Architect Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 35 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 37 39 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.79% 4.73% 6.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.39% 5.00% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 35
10th Percentile £493 £535 £516
25th Percentile £505 £606 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -3.61%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £740
90th Percentile £725 £777 £775
Scotland median daily rate £625 £664 £610
% change year-on-year -5.84% +8.81% -2.40%

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 579 780 1,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.66% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 408 626
10th Percentile £291 £198 £230
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £545 £538 £538
90th Percentile £610 £619 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 37 13
10th Percentile - £13.58 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 £17.70
Median hourly rate £42.51 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +132.66% +3.10% -5.87%
75th Percentile £64.06 £23.89 £43.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £36.51 £53.74
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.20 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.89% +2.71% -5.87%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Edinburgh

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 18 (48.65%) Azure
2 15 (40.54%) Agile
3 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
3 14 (37.84%) DevOps
3 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
4 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
5 12 (32.43%) Public Sector
5 12 (32.43%) AWS
6 10 (27.03%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (24.32%) React
7 9 (24.32%) Cloud Native
8 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (21.62%) Finance
8 8 (21.62%) Windows
8 8 (21.62%) Linux
9 7 (18.92%) .NET
9 7 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (18.92%) DevSecOps
10 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
10 6 (16.22%) GitHub
10 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Architecture
11 5 (13.51%) C#
11 5 (13.51%) Python
11 5 (13.51%) Data Governance
11 5 (13.51%) High Availability
11 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
11 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills

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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) Azure
2 12 (32.43%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) GitHub
3 6 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (13.51%) AWS CodePipeline
4 5 (13.51%) Serverless
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.81%) Azure AI
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.81%) IaaS
5 4 (10.81%) PaaS
5 4 (10.81%) SaaS
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.11%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
1 3 (8.11%) Network Security
1 3 (8.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (10.81%) Metadata
2 2 (5.41%) Power BI
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Storybook
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.70%) Appium
4 1 (2.70%) ER Studio
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (32.43%) Public Sector
3 8 (21.62%) Finance
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (8.11%) Banking
6 3 (8.11%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Digital Health
7 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) React
2 7 (18.92%) .NET
3 5 (13.51%) RESTful
4 4 (10.81%) AWS CDK
4 4 (10.81%) CSS
4 4 (10.81%) Jest
4 4 (10.81%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (8.11%) Playwright
6 2 (5.41%) REST
6 2 (5.41%) SOAP
7 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (2.70%) Blazor
7 1 (2.70%) EDI
7 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.70%) Kafka
7 1 (2.70%) Middleware
7 1 (2.70%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (10.81%) Mainframe
2 4 (10.81%) Replication
3 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
1 8 (21.62%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (10.81%) HPUX
3 4 (10.81%) Solaris
4 3 (8.11%) Unix
4 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Agile
2 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
2 14 (37.84%) DevOps
3 10 (27.03%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (18.92%) DevSecOps
5 7 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.51%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (13.51%) Data Architecture
7 5 (13.51%) Data Governance
7 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (13.51%) High Availability
7 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (10.81%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (10.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) C#
1 5 (13.51%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
3 3 (8.11%) SQL
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
1 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.11%) CISSP
2 3 (8.11%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.11%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) IBM
2 4 (10.81%) Unisys
3 3 (8.11%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco
4 2 (5.41%) HP
4 2 (5.41%) Meraki
5 1 (2.70%) Citrix
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) VMware