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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 192 212
Rank change year-on-year -61 +20 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 30 28 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.45% 0.59% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.66% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 8
10th Percentile - - £42,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £54,250 £53,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% +1.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 £82,000 -
90th Percentile £93,875 £121,300 £71,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 4,238 5,555
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 90.06% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,619 2,303 2,990
10th Percentile £27,950 £31,569 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +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%

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 5 May 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 5 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 -89 20 £82,500 +41.03% 1
Edinburgh +39 7 £72,500 -31.92% 3
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 5 May 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 28 (93.33%) Data Architecture
2 19 (63.33%) Roadmaps
3 18 (60.00%) Finance
4 17 (56.67%) Law
4 17 (56.67%) Marketing
4 17 (56.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (56.67%) Business Strategy
4 17 (56.67%) Cloud Native
4 17 (56.67%) Operational Stability
4 17 (56.67%) Architecture Governance
5 13 (43.33%) Data Modelling
6 10 (33.33%) SQL
7 8 (26.67%) Azure
8 7 (23.33%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (20.00%) MongoDB
9 6 (20.00%) Analytics
10 5 (16.67%) Data Analytics
10 5 (16.67%) Data Management
10 5 (16.67%) Retail Banking
10 5 (16.67%) Architectural Design
10 5 (16.67%) Data Science
11 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
11 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (13.33%) Oracle
11 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
11 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
11 4 (13.33%) AWS
12 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
12 3 (10.00%) Kafka
12 3 (10.00%) DevOps

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 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (10.00%) Metadata
5 2 (6.67%) Data Vault
5 2 (6.67%) Power BI
5 2 (6.67%) Tableau
6 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.33%) Big Data
6 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (60.00%) Finance
2 17 (56.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (56.67%) Law
2 17 (56.67%) Marketing
3 5 (16.67%) Retail Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Data Architecture
2 19 (63.33%) Roadmaps
3 17 (56.67%) Architecture Governance
3 17 (56.67%) Business Strategy
3 17 (56.67%) Operational Stability
4 13 (43.33%) Data Modelling
5 6 (20.00%) Analytics
6 5 (16.67%) Architectural Design
6 5 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 5 (16.67%) Data Management
6 5 (16.67%) Data Science
7 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
8 3 (10.00%) DevOps
8 3 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
8 3 (10.00%) TOGAF
9 2 (6.67%) Data Engineering
9 2 (6.67%) Kimball Methodology
9 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (6.67%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) C++
2 1 (3.33%) Java
2 1 (3.33%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) R
2 1 (3.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Teradata