Architect Contract Job Trends in Wales

Architect
UK > Wales

The median Architect daily rate in Wales is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 22 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 25 24 25
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 5.31% 5.88% 5.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.97% 6.50% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 21
10th Percentile £483 £518 -
25th Percentile £525 £572 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +21.43% -16.33%
75th Percentile £688 £727 £725
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £78.25 - -
25th Percentile £79.38 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.38 - -
90th Percentile £84.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £83.82 £72.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +15.61% -5.27% +9.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

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

Contract vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 419 369 417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.96% 90.44% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 240 316
10th Percentile £176 £161 £160
25th Percentile £275 £213 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £413 £406
Median % change year-on-year - +1.54% -11.68%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £550
90th Percentile £605 £650 £648
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 43 22
10th Percentile £13.33 £18.51 £17.10
25th Percentile £15.97 £20.21 £21.34
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -14.19% +96.14%
75th Percentile £22.00 £40.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £30.53 £48.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.20 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.64% -26.67% +45.77%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Architect job vacancy trend in Wales

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Wales

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Wales over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Wales

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Wales

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Wales region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
South Wales +3 20 £600 -4.00% 39
West Wales +5 4 £625 -3.85% 4
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wales region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
1 8 (32.00%) TOGAF
2 7 (28.00%) CISSP
2 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (20.00%) Azure
4 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (20.00%) SABSA
5 4 (16.00%) AWS
5 4 (16.00%) NIST
5 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (16.00%) Security Architecture
6 3 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (12.00%) CISM
6 3 (12.00%) Def Stans
6 3 (12.00%) Information Assurance
6 3 (12.00%) Information Security
6 3 (12.00%) JSP 440
6 3 (12.00%) Migration
6 3 (12.00%) ModSecurity
6 3 (12.00%) NCSC
6 3 (12.00%) NIST 800
6 3 (12.00%) Security Management
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) API Design
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (8.00%) BPR
7 2 (8.00%) Change Advisory Board

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (4.00%) IaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Rubrik
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Serverless
3 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) ModSecurity
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) TOGAF
2 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (20.00%) SABSA
4 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (16.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (12.00%) Information Assurance
5 3 (12.00%) Information Security
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Security Management
5 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) API Design
6 2 (8.00%) Change Advisory Board
6 2 (8.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
6 2 (8.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (8.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Java
1 2 (8.00%) Ruby
2 1 (4.00%) C#
2 1 (4.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) CISSP
2 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) CISM
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (16.00%) NIST
3 3 (12.00%) Def Stans
3 3 (12.00%) JSP 440
3 3 (12.00%) NCSC
3 3 (12.00%) NIST 800
4 2 (8.00%) ITGC
4 2 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (4.00%) GDPR
5 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Databricks
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle
1 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (4.00%) Sitecore
1 1 (4.00%) VMware