Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Architectural Design
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 6 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.83% 1.27% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 1.45% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £202
25th Percentile £638 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £217
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +188.02% -65.96%
75th Percentile £725 £688 -
90th Percentile £733 - £477
Wales median daily rate £675 £625 £217
% change year-on-year +8.00% +188.02% -65.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 257 276 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 78.59% 87.62% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 159 217
10th Percentile £206 £176 £166
25th Percentile £290 £228 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £695 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £413
% change year-on-year -2.94% +3.03% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 34 23
10th Percentile £12.98 £16.68 £14.06
25th Percentile £15.96 £20.12 £21.30
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.50 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -18.34% -13.49% +36.44%
75th Percentile £26.75 £28.44 £53.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £41.25 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £23.75 £27.17
% change year-on-year -23.45% -12.57% +49.22%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in South Wales

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newport - 6 £675 -
Architectural Design
Wales

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) GitHub
3 4 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JMeter
1 6 (100.00%) MSTest
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Automation Tester
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
1 5 (83.33%) Tester
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Automation Tester
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (66.67%) AI
3 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
6 1 (16.67%) API Testing
6 1 (16.67%) BDD
6 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
6 1 (16.67%) SDET
6 1 (16.67%) SOLID
6 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 4 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 6 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft