Architect Jobs in Scotland

Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Architect salary in Scotland is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 20 50
Rank change year-on-year -45 +30 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 374 536 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.51% 11.98% 5.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.68% 13.35% 6.01%
Number of salaries quoted 126 100 130
10th Percentile £58,625 £56,219 £58,275
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,951 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.61% +10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,419 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,290 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,588 4,015 5,795
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.01% 89.76% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,725 2,153 3,053
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -63 235 £80,000 +6.67% 7
Edinburgh -4 129 £72,500 +3.57% 12
South Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 - 1
Fife -7 1 £40,000 -55.56%
Lanarkshire -10 1 £70,000 -
Aberdeen -20 1 £100,000 - 1
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Architect 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 permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 122 (32.62%) TOGAF
2 112 (29.95%) Actionable Insight
3 102 (27.27%) AWS
4 99 (26.47%) Azure
5 96 (25.67%) Finance
6 90 (24.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 83 (22.19%) Cloud Native
8 81 (21.66%) Technical Architecture
9 76 (20.32%) Law
10 71 (18.98%) Network Management
11 70 (18.72%) Marketing
11 70 (18.72%) Roadmaps
12 69 (18.45%) Model Validation
12 69 (18.45%) Requirements Management
12 69 (18.45%) VSAT
12 69 (18.45%) Network Architecture
12 69 (18.45%) Validation
13 66 (17.65%) Agile
14 65 (17.38%) Software Engineering
14 65 (17.38%) Operational Stability
15 63 (16.84%) Migration
16 62 (16.58%) Data Architecture
17 57 (15.24%) Social Skills
18 51 (13.64%) Architecture Governance
19 47 (12.57%) Security Cleared
20 46 (12.30%) Scrum
21 44 (11.76%) Presales
22 43 (11.50%) DevOps
23 41 (10.96%) Project Management
23 41 (10.96%) Decision-Making

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 8 (2.14%) WebLogic
2 4 (1.07%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Simulink
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 102 (27.27%) AWS
2 99 (26.47%) Azure
3 26 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (6.68%) GCP
5 23 (6.15%) SaaS
6 13 (3.48%) Entra ID
6 13 (3.48%) IaaS
6 13 (3.48%) PaaS
7 12 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.60%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.07%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.80%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.80%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.53%) dbt
13 2 (0.53%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 69 (18.45%) VSAT
2 9 (2.41%) DNS
3 8 (2.14%) BGP
3 8 (2.14%) SSL
3 8 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.87%) Firewall
5 4 (1.07%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.80%) Network Security
6 3 (0.80%) VPN
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (4.55%) Big Data
3 11 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
4 10 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (2.41%) RDBMS
6 8 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.14%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.60%) Data Vault
7 6 (1.60%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.60%) Power BI
7 6 (1.60%) Tableau
8 4 (1.07%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.80%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.80%) Metadata
10 2 (0.53%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.67%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.07%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.07%) Maven
3 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) GitLab
General
1 96 (25.67%) Finance
2 90 (24.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 76 (20.32%) Law
4 70 (18.72%) Marketing
5 57 (15.24%) Social Skills
6 35 (9.36%) Banking
7 23 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (4.81%) Retail Banking
9 15 (4.01%) Public Sector
10 13 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (2.67%) Legal
12 6 (1.60%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.60%) Games
13 5 (1.34%) Automotive
14 3 (0.80%) Retail
15 2 (0.53%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.53%) Police
15 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
16 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.01%) .NET
2 12 (3.21%) Spring Boot
3 11 (2.94%) Kafka
4 10 (2.67%) .NET Framework
5 9 (2.41%) OAuth
5 9 (2.41%) SAML
6 8 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.60%) JSON
7 6 (1.60%) Web Services
7 6 (1.60%) XML
8 5 (1.34%) Spring
9 4 (1.07%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.07%) Java EE
9 4 (1.07%) REST
10 3 (0.80%) OpenID
11 2 (0.53%) Django
11 2 (0.53%) Node.js
11 2 (0.53%) React
11 2 (0.53%) RESTful
12 1 (0.27%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 83 (22.19%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.70%) Public Cloud
3 30 (8.02%) Product Ownership
4 28 (7.49%) Credit Risk
5 14 (3.74%) PKI
6 13 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.87%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.34%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.07%) IoT
11 3 (0.80%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.80%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.53%) PMI
12 2 (0.53%) Robotics
12 2 (0.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.88%) Linux
2 10 (2.67%) Windows
3 8 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.07%) Mesosphere
5 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (32.62%) TOGAF
2 112 (29.95%) Actionable Insight
3 81 (21.66%) Technical Architecture
4 71 (18.98%) Network Management
5 70 (18.72%) Roadmaps
6 69 (18.45%) Model Validation
6 69 (18.45%) Network Architecture
6 69 (18.45%) Requirements Management
6 69 (18.45%) Validation
7 66 (17.65%) Agile
8 65 (17.38%) Operational Stability
8 65 (17.38%) Software Engineering
9 63 (16.84%) Migration
10 62 (16.58%) Data Architecture
11 51 (13.64%) Architecture Governance
12 46 (12.30%) Scrum
13 44 (11.76%) Presales
14 43 (11.50%) DevOps
15 41 (10.96%) Decision-Making
15 41 (10.96%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.89%) Java
1 37 (9.89%) Python
2 15 (4.01%) C++
3 13 (3.48%) C#
4 12 (3.21%) SQL
5 8 (2.14%) C
5 8 (2.14%) Embedded C
6 6 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.34%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.80%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.27%) R
9 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (12.57%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.61%) Degree
4 17 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.74%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (3.21%) CISSP
8 10 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.60%) CISM
9 6 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.34%) CCNA
11 4 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.07%) CISA
11 4 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.07%) PhD
11 4 (1.07%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.53%) CCSP
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.14%) NIST
2 6 (1.60%) COBIT
3 5 (1.34%) QA
4 4 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.53%) SEPA
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (3.74%) Docker
2 4 (1.07%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.07%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.53%) KVM
3 2 (0.53%) Xen
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.87%) Terraform
3 6 (1.60%) Ansible
3 6 (1.60%) OpenView
4 5 (1.34%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.07%) Puppet
6 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Grafana
7 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.28%) Google
3 14 (3.74%) Oracle
4 10 (2.67%) Sparx
5 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.60%) BMC
6 6 (1.60%) HP
6 6 (1.60%) Remedy
7 5 (1.34%) Cisco
7 5 (1.34%) VMware
8 4 (1.07%) ANSYS
9 3 (0.80%) Citrix
9 3 (0.80%) Databricks
10 2 (0.53%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.27%) Barracuda Networks
11 1 (0.27%) EMC
11 1 (0.27%) Meraki
11 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.27%) Teradata