Distributed Architecture Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Distributed Architecture
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Architecture in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 113 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Architecture 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% 0.30% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% - -
UK median daily rate £544 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -13.00% +4.17% -12.73%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Distributed Architecture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 590 600 772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.04% 36.25% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 312 428
10th Percentile £200 £193 £288
25th Percentile £357 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £600
90th Percentile £674 £624 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 39
10th Percentile £15.62 £20.63 £15.88
25th Percentile £16.17 £22.22 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +20.97% +44.44%
75th Percentile £56.25 £24.66 £55.70
90th Percentile £68.20 £54.97 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.59% +6.15% +44.54%

Distributed Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Distributed Architecture job vacancy trend in Scotland

Distributed Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Distributed Architecture
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 Distributed Architecture within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Edinburgh +4 2 £400 - 2
Distributed Architecture
UK

Distributed Architecture
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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deadline-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree