Senior Architect Contracts in Scotland

Senior Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Scotland is £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 160 175
Rank change year-on-year +41 +15 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 10 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.46% 0.21% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.22% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £600 £599 -
25th Percentile £644 £609 £808
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £650 £815
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -20.25% +38.72%
75th Percentile £844 £725 £823
90th Percentile £850 £755 -
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +10.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -

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 2,071 2,688 3,388
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 95.32% 95.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 1,924 2,411
10th Percentile £201 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £586 £555 £550
90th Percentile £659 £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 44 52
10th Percentile £12.33 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.13 £15.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.29 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -17.60% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Scotland

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in Scotland

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in Scotland

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in Scotland

Senior 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 Senior Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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 6 £663 +1.92% 2
Senior Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Architect in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (60.00%) IT Strategy
3 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) Architecture Governance
4 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 4 (40.00%) Azure
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (20.00%) PaaS
6 2 (20.00%) iPaaS
6 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
6 2 (20.00%) IaaS
6 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Digital Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (20.00%) Content Management
6 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) iPaaS
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) J2EE
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (20.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (60.00%) IT Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Architecture Governance
3 4 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Content Management
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) ERP
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 2 (20.00%) SOA
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) VMware