Enterprise Architecture Contracts in Scotland

Enterprise Architecture
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Architecture 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 90 116 147
Rank change year-on-year +26 +31 -22
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 26 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.60% 0.59% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 0.66% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 11
10th Percentile £430 £505 £563
25th Percentile £511 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £646 £668
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% -3.22% +11.25%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £700
90th Percentile £711 £708 £701
UK median daily rate £630 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.89% +1.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Enterprise Architecture 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%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in Scotland

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in Scotland

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in Scotland

Enterprise 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 Enterprise Architecture 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 +15 17 £600 +4.35% 4
Edinburgh +6 9 £525 -20.51% 7
Enterprise Architecture
UK

Enterprise Architecture
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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) PaaS
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) Internet
1 1 (3.85%) Intranet
1 1 (3.85%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) Artifactory
3 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (7.69%) Git
4 1 (3.85%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 14 (53.85%) Finance
3 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (26.92%) Banking
5 5 (19.23%) Investment Banking
6 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
7 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (80.77%) Architect
2 14 (53.85%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Data Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Data Centre Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Developer
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Spring
2 2 (7.69%) LDAP
2 2 (7.69%) RESTful
2 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.85%) EDI
3 1 (3.85%) JMS
3 1 (3.85%) Loki
3 1 (3.85%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (30.77%) Cloud Native
3 6 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (15.38%) CMDB
4 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
6 2 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.85%) Client/Server
7 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (46.15%) Agile
3 11 (42.31%) Architectural Patterns
4 10 (38.46%) Data Security
5 8 (30.77%) Event-Driven
6 6 (23.08%) Community of Practice
6 6 (23.08%) Critical Thinking
6 6 (23.08%) Data Protection
6 6 (23.08%) IT Strategy
6 6 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
7 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (19.23%) Technical Architecture
7 5 (19.23%) TOGAF
8 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
8 4 (15.38%) ITIL
8 4 (15.38%) ITSM
8 4 (15.38%) Programme Management
8 4 (15.38%) Security Management
8 4 (15.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Java
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Groovy
4 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) AWS Certification
2 8 (30.77%) Azure Certification
3 7 (26.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.85%) OCP
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Kibana
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (3.85%) Genesys
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Sybase
4 1 (3.85%) VMware