Technical Architecture Contracts in Scotland

Technical Architecture
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 116 148
Rank change year-on-year +11 +32 -15
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 11 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.59% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.66% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 13
10th Percentile £369 - £482
25th Percentile £414 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £615
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +3.66% +2.50%
75th Percentile £581 £688 £700
90th Percentile £591 £830 -
UK median daily rate £603 £588 £605
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.89% -3.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in Scotland

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in Scotland

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in Scotland

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in Scotland

Technical Architecture
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 Architecture within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +5 7 £525 -22.22% 7
Glasgow +4 3 £370 -35.74% 5
Perthshire 0 1 £550 +4.76% 1
Technical Architecture
UK

Technical Architecture
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 (18.18%) Camunda
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Private Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Back Office
5 1 (9.09%) Front Office
5 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Derivative
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Management
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
4 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
5 2 (18.18%) BPMN
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Decision Table
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) SIEM
5 2 (18.18%) System Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) IIBA
2 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Avaloq
1 2 (18.18%) Citrix
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Temenos
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle