Architect Jobs in Scotland

Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Architect salary in Scotland is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 21 51
Rank change year-on-year -47 +30 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 371 476 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.51% 10.08% 5.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.69% 11.18% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 133 109 116
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,184 £65,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +1.29% +14.81%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £97,290 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,524 4,257 5,514
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.87% 90.19% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 2,312 2,970
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,569 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,658
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,550 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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
Glasgow -61 222 £80,000 +14.29% 14
Edinburgh -2 140 £72,500 +4.40% 27
South Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 - 2
Fife -9 1 £40,000 -55.56%
Aberdeen -16 1 £100,000 - 1
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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.

1 129 (34.77%) Actionable Insight
2 119 (32.08%) TOGAF
3 108 (29.11%) Finance
4 92 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (24.26%) AWS
6 86 (23.18%) Azure
7 81 (21.83%) Technical Architecture
7 81 (21.83%) Cloud Native
8 75 (20.22%) Law
9 74 (19.95%) Roadmaps
10 73 (19.68%) Agile
11 71 (19.14%) Validation
11 71 (19.14%) Network Management
11 71 (19.14%) Model Validation
12 69 (18.60%) Network Architecture
12 69 (18.60%) Marketing
12 69 (18.60%) Requirements Management
12 69 (18.60%) VSAT
13 68 (18.33%) Software Engineering
14 66 (17.79%) Operational Stability
15 61 (16.44%) Data Architecture
16 52 (14.02%) Banking
16 52 (14.02%) Migration
16 52 (14.02%) Social Skills
17 51 (13.75%) Architecture Governance
17 51 (13.75%) Security Cleared
18 48 (12.94%) Presales
19 47 (12.67%) Java
20 46 (12.40%) Scrum
21 44 (11.86%) Mentoring

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 8 (2.16%) WebLogic
2 4 (1.08%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Simulink
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 90 (24.26%) AWS
2 86 (23.18%) Azure
3 32 (8.63%) GCP
4 29 (7.82%) SaaS
5 26 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.31%) IaaS
6 16 (4.31%) PaaS
7 13 (3.50%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.08%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.81%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.81%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.54%) dbt
13 2 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 69 (18.60%) VSAT
2 9 (2.43%) DNS
3 8 (2.16%) BGP
3 8 (2.16%) SSL
3 8 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.89%) Firewall
5 4 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.81%) Network Security
6 3 (0.81%) VPN
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.47%) Big Data
2 17 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (2.43%) RDBMS
6 8 (2.16%) Oracle Database
7 6 (1.62%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.35%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.81%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.81%) Metadata
10 2 (0.54%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.54%) Power BI
10 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.54%) Tableau
11 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.23%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.08%) Maven
3 1 (0.27%) GitLab
3 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 108 (29.11%) Finance
2 92 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 75 (20.22%) Law
4 69 (18.60%) Marketing
5 52 (14.02%) Banking
5 52 (14.02%) Social Skills
6 19 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (4.58%) Legal
7 17 (4.58%) Retail Banking
8 15 (4.04%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.62%) Games
11 5 (1.35%) Automotive
12 4 (1.08%) Retail
13 3 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.81%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.12%) Spring Boot
2 18 (4.85%) Kafka
3 17 (4.58%) .NET
4 12 (3.23%) .NET Framework
4 12 (3.23%) Spring
5 9 (2.43%) OAuth
5 9 (2.43%) SAML
6 8 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.62%) JSON
7 6 (1.62%) OpenID
7 6 (1.62%) Web Services
7 6 (1.62%) XML
8 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.08%) Java EE
8 4 (1.08%) REST
9 2 (0.54%) CSS
9 2 (0.54%) Django
9 2 (0.54%) Node.js
9 2 (0.54%) React
9 2 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 81 (21.83%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.32%) Public Cloud
3 33 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 28 (7.55%) Credit Risk
5 14 (3.77%) PKI
6 13 (3.50%) Blockchain
7 9 (2.43%) Robotics
8 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.89%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.35%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.08%) IoT
13 3 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.81%) Operational Technology
14 2 (0.54%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
14 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.12%) Linux
2 9 (2.43%) Windows
3 8 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.08%) Mesosphere
4 4 (1.08%) Unix
5 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (34.77%) Actionable Insight
2 119 (32.08%) TOGAF
3 81 (21.83%) Technical Architecture
4 74 (19.95%) Roadmaps
5 73 (19.68%) Agile
6 71 (19.14%) Model Validation
6 71 (19.14%) Network Management
6 71 (19.14%) Validation
7 69 (18.60%) Network Architecture
7 69 (18.60%) Requirements Management
8 68 (18.33%) Software Engineering
9 66 (17.79%) Operational Stability
10 61 (16.44%) Data Architecture
11 52 (14.02%) Migration
12 51 (13.75%) Architecture Governance
13 48 (12.94%) Presales
14 46 (12.40%) Scrum
15 44 (11.86%) Mentoring
16 42 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence
16 42 (11.32%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 47 (12.67%) Java
2 36 (9.70%) Python
3 17 (4.58%) C++
4 16 (4.31%) C#
5 14 (3.77%) SQL
6 10 (2.70%) C
7 8 (2.16%) Embedded C
8 6 (1.62%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.35%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.27%) R
11 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.12%) Degree
4 17 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.50%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.23%) CISSP
7 10 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.62%) CISM
8 6 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.35%) CCNA
10 4 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.08%) CISA
10 4 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.08%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.81%) PhD
12 2 (0.54%) CCSP
12 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.16%) NIST
2 6 (1.62%) COBIT
2 6 (1.62%) SEPA
3 5 (1.35%) QA
4 4 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (5.39%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.27%) KVM
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.62%) OpenView
2 6 (1.62%) Terraform
3 5 (1.35%) Ansible
4 4 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.08%) Puppet
5 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.12%) Google
3 14 (3.77%) Oracle
4 10 (2.70%) Sparx
5 8 (2.16%) Cisco
6 7 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.62%) BMC
7 6 (1.62%) HP
7 6 (1.62%) Remedy
8 5 (1.35%) VMware
9 3 (0.81%) ANSYS
9 3 (0.81%) Citrix
9 3 (0.81%) Databricks
9 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.54%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.54%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.27%) Barracuda Networks
11 1 (0.27%) ForeScout
11 1 (0.27%) Meraki
11 1 (0.27%) Teradata