Data Architect Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 60 68
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 9 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.19% 1.11% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.19% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £476 £575
25th Percentile £575 £497 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £675
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -20.37% -15.63%
75th Percentile £625 £572 £704
90th Percentile - £589 £721
Scotland median daily rate £600 £538 £691
% change year-on-year +11.42% -22.10% -7.83%
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 705 587 797
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 92.88% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 326 460
10th Percentile £338 £242 £200
25th Percentile £410 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £465
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -0.43% -2.11%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £552
90th Percentile £650 £608 £650
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +4.44% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 18 59
10th Percentile £20.00 - £15.82
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £22.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +177.27% -56.00% +182.17%
75th Percentile £69.00 £27.45 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £50.06 £66.00
Scotland median hourly rate £23.84 £19.48 £22.95
% change year-on-year +22.37% -15.12% +15.43%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Edinburgh

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 28 May 2026, Data 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 Data Architect in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Data Architecture
2 7 (77.78%) Data Governance
3 6 (66.67%) Analytics
3 6 (66.67%) Data Integration
3 6 (66.67%) Data Lake
3 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (55.56%) AI
4 5 (55.56%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (55.56%) Azure
4 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (55.56%) Data Science
4 5 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
4 5 (55.56%) SQL
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
5 4 (44.44%) Apache
5 4 (44.44%) AWS
5 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
5 4 (44.44%) Data Management
5 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
5 4 (44.44%) Data Security
5 4 (44.44%) Degree
5 4 (44.44%) ETL
5 4 (44.44%) GCP
5 4 (44.44%) Informatica
5 4 (44.44%) Kafka
5 4 (44.44%) Logical Data Model

Data 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 (55.56%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (44.44%) Apache
3 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (11.11%) Apigee
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 5 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
3 4 (44.44%) Metadata
3 4 (44.44%) MySQL
3 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (33.33%) Big Data
4 3 (33.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
5 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Data Architecture
2 7 (77.78%) Data Governance
3 6 (66.67%) Analytics
3 6 (66.67%) Data Integration
3 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (55.56%) AI
4 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (55.56%) Data Science
4 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
5 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
5 4 (44.44%) Data Management
5 4 (44.44%) Data Security
5 4 (44.44%) ETL
5 4 (44.44%) Logical Data Model
5 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 4 (44.44%) Microservices
5 4 (44.44%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Master's Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Istio
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Informatica
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
1 4 (44.44%) Talend
2 3 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (22.22%) Databricks
4 1 (11.11%) Adobe
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft