Senior Technical Architect Contracts in Scotland

Senior Technical Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Technical Architect daily rate in Scotland is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 167 -
Rank change year-on-year +50 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Architect 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 0.036% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.038% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £581 - -
25th Percentile £609 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - -
75th Percentile £713 - -
90th Percentile £758 - -
UK median daily rate £710 £680 £650
% change year-on-year +4.41% +4.62% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 2,037 2,637 3,328
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 95.37% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,891 2,365
10th Percentile £200 £236 £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 £575 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 44 52
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.19 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -17.60% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Architect in Scotland

Senior Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Technical Architect in Scotland

Senior Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Technical Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Technical Architect in Scotland

Senior Technical 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 Senior Technical Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 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 - 6 £663 -
Senior Technical Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior 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 Scotland region featuring Senior Technical Architect in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) Architecture Governance
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) iPaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing

Senior Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) iPaaS
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) J2EE
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Architecture Governance
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) VMware