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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 67 73
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 1 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.13% 0.70% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.79% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £575 -
25th Percentile - £650 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £750 £563
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £775 £569
90th Percentile - £790 -
Scotland median daily rate £540 £750 £554
% change year-on-year -28.00% +35.44% -19.16%

All Process and 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 672 633 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.54% 89.15% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 412 509
10th Percentile £300 £279 £344
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 19
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £27.64
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £19.18
% change year-on-year -8.24% +13.63% +2.29%

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 (100.00%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle