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 leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 173 228
Rank change year-on-year -60 +55 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 49 42 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.72% 0.98% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.09% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 2
10th Percentile £77,000 £66,300 £58,000
25th Percentile - £78,217 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile - £87,419 £78,125
90th Percentile £125,000 £97,968 £80,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 6,634 3,842 6,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.72% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 2,088 3,091
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -73 40 £80,000 +21.21%
Edinburgh +8 6 £120,000 +41.18% 3
Aberdeen - 1 - - 1
Perthshire - 1 £80,000 - 1
Senior Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 31 (63.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 30 (61.22%) Finance
3 29 (59.18%) Law
3 29 (59.18%) Marketing
4 23 (46.94%) Architecture Governance
4 23 (46.94%) Operational Stability
5 20 (40.82%) Data Architecture
5 20 (40.82%) Business Strategy
6 18 (36.73%) Azure
7 17 (34.69%) Roadmaps
7 17 (34.69%) Cloud Native
8 14 (28.57%) Decision-Making
9 12 (24.49%) SDLC
9 12 (24.49%) Machine Learning
9 12 (24.49%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (16.33%) AWS
10 8 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (14.29%) DevOps
11 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
12 6 (12.24%) CISSP
12 6 (12.24%) SAML
12 6 (12.24%) Software Engineering
12 6 (12.24%) CISM
12 6 (12.24%) Games
12 6 (12.24%) Software Architecture
12 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (12.24%) Wealth Management
12 6 (12.24%) Agile
12 6 (12.24%) OAuth
12 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes

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 (2.04%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.04%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) AWS
3 6 (12.24%) Entra ID
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.08%) OCI
5 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Big Data
2 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.04%) Metadata
2 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
General
1 31 (63.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 30 (61.22%) Finance
3 29 (59.18%) Law
3 29 (59.18%) Marketing
4 6 (12.24%) Games
5 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.08%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) OAuth
1 6 (12.24%) SAML
2 2 (4.08%) Django
2 2 (4.08%) Node.js
2 2 (4.08%) React
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) Architecture Governance
1 23 (46.94%) Operational Stability
2 20 (40.82%) Business Strategy
2 20 (40.82%) Data Architecture
3 17 (34.69%) Roadmaps
4 14 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 12 (24.49%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (24.49%) Machine Learning
5 12 (24.49%) SDLC
6 8 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (14.29%) DevOps
8 6 (12.24%) Application Security
8 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
8 6 (12.24%) DevSecOps
8 6 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (12.24%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (12.24%) Tech Ops
8 6 (12.24%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.12%) Python
2 1 (2.04%) C++
2 1 (2.04%) Java
2 1 (2.04%) R
2 1 (2.04%) Scala
2 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 6 (12.24%) CISM
1 6 (12.24%) CISSP
2 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) NIST
2 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) Teradata