Architect Jobs in Edinburgh

Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Architect salary in Edinburgh is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 18 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 +31 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 129 249 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.55% 12.80% 5.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.90% 13.51% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 53 67 67
10th Percentile £55,850 - £63,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,219 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% +8.06%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £97,290 £105,000
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.61% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,450 1,843 2,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.09% 94.76% 98.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 1,089 1,554
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,467 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,033 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 57 (44.19%) TOGAF
2 55 (42.64%) Actionable Insight
3 44 (34.11%) Technical Architecture
4 39 (30.23%) AWS
5 37 (28.68%) Azure
6 36 (27.91%) Agile
7 34 (26.36%) Validation
7 34 (26.36%) VSAT
7 34 (26.36%) Network Management
7 34 (26.36%) Requirements Management
7 34 (26.36%) Model Validation
7 34 (26.36%) Network Architecture
8 33 (25.58%) Banking
9 30 (23.26%) Migration
10 24 (18.60%) Finance
11 22 (17.05%) Security Cleared
12 21 (16.28%) Social Skills
13 20 (15.50%) Presales
14 18 (13.95%) DevOps
14 18 (13.95%) SC Cleared
14 18 (13.95%) Retail Banking
15 16 (12.40%) Project Management
16 15 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (11.63%) Roadmaps
17 13 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
17 13 (10.08%) Cloud Native
17 13 (10.08%) SaaS
18 12 (9.30%) GCP
19 11 (8.53%) Microservices
19 11 (8.53%) Public Cloud

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 4 (3.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.23%) AWS
2 37 (28.68%) Azure
3 13 (10.08%) SaaS
4 12 (9.30%) GCP
5 8 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.55%) dbt
8 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.55%) IaaS
8 2 (1.55%) PaaS
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.78%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.78%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 34 (26.36%) VSAT
2 5 (3.88%) DNS
3 4 (3.10%) BGP
3 4 (3.10%) SSL
3 4 (3.10%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.43%) Big Data
1 7 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.65%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.88%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (3.10%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.10%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.33%) Data Vault
5 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.33%) Power BI
5 3 (2.33%) Tableau
6 2 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (25.58%) Banking
2 24 (18.60%) Finance
3 21 (16.28%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.95%) Retail Banking
5 10 (7.75%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.55%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.55%) Law
8 2 (1.55%) Legal
8 2 (1.55%) Retail
9 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.20%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (3.10%) Spring
3 3 (2.33%) Kafka
3 3 (2.33%) OpenID
4 2 (1.55%) Django
4 2 (1.55%) Node.js
4 2 (1.55%) OAuth
4 2 (1.55%) React
4 2 (1.55%) SAML
5 1 (0.78%) .NET
5 1 (0.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.53%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.43%) PKI
4 6 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.33%) Blockchain
6 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.33%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.55%) PMI
7 2 (1.55%) Robotics
7 2 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.20%) Linux
2 5 (3.88%) Windows
3 4 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (44.19%) TOGAF
2 55 (42.64%) Actionable Insight
3 44 (34.11%) Technical Architecture
4 36 (27.91%) Agile
5 34 (26.36%) Model Validation
5 34 (26.36%) Network Architecture
5 34 (26.36%) Network Management
5 34 (26.36%) Requirements Management
5 34 (26.36%) Validation
6 30 (23.26%) Migration
7 20 (15.50%) Presales
8 18 (13.95%) DevOps
9 16 (12.40%) Project Management
10 15 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (11.63%) Roadmaps
11 13 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (8.53%) Continuous Delivery
12 11 (8.53%) Microservices
12 11 (8.53%) Open Source
13 10 (7.75%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.43%) SQL
2 5 (3.88%) Java
3 4 (3.10%) Python
4 2 (1.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.78%) C#
5 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.98%) Degree
4 5 (3.88%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.88%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.10%) CISA
5 4 (3.10%) CISSP
6 3 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.55%) CCSP
7 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.78%) CCNP
8 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.33%) COBIT
3 2 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.55%) GDPR
3 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.55%) NIST
3 2 (1.55%) SEPA
4 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.55%) KVM
2 2 (1.55%) Xen
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.33%) OpenView
3 2 (1.55%) Ansible
3 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.55%) Terraform
4 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.98%) Google
3 5 (3.88%) Sparx
4 4 (3.10%) Oracle
4 4 (3.10%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.33%) BMC
5 3 (2.33%) Citrix
5 3 (2.33%) HP
5 3 (2.33%) Remedy
6 2 (1.55%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.78%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco
7 1 (0.78%) EMC
7 1 (0.78%) ForeScout
7 1 (0.78%) Meraki
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.78%) VMware