Technical Architecture Jobs in Scotland

Technical Architecture
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 201 155
Rank change year-on-year +74 -46 +61
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 23 85 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 1.26% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.36% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 16
10th Percentile - - £38,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £51,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £80,200 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -43.89% +34.73% -14.96%
75th Percentile £55,625 £92,813 £75,313
90th Percentile £70,250 £97,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% -3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Technical 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 2,642 6,252 4,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.25% 92.81% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,422 2,244
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,321
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £83,074 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in Scotland

Technical Architecture
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Technical Architecture in Scotland

Technical Architecture
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Architecture in Scotland

Technical 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 Technical Architecture within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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 -8 18 £80,000 -5.88% 7
Aberdeen - 2 £45,000 - 1
Glasgow +144 1 - - 5
Aberdeenshire - 1 £45,000 - 1
Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Technical Architecture
UK

Technical 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
3 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Apigee
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Data Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (4.35%) Head of Payments
5 1 (4.35%) Head of Technology
5 1 (4.35%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.35%) CSS
1 1 (4.35%) LDAP
1 1 (4.35%) OAuth
1 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.35%) OpenID
1 1 (4.35%) React
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) SAML
1 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.70%) IVR
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) DataPower
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Agile
2 16 (69.57%) Roadmaps
3 14 (60.87%) Adaptive Web Design
4 13 (56.52%) ArchiMate
4 13 (56.52%) TOGAF
5 11 (47.83%) Architecture Roadmap
6 10 (43.48%) Systems Engineering
7 8 (34.78%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (21.74%) Data Architecture
8 5 (21.74%) Data Management
8 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (17.39%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
9 4 (17.39%) DevOps
9 4 (17.39%) Microservices
9 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
10 3 (13.04%) Business Strategy
10 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
10 3 (13.04%) Data Design
10 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Groovy
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) NDS
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.35%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Ariba
1 3 (13.04%) Ping Identity
1 3 (13.04%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) NetIQ
2 1 (4.35%) Okta
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle