Architect Contracts in Scotland

Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Architect daily rate in Scotland is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 42 28
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 125 165 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.66% 5.78% 6.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.98% 6.08% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 167
10th Percentile £513 £551 £513
25th Percentile £606 £593 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £703 £738 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £660 £638
% change year-on-year -1.52% +3.53% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +6.06% +12.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh +20 67 £664 +0.19% 27
Glasgow -16 36 £650 - 15
Perthshire +10 7 £700 +3.70%
South Lanarkshire - 3 £700 - 5
Renfrewshire -4 2 £600 -
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 45 (36.00%) Azure
1 45 (36.00%) Public Sector
2 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
3 35 (28.00%) Agile
4 34 (27.20%) Roadmaps
5 30 (24.00%) TOGAF
6 25 (20.00%) Finance
6 25 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 22 (17.60%) AWS
8 21 (16.80%) Waterfall
9 20 (16.00%) IT Strategy
10 18 (14.40%) Technology Strategy
10 18 (14.40%) Project Delivery
10 18 (14.40%) SaaS
11 17 (13.60%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (12.80%) Migration
13 15 (12.00%) Microservices
13 15 (12.00%) Security Architecture
14 14 (11.20%) Degree
15 13 (10.40%) Java
15 13 (10.40%) Power Platform
16 12 (9.60%) LAN
16 12 (9.60%) VMware
16 12 (9.60%) IaaS
17 11 (8.80%) Analytics
17 11 (8.80%) Data Architecture
17 11 (8.80%) Data Protection
17 11 (8.80%) Banking
17 11 (8.80%) Windows

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 4 (3.20%) IIS
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 45 (36.00%) Azure
2 22 (17.60%) AWS
3 18 (14.40%) SaaS
4 13 (10.40%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.60%) IaaS
6 8 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (6.40%) PaaS
7 7 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.80%) AWS CodeBuild
8 6 (4.80%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 6 (4.80%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.00%) GCP
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.40%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (2.40%) iPaaS
12 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.60%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.60%) Serverless
13 1 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.60%) LAN
2 11 (8.80%) WAN
3 5 (4.00%) ATM
4 4 (3.20%) Firewall
5 3 (2.40%) SAN
6 2 (1.60%) VSAN
7 1 (0.80%) FabricPath
7 1 (0.80%) HTTP
7 1 (0.80%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.80%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.80%) Wireless
7 1 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.40%) Big Data
3 3 (2.40%) Power BI
4 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.80%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.80%) Metadata
4 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.80%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.40%) JIRA
General
1 45 (36.00%) Public Sector
2 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
3 25 (20.00%) Finance
4 11 (8.80%) Banking
5 10 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.40%) Back Office
8 3 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.80%) Middleware
2 9 (7.20%) REST
2 9 (7.20%) SOAP
3 6 (4.80%) SAML
4 5 (4.00%) OpenID
5 4 (3.20%) .NET
6 3 (2.40%) J2EE
6 3 (2.40%) Kafka
6 3 (2.40%) Web Services
7 2 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.80%) CSS
8 1 (0.80%) HTML
8 1 (0.80%) JSON
8 1 (0.80%) OAuth
8 1 (0.80%) React
8 1 (0.80%) RESTful
8 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) Operational Technology
2 8 (6.40%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.60%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.80%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.00%) SCADA
5 5 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.40%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.40%) N-Tier
6 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.40%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.60%) PKI
8 1 (0.80%) Clustering
8 1 (0.80%) CMDB
8 1 (0.80%) IoT
8 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.80%) Windows
2 8 (6.40%) Linux
3 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.40%) Unix
5 2 (1.60%) Android
5 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.00%) Agile
2 34 (27.20%) Roadmaps
3 30 (24.00%) TOGAF
4 21 (16.80%) Waterfall
5 20 (16.00%) IT Strategy
6 18 (14.40%) Project Delivery
6 18 (14.40%) Technology Strategy
7 17 (13.60%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (12.80%) Migration
9 15 (12.00%) Microservices
9 15 (12.00%) Security Architecture
10 11 (8.80%) Analytics
10 11 (8.80%) CI/CD
10 11 (8.80%) Data Architecture
10 11 (8.80%) Data Protection
11 10 (8.00%) Cloud Security
11 10 (8.00%) Mentoring
11 10 (8.00%) Technical Architecture
12 9 (7.20%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.40%) Java
2 5 (4.00%) Python
3 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.40%) Bash
4 3 (2.40%) SQL
5 2 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.80%) C#
6 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.80%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (11.20%) Degree
2 10 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 10 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.20%) CCNA
5 4 (3.20%) CCNP
5 4 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.40%) NIST
3 3 (2.40%) QA
4 2 (1.60%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.60%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (7.20%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.80%) Docker
6 1 (0.80%) KVM
6 1 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (4.00%) Terraform
2 4 (3.20%) SCCM
3 3 (2.40%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.40%) VxRail
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.80%) Ansible
5 1 (0.80%) Istio
5 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.80%) Nagios
5 1 (0.80%) Puppet
5 1 (0.80%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.60%) VMware
3 8 (6.40%) Databricks
4 7 (5.60%) F5
4 7 (5.60%) Oracle
5 4 (3.20%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (3.20%) Informatica
5 4 (3.20%) Okta
5 4 (3.20%) Zscaler
6 3 (2.40%) Dell
7 2 (1.60%) Google
8 1 (0.80%) Adobe
8 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco
8 1 (0.80%) Citrix
8 1 (0.80%) Fiserv
8 1 (0.80%) IBM
8 1 (0.80%) Pega
8 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.80%) Teradata