Architectural Design Contracts in Scotland

Architectural Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 125 147
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 -18
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 10 39 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.47% 1.46% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.59% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 32 21
10th Percentile - £500 £450
25th Percentile - £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £559 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% -6.92% +22.76%
75th Percentile £725 £621 £688
90th Percentile £740 £770 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.50 -
UK median hourly rate £68.47 £72.00 £96.23
% change year-on-year -4.91% -25.18% +78.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Architectural Design 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 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
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 Architectural Design within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +21 5 £600 +9.19% 5
Glasgow +5 4 £700 +19.05%
Fife - 1 £725 -
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Change Management
3 5 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 5 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) ITSM
5 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft