Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Architectural Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 107 115
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 8 8 30
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.52% 0.48% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.53% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 22
10th Percentile £426 £399 £479
25th Percentile £447 £411 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £497 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% -17.17% +16.96%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £650
90th Percentile £560 £680 £673
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600

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 1,338 1,497 2,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.80% 89.91% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 890 1,334
10th Percentile £241 £230 £250
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 45 55
10th Percentile £13.93 £15.09 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £39.30 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Scotland

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Architectural Design

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 21 December 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 6 £449 +6.15%
Edinburgh +10 2 £550 -4.10% 1
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe XD
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (12.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Datadog
3 1 (12.50%) Figma
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Gen AI Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) UI Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
1 3 (37.50%) React
2 2 (25.00%) Next.js
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (12.50%) LangChain
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (12.50%) SAML
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) API Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) OpenAI
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce