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 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 68 48 51
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.56% 7.41% 5.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.05% 8.00% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 29
10th Percentile £523 £500 £550
25th Percentile £600 £554 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £725
90th Percentile £710 £725 £775
Scotland median daily rate £650 £625 £675
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +8.87%
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 751 600 813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 92.59% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 315 454
10th Percentile £350 £210 £178
25th Percentile £410 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +2.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £547 £533 £548
90th Percentile £644 £600 £649
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 19 55
10th Percentile £20.00 - £15.15
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.37
Median hourly rate £61.00 £22.00 £18.38
Median % change year-on-year +177.27% +19.73% +3.70%
75th Percentile £69.00 £31.34 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £61.00 £64.00
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £19.90 £18.38
% change year-on-year +75.88% +8.30% -0.68%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 32 (47.06%) Azure
2 21 (30.88%) Roadmaps
3 20 (29.41%) AI
4 18 (26.47%) AWS
5 15 (22.06%) Data Architecture
6 13 (19.12%) Machine Learning
7 12 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (16.18%) Architectural Patterns
8 11 (16.18%) Data Governance
8 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
8 11 (16.18%) Migration
8 11 (16.18%) Python
9 10 (14.71%) Analytics
9 10 (14.71%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (14.71%) GCP
9 10 (14.71%) Microservices
9 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
10 9 (13.24%) Agile
10 9 (13.24%) Data Modelling
10 9 (13.24%) Event-Driven
10 9 (13.24%) Metadata
11 8 (11.76%) API Design
11 8 (11.76%) Azure AI
11 8 (11.76%) Data Integration
11 8 (11.76%) Data Lake
11 8 (11.76%) ETL
11 8 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
12 7 (10.29%) .NET
12 7 (10.29%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 7 (10.29%) Azure Cognitive Services

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 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (7.35%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.88%) Apache
3 3 (4.41%) Confluence
4 1 (1.47%) JBoss
4 1 (1.47%) nginx
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.47%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.06%) Azure
2 18 (26.47%) AWS
3 10 (14.71%) GCP
4 8 (11.76%) Azure AI
5 7 (10.29%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 7 (10.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 5 (7.35%) IaaS
7 4 (5.88%) Apigee
7 4 (5.88%) Azure AKS
7 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.88%) PaaS
7 4 (5.88%) SaaS
7 4 (5.88%) Serverless
8 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.41%) Cloud Run
8 3 (4.41%) Vertex AI
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) Firewall
2 5 (7.35%) Network Security
3 2 (2.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.47%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.47%) Internet
4 1 (1.47%) IPsec
4 1 (1.47%) LAN
4 1 (1.47%) NGFW
4 1 (1.47%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.47%) SSH
4 1 (1.47%) SSL
4 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.47%) WAN
4 1 (1.47%) Wireless
4 1 (1.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.24%) Metadata
2 8 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.88%) MySQL
6 3 (4.41%) Big Data
6 3 (4.41%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.41%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.47%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.47%) DataStage
7 1 (1.47%) Looker
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.47%) Power BI
7 1 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.65%) Finance
2 12 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Banking
3 6 (8.82%) Legal
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Local Government
5 1 (1.47%) Back Office
5 1 (1.47%) Marketing
5 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) .NET
1 7 (10.29%) Kafka
2 6 (8.82%) RESTful
3 5 (7.35%) React
4 3 (4.41%) LangChain
4 3 (4.41%) LangGraph
4 3 (4.41%) REST
5 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.94%) FHIR
5 2 (2.94%) SailPoint
5 2 (2.94%) SOAP
5 2 (2.94%) Web Services
6 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.47%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.47%) Flask
6 1 (1.47%) JWT
6 1 (1.47%) OAuth
6 1 (1.47%) OpenID
6 1 (1.47%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.29%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.94%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) IVR
6 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.94%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.94%) SCADA
6 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.47%) CMDB
7 1 (1.47%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.47%) NHS
7 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Windows
2 2 (2.94%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.88%) Roadmaps
2 20 (29.41%) AI
3 15 (22.06%) Data Architecture
4 13 (19.12%) Machine Learning
5 12 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (16.18%) Architectural Patterns
6 11 (16.18%) Data Governance
6 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
6 11 (16.18%) Migration
7 10 (14.71%) Analytics
7 10 (14.71%) Enterprise Architecture
7 10 (14.71%) Microservices
8 9 (13.24%) Agile
8 9 (13.24%) Data Modelling
8 9 (13.24%) Event-Driven
9 8 (11.76%) API Design
9 8 (11.76%) Data Integration
9 8 (11.76%) ETL
9 8 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
10 7 (10.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.18%) Python
2 7 (10.29%) C#
3 5 (7.35%) SQL
4 3 (4.41%) Java
4 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.47%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.35%) Degree
3 4 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) CCDP
5 1 (1.47%) CCNP
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.47%) CISM
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (8.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.41%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.94%) SLA
5 1 (1.47%) GRC
5 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) Istio
3 3 (4.41%) Terraform
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.47%) Ansible
5 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) Google
2 6 (8.82%) Oracle
3 4 (5.88%) Databricks
3 4 (5.88%) Informatica
3 4 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.88%) Talend
4 3 (4.41%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.94%) AVEVA
5 2 (2.94%) Cisco
5 2 (2.94%) Citrix
5 2 (2.94%) F5
5 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.47%) Adobe
6 1 (1.47%) Aruba
6 1 (1.47%) EnterpriseDB
6 1 (1.47%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.47%) SAP