Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Distributed Architecture
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 67 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.33% 0.16% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 0.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Scotland median daily rate £400 £625 -
% change year-on-year -36.00% - -

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Distributed Architecture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 237 217 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.54% 34.83% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 102 144
10th Percentile £154 £193 £378
25th Percentile £331 £367 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £459 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -7.22% +4.21%
75th Percentile £562 £555 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £636
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 14
10th Percentile £15.27 £20.86 £14.15
25th Percentile £16.50 £21.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.75 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £29.56 -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +6.61% +20.97% +44.44%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Distributed Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Distributed Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Distributed Architecture

Distributed Architecture
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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deadline-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree