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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 29 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 64 42 51
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.28% 6.49% 6.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.78% 7.07% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 25
10th Percentile £486 £500 £555
25th Percentile £600 £510 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +6.56%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £750
90th Percentile £700 £713 £775
Scotland median daily rate £650 £621 £700
% change year-on-year +4.63% -11.25% +14.75%

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 729 594 775
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 91.81% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 305 426
10th Percentile £317 £266 £173
25th Percentile £406 £413 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £593 £638
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 15 38
10th Percentile £15.81 - £13.59
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.37
Median hourly rate £61.00 £27.35 £18.07
Median % change year-on-year +123.03% +51.40% +1.95%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.13 £20.49
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £51.50
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £19.71 £18.13
% change year-on-year +77.57% +8.71% +2.31%

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 August 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 August 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 23 (35.94%) Azure
2 19 (29.69%) Roadmaps
3 17 (26.56%) AWS
4 14 (21.88%) Data Architecture
5 13 (20.31%) AI
5 13 (20.31%) Migration
6 12 (18.75%) Agile
6 12 (18.75%) Data Governance
6 12 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
7 10 (15.63%) Data Modelling
7 10 (15.63%) Event-Driven
7 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (14.06%) Architectural Patterns
8 9 (14.06%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (12.50%) Analytics
9 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (10.94%) Data Lake
10 7 (10.94%) Data Protection
10 7 (10.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 7 (10.94%) Machine Learning
10 7 (10.94%) Microservices
10 7 (10.94%) Python
10 7 (10.94%) Serverless
11 6 (9.38%) API Design
11 6 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (9.38%) ETL
11 6 (9.38%) GCP

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 4 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.69%) Confluence
3 2 (3.13%) Apache
3 2 (3.13%) JBoss
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.56%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) AWS
3 7 (10.94%) Serverless
4 6 (9.38%) GCP
5 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (7.81%) Azure AI
5 5 (7.81%) IaaS
6 4 (6.25%) Apigee
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 4 (6.25%) PaaS
6 4 (6.25%) SaaS
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.69%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.69%) Cloud Run
7 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.69%) Vertex AI
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) Firewall
2 2 (3.13%) Network Security
3 1 (1.56%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.56%) Internet
3 1 (1.56%) IPsec
3 1 (1.56%) NGFW
3 1 (1.56%) SSH
3 1 (1.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) Data Lake
2 5 (7.81%) Metadata
3 3 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (4.69%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.56%) DataStage
5 1 (1.56%) Looker
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.56%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.31%) Finance
3 12 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.38%) Banking
5 4 (6.25%) Local Government
6 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Legal
7 2 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Back Office
8 1 (1.56%) Marketing
8 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Kafka
2 4 (6.25%) .NET
3 3 (4.69%) LangChain
3 3 (4.69%) LangGraph
3 3 (4.69%) REST
3 3 (4.69%) RESTful
3 3 (4.69%) Web Services
4 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.13%) FHIR
4 2 (3.13%) PySpark
4 2 (3.13%) React
4 2 (3.13%) SailPoint
4 2 (3.13%) SOAP
5 1 (1.56%) HTML
5 1 (1.56%) JWT
5 1 (1.56%) OAuth
5 1 (1.56%) OpenID
5 1 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.44%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.94%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.13%) Data Fabric
5 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) IVR
5 2 (3.13%) NHS
5 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.56%) CMDB
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
1 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.69%) Roadmaps
2 14 (21.88%) Data Architecture
3 13 (20.31%) AI
3 13 (20.31%) Migration
4 12 (18.75%) Agile
4 12 (18.75%) Data Governance
4 12 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
5 10 (15.63%) Data Modelling
5 10 (15.63%) Event-Driven
5 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (14.06%) Architectural Patterns
6 9 (14.06%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (12.50%) Analytics
7 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (10.94%) Data Protection
8 7 (10.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 7 (10.94%) Machine Learning
8 7 (10.94%) Microservices
9 6 (9.38%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) Python
2 4 (6.25%) C#
2 4 (6.25%) SQL
3 3 (4.69%) Java
3 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.56%) CCDP
3 1 (1.56%) CCNP
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.56%) CISM
3 1 (1.56%) CISSP
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.13%) GRC
4 1 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.69%) Istio
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.81%) Databricks
4 3 (4.69%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.13%) Citrix
5 2 (3.13%) EnterpriseDB
5 2 (3.13%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle
5 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.56%) Adobe
6 1 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco
6 1 (1.56%) F5
6 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.56%) SAP
6 1 (1.56%) Zscaler