Principal Architect Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Principal Architect
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Principal Architect daily rate in Glasgow is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Architect 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.68% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £669 - -
90th Percentile £718 - -
Scotland median daily rate £575 £700 -
% change year-on-year -17.86% - -

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 689 677 841
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 90.15% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 450 571
10th Percentile £244 £258 £325
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -11.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £488
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £21.06 £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £22.39 £16.75 £14.63
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +11.24% +17.40%
75th Percentile £37.70 £24.18 £19.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £37.70 £41.00
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £22.55 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.85% +12.73% +12.87%

Principal Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Principal Architect job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Principal Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Architect in Glasgow over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Architect in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Principal 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 Principal Architect in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Avaya
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) Genesys
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) HIPAA

Principal 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) IVR
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (40.00%) Avaya
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Genesys
2 2 (40.00%) Pega
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow