Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Architectural Design
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 82 80
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 8 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.14% 0.60% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.64% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £539 £467 -
25th Percentile £578 £489 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £528 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% -18.85% +10.54%
75th Percentile £609 £564 £675
90th Percentile £626 £586 -
Scotland median daily rate £600 £549 £600
% change year-on-year +9.39% -8.58% +13.74%

All Process & 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 577 781 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.08% 93.76% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 498 542
10th Percentile £306 £305 £313
25th Percentile £375 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £482
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.37%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £606 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £455 £480
% change year-on-year -1.10% -5.21% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 40
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +9.64% +69.02%
75th Percentile £46.61 £67.56 £44.14
90th Percentile £54.00 £77.63 £63.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +18.18%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Vault
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
1 2 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aviation
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) JPA
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow