Architect Contracts in Glasgow

Architect
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Architect daily rate in Glasgow is £646, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 43 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 43 25 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.65% 3.25% 6.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.91% 3.43% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 33
10th Percentile £414 £508 £500
25th Percentile £531 £569 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £646 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% +4.17% +3.00%
75th Percentile £711 £699 £700
90th Percentile £749 £745 £738
Scotland median daily rate £625 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Scotland median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.58%

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 728 728 847
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.66% 94.67% 95.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 503 586
10th Percentile £300 £250 £328
25th Percentile £363 £356 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year - -7.93% +8.61%
75th Percentile £549 £560 £575
90th Percentile £600 £622 £676
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 24
10th Percentile - £11.68 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £13.15
Median hourly rate £19.97 £40.94 £16.11
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% +154.13% -56.96%
75th Percentile £26.21 £57.50 £38.18
90th Percentile £60.50 £72.50 £60.01
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £18.79 £18.72
% change year-on-year +6.28% +0.40% -50.00%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 (55.81%) Finance
2 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
3 20 (46.51%) Azure
4 17 (39.53%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (37.21%) Enterprise Architecture
6 14 (32.56%) AWS
6 14 (32.56%) Agile
7 11 (25.58%) Data Security
7 11 (25.58%) Architectural Patterns
8 10 (23.26%) Azure Certification
8 10 (23.26%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (23.26%) ServiceNow
8 10 (23.26%) AWS Certification
8 10 (23.26%) Banking
8 10 (23.26%) ITIL
8 10 (23.26%) Data Modelling
8 10 (23.26%) TOGAF
9 9 (20.93%) ITSM
9 9 (20.93%) Cloud Native
10 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven
10 8 (18.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (16.28%) DevOps
12 6 (13.95%) Community of Practice
12 6 (13.95%) Critical Thinking
12 6 (13.95%) RBAC
12 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
12 6 (13.95%) Data Analysis
12 6 (13.95%) Wealth Management
12 6 (13.95%) 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 5 (11.63%) SAS
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Finacle
1 2 (4.65%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) Azure
2 14 (32.56%) AWS
3 6 (13.95%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (11.63%) SaaS
5 3 (6.98%) PaaS
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) IaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) FTP
1 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.65%) Power BI
3 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) Mockito
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.33%) Toad
General
1 24 (55.81%) Finance
2 21 (48.84%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Banking
4 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.63%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.65%) Private Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Back Office
8 1 (2.33%) Front Office
8 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Legal
8 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.33%) Publishing
8 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) Spring
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Camel
2 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.33%) JMS
2 1 (2.33%) JWT
2 1 (2.33%) Middleware
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth
2 1 (2.33%) OpenID
2 1 (2.33%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) SAML
2 1 (2.33%) Spring Batch
2 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (20.93%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.30%) CMDB
3 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.65%) Derivative
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (37.21%) Enterprise Architecture
3 14 (32.56%) Agile
4 11 (25.58%) Architectural Patterns
4 11 (25.58%) Data Security
5 10 (23.26%) Data Modelling
5 10 (23.26%) ITIL
5 10 (23.26%) TOGAF
6 9 (20.93%) ITSM
7 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven
8 7 (16.28%) DevOps
9 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
9 6 (13.95%) Community of Practice
9 6 (13.95%) Critical Thinking
9 6 (13.95%) Data Analysis
9 6 (13.95%) RBAC
9 6 (13.95%) Wealth Management
10 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (11.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) Java
2 4 (9.30%) Python
2 4 (9.30%) SQL
3 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) AWS Certification
1 10 (23.26%) Azure Certification
2 8 (18.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (9.30%) CISM
3 4 (9.30%) CISSP
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) GRC
3 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.33%) GDPR
4 1 (2.33%) NIST
4 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) ServiceNow
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Databricks
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.98%) Qualys
5 2 (4.65%) Autodesk
5 2 (4.65%) Avaloq
5 2 (4.65%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.65%) Temenos
6 1 (2.33%) Ariba
6 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.33%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) Okta
6 1 (2.33%) Sybase
6 1 (2.33%) Talend