Architect Contracts in Glasgow

Architect
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Architect daily rate in Glasgow is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 46 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 47 36 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.89% 4.10% 6.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.18% 4.32% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 36 37
10th Percentile £448 £490 £550
25th Percentile £569 £569 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £711 £694 £713
90th Percentile £745 £714 £743
Scotland median daily rate £625 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Scotland median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 761 833 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.36% 94.98% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 548 646
10th Percentile £308 £268 £313
25th Percentile £379 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £590
90th Percentile £600 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 39 16
10th Percentile £16.75 £13.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £13.97
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -15.63% +12.55%
75th Percentile £46.38 £47.35 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.10 £65.00 £63.56
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Glasgow

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Architect in Glasgow

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Glasgow

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Architect contract 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 contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 24 (51.06%) Finance
1 24 (51.06%) Azure
1 24 (51.06%) Social Skills
2 18 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (34.04%) AWS
4 14 (29.79%) Enterprise Architecture
4 14 (29.79%) Agile
5 12 (25.53%) Banking
6 11 (23.40%) Data Security
6 11 (23.40%) AWS Certification
6 11 (23.40%) Architectural Patterns
7 10 (21.28%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (21.28%) Azure Certification
7 10 (21.28%) TOGAF
8 9 (19.15%) ServiceNow
8 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
9 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (17.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (17.02%) Event-Driven
9 8 (17.02%) Data Modelling
10 7 (14.89%) ITIL
10 7 (14.89%) ITSM
10 7 (14.89%) Waterfall
10 7 (14.89%) DevOps
11 6 (12.77%) Microservices
11 6 (12.77%) Critical Thinking
11 6 (12.77%) Community of Practice
11 6 (12.77%) RBAC
11 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
11 6 (12.77%) Cloud Computing

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (6.38%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Finacle
1 2 (4.26%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 24 (51.06%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) AWS
3 6 (12.77%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (8.51%) SaaS
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.38%) Serverless
6 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) GCP
6 2 (4.26%) PaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub
7 1 (2.13%) IaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) FTP
1 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Git
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
1 1 (2.13%) Mockito
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (2.13%) Toad
General
1 24 (51.06%) Finance
1 24 (51.06%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Banking
3 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.26%) Private Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.13%) Back Office
7 1 (2.13%) Front Office
7 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Publishing
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) AWS CDK
2 2 (4.26%) Middleware
2 2 (4.26%) Spring
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Camel
3 1 (2.13%) JMS
3 1 (2.13%) JWT
3 1 (2.13%) OAuth
3 1 (2.13%) OpenID
3 1 (2.13%) PySpark
3 1 (2.13%) REST
3 1 (2.13%) SAML
3 1 (2.13%) Spring Batch
3 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.51%) CMDB
3 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.26%) Derivative
5 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (29.79%) Agile
2 14 (29.79%) Enterprise Architecture
3 11 (23.40%) Architectural Patterns
3 11 (23.40%) Data Security
4 10 (21.28%) TOGAF
5 8 (17.02%) Data Modelling
5 8 (17.02%) Event-Driven
6 7 (14.89%) DevOps
6 7 (14.89%) ITIL
6 7 (14.89%) ITSM
6 7 (14.89%) Waterfall
7 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
7 6 (12.77%) Community of Practice
7 6 (12.77%) Critical Thinking
7 6 (12.77%) Microservices
7 6 (12.77%) RBAC
7 6 (12.77%) Wealth Management
8 5 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (10.64%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) Java
1 5 (10.64%) Python
1 5 (10.64%) SQL
2 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) AWS Certification
2 10 (21.28%) Azure Certification
3 8 (17.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.51%) CISM
4 4 (8.51%) CISSP
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Degree
6 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) GRC
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) ServiceNow
2 5 (10.64%) Oracle
3 4 (8.51%) Databricks
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.38%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.38%) Qualys
5 2 (4.26%) Autodesk
5 2 (4.26%) Avaloq
5 2 (4.26%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.26%) Temenos
6 1 (2.13%) Ariba
6 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) Okta
6 1 (2.13%) Sybase
6 1 (2.13%) Talend