Architectural Design Contracts in Glasgow

Architectural Design
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 80 71
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 0
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 5 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.63% 0.23% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.25% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £467 - £412
25th Percentile £489 £675 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £700 £594
Median % change year-on-year -24.64% +17.93% +31.91%
75th Percentile £564 £725 £618
90th Percentile £586 - £624
Scotland median daily rate £588 £600 £553
% change year-on-year -2.08% +8.45% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Scotland median hourly rate £45.02 - £55.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in Glasgow

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in Glasgow

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Glasgow

Architectural Design
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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) JMS
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) Matrix Management
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Sybase
3 1 (20.00%) VMware