Solutions Architect Job Trends in Wales

Solution Architect
UK > Wales

The median Solution Architect salary in Wales is £74,654 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 65 69
Rank change year-on-year -45 +4 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 25 2 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.83% 0.24% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.29% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 17 2 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £80,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% +77.78% -47.06%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - £85,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,820 701 1,389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 85.18% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,792 530 990
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -2.17%
75th Percentile £69,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £70,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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 Wales.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Wales

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Wales.

Salary distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Wales

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Wales over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

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 8 September 2026. 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 -25 19 £40,000 -50.00% 3
West Wales - 6 £80,000 -
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 September 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 Wales region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 8 (32.00%) AI
1 8 (32.00%) Migration
2 6 (24.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (24.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) AWS CDK
2 6 (24.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (24.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (24.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (24.00%) Biometrics
2 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (24.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (24.00%) CloudFront
2 6 (24.00%) COBOL
2 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (24.00%) Digital Identity
2 6 (24.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 6 (24.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven
2 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 6 (24.00%) GitHub
2 6 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (24.00%) Government Security Classifications

Solutions 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (24.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
1 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 6 (24.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (24.00%) CloudFront
1 6 (24.00%) GitHub
1 6 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
1 6 (24.00%) Serverless
2 4 (16.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) AWS CDK
1 6 (24.00%) GraphQL
1 6 (24.00%) Node.js
1 6 (24.00%) REST
1 6 (24.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 6 (24.00%) Spring Boot
1 6 (24.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (24.00%) Digital Wallet
1 6 (24.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (20.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) AI
1 8 (32.00%) Migration
2 6 (24.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 6 (24.00%) Biometrics
2 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (24.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (24.00%) Digital Identity
2 6 (24.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven
2 6 (24.00%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (24.00%) Information Assurance
2 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (24.00%) TOGAF
2 6 (24.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) COBOL
1 6 (24.00%) Java
1 6 (24.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (24.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (24.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 6 (24.00%) NCSC