Technical Architect Contracts in Scotland

Technical Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Scotland is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 144 153
Rank change year-on-year +34 +9 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 21 20 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.95% 0.70% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.74% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 10
10th Percentile £585 £550 £520
25th Percentile £613 £606 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +20.93%
75th Percentile £725 £697 £784
90th Percentile £760 £733 £903
UK median daily rate £650 £664 £631
% change year-on-year -2.07% +5.19% +11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -46.97% +11.39%

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 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Scotland

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in Scotland

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in Scotland

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in Scotland

Technical 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 Technical Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +48 15 £680 +4.62% 6
Glasgow -3 4 £663 - 2
Renfrewshire -1 2 £600 -
Technical Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 14 (66.67%) Azure
1 14 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 8 (38.10%) Roadmaps
3 8 (38.10%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) LAN
4 6 (28.57%) WAN
4 6 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 6 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (23.81%) Business Strategy
5 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
5 5 (23.81%) Architecture Governance
5 5 (23.81%) IT Strategy
5 5 (23.81%) Finance
5 5 (23.81%) Middleware
6 4 (19.05%) VMware
6 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
6 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
6 4 (19.05%) Linux
6 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (19.05%) DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
6 4 (19.05%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (19.05%) PaaS
6 4 (19.05%) AWS
6 4 (19.05%) IaaS
6 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity

Technical 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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) IaaS
2 4 (19.05%) PaaS
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) iPaaS
3 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LAN
1 6 (28.57%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Big Data
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
General
1 14 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Middleware
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) J2EE
2 3 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) SAML
3 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 3 (14.29%) N-Tier
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Android
3 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Agile
1 8 (38.10%) Roadmaps
2 6 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
2 6 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 5 (23.81%) Architecture Governance
3 5 (23.81%) Business Strategy
3 5 (23.81%) IT Strategy
3 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
4 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) High Availability
5 3 (14.29%) SOA
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (14.29%) NIST
2 3 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) KVM
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Nagios
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
2 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) VMware
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks