Architect Jobs in Scotland

Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Architect salary in Scotland is £75,400 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 22 51
Rank change year-on-year -44 +29 +7
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 371 488 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.53% 10.57% 5.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.71% 11.76% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 133 105 119
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £57,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,184 £69,674
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,400 £78,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +1.29% +10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,064 £97,290 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

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 6,497 4,150 5,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 89.90% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,634 2,256 2,976
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,659
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +6.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Architect in Scotland

Architect
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Scotland

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 Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 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 -60 228 £80,000 +14.29% 16
Edinburgh -3 134 £72,500 +3.57% 22
South Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 - 1
Fife -7 1 £40,000 -55.56%
Aberdeen -15 1 £100,000 -
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 Architect in the job title.

1 118 (31.81%) TOGAF
1 118 (31.81%) Actionable Insight
2 104 (28.03%) Finance
3 93 (25.07%) AWS
3 93 (25.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 89 (23.99%) Azure
5 83 (22.37%) Technical Architecture
6 81 (21.83%) Cloud Native
7 76 (20.49%) Law
8 75 (20.22%) Roadmaps
9 73 (19.68%) Network Management
10 71 (19.14%) Network Architecture
10 71 (19.14%) Requirements Management
10 71 (19.14%) VSAT
10 71 (19.14%) Validation
10 71 (19.14%) Model Validation
11 70 (18.87%) Marketing
12 68 (18.33%) Software Engineering
12 68 (18.33%) Agile
13 66 (17.79%) Operational Stability
14 60 (16.17%) Data Architecture
15 56 (15.09%) Migration
16 52 (14.02%) Social Skills
17 51 (13.75%) Architecture Governance
18 49 (13.21%) Security Cleared
19 47 (12.67%) Banking
20 44 (11.86%) Scrum
20 44 (11.86%) Presales
21 43 (11.59%) Mentoring
21 43 (11.59%) Java

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 8 (2.16%) WebLogic
2 4 (1.08%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Simulink
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 93 (25.07%) AWS
2 89 (23.99%) Azure
3 31 (8.36%) GCP
4 27 (7.28%) SaaS
5 26 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.31%) IaaS
6 16 (4.31%) PaaS
7 13 (3.50%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.08%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.81%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.81%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 71 (19.14%) VSAT
2 9 (2.43%) DNS
3 8 (2.16%) BGP
3 8 (2.16%) SSL
3 8 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.89%) Firewall
5 4 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.81%) Network Security
6 3 (0.81%) VPN
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.39%) Big Data
2 15 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (2.43%) RDBMS
6 8 (2.16%) Oracle Database
7 7 (1.89%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.62%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.81%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.81%) Metadata
11 2 (0.54%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.54%) Power BI
11 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.54%) Tableau
12 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.23%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.08%) Maven
3 1 (0.27%) GitLab
3 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 104 (28.03%) Finance
2 93 (25.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 76 (20.49%) Law
4 70 (18.87%) Marketing
5 52 (14.02%) Social Skills
6 47 (12.67%) Banking
7 19 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.12%) Retail Banking
8 14 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.50%) Legal
10 12 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.62%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.62%) Games
12 5 (1.35%) Automotive
13 3 (0.81%) Private Banking
13 3 (0.81%) Retail
14 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Police
15 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.58%) .NET
2 15 (4.04%) Spring Boot
3 14 (3.77%) Kafka
4 12 (3.23%) .NET Framework
5 9 (2.43%) OAuth
5 9 (2.43%) SAML
6 8 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (2.16%) Spring
7 6 (1.62%) JSON
7 6 (1.62%) OpenID
7 6 (1.62%) Web Services
7 6 (1.62%) XML
8 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.08%) Java EE
8 4 (1.08%) REST
9 2 (0.54%) CSS
9 2 (0.54%) Django
9 2 (0.54%) HTML
9 2 (0.54%) Node.js
9 2 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 81 (21.83%) Cloud Native
2 41 (11.05%) Public Cloud
3 32 (8.63%) Product Ownership
4 28 (7.55%) Credit Risk
5 14 (3.77%) PKI
6 9 (2.43%) Blockchain
7 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.62%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.35%) Robotics
11 4 (1.08%) IoT
11 4 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.81%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.93%) Linux
2 9 (2.43%) Windows
3 8 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.08%) Mesosphere
4 4 (1.08%) Unix
5 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (31.81%) Actionable Insight
1 118 (31.81%) TOGAF
2 83 (22.37%) Technical Architecture
3 75 (20.22%) Roadmaps
4 73 (19.68%) Network Management
5 71 (19.14%) Model Validation
5 71 (19.14%) Network Architecture
5 71 (19.14%) Requirements Management
5 71 (19.14%) Validation
6 68 (18.33%) Agile
6 68 (18.33%) Software Engineering
7 66 (17.79%) Operational Stability
8 60 (16.17%) Data Architecture
9 56 (15.09%) Migration
10 51 (13.75%) Architecture Governance
11 44 (11.86%) Presales
11 44 (11.86%) Scrum
12 43 (11.59%) Mentoring
13 42 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence
14 41 (11.05%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (11.59%) Java
2 36 (9.70%) Python
3 17 (4.58%) C++
4 16 (4.31%) C#
5 14 (3.77%) SQL
6 10 (2.70%) C
7 8 (2.16%) Embedded C
8 6 (1.62%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.35%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.27%) R
11 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 42 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.66%) Degree
4 17 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.50%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.23%) CISSP
7 10 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.62%) CISM
9 5 (1.35%) CCNA
10 4 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.08%) CISA
10 4 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.08%) PhD
10 4 (1.08%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.54%) CCSP
11 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.16%) NIST
2 6 (1.62%) COBIT
3 5 (1.35%) QA
4 4 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.08%) SEPA
5 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (4.31%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.54%) KVM
3 2 (0.54%) Xen
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.62%) OpenView
2 6 (1.62%) Terraform
3 5 (1.35%) Ansible
4 4 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.08%) Puppet
5 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.85%) Google
3 14 (3.77%) Oracle
4 10 (2.70%) Sparx
5 7 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.62%) BMC
6 6 (1.62%) Cisco
6 6 (1.62%) HP
6 6 (1.62%) Remedy
7 5 (1.35%) VMware
8 4 (1.08%) ANSYS
9 3 (0.81%) Citrix
9 3 (0.81%) Databricks
10 2 (0.54%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.27%) EMC
11 1 (0.27%) ForeScout
11 1 (0.27%) Meraki
11 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.27%) Teradata