Senior Architect Jobs in Scotland

Senior Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Architect salary in Scotland is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 183 213
Rank change year-on-year -54 +30 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 46 36 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.76% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.85% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 1
10th Percentile - £65,700 -
25th Percentile - £75,538 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £125,000 £98,250 £68,750
90th Percentile - £105,000 -
UK median annual salary £74,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -12.94% -2.86% +9.38%

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 6,525 4,242 5,553
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 90.10% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,619 2,305 2,995
10th Percentile £27,950 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Scotland

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in Scotland

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in Scotland

Senior 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 Senior Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 -75 39 £80,000 +21.21% 1
Edinburgh +24 7 £120,000 +41.18% 2
Senior Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Architect in the job title.

1 32 (69.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 30 (65.22%) Finance
2 30 (65.22%) Law
3 29 (63.04%) Marketing
4 24 (52.17%) Operational Stability
5 23 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
6 22 (47.83%) Cloud Native
7 20 (43.48%) Azure
8 19 (41.30%) Business Strategy
9 17 (36.96%) Data Architecture
9 17 (36.96%) Roadmaps
10 13 (28.26%) Machine Learning
10 13 (28.26%) Artificial Intelligence
10 13 (28.26%) AWS
11 12 (26.09%) Decision-Making
11 12 (26.09%) SDLC
12 11 (23.91%) Agile
13 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
13 7 (15.22%) Wealth Management
13 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
13 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (15.22%) Public Cloud
14 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
14 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (13.04%) Threat Modelling
14 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
14 6 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
14 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (13.04%) Tech Ops
14 6 (13.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Senior 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 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 20 (43.48%) Azure
2 13 (28.26%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.35%) OCI
5 1 (2.17%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) Big Data
2 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
General
1 32 (69.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 30 (65.22%) Finance
2 30 (65.22%) Law
3 29 (63.04%) Marketing
4 6 (13.04%) Games
5 4 (8.70%) Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Police
6 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) OAuth
1 6 (13.04%) SAML
2 1 (2.17%) .NET
2 1 (2.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 22 (47.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (15.22%) Public Cloud
3 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) Operational Stability
2 23 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
3 19 (41.30%) Business Strategy
4 17 (36.96%) Data Architecture
4 17 (36.96%) Roadmaps
5 13 (28.26%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (28.26%) Machine Learning
6 12 (26.09%) Decision-Making
6 12 (26.09%) SDLC
7 11 (23.91%) Agile
8 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
8 7 (15.22%) Wealth Management
9 6 (13.04%) Application Security
9 6 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (13.04%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.04%) Software Architecture
9 6 (13.04%) Tech Ops
9 6 (13.04%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (2.17%) C#
2 1 (2.17%) C++
2 1 (2.17%) Python
2 1 (2.17%) R
2 1 (2.17%) Scala
2 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 6 (13.04%) CISM
1 6 (13.04%) CISSP
2 4 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) Databricks
3 1 (2.17%) Teradata