Architectural Design Job Trends in Wales

Architectural Design
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 75 76
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +37
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 2 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.18% 0.43% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.52% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile - £40,612 -
25th Percentile £63,236 £43,405 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £58,302 £48,546
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% +20.10% +23.46%
75th Percentile £74,679 £68,750 £51,121
90th Percentile - - £54,199
UK median annual salary £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.62% +1.56% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 866 773 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 77.39% 82.23% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 600 393 583
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,625 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +3.38% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,979
90th Percentile £76,499 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Wales

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the Wales region over the 6 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Wales +9 2 £68,958 +40.43% 2
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) PagerDuty