Solutions Architect Contracts in Scotland

Solution Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Scotland is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 82 97
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 35 38 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.00% 1.83% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 1.93% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 27 45
10th Percentile £426 £561 £553
25th Percentile £511 £606 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £646 £620
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +4.19% +3.33%
75th Percentile £681 £731 £701
90th Percentile £738 £760 £765
UK median daily rate £625 £635 £660
% change year-on-year -1.57% -3.79% +1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £76.00
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £87.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% +32.58% -2.94%

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 1,633 1,965 2,647
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 94.88% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 1,215 1,820
10th Percentile £239 £200 £230
25th Percentile £360 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £545
90th Percentile £600 £646 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 104 62
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.32 £12.14
25th Percentile £16.90 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.71 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% +3.10% -52.66%
75th Percentile £26.21 £50.63 £46.74
90th Percentile £64.50 £61.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +65.50%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Scotland

Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 July 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 -12 18 £625 +1.01% 6
Edinburgh +2 13 £598 -7.51% 12
Perthshire +2 1 £725 +3.57%
Aberdeen - 1 £750 - 1
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 July 2025, Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 17 (48.57%) Azure
2 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
3 15 (42.86%) Finance
4 14 (40.00%) Agile
5 11 (31.43%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (22.86%) AWS
7 8 (22.86%) SaaS
7 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (20.00%) DevOps
8 7 (20.00%) AWS Certification
8 7 (20.00%) TOGAF
8 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
8 7 (20.00%) Cloud Native
8 7 (20.00%) Azure Certification
9 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
9 6 (17.14%) Architectural Patterns
9 6 (17.14%) Oracle
9 6 (17.14%) Banking
9 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (14.29%) IaaS
10 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 5 (14.29%) PaaS
10 5 (14.29%) Windows
10 5 (14.29%) Linux
10 5 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
10 5 (14.29%) DevSecOps
11 4 (11.43%) Community of Practice

Solutions 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Primavera
2 2 (5.71%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) SaaS
3 5 (14.29%) IaaS
3 5 (14.29%) PaaS
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.86%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.86%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (42.86%) Finance
3 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (17.14%) Banking
6 3 (8.57%) Financial Institution
6 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Private Banking
8 1 (2.86%) Back Office
8 1 (2.86%) Front Office
8 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) REST
2 2 (5.71%) SOAP
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) EDI
3 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Mainframe
3 3 (8.57%) Replication
4 2 (5.71%) Derivative
4 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.57%) HPUX
3 3 (8.57%) Solaris
4 1 (2.86%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Agile
2 11 (31.43%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.00%) DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 6 (17.14%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
6 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 5 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 4 (11.43%) Architectural Design
7 4 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (11.43%) Community of Practice
7 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.43%) Data Security
7 4 (11.43%) Event-Driven
7 4 (11.43%) Scrum
7 4 (11.43%) Waterfall
8 3 (8.57%) Architecture Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) Java
1 4 (11.43%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 7 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (8.57%) CISM
3 3 (8.57%) CISSP
4 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) GRC
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle
3 4 (11.43%) IBM
3 4 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.57%) Autodesk
4 3 (8.57%) Sun
4 3 (8.57%) Unisys
5 2 (5.71%) Avaloq
5 2 (5.71%) HP
5 2 (5.71%) Qualys
5 2 (5.71%) Temenos
6 1 (2.86%) Ariba
6 1 (2.86%) Databricks
6 1 (2.86%) Genesys
6 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft