EDINBURGH / SALARY
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£46,996 GBP

$59,836 USD

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£67,040 GBP

£36,914 GBP

$47,000 USD

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Average Salary / Edinburgh

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Average salary in Edinburgh is £46,996 GBP per year. The most typical earning is £36,914 GBP. All data are based on 165 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of £52,230 GBP. Women receive a salary of £40,370 GBP.

The most paid careers are Hotels & Tourism with average income £66,603 GBP and Engineers & Technicians III with income £65,896 GBP.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Doctorate Degree with salary of £53,330 GBP. The second most paid education level is Some College with salary of £52,701 GBP.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 20+ Years of experience receive salary of £67,782 GBP. Employees with 16-20 Years of experience receive £58,356 GBP.

Levels / Edinburgh (Gross GBP)

Salary Levels (GBP) per Year	Surveys	[%]
£7,900 GBP - £11,799 GBP	0	n/a
£11,800 GBP - £15,699 GBP	1	100% 0.61%
£15,700 GBP - £19,599 GBP	5	99.39% 3.03%
£19,600 GBP - £23,599 GBP	9	96.36% 5.45%
£23,600 GBP - £27,499 GBP	12	90.91% 7.27%
£27,500 GBP - £31,399 GBP	19	83.64% 11.52%
£31,400 GBP - £35,299 GBP	15	72.12% 9.09%
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
£35,300 GBP - £39,299 GBP	26	63.03% 15.76%
£39,300 GBP - £43,199 GBP	8	47.27% 4.85%
£43,200 GBP - £47,099 GBP	11	42.42% 6.67%
£47,100 GBP - £51,099 GBP	14	35.76% 8.48%
£51,100 GBP - £54,999 GBP	8	27.27% 4.85%
£55,000 GBP - £58,899 GBP	3	22.42% 1.82%
£58,900 GBP - £62,799 GBP	3	20.61% 1.82%
£62,800 GBP - £66,799 GBP	7	18.79% 4.24%
£66,800 GBP - £70,699 GBP	1	14.55% 0.61%
£70,700 GBP - £74,599 GBP	3	13.94% 1.82%
£74,600 GBP - £78,499 GBP	4	12.12% 2.42%
£78,500 GBP - £82,499 GBP	0	n/a
£82,500 GBP - £86,399 GBP	3	9.7% 1.82%
£86,400 GBP - £90,299 GBP	2	7.88% 1.21%
£90,300 GBP - £94,199 GBP	3	6.67% 1.82%
£94,300 GBP - £98,199 GBP	0	n/a
£98,200 GBP - £102,099 GBP	2	4.85% 1.21%
£102,100 GBP - £105,999 GBP	1	3.64% 0.61%
£106,000 GBP - £109,999 GBP	0	n/a
£110,000 GBP - £113,899 GBP	0	n/a
£113,900 GBP - £117,799 GBP	0	n/a
HIGH SALARIES
£117,800 GBP - £125,699 GBP	1	3.03% 0.61%
£125,700 GBP - £133,499 GBP	1	2.42% 0.61%
£133,500 GBP - £141,399 GBP	0	n/a
£141,400 GBP - £149,199 GBP	0	n/a
£149,200 GBP - £157,099 GBP	1	1.82% 0.61%
£157,100 GBP - £164,899 GBP	0	n/a
£164,900 GBP - £172,799 GBP	0	n/a
£172,800 GBP - £180,599 GBP	1	1.21% 0.61%
£180,600 GBP - £188,499 GBP	0	n/a
£188,500 GBP - £196,399 GBP	1	0.61% 0.61%
£196,400 GBP - £274,899 GBP	0	n/a

Gender / Edinburgh (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Men	95	£52,230 GBP
2	Women	34	£40,370 GBP

Education / Edinburgh (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys
1	Doctorate Degree	16	£53,330 GBP
2	Some College	18	£52,701 GBP
3	Bachelors Degree	55	£48,774 GBP
4	Masters Degree	55	£47,125 GBP
5	High School	21	£32,359 GBP

Experience / Edinburgh (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys
1	20+ Years	30	£67,782 GBP
2	16-20 Years	10	£58,356 GBP
3	12-16 Years	15	£54,037 GBP
4	8-12 Years	16	£48,303 GBP
5	4-8 Years	33	£44,769 GBP
6	2-4 Years	29	£35,579 GBP
7	0-1 Year	18	£33,380 GBP
8	1-2 Years	14	£31,495 GBP

Age / Edinburgh (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys
1	66-70	1	£153,864 GBP
2	56-60	5	£83,569 GBP
3	41-45	13	£68,488 GBP
4	51-55	11	£61,812 GBP
5	46-50	16	£55,843 GBP
6	36-40	14	£49,088 GBP
7	31-35	22	£43,512 GBP
8	26-30	28	£40,056 GBP
9	n/a	36	£39,506 GBP
10	21-25	15	£28,432 GBP
11	14-20	3	£27,882 GBP
12	61-65	1	£21,520 GBP

Work Type / Edinburgh (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys
1	Permanent	133	£49,088 GBP
2	Self Employed	8	£48,539 GBP
3	Part Time	9	£35,029 GBP
4	Contract	15	£34,637 GBP

Career Groups / Edinburgh (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys
1	Hotels & Tourism	3	£66,603 GBP
2	Engineers & Technicians III	2	£65,896 GBP
3	Sports & Recreation	1	£64,640 GBP
4	Media	2	£60,870 GBP
5	Management & Business	18	£59,770 GBP
6	Properties & Real Estates	1	£57,650 GBP
7	Finance & Banking	16	£57,178 GBP
8	Law	6	£54,586 GBP
9	Engineers & Technicians	9	£53,880 GBP
10	IT & Programming	18	£51,209 GBP
11	Health Care & Medical	5	£51,052 GBP
12	Health Care & Medical II	6	£49,795 GBP
13	IT & Programming II	6	£48,696 GBP
14	Education & University	16	£41,548 GBP
15	Customer Services	4	£40,920 GBP
16	Marketing, Sales, Purchase	2	£39,585 GBP
17	Construction & Labor Workers	4	£39,035 GBP
18	Architect Constructions	7	£38,171 GBP
19	Human Resources	8	£37,229 GBP
20	Organization & Coordination	2	£35,186 GBP
21	Public Sector	4	£34,715 GBP
22	Accounting & Administration	8	£33,930 GBP
23	Salesmen & Saleswomen	4	£33,930 GBP
24	Arts, Culture, Performance	1	£32,909 GBP
25	Engineers & Technicians V	3	£32,280 GBP
26	Engineers & Technicians IV	1	£31,888 GBP
27	Military	1	£30,160 GBP
28	Automobile	1	£29,060 GBP
29	Manufacturing & Labor Workers	2	£25,840 GBP
30	Logistics, Road, Railway	1	£23,405 GBP
31	Restaurants, Inns, Pubs	3	£22,777 GBP

Careers / Edinburgh (Gross GBP)

#		Surveys
1	Technical Manager	1	£178,762 GBP
2	CEO	1	£98,649 GBP
3	Doctor Specialist	1	£90,951 GBP
4	Operations Manager	3	£87,181 GBP
5	IT Manager	3	£82,312 GBP
6	Investment Manager	2	£81,605 GBP
7	Computer Architect	1	£76,186 GBP
8	Program Manager	2	£72,101 GBP
9	Other Finance Career	6	£68,881 GBP
10	Oil & Gas Engineer	2	£65,896 GBP
11	Other Medical Career	1	£62,990 GBP
12	Database Developer	1	£60,320 GBP
13	University Professor	1	£57,021 GBP
14	Director	3	£55,686 GBP
15	Lead Developer	1	£54,822 GBP
16	IT Project Manager	2	£54,743 GBP
17	Human Resources Manager	3	£53,801 GBP
18	Other Management Career	3	£53,644 GBP
19	Finance Manager	2	£53,408 GBP
20	Non-Profit Organization	1	£52,701 GBP
21	Manager	2	£52,544 GBP
22	Audit Manager	1	£51,445 GBP
23	Healthcare Management	2	£50,973 GBP
24	Lawyer	5	£50,738 GBP
25	Construction Foreman	1	£49,952 GBP
26	Engineering Manager	1	£49,717 GBP
27	Languages Teacher	2	£47,675 GBP
28	.NET Developer	1	£45,318 GBP
29	Software Engineer	2	£44,533 GBP
30	Economist	2	£43,590 GBP
31	Teacher	2	£41,784 GBP
32	Lecturer	7	£41,077 GBP
33	Salesmen or Saleswomen	3	£40,370 GBP
34	CPA - Certified Public Accountant	1	£39,192 GBP
35	Engineer	3	£38,799 GBP
36	C, C++ Developer	1	£38,407 GBP
37	High School Teacher	1	£37,307 GBP
38	Architect	6	£36,836 GBP
39	Software Developer	5	£36,208 GBP
40	Other Education Career	2	£35,422 GBP
41	Bank Manager	1	£35,108 GBP
42	Other Public Sector Career	4	£34,715 GBP
43	Music Instrument Teacher	1	£32,909 GBP
44	Secondary School Teacher	1	£32,909 GBP
45	Other Engineer Career	3	£32,280 GBP
46	Registered Nurse	1	£31,495 GBP
47	Java Developer	2	£30,631 GBP
48	Project Manager	1	£30,474 GBP
49	Construction Electrician	1	£29,374 GBP
50	Product Manager	1	£29,139 GBP
51	Financial Analyst	1	£28,432 GBP
52	Human Resource Administrator	2	£27,568 GBP
53	Administrator	2	£26,782 GBP
54	Human Resource Coordinator	1	£25,369 GBP
55	Other Administration Career	1	£25,369 GBP
56	Serving Meals & Cashier	1	£19,714 GBP
57	Other Coordination Career	1	£17,593 GBP
58	Sales in Music Shops	1	£14,687 GBP

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

Graduate Software Developer

Posted 21 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Programming."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	0-1 Year	Intermediate	£27,000 GBP

Teacher

Posted 19 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Pedagogy, computer science, maths. Educating young people (11-18) in computer science and maths."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	1-2 Years	Advanced	£37,300 GBP

Research Software Developer

Posted 13 June 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Programming, Research, ."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Doctorate Degree	0-1 Year	Expert	£33,700 GBP

Project Manager

Posted 19 February 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Management of teams and deployment to other countries."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	High School	4-8 Years	Advanced	£52,700 GBP

Ui Designer

Posted 13 January 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Design for web, app and mobile."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	£49,300 GBP

Accounts Manager

Posted 26 December 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Accounts, excel, payroll."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Doctorate Degree	8-12 Years	Advanced	£28,500 GBP

Manager

Posted 14 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Audit of Financial Statements."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Expert	£51,500 GBP

Software Developer

Posted 04 April 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

". net developer, software development, support."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	£45,300 GBP

Curation Executive Manager

Posted 10 March 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Overseeing curation for monthly boxes, being responsible for a team, budget managing, invoicing, sorting logistics etc."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£29,200 GBP

Senior Developer

Posted 14 January 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Design and Build Systems."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	16-20 Years	n/a	£51,200 GBP

Project Manager

Posted 08 September 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Project management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Doctorate Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	£35,500 GBP

Account Director

Posted 08 January 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Continuous improvement."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	20+ Years	n/a	£91,400 GBP

Sales Assistant

Posted 04 January 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Cool beans dude."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	High School	1-2 Years	n/a	£14,700 GBP

Commissioning Engineering Manager

Posted 28 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Coordinating tasks to team
Reporting progress to directors
Ensuring issues are resolved professionally
Ensuring safety is maintained and tasks are carried out to procedure."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	£49,700 GBP

Assistant Professor

Posted 28 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Giving lectures and seminars, marking, developing new courses."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Doctorate Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	£36,600 GBP

Technical Architect

Posted 12 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Designing IT solutions."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	20+ Years	n/a	£76,200 GBP

Software Developer

Posted 29 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Development and maintaing in house software
focus on back-end microservices
scala 
aws 
javascript
sql
ruby."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	£29,000 GBP

Veterinary Pathologist

Posted 29 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Pathology evaluation of toxicology studies in non-clinical safety."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Doctorate Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	£63,000 GBP

Senior Project Manager

Posted 15 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Project management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Doctorate Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	£66,000 GBP

Inspector

Posted 28 May 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Inspecting care services for adults and older people."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	20+ Years	n/a	£40,600 GBP

Chief Exec

Posted 19 May 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Leading tech company."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Doctorate Degree	20+ Years	n/a	£178,800 GBP

Lead Bioinformatic Developer

Posted 15 May 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Lead developer in bioinformatics."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	£54,900 GBP

Trainee Nutritional Therapist

Posted 30 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Meeting clients, discussing lifestyle habits, previous medical history, current diet and formulating diet plans. Educating, increasing awareness of the importance of nutrition to overall health and wellbeing."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£17,300 GBP

Talent Acqusition Coordinator

Posted 09 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Recruitment and candidate management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	£25,400 GBP

Project Manager

Posted 09 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Project management, budgeting, client relation."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Some College	16-20 Years	n/a	£30,500 GBP

Property Gazetteer Officer

Posted 01 March 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Managing complex datasets."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	£32,000 GBP

Vice President

Posted 14 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Master Black Belt."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	£75,100 GBP

Solicitor

Posted 06 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Legal Services."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	£35,600 GBP

Data Analyst

Posted 01 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"I work as a data analyst."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	£25,400 GBP

Bank Manager

Posted 26 December 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Bank manager in bank."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	£35,100 GBP

Managing Director

Posted 24 December 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Strategy, Finance and Executution."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	20+ Years	n/a	£98,700 GBP

Software Developer

Posted 14 December 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Design, implementation, bug-fixing."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	£38,400 GBP

Senior Developer

Posted 20 November 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Application support, development, dev ops."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	20+ Years	n/a	£60,300 GBP

Reader

Posted 04 November 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Teaching undergraduates and postgraduates, Supervising PhD students, Obtaining funding, running a research programme."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Doctorate Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	£57,000 GBP

Registered Nurse

Posted 14 October 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Taking notes, treating minor injuries, inserting canulas etc, cleaning infections, discharging patients, supporting patients, prescribing medicine."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£31,500 GBP

Recruiter

Posted 24 September 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Personnel selection."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£24,100 GBP

Project Manager

Posted 12 September 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Lead Projects of Medium To large size."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	£69,100 GBP

Applications Engineer

Posted 02 September 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Hardware Development with customer support."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£43,900 GBP

Palliative Medicine Consultant

Posted 18 August 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Palliative medicine consultant for 2yrs in UK."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	£91,000 GBP

Flute Teacher

Posted 29 June 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Self-employed blah blah."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£32,900 GBP

Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Posted 01 June 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"I defend and prosecute parties in situations relating to medical malpractice or ant form of delict performed by a medical healthcare professional/."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	£65,800 GBP

Tax Officer

Posted 13 March 2018

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	High School	12-16 Years	n/a	£20,700 GBP

Teacher Of Spanish

Posted 27 February 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"3 years experience in UK teaching."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	£32,900 GBP

Barista

Posted 07 February 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Barista at best coffee franchise in UK."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	£19,700 GBP

Tools Game Engineer

Posted 23 January 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Game Developer making tools for the engine. handling pipelines."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Some College	4-8 Years	n/a	£41,700 GBP

Intern

Posted 30 November 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Primarily monotonous labour intensive admin tasks."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	n/a	£17,600 GBP

Head Of Organisational Development

Posted 15 November 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"I am the head of OD. Succesion planning, recruitment, workforce planning, leadership,."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	£25,500 GBP

Trainee Solicitor

Posted 27 July 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Reviewing contracts, undertaking legal research, offering legal advice."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Edinburgh	Masters Degree	0-1 Year	n/a	£19,600 GBP

ECONOMY / Edinburgh

Edinburgh is usually considered as one of the twin engines of the Scottish Economy beside Glasgow. Edinburgh is one of the most prosperous parts of the country and has the highest Gross Value Added per capita of any UK city outside London.

The economy of Edinburgh is based on services sectors like tourism, finance and banking as well as education and high tech research. Education and academic research have significant role in the economy of this city.

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£36,914 GBP

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