Architect Contracts in Scotland

Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Architect daily rate in Scotland is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 31 40
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -13
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 101 127 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.22% 5.73% 5.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.61% 6.05% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 100 104
10th Percentile £510 £513 £552
25th Percentile £569 £606 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £708 £738
90th Percentile £738 £776 £788
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £660
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.52% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £55.50
90th Percentile - - £67.80
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +6.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +9 47 £625 -3.85% 23
Edinburgh -6 45 £613 -6.13% 25
Renfrewshire +11 1 £700 +16.67% 13
Perthshire -5 1 £725 +3.57% 1
Aberdeen - 1 £750 - 4
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Scotland region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 43 (42.57%) Finance
2 42 (41.58%) Azure
3 38 (37.62%) Social Skills
4 31 (30.69%) AWS
5 28 (27.72%) Agile
5 28 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (25.74%) Banking
7 21 (20.79%) Enterprise Architecture
8 20 (19.80%) Cloud Native
9 18 (17.82%) TOGAF
9 18 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (15.84%) DevOps
10 16 (15.84%) AWS Certification
10 16 (15.84%) CI/CD
11 14 (13.86%) Azure Certification
11 14 (13.86%) Public Sector
11 14 (13.86%) Linux
11 14 (13.86%) SaaS
12 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
12 13 (12.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (11.88%) Microservices
13 12 (11.88%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (11.88%) ITSM
13 12 (11.88%) Data Security
14 11 (10.89%) Data Modelling
14 11 (10.89%) ITIL
14 11 (10.89%) ServiceNow
14 11 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (9.90%) DevSecOps
15 10 (9.90%) Cybersecurity

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (2.97%) SAS
2 1 (0.99%) Camunda
2 1 (0.99%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Primavera
2 2 (1.98%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 42 (41.58%) Azure
2 31 (30.69%) AWS
3 14 (13.86%) SaaS
4 9 (8.91%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (8.91%) Serverless
5 8 (7.92%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.93%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.93%) GCP
6 7 (6.93%) IaaS
6 7 (6.93%) PaaS
7 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.97%) GitHub
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.98%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.99%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) SSL
2 1 (0.99%) ATM
2 1 (0.99%) DNS
2 1 (0.99%) Firewall
2 1 (0.99%) FTP
2 1 (0.99%) HTTP
2 1 (0.99%) Internet
2 1 (0.99%) Intranet
2 1 (0.99%) Network Security
2 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.97%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.99%) Power BI
3 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.97%) JIRA
1 3 (2.97%) Storybook
2 2 (1.98%) Git
3 1 (0.99%) Appium
3 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.99%) Mockito
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.99%) Toad
General
1 43 (42.57%) Finance
2 38 (37.62%) Social Skills
3 26 (25.74%) Banking
4 18 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (13.86%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.95%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.96%) Games
8 3 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Publishing
9 2 (1.98%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Back Office
10 1 (0.99%) Front Office
10 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.95%) AWS CDK
1 5 (4.95%) Middleware
2 3 (2.97%) Jest
2 3 (2.97%) Spring
3 2 (1.98%) CSS
3 2 (1.98%) Playwright
3 2 (1.98%) React
3 2 (1.98%) REST
3 2 (1.98%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.98%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Camel
4 1 (0.99%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (0.99%) JWT
4 1 (0.99%) OAuth
4 1 (0.99%) OpenID
4 1 (0.99%) PySpark
4 1 (0.99%) React Native
4 1 (0.99%) RESTful
4 1 (0.99%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.99%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.92%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.94%) CMDB
4 6 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.96%) Mainframe
6 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.96%) Replication
7 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.98%) Derivative
8 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.86%) Linux
2 8 (7.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (7.92%) Windows
3 4 (3.96%) HPUX
3 4 (3.96%) Solaris
4 2 (1.98%) AIX
4 2 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.99%) Unix
5 1 (0.99%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.72%) Agile
1 28 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (20.79%) Enterprise Architecture
3 18 (17.82%) TOGAF
4 16 (15.84%) CI/CD
4 16 (15.84%) DevOps
5 12 (11.88%) Architectural Patterns
5 12 (11.88%) Data Security
5 12 (11.88%) ITSM
5 12 (11.88%) Microservices
6 11 (10.89%) Data Modelling
6 11 (10.89%) ITIL
7 10 (9.90%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (9.90%) DevSecOps
7 10 (9.90%) Waterfall
8 9 (8.91%) Roadmaps
8 9 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (7.92%) Cloud Security
9 8 (7.92%) Event-Driven
9 8 (7.92%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.93%) Java
1 7 (6.93%) Python
2 5 (4.95%) SQL
3 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.98%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.99%) Bash
5 1 (0.99%) Go
5 1 (0.99%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (15.84%) AWS Certification
2 14 (13.86%) Azure Certification
3 13 (12.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (6.93%) Degree
5 6 (5.94%) CISSP
6 5 (4.95%) CISM
6 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.97%) Security Cleared
9 2 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.99%) CCSP
10 1 (0.99%) CEH
10 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.99%) OSCP
10 1 (0.99%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.96%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.97%) GRC
3 3 (2.97%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.98%) GDPR
4 2 (1.98%) NIST
5 1 (0.99%) COBIT
5 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.99%) SLA
5 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.97%) vSphere
3 2 (1.98%) Docker
3 2 (1.98%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.98%) Ansible
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.99%) Puppet
3 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.89%) ServiceNow
3 10 (9.90%) Oracle
4 7 (6.93%) VMware
5 6 (5.94%) IBM
6 5 (4.95%) Databricks
7 4 (3.96%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.96%) Sun
7 4 (3.96%) Unisys
8 3 (2.97%) Autodesk
8 3 (2.97%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.97%) Google
8 3 (2.97%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.97%) Qualys
9 2 (1.98%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.98%) Cisco
9 2 (1.98%) Citrix
9 2 (1.98%) HP
9 2 (1.98%) Temenos
10 1 (0.99%) Genesys