Architect Contracts in Scotland

Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Architect daily rate in Scotland is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 36 31
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 100 166 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.65% 6.14% 6.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.92% 6.44% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 99 160
10th Percentile £513 £550 £513
25th Percentile £602 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +10.60%
75th Percentile £723 £738 £675
90th Percentile £775 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £657 £650
% change year-on-year -1.10% +1.12% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +14.11%

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 2,032 2,578 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.38% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,820 2,318
10th Percentile £200 £231 £218
25th Percentile £356 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 43 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.83 £15.61
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.38 £18.23
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.75 £29.93
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -27.32% -20.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.79 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.50 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Scotland

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 Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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 +8 59 £664 -1.67% 19
Glasgow -15 25 £613 +0.82% 13
Perthshire +7 6 £700 +3.70%
South Lanarkshire - 3 £700 - 1
Renfrewshire -4 1 £600 -
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 Architect in the job title.

1 35 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 30 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 28 (28.00%) Azure
4 26 (26.00%) Roadmaps
5 25 (25.00%) Finance
6 21 (21.00%) Agile
7 17 (17.00%) TOGAF
7 17 (17.00%) AWS
8 16 (16.00%) Migration
8 16 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (15.00%) Microservices
10 13 (13.00%) Security Architecture
10 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
11 12 (12.00%) Banking
11 12 (12.00%) IT Strategy
12 11 (11.00%) Security Cleared
12 11 (11.00%) Waterfall
12 11 (11.00%) SC Cleared
12 11 (11.00%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (10.00%) Project Delivery
13 10 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
13 10 (10.00%) Data Architecture
13 10 (10.00%) Data Protection
13 10 (10.00%) Degree
13 10 (10.00%) Middleware
13 10 (10.00%) Java
14 9 (9.00%) IaaS
14 9 (9.00%) SaaS
14 9 (9.00%) REST
14 9 (9.00%) SOAP

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 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.00%) Confluence
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.00%) Azure
2 17 (17.00%) AWS
3 9 (9.00%) IaaS
3 9 (9.00%) SaaS
4 7 (7.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.00%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 6 (6.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 6 (6.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 5 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.00%) PaaS
7 4 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.00%) iPaaS
8 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.00%) GCP
10 1 (1.00%) Apigee
10 1 (1.00%) AWS IoT
10 1 (1.00%) OCI
10 1 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.00%) LAN
2 6 (6.00%) WAN
3 5 (5.00%) ATM
4 2 (2.00%) VSAN
5 1 (1.00%) FabricPath
5 1 (1.00%) Firewall
5 1 (1.00%) HTTP
5 1 (1.00%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.00%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.00%) Wireless
5 1 (1.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.00%) Big Data
2 3 (3.00%) Power BI
3 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.00%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.00%) Metadata
3 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.00%) Star Schema
3 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) JIRA
General
1 35 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 30 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 25 (25.00%) Finance
4 12 (12.00%) Banking
5 11 (11.00%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (8.00%) Back Office
7 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.00%) Middleware
2 9 (9.00%) REST
2 9 (9.00%) SAML
2 9 (9.00%) SOAP
3 8 (8.00%) OpenID
4 4 (4.00%) .NET
5 3 (3.00%) J2EE
5 3 (3.00%) Kafka
5 3 (3.00%) Web Services
6 2 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.00%) CSS
7 1 (1.00%) HTML
7 1 (1.00%) JSON
7 1 (1.00%) OAuth
7 1 (1.00%) React
7 1 (1.00%) RESTful
7 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (6.00%) Operational Technology
2 6 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.00%) SCADA
3 5 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (3.00%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.00%) N-Tier
4 3 (3.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.00%) IoT
5 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.00%) PKI
6 1 (1.00%) Clustering
6 1 (1.00%) CMDB
6 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.00%) Android
3 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.00%) Roadmaps
2 21 (21.00%) Agile
3 17 (17.00%) TOGAF
4 16 (16.00%) Migration
4 16 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (15.00%) Microservices
6 13 (13.00%) Security Architecture
7 12 (12.00%) IT Strategy
8 11 (11.00%) Waterfall
9 10 (10.00%) Data Architecture
9 10 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 10 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 10 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
10 9 (9.00%) Architecture Governance
10 9 (9.00%) Cloud Security
10 9 (9.00%) Containerisation
10 9 (9.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (9.00%) Service Management
11 8 (8.00%) API Management
11 8 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.00%) Java
2 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (2.00%) SQL
3 1 (1.00%) C#
3 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.00%) Go
3 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (11.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (11.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.00%) Degree
3 6 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.00%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.00%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.00%) QA
4 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.00%) vSphere
4 1 (1.00%) Docker
4 1 (1.00%) KVM
4 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Terraform
2 4 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (3.00%) VxRail
4 1 (1.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.00%) Istio
4 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.00%) Nagios
4 1 (1.00%) Puppet
4 1 (1.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.00%) Databricks
2 8 (8.00%) VMware
3 7 (7.00%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (7.00%) Okta
3 7 (7.00%) Zscaler
4 6 (6.00%) Oracle
5 4 (4.00%) Informatica
6 3 (3.00%) Dell
7 2 (2.00%) Google
8 1 (1.00%) Adobe
8 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.00%) Cisco
8 1 (1.00%) Citrix
8 1 (1.00%) Confluent
8 1 (1.00%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.00%) IBM
8 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.00%) Teradata