Architect Jobs in South Wales

Architect
Wales > South Wales

The median Architect salary in South Wales is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 7 61
Rank change year-on-year -10 +54 -7
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 137 205 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 8.51% 17.58% 4.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.32% 19.65% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 52 44 42
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £53,200
25th Percentile £51,750 £47,602 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,625
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -0.88% +17.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,125 £79,600
90th Percentile £84,500 £96,250 £85,000
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £70,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -9.57% +17.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,470 1,043 1,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 89.45% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 995 561 886
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,665
% change year-on-year - -5.59% +12.15%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in South Wales

Architect
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Architect in South Wales

Architect
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in South Wales over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in South Wales

Architect
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Bridgend -3 74 - -
Cardiff -1 45 £56,250 -23.73% 16
Newport +6 18 £66,250 +47.22%
Architect
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 South Wales region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 54 (39.42%) TOGAF
2 53 (38.69%) Actionable Insight
3 46 (33.58%) Azure
4 45 (32.85%) Technical Architecture
5 34 (24.82%) AWS
6 32 (23.36%) VSAT
6 32 (23.36%) Network Architecture
6 32 (23.36%) Network Management
6 32 (23.36%) Requirements Management
6 32 (23.36%) Validation
6 32 (23.36%) Model Validation
7 29 (21.17%) Security Cleared
8 28 (20.44%) Agile
9 27 (19.71%) Social Skills
10 26 (18.98%) SC Cleared
11 22 (16.06%) Microsoft
12 20 (14.60%) Migration
12 20 (14.60%) Presales
13 16 (11.68%) Project Management
14 14 (10.22%) Power Platform
14 14 (10.22%) DevOps
14 14 (10.22%) SaaS
15 13 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (8.76%) Roadmaps
16 12 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
17 11 (8.03%) Public Cloud
18 10 (7.30%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
19 9 (6.57%) Scrum
19 9 (6.57%) Open Source

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (2.92%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.58%) Azure
2 34 (24.82%) AWS
3 14 (10.22%) Power Platform
3 14 (10.22%) SaaS
4 12 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (6.57%) GCP
6 5 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.92%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.92%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.46%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.46%) dbt
8 2 (1.46%) Serverless
9 1 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.73%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.73%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (0.73%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 32 (23.36%) VSAT
2 4 (2.92%) BGP
2 4 (2.92%) DNS
2 4 (2.92%) SSL
2 4 (2.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.73%) Broadband
3 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (5.11%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (4.38%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.92%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.92%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.19%) Data Vault
6 3 (2.19%) Power BI
6 3 (2.19%) Tableau
7 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.73%) MySQL
General
1 27 (19.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.30%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (5.84%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.65%) Digital Health
5 5 (3.65%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.46%) Finance
7 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.73%) Marketing
7 1 (0.73%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.65%) Node.js
2 4 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.92%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.19%) Django
3 3 (2.19%) React
4 2 (1.46%) .NET
4 2 (1.46%) Kafka
5 1 (0.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.03%) Public Cloud
2 8 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.84%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.11%) PKI
4 6 (4.38%) NHS
5 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.46%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.46%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.65%) Linux
2 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.42%) TOGAF
2 53 (38.69%) Actionable Insight
3 45 (32.85%) Technical Architecture
4 32 (23.36%) Model Validation
4 32 (23.36%) Network Architecture
4 32 (23.36%) Network Management
4 32 (23.36%) Requirements Management
4 32 (23.36%) Validation
5 28 (20.44%) Agile
6 20 (14.60%) Migration
6 20 (14.60%) Presales
7 16 (11.68%) Project Management
8 14 (10.22%) DevOps
9 13 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (8.76%) Roadmaps
11 9 (6.57%) Open Source
11 9 (6.57%) Scrum
12 8 (5.84%) Business Case
12 8 (5.84%) Data Analytics
12 8 (5.84%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.19%) Python
2 2 (1.46%) Java
2 2 (1.46%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
3 1 (0.73%) C#
3 1 (0.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.98%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) Degree
4 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.19%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.19%) OpenView
2 2 (1.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.84%) Google
3 5 (3.65%) Sparx
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle
4 4 (2.92%) SAP
5 3 (2.19%) BMC
5 3 (2.19%) HP
5 3 (2.19%) Remedy
5 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.73%) Citrix
6 1 (0.73%) Ivanti
6 1 (0.73%) Talend