Architectural Design Job Trends in Glasgow

Architectural Design
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 61 43
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 +67
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 6 4 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.82% 0.63% 9.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.68% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile - £55,325 -
25th Percentile £85,000 £57,688 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £76,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £92,778
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +37.45%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 565 592 1,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 76.77% 93.67% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 352 259 584
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £40,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,805 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -13.04%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Architectural Design.

Salary 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
1 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
General
1 4 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Police
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) Next.js
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Data Design
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Business Case
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Server Building
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAI