Architecture Governance Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Architecture Governance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Architecture Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - 136
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing Architecture Governance 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.53% - 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £604 - £464
25th Percentile £609 - £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.17%
75th Percentile £688 - £563
90th Percentile £778 - £585
UK median daily rate £600 £615 £650
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.38% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Architecture Governance 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 1,286 1,468 2,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 85.39% 91.18% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 870 1,320
10th Percentile £233 £230 £263
25th Percentile £382 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £487
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -7.50% +2.42%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £668 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 43 80
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £11.99
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.62 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%
75th Percentile £37.88 £24.18 £60.19
90th Percentile £64.03 £40.90 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

Architecture Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Architecture Governance job vacancy trend in Scotland

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Architecture Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Architecture Governance

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architecture Governance in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Governance in Scotland

Architecture Governance
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 Architecture Governance within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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 - 5 £625 - 2
South Lanarkshire - 2 £825 -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Architecture Governance
UK

Architecture Governance
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%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Architect
2 5 (62.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Business Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (12.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (12.50%) Rockwell
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce