Architectural Design Job Trends in Edinburgh

Architectural Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 85 105
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 +35
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 2 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.17% 1.05% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 1.08% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £60,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £88,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £97,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +34.48% +7.41%
75th Percentile £73,750 £106,250 £76,250
90th Percentile - - £77,750
Scotland median annual salary £90,000 £80,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.15% +10.69% +6.07%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 917 926 1,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 78.51% 97.47% 90.12%
Number of salaries quoted 497 447 971
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.37%
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,608 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -11.80%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Apigee
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Pega Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Pega