Architectural Design Jobs in Scotland

Architectural Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 55 196
Rank change year-on-year -91 +141 -19
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 21 435 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.70% 6.40% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 6.99% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 4
10th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £45,879
25th Percentile £52,813 £68,750 £46,431
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £72,500 £59,512
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% +21.82% -20.65%
75th Percentile £101,563 £100,000 £73,550
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,000 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £79,932 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.09% +6.58% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,771 6,222 4,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.71% 91.54% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,316 2,428 2,113
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £39,813 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in Scotland

Architectural Design
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 May 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 +14 10 £97,500 +8.33% 8
Glasgow -9 10 £60,250 -1.63% 8
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
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 4 (19.05%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Stack
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.52%) Collibra
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Dagster
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (4.76%) Prefect
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Big Data
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Tableau
3 1 (4.76%) Data Mart
3 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.76%) Flink
3 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.76%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (4.76%) KDB
3 1 (4.76%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) ERwin
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 8 (38.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (38.10%) Law
4 5 (23.81%) Marketing
5 4 (19.05%) Banking
6 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
7 1 (4.76%) Advertising
7 1 (4.76%) Electronics
7 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.76%) Private Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Lead
2 10 (47.62%) Architect
3 8 (38.10%) Software Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
5 5 (23.81%) Data Architect
6 4 (19.05%) Java Engineer
6 4 (19.05%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (19.05%) Lead Java Engineer
7 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (9.52%) Data Science Leader
8 2 (9.52%) Lead Architect
8 2 (9.52%) Lead Enterprise Architect
8 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
9 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
9 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
9 1 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) Spring
3 3 (14.29%) PySpark
4 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (4.76%) J2EE
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.76%) OpenID
4 1 (4.76%) React
4 1 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) SAML
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Credit Risk
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) Data Architecture
3 8 (38.10%) Information Architecture
3 8 (38.10%) Machine Learning
4 7 (33.33%) Analytics
4 7 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) Operational Stability
5 6 (28.57%) Community of Practice
5 6 (28.57%) Data Management
5 6 (28.57%) SDLC
5 6 (28.57%) TOGAF
6 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
7 4 (19.05%) Adaptive Web Design
7 4 (19.05%) ArchiMate
7 4 (19.05%) Architecture Roadmap
7 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
7 4 (19.05%) Data Science
7 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Java
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) C
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) Go
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) ECSS
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Informatica
3 1 (4.76%) Facebook
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Murex
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) SAP