Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Technical Architecture
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 80 76
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.29% 0.49% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.52% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £335 £523
25th Percentile - £361 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £404 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -29.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile - £490 £613
90th Percentile - £541 £628
Scotland median daily rate £600 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +26.45% -27.00% +13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Technical Architecture 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 578 766 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.69% 93.19% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 484 539
10th Percentile £306 £308 £324
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.32%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £613 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 35
10th Percentile £14.79 £16.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.83 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +10.17% +49.19%
75th Percentile £48.30 £53.75 £40.94
90th Percentile £58.35 £75.24 £68.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +10.05%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Technical Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture
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 (50.00%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) VMware