Data Architect Jobs in Scotland

Data Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Data Architect salary in Scotland is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 192 209
Rank change year-on-year -63 +17 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 28 31 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.65% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.72% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile - £54,250 £42,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £59,875 £53,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +20.00% +30.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 £85,500 -
90th Percentile £93,875 £110,600 £71,000
UK median annual salary £81,250 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -9.72% +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 6,411 4,330 5,456
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 90.40% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,601 2,357 2,938
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,569 £28,209
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 £73,853 £65,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in Scotland

Data Architect
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Architect in Scotland

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in Scotland

Data 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 Data Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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 -91 19 £82,500 +41.03% 1
Edinburgh +40 6 £72,500 -12.65% 1
Aberdeen - 1 £100,000 -
Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Data 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 Data Architect in the job title.

1 26 (92.86%) Data Architecture
2 19 (67.86%) Roadmaps
3 18 (64.29%) Finance
4 17 (60.71%) Cloud Native
4 17 (60.71%) Law
4 17 (60.71%) Marketing
4 17 (60.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (60.71%) Business Strategy
4 17 (60.71%) Operational Stability
4 17 (60.71%) Architecture Governance
5 11 (39.29%) Data Modelling
6 10 (35.71%) SQL
7 6 (21.43%) Azure
7 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
8 5 (17.86%) Retail Banking
8 5 (17.86%) Data Management
8 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (17.86%) Architectural Design
9 4 (14.29%) Oracle
9 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
9 4 (14.29%) Analytics
9 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
10 3 (10.71%) Kafka
10 3 (10.71%) Data Analytics
10 3 (10.71%) Databricks
10 3 (10.71%) Hadoop
10 3 (10.71%) Strategic Thinking
10 3 (10.71%) Data Science
10 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
10 3 (10.71%) Metadata

Data 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 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.71%) Hadoop
4 3 (10.71%) Metadata
5 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (64.29%) Finance
2 17 (60.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (60.71%) Law
2 17 (60.71%) Marketing
3 5 (17.86%) Retail Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (60.71%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Data Architecture
2 19 (67.86%) Roadmaps
3 17 (60.71%) Architecture Governance
3 17 (60.71%) Business Strategy
3 17 (60.71%) Operational Stability
4 11 (39.29%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.86%) Architectural Design
5 5 (17.86%) Data Management
6 4 (14.29%) Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Data Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Data Science
7 3 (10.71%) Strategic Thinking
8 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis
8 2 (7.14%) Data Engineering
8 2 (7.14%) Data Integration
8 2 (7.14%) Migration
9 1 (3.57%) Data Security
9 1 (3.57%) ETL
9 1 (3.57%) OO
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) C++
2 1 (3.57%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) R
2 1 (3.57%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Teradata