Architect Jobs in Scotland

Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Architect salary in Scotland is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 21 47
Rank change year-on-year -44 +26 +8
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 371 507 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.53% 11.09% 5.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.70% 12.34% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 129 104 122
10th Percentile £59,850 £56,219 £58,650
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,184 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,250 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -0.63% +12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,439 £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 6,508 4,108 5,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.93% 89.89% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,627 2,223 3,003
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,414 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +4.84% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
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 18 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 18 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 -62 230 £80,000 +6.67% 14
Edinburgh -3 132 £72,500 +3.98% 21
South Lanarkshire - 5 £80,000 - 2
Fife -5 1 £40,000 -55.56%
Aberdeen -17 1 £100,000 -
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 120 (32.35%) TOGAF
2 116 (31.27%) Actionable Insight
3 100 (26.95%) Finance
4 98 (26.42%) AWS
5 95 (25.61%) Azure
6 92 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 84 (22.64%) Cloud Native
8 83 (22.37%) Technical Architecture
9 76 (20.49%) Law
10 73 (19.68%) Network Management
10 73 (19.68%) Roadmaps
11 71 (19.14%) Model Validation
11 71 (19.14%) Network Architecture
11 71 (19.14%) Requirements Management
11 71 (19.14%) VSAT
11 71 (19.14%) Validation
12 70 (18.87%) Agile
12 70 (18.87%) Marketing
13 67 (18.06%) Software Engineering
14 66 (17.79%) Operational Stability
15 60 (16.17%) Migration
16 59 (15.90%) Data Architecture
17 55 (14.82%) Social Skills
18 51 (13.75%) Architecture Governance
19 47 (12.67%) Security Cleared
20 46 (12.40%) Scrum
21 44 (11.86%) Presales
22 43 (11.59%) Banking
23 41 (11.05%) Artificial Intelligence
23 41 (11.05%) Project Management

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 98 (26.42%) AWS
2 95 (25.61%) Azure
3 29 (7.82%) GCP
4 26 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.01%) SaaS
5 15 (4.04%) IaaS
5 15 (4.04%) PaaS
6 13 (3.50%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.08%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.81%) Azure API Management
11 3 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.81%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.54%) dbt
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 19 (5.12%) Big Data
2 16 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 10 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.43%) RDBMS
5 8 (2.16%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (2.16%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.62%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.62%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.81%) Metadata
8 2 (0.54%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.54%) Power BI
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.54%) Tableau
9 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.96%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.08%) Maven
3 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) GitLab
General
1 100 (26.95%) Finance
2 92 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 76 (20.49%) Law
4 70 (18.87%) Marketing
5 55 (14.82%) Social Skills
6 43 (11.59%) Banking
7 19 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.12%) Retail Banking
8 14 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.23%) Legal
10 6 (1.62%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.62%) Games
11 5 (1.35%) Automotive
12 3 (0.81%) Private Banking
12 3 (0.81%) Retail
13 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Police
14 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.31%) .NET
2 14 (3.77%) Spring Boot
3 13 (3.50%) Kafka
4 11 (2.96%) .NET Framework
5 9 (2.43%) OAuth
5 9 (2.43%) SAML
6 8 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (1.89%) Spring
8 6 (1.62%) JSON
8 6 (1.62%) Web Services
8 6 (1.62%) XML
9 5 (1.35%) OpenID
10 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.08%) Java EE
10 4 (1.08%) REST
11 2 (0.54%) Django
11 2 (0.54%) Node.js
11 2 (0.54%) React
11 2 (0.54%) RESTful
12 1 (0.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 84 (22.64%) Cloud Native
2 41 (11.05%) Public Cloud
3 31 (8.36%) Product Ownership
4 28 (7.55%) Credit Risk
5 14 (3.77%) PKI
6 10 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.89%) Blockchain
8 7 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.35%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.08%) IoT
10 4 (1.08%) Robotics
10 4 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.81%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.93%) Linux
2 10 (2.70%) Windows
3 8 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.08%) Mesosphere
5 3 (0.81%) Unix
5 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (32.35%) TOGAF
2 116 (31.27%) Actionable Insight
3 83 (22.37%) Technical Architecture
4 73 (19.68%) Network Management
4 73 (19.68%) Roadmaps
5 71 (19.14%) Model Validation
5 71 (19.14%) Network Architecture
5 71 (19.14%) Requirements Management
5 71 (19.14%) Validation
6 70 (18.87%) Agile
7 67 (18.06%) Software Engineering
8 66 (17.79%) Operational Stability
9 60 (16.17%) Migration
10 59 (15.90%) Data Architecture
11 51 (13.75%) Architecture Governance
12 46 (12.40%) Scrum
13 44 (11.86%) Presales
14 41 (11.05%) Artificial Intelligence
14 41 (11.05%) Decision-Making
14 41 (11.05%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (11.05%) Java
2 36 (9.70%) Python
3 16 (4.31%) C++
4 15 (4.04%) C#
5 13 (3.50%) SQL
6 9 (2.43%) 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 47 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.78%) 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
8 6 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
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
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 7 (1.89%) Terraform
3 6 (1.62%) Ansible
3 6 (1.62%) OpenView
4 5 (1.35%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.08%) Puppet
6 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Grafana
7 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.58%) 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%) HP
6 6 (1.62%) Remedy
7 5 (1.35%) Cisco
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%) Barracuda Networks
11 1 (0.27%) EMC
11 1 (0.27%) Meraki
11 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.27%) Teradata