Architectural Design Job Trends in West Wales

Architectural Design
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 23 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 1.80% 0.92% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 1.05% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,236 £44,956 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £49,104 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.43% - -
75th Percentile £74,679 £53,252 -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £68,958 £67,500 £48,546
% change year-on-year +2.16% +39.04% +23.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86 95 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 77.48% 87.16% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 51 40 94
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,625
25th Percentile £39,582 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.05%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,939 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,679 £65,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -1.44%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in West Wales

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Swansea +6 2 £68,958 +40.43% 3
Architectural Design
Wales

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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