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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 23 48
Rank change year-on-year -43 +25 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 371 468 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.53% 9.88% 5.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.71% 10.94% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 134 112 109
10th Percentile £60,750 £56,219 £56,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,184 £65,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% +4.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £84,764 £87,813 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,375 £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 6,502 4,276 5,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 90.27% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,326 2,955
10th Percentile £27,825 £31,785 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 27 April 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -61 220 £80,000 +14.29% 15
Edinburgh 0 142 £72,500 +4.40% 27
South Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 - 5
Fife -9 1 £40,000 -55.56%
Aberdeen -13 1 £100,000 - 1
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 129 (34.77%) Actionable Insight
2 120 (32.35%) TOGAF
3 111 (29.92%) Finance
4 91 (24.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (24.26%) AWS
6 86 (23.18%) Azure
7 81 (21.83%) Technical Architecture
8 80 (21.56%) Cloud Native
9 76 (20.49%) Agile
10 75 (20.22%) Law
11 74 (19.95%) Roadmaps
12 71 (19.14%) Model Validation
12 71 (19.14%) Validation
12 71 (19.14%) Network Management
13 69 (18.60%) Marketing
13 69 (18.60%) Requirements Management
13 69 (18.60%) Network Architecture
13 69 (18.60%) VSAT
14 68 (18.33%) Software Engineering
15 66 (17.79%) Operational Stability
16 61 (16.44%) Data Architecture
17 55 (14.82%) Banking
18 52 (14.02%) Migration
18 52 (14.02%) Social Skills
19 51 (13.75%) Architecture Governance
19 51 (13.75%) Security Cleared
20 49 (13.21%) Java
21 48 (12.94%) Presales
22 46 (12.40%) Scrum
23 44 (11.86%) Mentoring

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 (2.16%) WebLogic
2 4 (1.08%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Simulink
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 90 (24.26%) AWS
2 86 (23.18%) Azure
3 32 (8.63%) GCP
4 30 (8.09%) SaaS
5 26 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.31%) IaaS
6 16 (4.31%) PaaS
7 13 (3.50%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.08%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.81%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.81%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.54%) dbt
13 2 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 69 (18.60%) VSAT
2 9 (2.43%) DNS
3 8 (2.16%) BGP
3 8 (2.16%) SSL
3 8 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.89%) Firewall
5 4 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.81%) Network Security
6 3 (0.81%) VPN
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.74%) Big Data
2 17 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (2.43%) RDBMS
6 8 (2.16%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.62%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.35%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.81%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.81%) Metadata
10 2 (0.54%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.54%) Power BI
10 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.54%) Tableau
11 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.23%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.08%) Maven
3 1 (0.27%) GitLab
3 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 111 (29.92%) Finance
2 91 (24.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 75 (20.22%) Law
4 69 (18.60%) Marketing
5 55 (14.82%) Banking
6 52 (14.02%) Social Skills
7 19 (5.12%) Legal
7 19 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (4.58%) Retail Banking
9 14 (3.77%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.62%) Games
12 5 (1.35%) Automotive
13 4 (1.08%) Retail
14 3 (0.81%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.54%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.66%) Spring Boot
2 20 (5.39%) Kafka
3 17 (4.58%) .NET
4 14 (3.77%) Spring
5 12 (3.23%) .NET Framework
6 9 (2.43%) OAuth
6 9 (2.43%) SAML
7 8 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.62%) JSON
8 6 (1.62%) OpenID
8 6 (1.62%) Web Services
8 6 (1.62%) XML
9 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.08%) Java EE
9 4 (1.08%) REST
10 2 (0.54%) CSS
10 2 (0.54%) Django
10 2 (0.54%) HTML
10 2 (0.54%) Node.js
10 2 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.56%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.59%) Public Cloud
3 33 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 28 (7.55%) Credit Risk
5 14 (3.77%) Blockchain
5 14 (3.77%) PKI
6 10 (2.70%) Robotics
7 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.35%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.08%) IoT
11 3 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.81%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.54%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.12%) Linux
2 9 (2.43%) Windows
3 8 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.08%) Mesosphere
4 4 (1.08%) Unix
5 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (34.77%) Actionable Insight
2 120 (32.35%) TOGAF
3 81 (21.83%) Technical Architecture
4 76 (20.49%) Agile
5 74 (19.95%) Roadmaps
6 71 (19.14%) Model Validation
6 71 (19.14%) Network Management
6 71 (19.14%) Validation
7 69 (18.60%) Network Architecture
7 69 (18.60%) Requirements Management
8 68 (18.33%) Software Engineering
9 66 (17.79%) Operational Stability
10 61 (16.44%) Data Architecture
11 52 (14.02%) Migration
12 51 (13.75%) Architecture Governance
13 48 (12.94%) Presales
14 46 (12.40%) Scrum
15 44 (11.86%) Mentoring
16 42 (11.32%) Decision-Making
17 41 (11.05%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 49 (13.21%) Java
2 36 (9.70%) Python
3 17 (4.58%) C++
4 16 (4.31%) C#
5 14 (3.77%) SQL
6 10 (2.70%) C
7 8 (2.16%) Embedded C
8 6 (1.62%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.35%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.27%) R
11 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.85%) Degree
4 17 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.50%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.23%) CISSP
7 10 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.62%) CISM
8 6 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.35%) CCNA
10 4 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.08%) CISA
10 4 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.08%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.54%) CCSP
11 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.54%) PhD
11 2 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.16%) NIST
1 8 (2.16%) SEPA
2 6 (1.62%) COBIT
3 5 (1.35%) QA
4 4 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (5.93%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.27%) KVM
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 31 (8.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.62%) OpenView
2 6 (1.62%) Terraform
3 5 (1.35%) Ansible
4 4 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.08%) Puppet
5 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.12%) Google
3 14 (3.77%) Oracle
4 10 (2.70%) Sparx
5 8 (2.16%) Cisco
6 7 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.62%) BMC
7 6 (1.62%) HP
7 6 (1.62%) Remedy
8 5 (1.35%) VMware
9 3 (0.81%) Citrix
9 3 (0.81%) Databricks
9 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.54%) ANSYS
10 2 (0.54%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.54%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.27%) Barracuda Networks
11 1 (0.27%) EMC
11 1 (0.27%) Meraki
11 1 (0.27%) Red Hat