Technical Architect Jobs in Edinburgh

Technical Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Technical Architect salary in Edinburgh is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 93 112
Rank change year-on-year +25 +19 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 8 16 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.92% 1.02% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.06% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 0
10th Percentile £62,000 £66,250 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £68,663 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £110,500 -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +16.13%

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 753 1,514 1,636
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.55% 96.19% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 337 1,062 989
10th Percentile £26,929 £32,775 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £83,738 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £87,500 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Edinburgh

Technical Architect
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Technical Architect in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Private Cloud
2 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (37.50%) Community of Practice
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (37.50%) Observability
4 3 (37.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) GitLab
4 3 (37.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Coaching
4 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
4 3 (37.50%) Terraform
4 3 (37.50%) Network Security
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) nginx
4 3 (37.50%) F5
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software

Technical 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 3 (37.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) GCP
1 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Private Cloud
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (25.00%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) Coaching
4 3 (37.50%) Community of Practice
4 3 (37.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Observability
4 3 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 2 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNA
1 3 (37.50%) CCNP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow