Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Solution Architect
Wales > South Wales

The median Solution Architect daily rate in South Wales is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 36 37
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 6 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.42% 1.83% 2.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.62% 2.01% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £454 £482 £513
25th Percentile £500 £495 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £535 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -14.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £666 £570 £688
90th Percentile £686 £581 £763
Wales median daily rate £625 £535 £625
% change year-on-year +16.82% -14.40% +4.17%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South Wales with a recognized job title 229 298 385
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 90.85% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 176 293
10th Percentile £190 £136 £168
25th Percentile £266 £200 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £419 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -9.46% -7.50%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £600
90th Percentile £633 £622 £650
Wales median daily rate £390 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -8.24% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 43 26
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.48 £16.98
25th Percentile £13.08 £20.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £16.65 £25.60 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -34.96% +7.05% +26.17%
75th Percentile £20.75 £49.38 £37.50
90th Percentile £24.45 £53.75 £50.72
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £27.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -24.07% +20.00% +36.36%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in South Wales

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in South Wales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in South Wales

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in South Wales over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in South Wales

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in South Wales.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in South Wales

Solutions Architect
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 Solutions Architect within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 6 September 2025. 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
Cardiff +11 6 £625 - 3
Solutions Architect
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Solutions Architect contract 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 contract job ads across the South Wales region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Health
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) NHS
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) CITP
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Health
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) B2C
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CITP
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Sitecore