Data Architect Contracts in Scotland

Data Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Data Architect daily rate in Scotland is £683 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 151 154
Rank change year-on-year +33 +3 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 12 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.54% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.44% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 14
10th Percentile £529 £560 £513
25th Percentile £608 £613 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £750 £713
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +5.26% -1.72%
75th Percentile £720 £825 £750
90th Percentile £728 - £811
UK median daily rate £695 £675 £675
% change year-on-year +2.96% - +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,112 2,720 3,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 95.17% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,953 2,401
10th Percentile £204 £233 £211
25th Percentile £369 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 46 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.18 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +50.99% -9.26% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in Scotland

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in Scotland

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in Scotland

Data Architect
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 Data Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +41 9 £638 -20.31% 1
Perthshire - 3 £700 -
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Finance
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Data Management
3 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 5 (41.67%) Data Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
3 5 (41.67%) Databricks
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (33.33%) Informatica
4 4 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
5 3 (25.00%) Data Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (16.67%) SaaS
6 2 (16.67%) Power BI
6 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (16.67%) Data Mapping
6 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 1 (8.33%) CRM
7 1 (8.33%) ETL
7 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (8.33%) Star Schema
7 1 (8.33%) Data Mart
7 1 (8.33%) Google
7 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (8.33%) Data Cleansing

Data Architect Skill Set
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 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) Data Mart
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (8.33%) Star Schema
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Data Management
2 5 (41.67%) Data Architecture
2 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
2 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
3 3 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Data Mapping
4 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Conceptual Models
5 1 (8.33%) CRM
5 1 (8.33%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Data Governance
5 1 (8.33%) Data Lineage
5 1 (8.33%) ETL
5 1 (8.33%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 1 (8.33%) Physical Data Model
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Databricks
2 4 (33.33%) Informatica
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Google