Architect Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £611, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 48 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 -16 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 26 23 63
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.16% 3.04% 6.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.57% 3.21% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 36
10th Percentile £460 £485 £514
25th Percentile £500 £597 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £688 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% +17.02% -7.84%
75th Percentile £666 £748 £699
90th Percentile £720 £780 £766
Scotland median daily rate £621 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -1.39% +5.00% -4.00%

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 569 716 934
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.04% 94.58% 95.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 372 565
10th Percentile £256 £180 £209
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -5.53% -
75th Percentile £541 £525 £540
90th Percentile £605 £588 £600
Scotland median daily rate £454 £448 £475
% change year-on-year +1.34% -5.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 34 14
10th Percentile £38.00 £14.11 £13.20
25th Percentile £53.75 £16.37 £17.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £19.33 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +236.26% +9.09% -5.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.18 £51.21
90th Percentile - - £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £18.38 £17.72
% change year-on-year +31.10% +3.70% -

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 31 October 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 & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, 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 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
3 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 9 (34.62%) Agile
4 9 (34.62%) AWS
4 9 (34.62%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (30.77%) DevOps
5 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (26.92%) .NET
6 7 (26.92%) React
7 6 (23.08%) Python
8 5 (19.23%) AI
8 5 (19.23%) C#
8 5 (19.23%) Data Architecture
8 5 (19.23%) Data Governance
8 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
8 5 (19.23%) RESTful
8 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (15.38%) API Design
9 4 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (15.38%) AWS Certification
9 4 (15.38%) Azure AI
9 4 (15.38%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 4 (15.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (15.38%) GitHub
9 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (15.38%) Linux

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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Azure AI
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (11.54%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.85%) PaaS
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
1 3 (11.54%) Network Security
1 3 (11.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Metadata
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.69%) Storybook
2 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.85%) ER Studio
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Legal
5 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Digital Health
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
6 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) .NET
1 7 (26.92%) React
2 5 (19.23%) RESTful
3 2 (7.69%) AWS CDK
3 2 (7.69%) CSS
3 2 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (3.85%) Blazor
4 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.85%) Jest
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) Playwright
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Unix
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (30.77%) DevOps
3 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) AI
4 5 (19.23%) Data Architecture
4 5 (19.23%) Data Governance
4 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
4 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (15.38%) API Design
5 4 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (15.38%) Migration
5 4 (15.38%) OCR
6 3 (11.54%) Data Science
6 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.54%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) C#
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.54%) CISSP
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) OpenAI
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco
3 2 (7.69%) Meraki
4 1 (3.85%) Citrix
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) VMware