Architect Contracts in Scotland

Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Architect daily rate in Scotland 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 34 38 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 +15
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 110 165 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.06% 5.87% 6.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.36% 6.16% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 101 172
10th Percentile £507 £550 £513
25th Percentile £591 £593 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £655 £640
% change year-on-year -0.76% +2.34% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +13.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,054 2,677 3,368
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 95.30% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,920 2,393
10th Percentile £200 £232 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £580 £554 £550
90th Percentile £654 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 45 52
10th Percentile £12.32 £12.90 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.75 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -18.99% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.13 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +19 66 £675 +1.89% 23
Glasgow -22 27 £613 -3.09% 15
Perthshire +9 6 £700 +3.70%
South Lanarkshire - 3 £700 - 1
Renfrewshire -5 2 £600 -
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 Scotland region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 40 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 34 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 31 (28.18%) Azure
4 30 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 26 (23.64%) Finance
6 24 (21.82%) Agile
7 19 (17.27%) TOGAF
7 19 (17.27%) Microsoft
8 18 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (14.55%) Migration
9 16 (14.55%) AWS
10 15 (13.64%) Microservices
11 14 (12.73%) Security Architecture
12 13 (11.82%) Banking
12 13 (11.82%) Degree
12 13 (11.82%) IT Strategy
13 12 (10.91%) VMware
13 12 (10.91%) LAN
13 12 (10.91%) Waterfall
13 12 (10.91%) Data Architecture
14 11 (10.00%) SC Cleared
14 11 (10.00%) Data Protection
14 11 (10.00%) SaaS
14 11 (10.00%) Security Cleared
14 11 (10.00%) WAN
14 11 (10.00%) Middleware
14 11 (10.00%) Active Directory
14 11 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (10.00%) Project Delivery
14 11 (10.00%) Technology Strategy

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (3.64%) IIS
2 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.18%) Azure
2 16 (14.55%) AWS
3 11 (10.00%) SaaS
4 9 (8.18%) IaaS
5 8 (7.27%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.36%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.45%) AWS CodeBuild
7 6 (5.45%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 6 (5.45%) AWS CodePipeline
8 5 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.55%) PaaS
9 4 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.73%) iPaaS
10 3 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.82%) GCP
12 1 (0.91%) Apigee
12 1 (0.91%) OCI
12 1 (0.91%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.91%) LAN
2 11 (10.00%) WAN
3 5 (4.55%) ATM
4 3 (2.73%) SAN
5 2 (1.82%) VSAN
6 1 (0.91%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.91%) Firewall
6 1 (0.91%) HTTP
6 1 (0.91%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.91%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.91%) Wireless
6 1 (0.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.73%) Big Data
3 3 (2.73%) Power BI
4 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.91%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.91%) Metadata
4 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.91%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) JIRA
General
1 40 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 34 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 26 (23.64%) Finance
4 13 (11.82%) Banking
5 11 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (7.27%) Back Office
7 4 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.00%) Middleware
2 9 (8.18%) REST
2 9 (8.18%) SAML
2 9 (8.18%) SOAP
3 8 (7.27%) OpenID
4 4 (3.64%) .NET
5 3 (2.73%) J2EE
5 3 (2.73%) Kafka
5 3 (2.73%) Web Services
6 2 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.91%) CSS
7 1 (0.91%) HTML
7 1 (0.91%) JSON
7 1 (0.91%) OAuth
7 1 (0.91%) React
7 1 (0.91%) RESTful
7 1 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (5.45%) Operational Technology
2 6 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.45%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.55%) SCADA
3 5 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.73%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.73%) N-Tier
4 3 (2.73%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.82%) PKI
6 1 (0.91%) Clustering
6 1 (0.91%) CMDB
6 1 (0.91%) IoT
6 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.27%) Windows
2 5 (4.55%) Linux
3 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.82%) Android
4 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.27%) Roadmaps
2 24 (21.82%) Agile
3 19 (17.27%) TOGAF
4 18 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (14.55%) Migration
6 15 (13.64%) Microservices
7 14 (12.73%) Security Architecture
8 13 (11.82%) IT Strategy
9 12 (10.91%) Data Architecture
9 12 (10.91%) Waterfall
10 11 (10.00%) Data Protection
10 11 (10.00%) Project Delivery
10 11 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
11 10 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
12 9 (8.18%) Architecture Governance
12 9 (8.18%) Business Strategy
12 9 (8.18%) Cloud Security
12 9 (8.18%) Containerisation
12 9 (8.18%) Enterprise Architecture
12 9 (8.18%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.09%) Java
2 5 (4.55%) Python
3 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.73%) Bash
4 3 (2.73%) SQL
5 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.91%) C#
6 1 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.91%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (11.82%) Degree
2 11 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 11 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.45%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.64%) CCNA
4 4 (3.64%) CCNP
4 4 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.82%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.73%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.82%) vSphere
6 1 (0.91%) Docker
6 1 (0.91%) KVM
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (4.55%) Terraform
2 4 (3.64%) SCCM
2 4 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.73%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.73%) VxRail
4 1 (0.91%) Ansible
4 1 (0.91%) Istio
4 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.91%) Nagios
4 1 (0.91%) Puppet
4 1 (0.91%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.91%) VMware
3 8 (7.27%) Databricks
4 7 (6.36%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (6.36%) Okta
4 7 (6.36%) Oracle
4 7 (6.36%) Zscaler
5 4 (3.64%) F5
5 4 (3.64%) Informatica
6 3 (2.73%) Dell
7 2 (1.82%) Google
8 1 (0.91%) Adobe
8 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.91%) Cisco
8 1 (0.91%) Citrix
8 1 (0.91%) Fiserv
8 1 (0.91%) IBM
8 1 (0.91%) Pega
8 1 (0.91%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.91%) Teradata