Architectural Design Contracts in Scotland

Architectural Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design 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 107 120 121
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 +22
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 9 9 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.41% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.46% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 36
10th Percentile £486 £578 £500
25th Percentile £535 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £553
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +8.45% -11.48%
75th Percentile £606 £725 £620
90th Percentile £618 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £39.10
25th Percentile £44.23 - £45.25
Median hourly rate £45.02 - £55.50
75th Percentile £45.80 - £65.75
90th Percentile - - £71.90
UK median hourly rate £45.02 £70.00 £71.50
% change year-on-year -35.69% -2.10% -18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Architectural Design 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
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 Architectural Design 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 +6 5 £528 -24.64% 3
Edinburgh 0 2 - - 10
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
1 7 (77.78%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 1 (11.11%) JMS
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Business Case
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Postgraduate
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Calypso
3 1 (11.11%) Genesys
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase
3 1 (11.11%) VMware