Architect Job Trends in Edinburgh

Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Architect salary in Edinburgh is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 33 38
Rank change year-on-year +17 +5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 75 62 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.13% 7.22% 4.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.32% 8.17% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 49 35 53
10th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £55,850
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,899 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +17.24% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £103,750 £118,000
Scotland median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +6.67% -4.46%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 1,024 759 1,330
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.34% 88.36% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 624 329 1,059
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,738 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,529 £90,907
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +6.80% -6.36%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Architect job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Architect
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Edinburgh

Architect
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Architect in Edinburgh

Architect
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. 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
Balerno - 1 - -
Architect
Scotland

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2026, 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 Edinburgh region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 15 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 14 (18.67%) AI
3 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
4 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 9 (12.00%) Power Platform
5 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
6 8 (10.67%) Agile
7 7 (9.33%) Analytics
7 7 (9.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (9.33%) Data Architecture
7 7 (9.33%) Mentoring
7 7 (9.33%) Project Delivery
7 7 (9.33%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.00%) IT Strategy
8 6 (8.00%) Technology Strategy
9 5 (6.67%) Anaplan
9 5 (6.67%) Azure
9 5 (6.67%) Data Integration
9 5 (6.67%) GCP
9 5 (6.67%) LLM
9 5 (6.67%) Serverless
10 4 (5.33%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (5.33%) Business Development
10 4 (5.33%) Dashboard Development
10 4 (5.33%) Google
10 4 (5.33%) NIST
10 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (5.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (5.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.33%) Apache
1 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 9 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.67%) Azure
3 5 (6.67%) GCP
3 5 (6.67%) Serverless
4 3 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (4.00%) Apigee
4 3 (4.00%) AWS
4 3 (4.00%) Zapier
5 2 (2.67%) Cloud Run
5 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.33%) GitHub
6 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.33%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.33%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Broadband
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.33%) LAN
2 1 (1.33%) Network Security
2 1 (1.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.33%) WAN
2 1 (1.33%) Wireless
2 1 (1.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.67%) Power BI
3 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.33%) Metadata
3 1 (1.33%) Tableau
General
1 16 (21.33%) Finance
2 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.33%) Banking
4 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.67%) Games
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.67%) REST
1 2 (2.67%) SOAP
2 1 (1.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.33%) LDAP
2 1 (1.33%) OAuth
2 1 (1.33%) OpenID
2 1 (1.33%) PySpark
2 1 (1.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.33%) Cyberattack
2 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.33%) Data Fabric
2 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.33%) Replication
2 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
1 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.67%) AI
2 8 (10.67%) Agile
3 7 (9.33%) Analytics
3 7 (9.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (9.33%) Data Architecture
3 7 (9.33%) Mentoring
3 7 (9.33%) Project Delivery
3 7 (9.33%) Roadmaps
4 6 (8.00%) IT Strategy
4 6 (8.00%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (6.67%) Data Integration
5 5 (6.67%) LLM
6 4 (5.33%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (5.33%) Business Development
6 4 (5.33%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (5.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (5.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 4 (5.33%) Visualisation
6 4 (5.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.00%) Python
2 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.67%) SQL
3 1 (1.33%) Bash
3 1 (1.33%) Scala
3 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.33%) CCIE
5 1 (1.33%) CCNP
5 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.33%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) NIST
2 3 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.33%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.67%) Anaplan
3 4 (5.33%) Google
4 3 (4.00%) Hyperion
4 3 (4.00%) IBM
4 3 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle
4 3 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.33%) Databricks
5 1 (1.33%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.33%) F5
5 1 (1.33%) Palantir
5 1 (1.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.33%) Pega
5 1 (1.33%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow