Software Architecture Jobs in Edinburgh

Software Architecture
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Software Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 93 136
Rank change year-on-year +8 +43 -9
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 5 16 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.56% 1.07% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.20% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile £73,500 - £57,375
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,576 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% -10.38% +43.18%
75th Percentile £108,750 £76,216 £97,813
90th Percentile - £82,000 £105,125
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Architecture 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 869 1,338 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.42% 89.74% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 397 941 1,154
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £54,471 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -8.70% +4.78%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in Edinburgh

Software Architecture
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Architecture in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Software Architecture in Edinburgh

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Architecture in Edinburgh

Software Architecture
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Principal Java Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Principal Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Java EE
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Project Roadmap
4 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (40.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes