Solutions Architect Contracts in Scotland

Solution Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Scotland is £636 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 89 78
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 39 81 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.80% 2.88% 3.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 3.02% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 55 77
10th Percentile £523 £563 £513
25th Percentile £592 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £697 £700 £638
90th Percentile £753 £775 £675
UK median daily rate £650 £660 £625
% change year-on-year -1.52% +5.60% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £76.00 -
UK median hourly rate £89.00 £67.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year +31.85% +14.41% +6.79%

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 2,681 3,374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 95.24% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,919 2,400
10th Percentile £200 £231 £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 £556 £550
90th Percentile £654 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 44 52
10th Percentile £12.32 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.06 £15.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.27 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -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 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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 +21 18 £646 -2.49% 8
Glasgow +5 17 £619 +3.13% 3
Perthshire +5 2 £700 +3.70%
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 17 (43.59%) Agile
2 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 11 (28.21%) TOGAF
3 11 (28.21%) Finance
3 11 (28.21%) Microservices
4 10 (25.64%) Azure
4 10 (25.64%) Banking
4 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (23.08%) AWS
5 9 (23.08%) Waterfall
5 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
6 7 (17.95%) Roadmaps
6 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
7 6 (15.38%) Middleware
7 6 (15.38%) Migration
7 6 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (12.82%) Project Delivery
8 5 (12.82%) ATM
8 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
8 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
8 5 (12.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (12.82%) SDLC
8 5 (12.82%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
9 4 (10.26%) Architecture Governance
9 4 (10.26%) Cyber Resilience
9 4 (10.26%) SaaS
9 4 (10.26%) Security Architecture
9 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.26%) Data Architecture

Solutions 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 1 (2.56%) Confluence
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 9 (23.08%) AWS
3 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.26%) SaaS
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.13%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (5.13%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (5.13%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.56%) IaaS
7 1 (2.56%) OCI
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) ATM
2 2 (5.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Finance
3 10 (25.64%) Banking
4 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
5 6 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Back Office
7 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.13%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Middleware
2 3 (7.69%) REST
2 3 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (10.26%) Operational Technology
2 4 (10.26%) SCADA
3 3 (7.69%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) Microservices
2 11 (28.21%) TOGAF
3 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (23.08%) Waterfall
5 7 (17.95%) Roadmaps
6 6 (15.38%) Migration
7 5 (12.82%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 5 (12.82%) Project Delivery
7 5 (12.82%) SDLC
8 4 (10.26%) Architecture Governance
8 4 (10.26%) Business Case
8 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.26%) Cyber Resilience
8 4 (10.26%) Data Architecture
8 4 (10.26%) Data Protection
8 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
8 4 (10.26%) Security Architecture
9 3 (7.69%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Java
2 1 (2.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) VxRail
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) Dell
3 3 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.56%) Fiserv