Architectural Patterns Contracts in Scotland

Architectural Patterns
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Patterns 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 104 121 150
Rank change year-on-year +17 +29 +2
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 12 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.74% 0.36% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.41% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile £611 £541 £575
25th Percentile £628 £589 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +7.69% +16.70%
75th Percentile £711 £750 £725
90th Percentile £712 £763 £763
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Architectural Patterns 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 Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in Scotland

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in Scotland

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns 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 +12 11 £674 -5.73% 8
Edinburgh +1 1 - - 17
Architectural Patterns
UK

Architectural Patterns
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) CloudFront
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (8.33%) Storybook
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Architect
2 11 (91.67%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) Jest
1 1 (8.33%) JMS
1 1 (8.33%) Playwright
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (58.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (66.67%) Event-Driven
3 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (50.00%) Community of Practice
4 6 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
4 6 (50.00%) Data Security
5 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (25.00%) OO
8 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
8 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
8 2 (16.67%) Microservices
8 2 (16.67%) OOP
9 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
9 1 (8.33%) Clean Code
9 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
9 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
9 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
9 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 7 (58.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (58.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) Sybase