Solutions Architect Job Trends in Swansea

Solution Architect
West Wales > Swansea

The median Solution Architect salary in Swansea is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.34% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
West Wales median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Swansea. 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 Swansea with a recognized job title 272 38 189
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 82.61% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 175 27 170
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,163 £30,344 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,709 £37,733 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.04% -16.15% +10.42%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £53,988
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,857 £65,000
West Wales median annual salary £46,250 £37,733 £42,500
% change year-on-year +22.57% -11.22% +4.28%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Swansea

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Swansea.

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Swansea

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2026, Solutions Architect 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 permanent job ads across the Swansea region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Identity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform