Architect Jobs in South Wales

Architect
Wales > South Wales

The median Architect salary in South Wales is £71,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 17 7
Rank change year-on-year -25 -10 +53
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 24 134 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.51% 8.50% 17.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 9.31% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 19 50 46
10th Percentile £62,791 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,750 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -14.29% -1.06%
75th Percentile £73,000 £75,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £74,450 £85,500 £96,250
Wales median annual salary £71,500 £60,000 £63,121
% change year-on-year +19.17% -4.94% -10.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

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

Permanent vacancies in South Wales with a recognized job title 788 1,440 1,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.43% 91.37% 89.33%
Number of salaries quoted 464 970 556
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,157 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,154 £45,569 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -4.07% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £64,438
90th Percentile £70,600 £70,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.59%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in South Wales

Architect
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Architect in South Wales

Architect
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in South Wales

Architect
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newport -16 19 £72,250 +9.06% 6
Cardiff +2 5 £69,040 +25.53% 17
Architect
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 South Wales region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 18 (75.00%) Degree
1 18 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 17 (70.83%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (70.83%) Chartered Engineer
2 17 (70.83%) Configuration Management
3 10 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (37.50%) SDLC
4 9 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (37.50%) Design Patterns
4 9 (37.50%) Waterfall
4 9 (37.50%) Open Source
4 9 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 9 (37.50%) UML
4 9 (37.50%) Middleware
4 9 (37.50%) Agile
5 8 (33.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 8 (33.33%) Requirements Management
5 8 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 8 (33.33%) IBM
5 8 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
5 8 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 8 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
5 8 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
5 8 (33.33%) Business Case
6 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (12.50%) Microsoft

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 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) Azure API Management
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 17 (70.83%) Configuration Management
3 10 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (41.67%) DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) Agile
4 9 (37.50%) Design Patterns
4 9 (37.50%) Open Source
4 9 (37.50%) SDLC
4 9 (37.50%) UML
4 9 (37.50%) Waterfall
5 8 (33.33%) Business Case
5 8 (33.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 8 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (33.33%) Requirements Management
5 8 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
5 8 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
6 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (8.33%) SABSA
6 2 (8.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) Degree
2 17 (70.83%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (70.83%) Chartered Engineer
3 9 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) CCIE
5 1 (4.17%) CCNA
5 1 (4.17%) CCNP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 8 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (8.33%) NCSC
4 2 (8.33%) NIST
5 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft