The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Architect
Rank 78 86 97
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 6 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.560% 0.294% 0.255%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.583% 0.307% 0.267%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 3
Average salary £68,000 £50,500 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+34.65% -19.20%
UK excluding London average salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1029 1301 1496
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 96.08% 95.52% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 603 952 1084
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,750 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Architect
Scotland

Senior Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Senior Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Architect
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Senior Architect Salary Trend

Senior Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Senior 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 Senior Architect in their job title.

1 12 (92.31%) Finance
1 12 (92.31%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Teradata
2 6 (46.15%) Change Management
2 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
2 6 (46.15%) Data Quality
3 5 (38.46%) Degree
3 5 (38.46%) C#
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Java
4 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Oracle
4 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Python
5 2 (15.38%) Private Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Wealth Management
5 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (7.692%) Financial Institution
6 1 (7.692%) Publishing
6 1 (7.692%) International Banking
6 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
6 1 (7.692%) Temenos
6 1 (7.692%) XML
6 1 (7.692%) XSLT
6 1 (7.692%) XML Schema
6 1 (7.692%) .NET
6 1 (7.692%) Temenos T24

Senior Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Senior 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 Senior Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) XML
1 1 (7.692%) XSLT
1 1 (7.692%) XML Schema
1 1 (7.692%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Windows Azure
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Temenos T24
General
1 12 (92.31%) Finance
1 12 (92.31%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Private Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.692%) Publishing
3 1 (7.692%) International Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
1 1 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Change Management
1 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Wealth Management
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.692%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) C#
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.692%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Teradata
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.692%) Temenos