Technical Architect Contracts in Edinburgh

Technical Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 102 121
Rank change year-on-year +43 +19 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 12 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.50% 0.78% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 0.81% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £613 £580 £585
25th Percentile £625 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £750 £730 £838
90th Percentile £778 £772 £910
Scotland median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +20.93%

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 763 1,228 1,863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 95.64% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 876 1,277
10th Percentile £206 £240 £230
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £565
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 12 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.62 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -18.23% -54.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.43 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £24.29 £21.75 £26.85
% change year-on-year +11.68% -18.99% -28.40%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Edinburgh

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in Edinburgh

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Azure
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
3 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (50.00%) LAN
3 6 (50.00%) WAN
4 5 (41.67%) Finance
4 5 (41.67%) Middleware
4 5 (41.67%) Business Strategy
4 5 (41.67%) Architecture Governance
4 5 (41.67%) IT Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Web Services
5 3 (25.00%) Windows
5 3 (25.00%) Linux
5 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
5 3 (25.00%) .NET
5 3 (25.00%) J2EE
5 3 (25.00%) N-Tier

Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) IaaS
2 3 (25.00%) iPaaS
2 3 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) LAN
1 6 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) HTTP
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (41.67%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Middleware
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) J2EE
2 3 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) OpenID
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) SAML
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (25.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (41.67%) Architecture Governance
2 5 (41.67%) Business Strategy
2 5 (41.67%) IT Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) High Availability
3 3 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) SOA
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks