Architect Jobs in Wales

Architect
UK > Wales

The median Architect salary in Wales is £66,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 15 77
Rank change year-on-year -14 +62 -19
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 122 204 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.05% 12.25% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.54% 14.27% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 38 57 49
10th Percentile £51,600 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,819 £59,168
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £68,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% -2.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £73,813 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,256 £96,250 £83,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 1,865 1,430 1,797
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 85.89% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 817 1,150
10th Percentile £26,350 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,107 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Wales

Architect
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Architect in Wales

Architect
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Wales

Architect
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Wales region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -13 111 £66,250 -5.36% 15
West Wales -3 2 £71,048 +30.42% 4
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Wales region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 71 (58.20%) Actionable Insight
2 53 (43.44%) TOGAF
3 42 (34.43%) Technical Architecture
4 38 (31.15%) Security Cleared
5 34 (27.87%) Validation
5 34 (27.87%) Model Validation
6 33 (27.05%) VSAT
6 33 (27.05%) Network Architecture
6 33 (27.05%) Requirements Management
6 33 (27.05%) Network Management
7 32 (26.23%) Azure
7 32 (26.23%) Social Skills
8 26 (21.31%) SC Cleared
9 24 (19.67%) AWS
10 21 (17.21%) Presales
11 20 (16.39%) Agile
12 17 (13.93%) Microsoft
13 16 (13.11%) Project Management
14 13 (10.66%) Migration
15 12 (9.84%) Public Cloud
16 11 (9.02%) Power Platform
16 11 (9.02%) Business Case
17 10 (8.20%) Containerisation
17 10 (8.20%) Roadmaps
17 10 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
18 9 (7.38%) Network Segmentation
18 9 (7.38%) GCP
18 9 (7.38%) Identity Access Management
18 9 (7.38%) RBAC

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (3.28%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.82%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.23%) Azure
2 24 (19.67%) AWS
3 11 (9.02%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.38%) GCP
4 9 (7.38%) SaaS
5 8 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.28%) Azure API Management
6 4 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.82%) dbt
7 1 (0.82%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (0.82%) Serverless
7 1 (0.82%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.82%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 33 (27.05%) VSAT
2 4 (3.28%) BGP
2 4 (3.28%) DNS
2 4 (3.28%) SSL
2 4 (3.28%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.82%) Broadband
3 1 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.28%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.28%) RDBMS
3 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.82%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.82%) MySQL
4 1 (0.82%) Power BI
4 1 (0.82%) Tableau
General
1 32 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.38%) Banking
2 9 (7.38%) Finance
2 9 (7.38%) Games
2 9 (7.38%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.10%) Digital Health
5 5 (4.10%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (3.28%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.82%) .NET
2 1 (0.82%) Django
2 1 (0.82%) Node.js
2 1 (0.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.84%) Public Cloud
2 8 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.74%) PKI
4 6 (4.92%) NHS
5 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.64%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.28%) Linux
1 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (58.20%) Actionable Insight
2 53 (43.44%) TOGAF
3 42 (34.43%) Technical Architecture
4 34 (27.87%) Model Validation
4 34 (27.87%) Validation
5 33 (27.05%) Network Architecture
5 33 (27.05%) Network Management
5 33 (27.05%) Requirements Management
6 21 (17.21%) Presales
7 20 (16.39%) Agile
8 16 (13.11%) Project Management
9 13 (10.66%) Migration
10 11 (9.02%) Business Case
11 10 (8.20%) Containerisation
11 10 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (8.20%) Roadmaps
12 9 (7.38%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (7.38%) Network Segmentation
12 9 (7.38%) RBAC
12 9 (7.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.82%) Python
1 1 (0.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 26 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.56%) Degree
4 4 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.46%) COBIT
System Software
1 10 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.46%) OpenView
2 2 (1.64%) Terraform
3 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.56%) Google
3 5 (4.10%) Sparx
4 4 (3.28%) Oracle
5 3 (2.46%) BMC
5 3 (2.46%) HP
5 3 (2.46%) Remedy
5 3 (2.46%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.82%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.82%) Talend