Architect Jobs in Edinburgh

Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Architect salary in Edinburgh is £83,382 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +35
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 62 132 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.87% 8.88% 12.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.58% 9.26% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36 59 69
10th Percentile £70,000 £58,400 -
25th Percentile £72,899 £65,625 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,382 £72,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +15.01% +4.40% -13.19%
75th Percentile £98,474 £94,519 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,125 £115,750 £97,290
Scotland median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £78,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.85% +0.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 818 1,426 1,921
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 95.90% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 385 1,004 1,139
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,921 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £89,852
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +6.67%

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 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 34 (54.84%) Finance
2 28 (45.16%) Roadmaps
3 27 (43.55%) Agile
4 25 (40.32%) Azure
4 25 (40.32%) GCP
5 22 (35.48%) Data Architecture
5 22 (35.48%) Banking
6 20 (32.26%) TOGAF
6 20 (32.26%) Analytics
7 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
8 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
9 16 (25.81%) Architectural Patterns
9 16 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (25.81%) ArchiMate
10 15 (24.19%) Adaptive Web Design
11 14 (22.58%) Microservices
12 13 (20.97%) Data Analytics
13 12 (19.35%) Domain-Driven Design
13 12 (19.35%) OpenID
13 12 (19.35%) Web Development
13 12 (19.35%) OAuth
13 12 (19.35%) Content Management
13 12 (19.35%) Data Management
13 12 (19.35%) SAML
13 12 (19.35%) JavaScript
13 12 (19.35%) Kubernetes
13 12 (19.35%) React
13 12 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (19.35%) Architecture Roadmap
14 11 (17.74%) BigQuery

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 11 (17.74%) Umbraco
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.23%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.61%) CMS
3 1 (1.61%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) Azure
1 25 (40.32%) GCP
2 11 (17.74%) AWS
3 10 (16.13%) OpenShift
4 4 (6.45%) SaaS
4 4 (6.45%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Stack
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.23%) Serverless
7 1 (1.61%) Apigee
7 1 (1.61%) Collibra
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Network Security
2 1 (1.61%) BGP
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (1.61%) Firewall
2 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) BigQuery
2 3 (4.84%) Metadata
3 2 (3.23%) SAP HANA
3 2 (3.23%) Tableau
4 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) ERwin
2 1 (1.61%) GitLab
General
1 34 (54.84%) Finance
2 22 (35.48%) Banking
3 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Advertising
5 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.23%) Retail
6 1 (1.61%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) OAuth
1 12 (19.35%) OpenID
1 12 (19.35%) React
1 12 (19.35%) SAML
2 11 (17.74%) Ajax
2 11 (17.74%) CSS
2 11 (17.74%) jQuery
3 4 (6.45%) Kafka
3 4 (6.45%) Spring
4 3 (4.84%) PySpark
4 3 (4.84%) REST
5 2 (3.23%) .NET
5 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (3.23%) JSON
5 2 (3.23%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.61%) LDAP
6 1 (1.61%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Private Cloud
2 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.23%) IVR
3 2 (3.23%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.61%) DataPower
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) Roadmaps
2 27 (43.55%) Agile
3 22 (35.48%) Data Architecture
4 20 (32.26%) Analytics
4 20 (32.26%) TOGAF
5 16 (25.81%) ArchiMate
5 16 (25.81%) Architectural Patterns
5 16 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (24.19%) Adaptive Web Design
7 14 (22.58%) Microservices
8 13 (20.97%) Data Analytics
9 12 (19.35%) Architecture Roadmap
9 12 (19.35%) Content Management
9 12 (19.35%) Data Management
9 12 (19.35%) Domain-Driven Design
9 12 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (19.35%) Web Development
10 11 (17.74%) MVC
10 11 (17.74%) Software Deployment
10 11 (17.74%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) JavaScript
2 6 (9.68%) Java
2 6 (9.68%) Python
3 2 (3.23%) ABAP
3 2 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (1.61%) Groovy
4 1 (1.61%) SQL
4 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.23%) CCNP
1 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) CCNA
2 1 (1.61%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) GDPR
2 4 (6.45%) QA
3 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.23%) NCSC
4 2 (3.23%) NIST
4 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (17.74%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) Google
3 3 (4.84%) Databricks
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Adobe
5 1 (1.61%) F5
5 1 (1.61%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.61%) Informatica
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow