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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 37 49
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 -19
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 58 29 28
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.58% 4.64% 3.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.12% 5.15% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 12 10
10th Percentile £484 £466 £511
25th Percentile £598 £500 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £599 £688
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -12.91% +14.58%
75th Percentile - £648 £766
90th Percentile £696 £709 £780
Scotland median daily rate £625 £599 £650
% change year-on-year +4.38% -7.88% +8.33%

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 636 563 767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 90.08% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 280 404
10th Percentile £238 £269 £192
25th Percentile £400 £413 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +6.74% -6.32%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £530
90th Percentile £612 £600 £595
Scotland median daily rate £463 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +0.54% +2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 33
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.30 £13.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.48 £16.37
Median hourly rate £40.38 £51.26 £18.38
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +178.95% +3.70%
75th Percentile £61.50 £70.63 £23.89
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £48.84
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.40 £18.07
% change year-on-year -5.23% +12.91% +1.95%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 18 (31.03%) AWS
2 16 (27.59%) Azure
2 16 (27.59%) Migration
3 15 (25.86%) Data Architecture
4 14 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (22.41%) Data Governance
5 13 (22.41%) Integration Patterns
5 13 (22.41%) Roadmaps
6 12 (20.69%) Agile
7 11 (18.97%) Data Modelling
8 10 (17.24%) AI
8 10 (17.24%) Analytics
8 10 (17.24%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (15.52%) Data Lake
9 9 (15.52%) Disclosure Scotland
9 9 (15.52%) Event-Driven
10 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (13.79%) Data Protection
10 8 (13.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 8 (13.79%) Serverless
10 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
12 6 (10.34%) Architecture Roadmap
12 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (10.34%) Databricks
12 6 (10.34%) ETL
12 6 (10.34%) GCP
12 6 (10.34%) IaaS
12 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
12 6 (10.34%) Microservices

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 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) JBoss
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.72%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) AWS
2 16 (27.59%) Azure
3 8 (13.79%) Serverless
4 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (10.34%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) IaaS
5 5 (8.62%) PaaS
5 5 (8.62%) SaaS
6 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.90%) Apigee
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.17%) Cloud Run
7 3 (5.17%) Vertex AI
8 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) CTI
2 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Data Lake
2 4 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (5.17%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.45%) Metadata
4 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.72%) DataStage
5 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.72%) Looker
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.72%) Power BI
5 1 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) JIRA
1 2 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Finance
3 10 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.34%) Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Local Government
6 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Back Office
8 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) Kafka
2 3 (5.17%) LangChain
2 3 (5.17%) LangGraph
2 3 (5.17%) Web Services
3 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.45%) FHIR
3 2 (3.45%) PySpark
3 2 (3.45%) REST
3 2 (3.45%) SailPoint
3 2 (3.45%) SOAP
4 1 (1.72%) HTML
4 1 (1.72%) JWT
4 1 (1.72%) Middleware
4 1 (1.72%) OAuth
4 1 (1.72%) OpenID
4 1 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.72%) Terraform
4 1 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.79%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) IVR
4 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.45%) Data Fabric
5 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) CMDB
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
1 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.59%) Migration
2 15 (25.86%) Data Architecture
3 14 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (22.41%) Data Governance
4 13 (22.41%) Integration Patterns
4 13 (22.41%) Roadmaps
5 12 (20.69%) Agile
6 11 (18.97%) Data Modelling
7 10 (17.24%) AI
7 10 (17.24%) Analytics
7 10 (17.24%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (15.52%) Event-Driven
9 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (13.79%) Data Protection
9 8 (13.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (10.34%) ETL
10 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
10 6 (10.34%) Microservices
10 6 (10.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.34%) SQL
2 3 (5.17%) Java
2 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) GRC
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Istio
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Databricks
2 6 (10.34%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.17%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) Citrix
5 2 (3.45%) EnterpriseDB
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.72%) Adobe
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) TIBCO