Lead Architect Jobs in Scotland

Lead Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Lead Architect salary in Scotland is £79,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 215 247
Rank change year-on-year -45 +32 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 27 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.40% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.28% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 2
10th Percentile £62,200 £64,850 £43,975
25th Percentile £68,500 £65,758 £45,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £92,169 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +76.40% -47.09%
75th Percentile £89,500 £97,290 £60,313
90th Percentile £95,800 £119,200 £63,125
UK median annual salary £79,932 £92,169 £90,000
% change year-on-year -13.28% +2.41% +5.88%

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 6,492 4,293 5,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.85% 90.28% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,331 2,944
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,058
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 £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Scotland

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Scotland

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Scotland

Lead 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 Lead Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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 -92 20 £58,000 -16.91% 2
Edinburgh +38 4 - -
Aberdeen - 1 £100,000 -
Lead Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Lead 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 Lead Architect in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (74.07%) SDLC
3 17 (62.96%) Public Cloud
3 17 (62.96%) AWS
4 15 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (55.56%) Finance
4 15 (55.56%) Law
4 15 (55.56%) Machine Learning
4 15 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (44.44%) Agile
5 12 (44.44%) Marketing
5 12 (44.44%) Decision-Making
6 11 (40.74%) Oracle
7 9 (33.33%) Scrum
7 9 (33.33%) Wealth Management
7 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 9 (33.33%) Operational Stability
8 8 (29.63%) ArchiMate
8 8 (29.63%) Oracle Database
8 8 (29.63%) Relational Database
8 8 (29.63%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (29.63%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (29.63%) AWS Certification
8 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
8 8 (29.63%) Re-Platforming
8 8 (29.63%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (29.63%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (29.63%) Cloud Operations
8 8 (29.63%) Sparx
8 8 (29.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect

Lead 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 (29.63%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (62.96%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (29.63%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 6 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) BGP
1 8 (29.63%) DNS
1 8 (29.63%) SSL
1 8 (29.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (29.63%) Oracle Database
1 8 (29.63%) RDBMS
1 8 (29.63%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.41%) Metadata
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
General
1 15 (55.56%) Finance
1 15 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 15 (55.56%) Law
2 12 (44.44%) Marketing
3 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Games
5 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Private Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
2 6 (22.22%) OAuth
2 6 (22.22%) SAML
3 3 (11.11%) .NET
4 2 (7.41%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (62.96%) Public Cloud
2 8 (29.63%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
1 8 (29.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) SDLC
2 15 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (55.56%) Machine Learning
3 12 (44.44%) Agile
3 12 (44.44%) Decision-Making
4 9 (33.33%) Operational Stability
4 9 (33.33%) Scrum
4 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 9 (33.33%) Wealth Management
5 8 (29.63%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (29.63%) Cloud Operations
5 8 (29.63%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (29.63%) Data Migration
5 8 (29.63%) Kanban
5 8 (29.63%) Load Balancing
5 8 (29.63%) Migration
5 8 (29.63%) Open Source
5 8 (29.63%) Project Management
5 8 (29.63%) Re-Platforming
5 8 (29.63%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) C#
1 3 (11.11%) Java
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) AWS Certification
1 8 (29.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 8 (29.63%) Azure Certification
1 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (22.22%) CISM
2 6 (22.22%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) NIST
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) Sparx
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce