Lead Architect Job Trends in Glasgow

Lead Architect
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Lead Architect salary in Glasgow is £103,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 11 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.74% - 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% - 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £103,750 - £110,000
75th Percentile £111,250 - -
90th Percentile £115,625 - -
Scotland median annual salary £100,000 £69,384 £110,000
% change year-on-year +44.13% -36.92% +18.56%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 1,382 735 1,165
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.63% 97.82%
Number of salaries quoted 824 305 595
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +0.48%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Lead Architect job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Glasgow

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 5 October 2026, Lead Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Operational Stability
3 2 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Economics
3 2 (18.18%) Observability
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) AI
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) Datadog
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Flyway
4 1 (9.09%) GCP

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Datadog
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) MariaDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Flyway
1 1 (9.09%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (9.09%) Law
1 1 (9.09%) Legal
1 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Operational Stability
3 2 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Economics
3 2 (18.18%) Observability
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) AI
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) New Relic
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle