Solutions Architect Jobs in Wales

Solution Architect
UK > Wales

The median Solution Architect salary in Wales is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 50 114
Rank change year-on-year -33 +64 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 24 90 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.24% 5.26% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 6.08% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 10
10th Percentile - £62,875 £53,475
25th Percentile - £78,438 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £92,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.35% +32.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £96,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £98,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £82,520
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.01% +3.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

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

Permanent vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 1,789 1,481 1,827
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 86.61% 93.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,271 806 1,206
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,391 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +16.85%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Wales

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in Wales

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Wales over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Solutions Architect in Wales

Solutions Architect
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South Wales -36 16 £90,000 -2.70%
North Wales +8 8 £45,000 -25.00%
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Solutions 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 Wales region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Presales
2 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) AWS
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) TOGAF
4 7 (29.17%) Scrum
5 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
5 5 (20.83%) ArchiMate
5 5 (20.83%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Sparx
5 5 (20.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
6 4 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
6 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
6 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
6 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
6 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
6 4 (16.67%) SDLC
6 4 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
6 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (16.67%) Open Source
6 4 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon SQS

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

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) WebLogic
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) BGP
1 4 (16.67%) DNS
1 4 (16.67%) SSL
1 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Presales
2 9 (37.50%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Scrum
3 7 (29.17%) TOGAF
4 5 (20.83%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (20.83%) ArchiMate
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
5 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Kanban
5 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Open Source
5 4 (16.67%) Project Management
5 4 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
5 4 (16.67%) SDLC
5 4 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Sparx
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft