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 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 21 50
Rank change year-on-year -44 +29 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 375 487 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.57% 10.34% 5.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.75% 11.48% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 135 109 115
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,625 £57,184 £65,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +1.29% +14.81%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,064 £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 6,525 4,242 5,553
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 90.10% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,619 2,305 2,995
10th Percentile £27,950 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 4 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 4 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 -60 225 £80,000 +6.67% 14
Edinburgh -1 141 £72,500 +3.98% 22
South Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 - 1
Fife -9 1 £40,000 -55.56%
Aberdeen -16 1 £100,000 - 1
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 129 (34.40%) Actionable Insight
2 121 (32.27%) TOGAF
3 109 (29.07%) Finance
4 93 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (24.27%) AWS
6 87 (23.20%) Azure
7 83 (22.13%) Technical Architecture
8 81 (21.60%) Cloud Native
9 76 (20.27%) Law
10 74 (19.73%) Roadmaps
11 73 (19.47%) Model Validation
11 73 (19.47%) Validation
11 73 (19.47%) Network Management
12 71 (18.93%) Network Architecture
12 71 (18.93%) Requirements Management
12 71 (18.93%) VSAT
12 71 (18.93%) Agile
13 69 (18.40%) Marketing
14 68 (18.13%) Software Engineering
15 66 (17.60%) Operational Stability
16 61 (16.27%) Data Architecture
17 52 (13.87%) Banking
17 52 (13.87%) Migration
17 52 (13.87%) Social Skills
18 51 (13.60%) Architecture Governance
18 51 (13.60%) Security Cleared
19 48 (12.80%) Presales
20 46 (12.27%) Scrum
21 45 (12.00%) Java
22 44 (11.73%) SC Cleared

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 (2.13%) WebLogic
2 4 (1.07%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.33%) 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 91 (24.27%) AWS
2 87 (23.20%) Azure
3 32 (8.53%) GCP
4 28 (7.47%) SaaS
5 26 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.27%) IaaS
6 16 (4.27%) PaaS
7 13 (3.47%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.07%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.80%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.80%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.53%) dbt
13 2 (0.53%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 71 (18.93%) VSAT
2 9 (2.40%) DNS
3 8 (2.13%) BGP
3 8 (2.13%) SSL
3 8 (2.13%) 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 22 (5.87%) Big Data
2 17 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.93%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (2.40%) RDBMS
6 8 (2.13%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.60%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.33%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.80%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.80%) Metadata
10 2 (0.53%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.53%) Power BI
10 2 (0.53%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.53%) Tableau
11 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.20%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.07%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.07%) Maven
3 1 (0.27%) GitLab
3 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 109 (29.07%) Finance
2 93 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 76 (20.27%) Law
4 69 (18.40%) Marketing
5 52 (13.87%) Banking
5 52 (13.87%) Social Skills
6 19 (5.07%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (5.07%) Retail Banking
7 15 (4.00%) Legal
7 15 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.60%) Games
10 5 (1.33%) Automotive
11 4 (1.07%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.07%) Retail
12 3 (0.80%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Police
14 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.53%) .NET
1 17 (4.53%) Spring Boot
2 16 (4.27%) Kafka
3 12 (3.20%) .NET Framework
4 10 (2.67%) Spring
5 9 (2.40%) OAuth
5 9 (2.40%) SAML
6 8 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.60%) JSON
7 6 (1.60%) OpenID
7 6 (1.60%) Web Services
7 6 (1.60%) XML
8 4 (1.07%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.07%) Java EE
8 4 (1.07%) REST
9 2 (0.53%) CSS
9 2 (0.53%) Django
9 2 (0.53%) HTML
9 2 (0.53%) Node.js
9 2 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 81 (21.60%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.20%) Public Cloud
3 33 (8.80%) Product Ownership
4 28 (7.47%) Credit Risk
5 14 (3.73%) PKI
6 11 (2.93%) Blockchain
7 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.87%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.87%) Robotics
9 6 (1.60%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (1.07%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.07%) IoT
12 3 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.80%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.33%) Linux
2 9 (2.40%) Windows
3 8 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.07%) Mesosphere
4 4 (1.07%) Unix
5 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (34.40%) Actionable Insight
2 121 (32.27%) TOGAF
3 83 (22.13%) Technical Architecture
4 74 (19.73%) Roadmaps
5 73 (19.47%) Model Validation
5 73 (19.47%) Network Management
5 73 (19.47%) Validation
6 71 (18.93%) Agile
6 71 (18.93%) Network Architecture
6 71 (18.93%) Requirements Management
7 68 (18.13%) Software Engineering
8 66 (17.60%) Operational Stability
9 61 (16.27%) Data Architecture
10 52 (13.87%) Migration
11 51 (13.60%) Architecture Governance
12 48 (12.80%) Presales
13 46 (12.27%) Scrum
14 44 (11.73%) Mentoring
15 42 (11.20%) Artificial Intelligence
15 42 (11.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 45 (12.00%) Java
2 36 (9.60%) Python
3 17 (4.53%) C++
4 16 (4.27%) C#
5 14 (3.73%) SQL
6 10 (2.67%) C
7 8 (2.13%) Embedded C
8 6 (1.60%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.33%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.27%) R
11 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.60%) Degree
4 17 (4.53%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.20%) CISSP
7 10 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.60%) CISM
8 6 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.33%) CCNA
10 4 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.07%) CISA
10 4 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.07%) PhD
10 4 (1.07%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.53%) CCSP
11 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.13%) NIST
2 6 (1.60%) COBIT
3 5 (1.33%) QA
3 5 (1.33%) SEPA
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)
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (4.80%) 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 27 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.60%) OpenView
2 6 (1.60%) Terraform
3 5 (1.33%) Ansible
4 4 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.07%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.07%) Puppet
5 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.07%) Google
3 14 (3.73%) Oracle
4 10 (2.67%) Sparx
5 7 (1.87%) Cisco
5 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.60%) BMC
6 6 (1.60%) HP
6 6 (1.60%) Remedy
7 5 (1.33%) VMware
8 4 (1.07%) ANSYS
9 3 (0.80%) Citrix
9 3 (0.80%) Databricks
9 3 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.53%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.53%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.27%) Barracuda Networks
11 1 (0.27%) EMC
11 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.27%) Teradata