Architect Jobs in Cardiff

Architect
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Architect salary in Cardiff is £61,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 29 56
Rank change year-on-year -7 +27 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 28 41 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.24% 7.18% 4.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.54% 7.90% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 18 27 27
10th Percentile £50,000 £58,600 £60,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £96,250 £81,875
90th Percentile £90,000 - £85,500
South Wales median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% - +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 617 519 823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 90.89% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 537 396 613
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,690 £34,025
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,813 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,086 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% -4.60% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,766 £67,070 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £76,875 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £46,500 £45,476 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.25% -9.05% +11.11%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Cardiff

Architect
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Architect in Cardiff

Architect
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Cardiff over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 Cardiff region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 9 (32.14%) Roadmaps
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 6 (21.43%) NHS
4 6 (21.43%) AWS
5 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) Technology Roadmap
5 5 (17.86%) Health Technology
5 5 (17.86%) Digital Health
6 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
6 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (14.29%) Open Source
7 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
7 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
7 3 (10.71%) DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Customer-Centricity
8 2 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
8 2 (7.14%) Serverless
8 2 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (7.14%) Terraform
8 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
8 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
8 2 (7.14%) GCP
8 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
8 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) SaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.57%) dbt
4 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.57%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.57%) Stackdriver
4 1 (3.57%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Digital Health
3 5 (17.86%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) Django
1 1 (3.57%) Node.js
1 1 (3.57%) React
1 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) NHS
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Roadmaps
2 5 (17.86%) Agile
2 5 (17.86%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (14.29%) Open Source
3 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.71%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (10.71%) DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (7.14%) Kanban
5 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.14%) Migration
5 2 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.14%) Scrum
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (3.57%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) C#
1 1 (3.57%) Python
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Talend