Architectural Design Contracts in Scotland

Architectural Design
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Architectural Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Design over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 132 143
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 -19
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 6 38 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 1.38% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.49% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 32 20
10th Percentile - £500 -
25th Percentile - £509 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £562 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.76% -10.08% +23.15%
75th Percentile £725 £621 £688
90th Percentile - £770 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £615 £625
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.60% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.50 £96.00
% change year-on-year -2.10% -25.52% +119.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Architectural Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,556 3,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.51% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,817 2,256
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £11.78 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -7.83%
75th Percentile £46.24 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £67.13 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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
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 12 May 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 +23 3 £600 +9.69% 2
Glasgow +3 3 £700 +17.93%
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft