Lead Architect Contracts in Scotland

Lead Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Lead Architect daily rate in Scotland is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 162 160
Rank change year-on-year +40 -2 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 5 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.30% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 11
10th Percentile £580 £664 £763
25th Percentile £625 £700 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £830 £903 £847
90th Percentile - £963 £856
UK median daily rate £725 £742 £675
% change year-on-year -2.23% +9.85% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -46.97% -

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 2,047 2,638 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 95.48% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,870 2,322
10th Percentile £200 £232 £214
25th Percentile £363 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 44 53
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.86 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.19 £14.44 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -17.60% -30.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.38 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Scotland

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in Scotland

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in Scotland

Lead 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 Lead Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 May 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 +37 5 £750 -6.25%
Lead Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Architect in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Organisational Awareness
3 2 (40.00%) F5
3 2 (40.00%) SCCM
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) IIS
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) CCNP
3 2 (40.00%) CCNA
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) Product Management
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) AWS

Lead 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 2 (40.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) OCI
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Awareness
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 8583
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) F5
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle