Software Architecture Jobs in Scotland

Software Architecture
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Software Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 234 202
Rank change year-on-year +116 -32 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 31 49 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.11% 0.73% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.78% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 31 16 4
10th Percentile £51,250 - -
25th Percentile £60,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,038 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -7.95% +30.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,433 £93,125
90th Percentile - £81,000 £103,250
UK median annual salary £68,750 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +1.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software Architecture 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 2,584 6,258 4,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.12% 92.83% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,340 2,424 2,253
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,490
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £83,739 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in Scotland

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Architecture in Scotland

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in Scotland

Software Architecture
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Lanarkshire - 17 £66,000 -
Glasgow +149 6 £71,250 +5.56% 3
Edinburgh +9 5 £80,000 +13.35% 7
Dundee - 2 £52,500 -
Fife - 1 £45,000 - 1
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) AWS
1 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) GCP
2 4 (12.90%) SaaS
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) Modbus
1 9 (29.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 11 (35.48%) Finance
2 2 (6.45%) Games
3 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (67.74%) Senior
2 10 (32.26%) Architect
2 10 (32.26%) Senior Architect
2 10 (32.26%) Senior Software Architect
2 10 (32.26%) Senior Systems Architect
2 10 (32.26%) Software Architect
2 10 (32.26%) Systems Architect
3 9 (29.03%) Embedded Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Firmware Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Senior Firmware Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.45%) Principal Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (51.61%) .NET
2 13 (41.94%) .NET Framework
3 12 (38.71%) CSS
3 12 (38.71%) HTML
4 8 (25.81%) React
5 3 (9.68%) ASP.NET
5 3 (9.68%) Spring
5 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (6.45%) Java EE
6 2 (6.45%) Kafka
6 2 (6.45%) Vue
7 1 (3.23%) Blazor
7 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
7 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
7 1 (3.23%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Device Driver
1 9 (29.03%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Embedded Linux
1 9 (29.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Agile
2 19 (61.29%) Multithreading
3 17 (54.84%) Software Engineering
4 13 (41.94%) Mentoring
5 12 (38.71%) Microservices
6 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
7 10 (32.26%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (32.26%) OO
7 10 (32.26%) SOA
8 9 (29.03%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (29.03%) Continuous Deployment
9 7 (22.58%) DevOps
10 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (9.68%) Coaching
11 3 (9.68%) MVC
11 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
11 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
12 2 (6.45%) Design Patterns
12 2 (6.45%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) C
1 19 (61.29%) C++
2 15 (48.39%) C#
2 15 (48.39%) Java
3 12 (38.71%) SQL
4 7 (22.58%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Embedded Firmware
1 9 (29.03%) Firmware
2 5 (16.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes