Data Architect Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Architect
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Data Architect daily rate in Glasgow is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 74 58
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 11 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.47% 0.14% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 0.16% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 13
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.08%
75th Percentile £521 - £638
90th Percentile £551 - £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -24.54%

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 702 643 814
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 90.06% 96.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 441 556
10th Percentile £240 £244 £325
25th Percentile £363 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £587
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 15
10th Percentile £16.84 £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.07 £12.19
Median hourly rate £24.09 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.97% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £37.70 £29.34 £18.24
90th Percentile £57.50 £43.42 £45.07
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £18.38 £19.06
% change year-on-year +31.10% -3.57% +7.53%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Glasgow

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in Glasgow

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) AWS
1 8 (72.73%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
1 8 (72.73%) Migration
1 8 (72.73%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (72.73%) Python
1 8 (72.73%) Serverless
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
2 6 (54.55%) Data Security
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) AI
3 5 (45.45%) Ansible
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Cost Management
3 5 (45.45%) Design Patterns
3 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (45.45%) Greenplum
3 5 (45.45%) High Availability
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) Machine Learning
3 5 (45.45%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (45.45%) Snowflake
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification

Data Architect Skill Set
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 2 (18.18%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
1 8 (72.73%) Serverless
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) Snowflake
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (72.73%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
1 5 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
1 8 (72.73%) Migration
2 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
2 6 (54.55%) Data Security
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) AI
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Cost Management
3 5 (45.45%) Design Patterns
3 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (45.45%) High Availability
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) Machine Learning
3 5 (45.45%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Greenplum
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft