Architect Jobs in Edinburgh

Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Architect salary in Edinburgh is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 18 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 133 247 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.72% 13.30% 6.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.07% 14.07% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 54 65 69
10th Percentile £56,275 - £60,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £56,219 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% +9.50%
75th Percentile £90,313 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,625 £96,374 £105,000
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.56% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,467 1,756 2,496
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.20% 94.56% 98.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 1,054 1,552
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,459 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 Edinburgh region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 57 (42.86%) TOGAF
2 55 (41.35%) Actionable Insight
3 46 (34.59%) Technical Architecture
4 42 (31.58%) AWS
5 39 (29.32%) Azure
6 38 (28.57%) Agile
7 34 (25.56%) Requirements Management
7 34 (25.56%) Network Architecture
7 34 (25.56%) VSAT
7 34 (25.56%) Validation
7 34 (25.56%) Network Management
7 34 (25.56%) Model Validation
8 32 (24.06%) Migration
8 32 (24.06%) Banking
9 24 (18.05%) Finance
10 23 (17.29%) Security Cleared
10 23 (17.29%) Social Skills
11 21 (15.79%) DevOps
12 20 (15.04%) Presales
13 19 (14.29%) SC Cleared
14 18 (13.53%) Retail Banking
15 16 (12.03%) Project Management
15 16 (12.03%) Roadmaps
16 15 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 14 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
18 13 (9.77%) SaaS
19 12 (9.02%) Microsoft
19 12 (9.02%) Cloud Native
19 12 (9.02%) Continuous Delivery
20 11 (8.27%) GCP

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (3.01%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.58%) AWS
2 39 (29.32%) Azure
3 13 (9.77%) SaaS
4 11 (8.27%) GCP
5 8 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.26%) dbt
7 3 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.26%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.50%) IaaS
8 2 (1.50%) PaaS
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.75%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (0.75%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.75%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 34 (25.56%) VSAT
2 5 (3.76%) DNS
3 4 (3.01%) BGP
3 4 (3.01%) SSL
3 4 (3.01%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
2 6 (4.51%) Big Data
2 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.01%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.01%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.01%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.26%) Data Vault
5 3 (2.26%) Power BI
5 3 (2.26%) Tableau
6 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.50%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (24.06%) Banking
2 24 (18.05%) Finance
3 23 (17.29%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.53%) Retail Banking
5 10 (7.52%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.26%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.26%) Law
8 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.01%) Django
2 4 (3.01%) Node.js
2 4 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (3.01%) React
3 3 (2.26%) Kafka
3 3 (2.26%) OpenID
3 3 (2.26%) Spring
4 2 (1.50%) OAuth
4 2 (1.50%) SAML
5 1 (0.75%) .NET
5 1 (0.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.27%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.26%) PKI
5 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.26%) Blockchain
6 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.26%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.50%) PMI
7 2 (1.50%) Robotics
7 2 (1.50%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.02%) Linux
2 5 (3.76%) Windows
3 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (42.86%) TOGAF
2 55 (41.35%) Actionable Insight
3 46 (34.59%) Technical Architecture
4 38 (28.57%) Agile
5 34 (25.56%) Model Validation
5 34 (25.56%) Network Architecture
5 34 (25.56%) Network Management
5 34 (25.56%) Requirements Management
5 34 (25.56%) Validation
6 32 (24.06%) Migration
7 21 (15.79%) DevOps
8 20 (15.04%) Presales
9 16 (12.03%) Project Management
9 16 (12.03%) Roadmaps
10 15 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (9.02%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (8.27%) Architectural Patterns
13 11 (8.27%) CI/CD
13 11 (8.27%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.51%) SQL
2 5 (3.76%) Python
3 4 (3.01%) Java
4 1 (0.75%) C#
4 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) Degree
4 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.76%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.01%) CISA
5 4 (3.01%) CISSP
6 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.50%) CCSP
7 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.26%) COBIT
3 2 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.50%) GDPR
3 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.50%) NIST
3 2 (1.50%) SEPA
4 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) KVM
2 2 (1.50%) Xen
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.26%) OpenView
3 2 (1.50%) Ansible
3 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.50%) Terraform
4 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.77%) Google
3 5 (3.76%) Sparx
4 4 (3.01%) Oracle
4 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.26%) BMC
5 3 (2.26%) Citrix
5 3 (2.26%) HP
5 3 (2.26%) Remedy
6 2 (1.50%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.75%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco
7 1 (0.75%) EMC
7 1 (0.75%) ForeScout
7 1 (0.75%) Meraki
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.75%) VMware