.48%) Web Services
7 2 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.49%) CSS
8 1 (1.49%) HTML
8 1 (1.49%) JSON
8 1 (1.49%) OAuth
8 1 (1.49%) React
8 1 (1.49%) RESTful
8 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.97%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.48%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.48%) N-Tier
3 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.48%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.99%) PKI
5 1 (1.49%) CMDB
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Windows
2 4 (5.97%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.48%) Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Android
4 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.87%) Roadmaps
2 15 (22.39%) Migration
3 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (16.42%) Agile
5 10 (14.93%) Data Protection
5 10 (14.93%) Mentoring
5 10 (14.93%) Security Architecture
6 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
6 9 (13.43%) Data Architecture
6 9 (13.43%) Service Management
7 8 (11.94%) API Management
7 8 (11.94%) Storage Management
8 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
8 7 (10.45%) Computer Science
8 7 (10.45%) Microservices
8 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.45%) Technical Architecture
9 6 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.96%) Data Migration
9 6 (8.96%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.42%) Java
2 3 (4.48%) Bash
2 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.48%) Python
3 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.99%) SQL
4 1 (1.49%) C#
4 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.49%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) Degree
2 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.97%) CCNA
3 4 (5.97%) CCNP
3 4 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.48%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.99%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.99%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (13.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.97%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (7.46%) Terraform
2 4 (5.97%) SCCM
3 3 (4.48%) VxRail
4 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.99%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.49%) Istio
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) VMware
3 7 (10.45%) Databricks
4 6 (8.96%) Oracle
5 4 (5.97%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (5.97%) F5
5 4 (5.97%) Informatica
5 4 (5.97%) Okta
5 4 (5.97%) Zscaler
6 3 (4.48%) Dell
7 2 (2.99%) Google
8 1 (1.49%) Adobe
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco
8 1 (1.49%) Citrix
8 1 (1.49%) Confluent
8 1 (1.49%) Fiserv
8 1 (1.49%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.49%) IBM
8 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.49%) Teradata