Solutions Architect Contracts in Edinburgh

Solution Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £636 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 74 70
Rank change year-on-year +20 -4 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 19 42 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.31% 3.24% 2.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 3.39% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 26 28
10th Percentile £528 £559 £539
25th Percentile £597 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £663 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +10.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £665 £775 £663
90th Percentile £743 £781 £675
Scotland median daily rate £636 £650 £584
% change year-on-year -2.23% +11.35% +11.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 784 1,240 1,872
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 95.53% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 880 1,281
10th Percentile £207 £238 £230
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £563
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £455
% change year-on-year - +4.40% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 12 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.62 £14.55
25th Percentile £17.11 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -18.23% -54.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.43 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £24.29 £22.13 £26.85
% change year-on-year +9.79% -17.60% -30.71%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Edinburgh

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Edinburgh

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) Banking
3 6 (31.58%) Migration
3 6 (31.58%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
4 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (26.32%) Finance
4 5 (26.32%) AWS
4 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
5 4 (21.05%) Microservices
5 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) SaaS
5 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
5 4 (21.05%) Degree
5 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.79%) VxRail
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
6 3 (15.79%) API Management
6 3 (15.79%) VMware
6 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
6 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Service Management
6 3 (15.79%) Back Office
6 3 (15.79%) Dell
6 3 (15.79%) Oracle
6 3 (15.79%) SOAP

Solutions 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) SaaS
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (10.53%) IaaS
4 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) OCI
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) VSAN
2 1 (5.26%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (5.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Banking
2 6 (31.58%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.79%) Back Office
5 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) REST
1 3 (15.79%) SOAP
2 2 (10.53%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) VxBlock/Vblock
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) Migration
3 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
4 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) API Management
5 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
5 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.79%) Service Management
5 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
5 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
6 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (10.53%) Security Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) VxRail
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Dell
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
1 3 (15.79%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Fiserv