Architect Contracts in Edinburgh

Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 29 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 48 52 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.35% 5.96% 6.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.93% 6.30% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £500 £550 £522
25th Percentile £554 £613 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £664 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +2.12% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £731 £763
90th Percentile £725 £775 £825
Scotland median daily rate £625 £675 £620
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.87% +3.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 605 826 1,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.62% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 455 773
10th Percentile £218 £178 £243
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £646 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 57 12
10th Percentile - £13.58 £17.70
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +19.73% +3.70% -11.40%
75th Percentile £40.04 £60.75 £27.19
90th Percentile £66.50 £63.00 £52.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.90 £18.38 £17.72
% change year-on-year +8.30% +3.70% -52.66%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 Architect in the job title.

1 16 (33.33%) Agile
1 16 (33.33%) Azure
2 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (29.17%) DevOps
2 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 12 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (22.92%) Finance
4 11 (22.92%) Linux
4 11 (22.92%) AWS
4 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
5 10 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (20.83%) Cloud Native
6 9 (18.75%) React
6 9 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (16.67%) Windows
7 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (16.67%) Serverless
7 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (14.58%) Data Centre
8 7 (14.58%) High Availability
8 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (14.58%) Banking
8 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
8 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
9 6 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (12.50%) RESTful
9 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
9 6 (12.50%) Data Architecture

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 (2.08%) Camunda
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (33.33%) Azure
2 11 (22.92%) AWS
3 8 (16.67%) Serverless
4 7 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 6 (12.50%) GitHub
5 6 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.42%) AWS CodePipeline
6 5 (10.42%) IaaS
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.33%) Azure AI
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.33%) PaaS
7 4 (8.33%) SaaS
8 3 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (4.17%) CloudFront
9 2 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) Internet
1 1 (2.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.33%) Metadata
2 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.17%) Power BI
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Storybook
2 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Appium
4 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.08%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.08%) Git
General
1 12 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.92%) Finance
2 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.58%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Publishing
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) React
2 6 (12.50%) .NET
2 6 (12.50%) RESTful
3 4 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 4 (8.33%) CSS
3 4 (8.33%) Jest
3 4 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (6.25%) Playwright
5 2 (4.17%) Middleware
5 2 (4.17%) REST
5 2 (4.17%) SOAP
6 1 (2.08%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.08%) EDI
6 1 (2.08%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.08%) Ionic Framework
6 1 (2.08%) Kafka
6 1 (2.08%) LDAP
6 1 (2.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.58%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 4 (8.33%) Replication
4 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.17%) CMDB
6 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Linux
2 8 (16.67%) Windows
3 6 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (8.33%) HPUX
4 4 (8.33%) Solaris
5 2 (4.17%) AIX
5 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) Agile
2 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
2 14 (29.17%) DevOps
3 10 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
6 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (14.58%) High Availability
6 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
7 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.50%) Data Architecture
7 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (10.42%) ITSM
8 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
8 5 (10.42%) Microservices
8 5 (10.42%) Migration
8 5 (10.42%) Service Management
8 5 (10.42%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) Python
2 5 (10.42%) C#
3 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.25%) SQL
5 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.08%) Bash
6 1 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) Perl
6 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
3 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Ansible
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.08%) Puppet
1 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) IBM
3 4 (8.33%) Oracle
3 4 (8.33%) Sun
3 4 (8.33%) Unisys
4 3 (6.25%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) Citrix
5 2 (4.17%) Google
5 2 (4.17%) HP
5 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.17%) VMware
6 1 (2.08%) Genesys
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat