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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 74 47 59
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 9.36% 7.47% 6.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.91% 8.10% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 22 29
10th Percentile £419 £500 £560
25th Percentile £593 £511 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -9.26% +10.66%
75th Percentile £675 £666 £750
90th Percentile £700 £709 £776
Scotland median daily rate £650 £625 £679
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.92% +13.13%
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 747 580 816
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 92.21% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 305 447
10th Percentile £336 £235 £178
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% +3.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £539
90th Percentile £625 £598 £638
Scotland median daily rate £460 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +1.10% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 14 42
10th Percentile £15.81 - £13.51
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.37
Median hourly rate £61.00 £23.36 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +161.16% +28.83% +2.31%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £24.18
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.25 £60.43
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 25 July 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 25 July 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 28 (37.84%) Azure
2 21 (28.38%) AWS
2 21 (28.38%) Roadmaps
3 18 (24.32%) AI
3 18 (24.32%) Data Architecture
4 15 (20.27%) Data Governance
4 15 (20.27%) Migration
5 14 (18.92%) Data Modelling
6 13 (17.57%) Agile
6 13 (17.57%) Analytics
7 12 (16.22%) Integration Patterns
7 12 (16.22%) Machine Learning
8 11 (14.86%) Mentoring
8 11 (14.86%) Python
8 11 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (13.51%) Architectural Patterns
9 10 (13.51%) Data Lake
9 10 (13.51%) Disclosure Scotland
9 10 (13.51%) ETL
9 10 (13.51%) Event-Driven
9 10 (13.51%) GCP
9 10 (13.51%) Metadata
9 10 (13.51%) Microservices
10 9 (12.16%) Data Integration
10 9 (12.16%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (12.16%) Microsoft
10 9 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (10.81%) Kafka
11 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL

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 7 (9.46%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.11%) Apache
3 5 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.05%) Confluence
4 3 (4.05%) JBoss
5 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (1.35%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.35%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.84%) Azure
2 21 (28.38%) AWS
3 10 (13.51%) GCP
4 8 (10.81%) Serverless
5 6 (8.11%) Azure AI
6 5 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (6.76%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 5 (6.76%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 5 (6.76%) IaaS
7 4 (5.41%) Apigee
7 4 (5.41%) Azure AKS
7 4 (5.41%) PaaS
7 4 (5.41%) SaaS
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (4.05%) Cloud Run
8 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.05%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.05%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) Firewall
2 5 (6.76%) Network Security
3 2 (2.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.35%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.35%) Internet
4 1 (1.35%) IPsec
4 1 (1.35%) LAN
4 1 (1.35%) NGFW
4 1 (1.35%) SSH
4 1 (1.35%) SSL
4 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.35%) Wireless
4 1 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) Data Lake
1 10 (13.51%) Metadata
2 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.41%) MySQL
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.05%) Big Data
6 3 (4.05%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.05%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.35%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.35%) DataStage
8 1 (1.35%) Looker
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.35%) Power BI
8 1 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) JIRA
1 3 (4.05%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.86%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Banking
5 4 (5.41%) Legal
5 4 (5.41%) Local Government
6 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Back Office
8 1 (1.35%) Marketing
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) Kafka
2 5 (6.76%) .NET
3 4 (5.41%) RESTful
4 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.05%) LangChain
4 3 (4.05%) LangGraph
4 3 (4.05%) React
4 3 (4.05%) REST
4 3 (4.05%) Web Services
5 2 (2.70%) FHIR
5 2 (2.70%) PySpark
5 2 (2.70%) SailPoint
5 2 (2.70%) SOAP
5 2 (2.70%) Vue
6 1 (1.35%) Flask
6 1 (1.35%) HTML
6 1 (1.35%) JWT
6 1 (1.35%) OAuth
6 1 (1.35%) OpenID
6 1 (1.35%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.97%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.70%) Data Fabric
6 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) IVR
6 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.70%) NHS
6 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.35%) CMDB
7 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.41%) Linux
1 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.38%) Roadmaps
2 18 (24.32%) AI
2 18 (24.32%) Data Architecture
3 15 (20.27%) Data Governance
3 15 (20.27%) Migration
4 14 (18.92%) Data Modelling
5 13 (17.57%) Agile
5 13 (17.57%) Analytics
6 12 (16.22%) Integration Patterns
6 12 (16.22%) Machine Learning
7 11 (14.86%) Mentoring
7 11 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (13.51%) Architectural Patterns
8 10 (13.51%) ETL
8 10 (13.51%) Event-Driven
8 10 (13.51%) Microservices
9 9 (12.16%) Data Integration
9 9 (12.16%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.86%) Python
2 7 (9.46%) SQL
3 5 (6.76%) C#
3 5 (6.76%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.41%) Java
5 1 (1.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (9.46%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.76%) Degree
3 4 (5.41%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.35%) CCDP
6 1 (1.35%) CCNP
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.35%) CISM
6 1 (1.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.70%) GRC
5 1 (1.35%) GDPR
5 1 (1.35%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.35%) NIST
5 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.41%) Istio
3 3 (4.05%) Terraform
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.11%) Google
2 6 (8.11%) Oracle
2 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.76%) Databricks
4 4 (5.41%) Informatica
4 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.41%) Talend
5 3 (4.05%) CheckPoint
5 3 (4.05%) EnterpriseDB
5 3 (4.05%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.70%) Citrix
6 2 (2.70%) F5
6 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.35%) Adobe
7 1 (1.35%) Cisco
7 1 (1.35%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.35%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.35%) SAP
7 1 (1.35%) Zscaler