Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Senior Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Scotland is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 104 130
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 3 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.18% 0.62% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.67% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile - £638 £570
25th Percentile £521 £694 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £564 £800 £775
90th Percentile - - £835
UK median daily rate £680 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -6.21% +7.41% -3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,471 1,630 2,265
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 91.62% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 963 1,443
10th Percentile £202 £192 £250
25th Percentile £361 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 64 63
10th Percentile £16.84 £13.22 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.23 £14.73 £16.38
Median hourly rate £24.09 £19.30 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +24.85% +1.93% +6.83%
75th Percentile £39.02 £24.18 £55.08
90th Percentile £64.47 £40.10 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +60.48%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in Scotland

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in Scotland

Senior Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies 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 13 November 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
Edinburgh +3 1 - -
Senior Architect
UK

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 13 November 2025, Senior Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Collibra
3 1 (33.33%) Conceptual Models
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) ER Studio
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script

Senior Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Collibra
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) ER Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Conceptual Models
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google