Architect Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 27 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 +18
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 60 44 64
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.28% 7.07% 7.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.89% 7.59% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 40
10th Percentile £550 £512 £548
25th Percentile £625 £589 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +1.89%
75th Percentile £697 £675 £736
90th Percentile £875 £741 £776
Scotland median daily rate £650 £625 £675
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
75th Percentile £66.50 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 675 580 778
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 93.25% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 329 439
10th Percentile £286 £211 £200
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -2.53% -
75th Percentile £563 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 55
10th Percentile £32.00 - £16.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £22.44 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +171.87% -55.13% +135.18%
75th Percentile £72.00 £25.59 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £42.35 £66.00
Scotland median hourly rate £21.20 £20.94 £27.90
% change year-on-year +1.24% -24.93% +26.08%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Architect job vacancy trend 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 8 May 2026.

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 & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 8 May 2026, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 26 (43.33%) Azure
2 18 (30.00%) AI
3 14 (23.33%) Roadmaps
4 12 (20.00%) AWS
4 12 (20.00%) Python
5 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
5 11 (18.33%) Machine Learning
6 10 (16.67%) Metadata
6 10 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (15.00%) .NET
7 9 (15.00%) API Design
7 9 (15.00%) Data Architecture
7 9 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 9 (15.00%) Migration
8 8 (13.33%) Analytics
8 8 (13.33%) Azure AI
8 8 (13.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 8 (13.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 8 (13.33%) C#
8 8 (13.33%) DevOps
8 8 (13.33%) OCR
8 8 (13.33%) Open Source
9 7 (11.67%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (11.67%) Data Management
9 7 (11.67%) Data Modelling
9 7 (11.67%) Oracle
9 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.67%) RESTful
10 6 (10.00%) Data Governance
10 6 (10.00%) Data Integration

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.67%) Apache
3 3 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.67%) CMS
4 1 (1.67%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) JBoss
4 1 (1.67%) nginx
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.67%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (43.33%) Azure
2 12 (20.00%) AWS
3 8 (13.33%) Azure AI
3 8 (13.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 8 (13.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.67%) GCP
6 3 (5.00%) GitHub
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.33%) Serverless
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) Firewall
2 4 (6.67%) Network Security
3 2 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.67%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.67%) Internet
4 1 (1.67%) IPsec
4 1 (1.67%) LAN
4 1 (1.67%) NGFW
4 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.67%) SSH
4 1 (1.67%) SSL
4 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.67%) WAN
4 1 (1.67%) Wireless
4 1 (1.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) Metadata
2 6 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.67%) MySQL
5 3 (5.00%) Big Data
5 3 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.67%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.67%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (23.33%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.00%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Legal
5 4 (6.67%) Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Local Government
8 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Back Office
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) .NET
2 7 (11.67%) RESTful
3 6 (10.00%) React
4 5 (8.33%) Kafka
5 2 (3.33%) FHIR
5 2 (3.33%) REST
5 2 (3.33%) Web Services
6 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.67%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.67%) Flask
6 1 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.67%) SOAP
6 1 (1.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 4 (6.67%) SCADA
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) NHS
6 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
1 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.67%) VMS
2 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) AI
2 14 (23.33%) Roadmaps
3 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
3 11 (18.33%) Machine Learning
4 10 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (15.00%) API Design
5 9 (15.00%) Data Architecture
5 9 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (15.00%) Migration
6 8 (13.33%) Analytics
6 8 (13.33%) DevOps
6 8 (13.33%) OCR
6 8 (13.33%) Open Source
7 7 (11.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (11.67%) Data Management
7 7 (11.67%) Data Modelling
7 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.00%) Data Integration
8 6 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) Python
2 8 (13.33%) C#
3 6 (10.00%) SQL
4 3 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) Bicep
6 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) CCDP
5 1 (1.67%) CCNP
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.67%) CISM
5 1 (1.67%) CISSP
5 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.00%) SLA
4 1 (1.67%) GRC
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Terraform
2 2 (3.33%) Ansible
2 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Istio
3 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Oracle
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 4 (6.67%) AVEVA
4 4 (6.67%) Informatica
4 4 (6.67%) Talend
5 3 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 3 (5.00%) Databricks
5 3 (5.00%) Google
5 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco
6 2 (3.33%) F5
7 1 (1.67%) Aruba
7 1 (1.67%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.67%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.67%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) Zscaler