Architect Contracts in Edinburgh

Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £664, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 37 34
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 55 74 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.24% 6.24% 6.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.58% 6.53% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 41 83
10th Percentile £550 £563 £513
25th Percentile £613 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £664 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.18% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £706 £775 £700
90th Percentile £773 £825 £800
Scotland median daily rate £675 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +9.09%

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 836 1,133 1,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 95.53% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 789 1,248
10th Percentile £178 £225 £239
25th Percentile £340 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £569
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 11 13
10th Percentile £15.69 £13.16 -
25th Percentile £16.44 £17.71 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.52% -11.40% -65.22%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.47 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £43.75 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £18.84 £37.43
% change year-on-year +2.63% -49.67% +16.97%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 14 June 2024, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 26 (47.27%) Public Sector
2 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
3 17 (30.91%) Azure
4 16 (29.09%) Finance
5 15 (27.27%) Migration
6 13 (23.64%) Roadmaps
7 11 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (18.18%) Agile
8 10 (18.18%) AWS
9 9 (16.36%) Security Architecture
9 9 (16.36%) Data Protection
9 9 (16.36%) Data Architecture
9 9 (16.36%) Containerisation
10 8 (14.55%) API Management
10 8 (14.55%) Storage Management
10 8 (14.55%) IaaS
10 8 (14.55%) REST
10 8 (14.55%) SaaS
10 8 (14.55%) Degree
10 8 (14.55%) Back Office
10 8 (14.55%) Service Management
10 8 (14.55%) Java
10 8 (14.55%) SOAP
10 8 (14.55%) SAML
11 7 (12.73%) LAN
11 7 (12.73%) Active Directory
11 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
11 7 (12.73%) Banking
11 7 (12.73%) Data Protection Act

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.91%) Azure
2 10 (18.18%) AWS
3 8 (14.55%) IaaS
3 8 (14.55%) SaaS
4 7 (12.73%) Entra ID
5 6 (10.91%) AWS CodeBuild
5 6 (10.91%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 6 (10.91%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (7.27%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (7.27%) PaaS
7 3 (5.45%) iPaaS
8 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.82%) GCP
9 1 (1.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) LAN
2 6 (10.91%) WAN
3 2 (3.64%) VSAN
4 1 (1.82%) ATM
4 1 (1.82%) FabricPath
4 1 (1.82%) Firewall
4 1 (1.82%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.82%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.82%) Wireless
4 1 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.82%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
General
1 26 (47.27%) Public Sector
2 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
3 16 (29.09%) Finance
4 11 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (14.55%) Back Office
6 7 (12.73%) Banking
7 3 (5.45%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.55%) REST
1 8 (14.55%) SAML
1 8 (14.55%) SOAP
2 7 (12.73%) OpenID
3 6 (10.91%) Middleware
4 3 (5.45%) .NET
4 3 (5.45%) J2EE
4 3 (5.45%) Web Services
5 2 (3.64%) Kafka
5 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.82%) CSS
6 1 (1.82%) HTML
6 1 (1.82%) JSON
6 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.45%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.45%) N-Tier
3 3 (5.45%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.64%) PKI
4 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Migration
2 13 (23.64%) Roadmaps
3 11 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (18.18%) Agile
5 9 (16.36%) Containerisation
5 9 (16.36%) Data Architecture
5 9 (16.36%) Data Protection
5 9 (16.36%) Security Architecture
6 8 (14.55%) API Management
6 8 (14.55%) Service Management
6 8 (14.55%) Storage Management
7 7 (12.73%) Architecture Governance
7 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Identification
8 6 (10.91%) Business Strategy
8 6 (10.91%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.91%) Data Migration
8 6 (10.91%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (10.91%) IT Strategy
8 6 (10.91%) Microservices
9 5 (9.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.55%) Java
2 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) Degree
2 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.64%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.64%) ISO 8583
2 2 (3.64%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.45%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Terraform
2 4 (7.27%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (5.45%) VxRail
4 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) CrowdStrike
1 7 (12.73%) Okta
1 7 (12.73%) Zscaler
2 6 (10.91%) Databricks
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Oracle
2 6 (10.91%) VMware
3 4 (7.27%) Informatica
4 3 (5.45%) Dell
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco
5 1 (1.82%) Citrix
5 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow