The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Architect
Rank 36 25 19
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 66 85 138
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 5.660% 6.425% 8.598%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.882% 6.709% 9.031%
Number of salaries quoted 50 56 99
Average salary £57,500 £65,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.53% +36.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £51,250 £44,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,550 £75,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1122 1267 1528
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 96.23% 95.77% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 673 894 1124
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £58,200 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Architect
Scotland

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Architect across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Architect
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Architect across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Architect Salary Trend

Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Architect across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Edinburgh Architect Salary Histogram

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Architect in their job title.

1 43 (31.39%) Finance
2 40 (29.20%) Oracle
3 37 (27.01%) Agile Software Development
4 36 (26.28%) Banking
5 26 (18.98%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (18.98%) Degree
6 25 (18.25%) JBoss
7 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
8 21 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (14.60%) Java
9 20 (14.60%) Project Management
9 20 (14.60%) Technical Architecture
10 18 (13.14%) Pentaho
10 18 (13.14%) Red Hat
11 15 (10.95%) Retail
11 15 (10.95%) Enterprise Architecture
12 14 (10.22%) Retail Banking
12 14 (10.22%) Dell
12 14 (10.22%) Citrix
12 14 (10.22%) MS Excel
13 13 (9.489%) SQL
13 13 (9.489%) VMware
13 13 (9.489%) Computer Science
14 12 (8.759%) VMware Infrastructure
14 12 (8.759%) PL/SQL
14 12 (8.759%) SQL Server
15 11 (8.029%) Linux
15 11 (8.029%) Big Data
16 10 (7.299%) Data Modelling
16 10 (7.299%) CSS

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (7.299%) CSS
1 10 (7.299%) XML
2 9 (6.569%) XSLT
2 9 (6.569%) HTML
2 9 (6.569%) Ajax
3 8 (5.839%) jQuery
4 7 (5.109%) Middleware
5 6 (4.380%) Web Services
6 5 (3.650%) MapReduce
7 4 (2.920%) WPF
7 4 (2.920%) .NET
8 3 (2.190%) Google Maps API
9 2 (1.460%) Visualforce
9 2 (1.460%) CGI
9 2 (1.460%) J2EE
9 2 (1.460%) SOAP
10 1 (0.730%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 9 (6.569%) Apache
2 4 (2.920%) Office Communications Server
3 3 (2.190%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.190%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (0.730%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.730%) CMS
4 1 (0.730%) Force.com
Applications
1 14 (10.22%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.730%) Bond Adapt
1 1 (0.730%) Temenos T24
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.460%) Network Security
1 2 (1.460%) SSL
1 2 (1.460%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.730%) SAN
2 1 (0.730%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.98%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (13.14%) Pentaho
3 12 (8.759%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.029%) Big Data
5 10 (7.299%) RDBMS
6 7 (5.109%) Hadoop
7 5 (3.650%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.920%) SQL Server 2012
8 4 (2.920%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (0.730%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.730%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (2.920%) Team Foundation Server
1 4 (2.920%) Subversion
2 1 (0.730%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.730%) Git (software)
General
1 43 (31.39%) Finance
2 36 (26.28%) Banking
3 15 (10.95%) Retail
4 14 (10.22%) Retail Banking
5 6 (4.380%) Advertising
6 4 (2.920%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.460%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.730%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.730%) Legal
8 1 (0.730%) Publishing
8 1 (0.730%) International Banking
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.489%) Computer Science
2 9 (6.569%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (5.839%) Mainframe
4 5 (3.650%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.460%) Open Source
5 2 (1.460%) Web 2.0
5 2 (1.460%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.730%) CLARiiON
6 1 (0.730%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.730%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.029%) Linux
2 7 (5.109%) UNIX
3 6 (4.380%) Windows
4 1 (0.730%) Android
4 1 (0.730%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (27.01%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (14.60%) Project Management
3 20 (14.60%) Technical Architecture
4 15 (10.95%) Enterprise Architecture
5 10 (7.299%) Data Modelling
6 9 (6.569%) Migration
7 8 (5.839%) Web Development
7 8 (5.839%) Asset Management
8 7 (5.109%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (5.109%) Service Management
9 6 (4.380%) Change Management
10 5 (3.650%) Investment Management
10 5 (3.650%) Unit Testing
10 5 (3.650%) Analytics
11 4 (2.920%) MVVM
11 4 (2.920%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (2.920%) Scrum
11 4 (2.920%) ITIL
12 3 (2.190%) UML
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.60%) Java
2 13 (9.489%) SQL
3 12 (8.759%) PL/SQL
4 9 (6.569%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.569%) C#
5 3 (2.190%) C++
6 2 (1.460%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.730%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (18.98%) Degree
2 4 (2.920%) MCPD
2 4 (2.920%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.460%) CISM
3 2 (1.460%) CCSA
3 2 (1.460%) CISSP
4 1 (0.730%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.730%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.730%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.380%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.190%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.730%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.730%) COBIT
3 1 (0.730%) QA
System Software
1 12 (8.759%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.730%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1 (0.730%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 40 (29.20%) Oracle
2 25 (18.25%) JBoss
3 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
4 18 (13.14%) Red Hat
5 14 (10.22%) Dell
5 14 (10.22%) Citrix
6 13 (9.489%) VMware
7 10 (7.299%) NetApp
8 6 (4.380%) Teradata
8 6 (4.380%) Salesforce.com
9 3 (2.190%) Google
10 1 (0.730%) SAP
10 1 (0.730%) Cisco
10 1 (0.730%) IBM
10 1 (0.730%) EMC
10 1 (0.730%) Temenos
10 1 (0.730%) StorageTek
10 1 (0.730%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.730%) Symantec
10 1 (0.730%) Northgate
Edinburgh, Scotland
Operating in a banking environment, the successful candidate will be involved in everything from smaller BAU projects to large-scale programmes, gaining an understanding of the business strategy,...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Posted: 5 June 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Our customer is one of the largest British companies on a global scale and now seeking a Solutions Architect who will also support internal and external customers. To...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £75000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Our Financial Banking client based in Edinburgh are looking to recruit a Solution Architect with a wealth of experience in major change or transformaton programmes, preferably in retail...
Sanderson
Salary: £32725 - £54690 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Extensive knowledge and proven experience in the following technologies is critical to the success: Java (Web development) JavaScript / AJAX/ JQuery. JBOSS / Apache / Linux. XML/XSLT. HTML/CSS. Oracle...
Sanderson
Posted: 3 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
5 years + experience of working within a data warehousing and business intelligence environment. Experience working with atleast one of the following Big Data Technologies: Hadoop, MapReduce or NoSql.....
Net Talent
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Net Talent
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 18 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £68,000 to £110,000 per annum (technical up to enterprise) plus a
Posted: 17 June 2013