Technical Architecture Contracts in Edinburgh

Technical Architecture
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 65 109
Rank change year-on-year +5 +44 -1
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 7 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.12% 0.86% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.97% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £436 £655 £570
25th Percentile £453 £663 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £590 £830 -
90th Percentile £593 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £638 £615
% change year-on-year -17.65% +3.66% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in Edinburgh

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in Edinburgh

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in Edinburgh

Technical Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Camunda
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Management
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
4 2 (28.57%) BPMN
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) Decision Table
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Measurement
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
5 1 (14.29%) Wardley Maps
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) IIBA
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) VMware