Technical Architect Contracts in Edinburgh

Technical Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £680 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 95 117
Rank change year-on-year +35 +22 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 15 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.85% 0.70% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 0.73% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 7
10th Percentile £614 £573 £585
25th Percentile £625 £606 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £750 £706 £838
90th Percentile £773 £763 £910
Scotland median daily rate £675 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 773 1,234 1,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.51% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 885 1,284
10th Percentile £200 £260 £230
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £635
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 13 24
10th Percentile £16.10 - £12.30
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -10.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £64.90 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £29.43 £25.82
% change year-on-year +18.93% +14.00% -35.46%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (40.00%) LAN
4 6 (40.00%) WAN
5 5 (33.33%) Finance
5 5 (33.33%) Middleware
5 5 (33.33%) Business Strategy
5 5 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
5 5 (33.33%) IT Strategy
6 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (26.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (26.67%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) VMware
7 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
7 3 (20.00%) SOA
7 3 (20.00%) Web Services
7 3 (20.00%) Windows
7 3 (20.00%) Linux
7 3 (20.00%) .NET
7 3 (20.00%) J2EE
7 3 (20.00%) Client/Server
7 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) IaaS
2 3 (20.00%) iPaaS
2 3 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) LAN
1 6 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
General
1 9 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Middleware
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) J2EE
2 3 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) OpenID
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) SAML
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 5 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 5 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) SOA
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (13.33%) NIST
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Databricks