Architect Job Trends in Scotland

Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Architect salary in Scotland is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 67 79
Rank change year-on-year +44 +12 -56
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 174 92 251
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.20% 3.67% 4.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.55% 4.36% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 93 61 138
10th Percentile £70,217 £67,500 £56,425
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,899 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £98,474 £97,875
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 3,137 2,109 5,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 84.02% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,715 937 2,782
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,500 £50,150
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +6.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,750 £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Architect job vacancy trend in Scotland

Architect
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Scotland.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Scotland

Architect
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +23 80 £85,000 +1.94% 19
Glasgow +37 53 £90,000 +12.50% 16
Stirling - 10 - - 1
Fife - 8 - - 6
West Lothian - 7 - -
Lanarkshire +9 5 - - 7
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Inverclyde - 2 £77,500 - 1
Midlothian - 2 - - 5
Renfrewshire - 1 - - 4
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 2026, Architect 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 permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 47 (27.01%) Roadmaps
2 45 (25.86%) Agile
3 38 (21.84%) CI/CD
3 38 (21.84%) DevOps
3 38 (21.84%) REST
4 37 (21.26%) Broadband
4 37 (21.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (21.26%) Salesforce
4 37 (21.26%) SOAP
5 35 (20.11%) Technology Roadmap
6 34 (19.54%) Scrum
6 34 (19.54%) TOGAF
7 33 (18.97%) Apex Code
7 33 (18.97%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 33 (18.97%) Event-Driven
7 33 (18.97%) GitLab
7 33 (18.97%) Jenkins
7 33 (18.97%) Lightning Web Components
8 32 (18.39%) Community of Practice
8 32 (18.39%) Continuous Delivery
8 32 (18.39%) Continuous Integration
8 32 (18.39%) Design Patterns
8 32 (18.39%) OO
8 32 (18.39%) PLM
8 32 (18.39%) SonarQube
8 32 (18.39%) SOQL
8 32 (18.39%) SOSL
8 32 (18.39%) Splunk
8 32 (18.39%) Static Code Analysis
8 32 (18.39%) Technical Analysis

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (0.57%) Apache
1 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Revit
2 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 22 (12.64%) Azure
2 19 (10.92%) AWS
3 18 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
3 18 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.02%) dbt
4 7 (4.02%) Snowflake
5 5 (2.87%) GCP
5 5 (2.87%) Serverless
6 3 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.72%) Apigee
6 3 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.72%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.72%) Zapier
7 2 (1.15%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.15%) IaaS
7 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.15%) PaaS
7 2 (1.15%) SaaS
8 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (21.26%) Broadband
2 3 (1.72%) MQTT
3 2 (1.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.72%) Power BI
3 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.15%) Metadata
3 2 (1.15%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.15%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.57%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (18.97%) GitLab
1 33 (18.97%) Jenkins
2 32 (18.39%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 36 (20.69%) Games
3 33 (18.97%) Marketing
4 18 (10.34%) Finance
5 17 (9.77%) Social Skills
6 12 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.75%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.30%) Banking
9 3 (1.72%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.72%) Automotive
9 3 (1.72%) Legal
9 3 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.84%) REST
2 37 (21.26%) SOAP
3 33 (18.97%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (18.39%) Visualforce
5 4 (2.30%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.72%) LDAP
6 3 (1.72%) OAuth
6 3 (1.72%) OpenID
6 3 (1.72%) SAML
7 2 (1.15%) pgvector
8 1 (0.57%) gRPC
8 1 (0.57%) Kafka
8 1 (0.57%) PySpark
8 1 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.97%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.30%) Replication
4 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (1.72%) Cyberattack
4 3 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.72%) Robotics
5 2 (1.15%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.15%) IoT
5 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.57%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.01%) Roadmaps
2 45 (25.86%) Agile
3 38 (21.84%) CI/CD
3 38 (21.84%) DevOps
4 37 (21.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (20.11%) Technology Roadmap
6 34 (19.54%) Scrum
6 34 (19.54%) TOGAF
7 33 (18.97%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 33 (18.97%) Event-Driven
8 32 (18.39%) Community of Practice
8 32 (18.39%) Continuous Delivery
8 32 (18.39%) Continuous Integration
8 32 (18.39%) Design Patterns
8 32 (18.39%) OO
8 32 (18.39%) PLM
8 32 (18.39%) Static Code Analysis
8 32 (18.39%) Technical Analysis
9 31 (17.82%) AI
10 17 (9.77%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.97%) Apex Code
2 32 (18.39%) SOQL
2 32 (18.39%) SOSL
3 8 (4.60%) Python
4 3 (1.72%) Bash
4 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.72%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.15%) SQL
6 1 (0.57%) C
6 1 (0.57%) C++
6 1 (0.57%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.57%) Embedded C++
6 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.47%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.45%) NIST
3 3 (1.72%) NCSC
3 3 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (21.26%) Salesforce
2 32 (18.39%) Splunk
3 29 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.87%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.30%) Google
6 2 (1.15%) Databricks
6 2 (1.15%) Meraki
7 1 (0.57%) Pega