Architect Jobs in Scotland

Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Architect salary in Scotland is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 51 7
Rank change year-on-year -32 -44 +53
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 95 371 628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.91% 6.00% 15.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.54% 6.18% 17.35%
Number of salaries quoted 64 136 97
10th Percentile £68,250 £56,250 £56,219
25th Percentile £72,899 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +6.27% -8.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £98,125 £90,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,687 6,002 3,620
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.20% 97.10% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,282 2,727 2,065
10th Percentile £26,968 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.66% -12.42% -

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in Scotland.

Salary trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

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 19 July 2025. 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 -19 54 £80,882 +7.84% 31
Glasgow -2 27 £80,000 +6.67% 25
Lanarkshire -6 4 £80,000 +14.29% 5
Aberdeen +32 2 - - 5
Fife +3 2 £85,700 +114.25% 2
Moray - 2 £85,700 -
East Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 19 July 2025, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 34 (35.79%) Agile
2 31 (32.63%) Mentoring
3 29 (30.53%) Finance
4 26 (27.37%) Azure
5 25 (26.32%) Roadmaps
6 24 (25.26%) GCP
7 22 (23.16%) Microsoft
8 21 (22.11%) Banking
9 19 (20.00%) Data Architecture
9 19 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (18.95%) Analytics
11 17 (17.89%) DevOps
11 17 (17.89%) TOGAF
12 15 (15.79%) C++
12 15 (15.79%) Microservices
13 14 (14.74%) Architectural Patterns
13 14 (14.74%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (14.74%) Social Skills
13 14 (14.74%) CSS
14 13 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (13.68%) Kubernetes
15 12 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (12.63%) Software Engineering
16 11 (11.58%) Data Analytics
17 10 (10.53%) React
17 10 (10.53%) Private Cloud
17 10 (10.53%) OpenShift
17 10 (10.53%) Web Development
17 10 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
17 10 (10.53%) AWS

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.47%) Umbraco
2 3 (3.16%) nginx
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.37%) Azure
2 24 (25.26%) GCP
3 10 (10.53%) AWS
3 10 (10.53%) OpenShift
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.11%) Collibra
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.11%) Serverless
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.05%) IaaS
7 1 (1.05%) PaaS
7 1 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.32%) Network Security
2 3 (3.16%) DNS
2 3 (3.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.05%) BGP
3 1 (1.05%) Firewall
3 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.47%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.16%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.16%) Metadata
3 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.11%) Power BI
3 2 (2.11%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.16%) GitLab
3 2 (2.11%) ERwin
3 2 (2.11%) Git
4 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (30.53%) Finance
2 21 (22.11%) Banking
3 14 (14.74%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.11%) Legal
4 2 (2.11%) Retail
5 1 (1.05%) Advertising
5 1 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.05%) Law
5 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) CSS
2 10 (10.53%) OAuth
2 10 (10.53%) OpenID
2 10 (10.53%) React
2 10 (10.53%) SAML
3 9 (9.47%) Ajax
3 9 (9.47%) jQuery
4 8 (8.42%) .NET
4 8 (8.42%) Middleware
5 5 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 5 (5.26%) HTML
6 2 (2.11%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.11%) Spring
6 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.05%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.05%) LDAP
7 1 (1.05%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.05%) PySpark
7 1 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) Private Cloud
2 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.21%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.11%) IVR
4 2 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.11%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) IoT
5 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.05%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.79%) Agile
2 31 (32.63%) Mentoring
3 25 (26.32%) Roadmaps
4 19 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 18 (18.95%) Analytics
6 17 (17.89%) DevOps
6 17 (17.89%) TOGAF
7 15 (15.79%) Microservices
8 14 (14.74%) Architectural Patterns
8 14 (14.74%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (12.63%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.58%) Data Analytics
12 10 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
12 10 (10.53%) UML
12 10 (10.53%) Web Development
13 9 (9.47%) Content Management
13 9 (9.47%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.79%) C++
2 10 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 10 (10.53%) SQL
3 9 (9.47%) Java
4 7 (7.37%) C#
5 5 (5.26%) C
6 3 (3.16%) Python
7 2 (2.11%) ABAP
8 1 (1.05%) Groovy
8 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.47%) BPSS Clearance
1 9 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) Chartered Engineer
2 8 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (8.42%) Degree
3 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) CCNP
4 4 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.16%) CCNA
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) NCSC
3 2 (2.11%) NIST
3 2 (2.11%) QA
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Firmware
2 9 (9.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.47%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.21%) Terraform
4 1 (1.05%) CASB
4 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (23.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.37%) Google
3 5 (5.26%) SAP
4 3 (3.16%) Databricks
4 3 (3.16%) F5
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
4 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.16%) Workday
5 2 (2.11%) Informatica
5 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.05%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.05%) Pega
6 1 (1.05%) Ping Identity