Architect Jobs in Wales

Architect
UK > Wales

The median Architect salary in Wales is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 11 78
Rank change year-on-year -11 +67 -21
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 157 244 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.78% 14.46% 3.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.27% 16.84% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 65 50 43
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £53,400
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,802 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -9.57% +17.50%
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £79,600
90th Percentile £81,072 £96,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,159 1,449 1,927
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 85.89% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,486 811 1,156
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,391 £31,125
25th Percentile £33,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,665
Median % change year-on-year - -5.59% +12.15%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,868 £70,600 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Wales

Architect
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Architect in Wales

Architect
Salary Histogram in Wales

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

Salary histogram for Architect in Wales

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 Architect within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 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
South Wales -8 141 £60,000 -14.29% 14
North Wales +11 8 £45,000 -25.00%
West Wales -3 2 £71,048 +53.75% 4
Architect
UK

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

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

1 59 (37.58%) Actionable Insight
2 54 (34.39%) TOGAF
3 49 (31.21%) Azure
4 45 (28.66%) Technical Architecture
5 37 (23.57%) AWS
6 36 (22.93%) Security Cleared
7 34 (21.66%) Social Skills
8 32 (20.38%) Model Validation
8 32 (20.38%) VSAT
8 32 (20.38%) Network Architecture
8 32 (20.38%) Network Management
8 32 (20.38%) Requirements Management
8 32 (20.38%) Validation
9 29 (18.47%) Agile
10 28 (17.83%) Presales
11 27 (17.20%) SC Cleared
12 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
13 20 (12.74%) Migration
14 16 (10.19%) Project Management
15 15 (9.55%) SaaS
16 14 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (8.92%) Power Platform
16 14 (8.92%) DevOps
17 13 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (8.28%) Roadmaps
18 12 (7.64%) Public Cloud
19 10 (6.37%) Data Warehouse
19 10 (6.37%) Presentation Skills
20 9 (5.73%) Public Sector
20 9 (5.73%) Cloud Native

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 (2.55%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (31.21%) Azure
2 37 (23.57%) AWS
3 15 (9.55%) SaaS
4 14 (8.92%) Power Platform
5 13 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.73%) GCP
7 5 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.55%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (2.55%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.27%) dbt
9 2 (1.27%) Serverless
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.64%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.64%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (0.64%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.38%) VSAT
2 4 (2.55%) BGP
2 4 (2.55%) DNS
2 4 (2.55%) SSL
2 4 (2.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.64%) Broadband
3 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.37%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.46%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (3.82%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.91%) Data Vault
6 3 (1.91%) Power BI
6 3 (1.91%) Tableau
7 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.64%) MySQL
General
1 34 (21.66%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.37%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (5.73%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.10%) Finance
5 7 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.82%) Banking
6 6 (3.82%) Games
7 5 (3.18%) Digital Health
7 5 (3.18%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.64%) Marketing
8 1 (0.64%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.18%) Node.js
2 4 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.55%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.91%) Django
3 3 (1.91%) React
4 2 (1.27%) .NET
4 2 (1.27%) Kafka
5 1 (0.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.64%) Public Cloud
2 9 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.46%) PKI
5 6 (3.82%) NHS
6 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.18%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.58%) Actionable Insight
2 54 (34.39%) TOGAF
3 45 (28.66%) Technical Architecture
4 32 (20.38%) Model Validation
4 32 (20.38%) Network Architecture
4 32 (20.38%) Network Management
4 32 (20.38%) Requirements Management
4 32 (20.38%) Validation
5 29 (18.47%) Agile
6 28 (17.83%) Presales
7 20 (12.74%) Migration
8 16 (10.19%) Project Management
9 14 (8.92%) DevOps
9 14 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (8.28%) Roadmaps
11 9 (5.73%) Mentoring
11 9 (5.73%) Open Source
11 9 (5.73%) Scrum
12 8 (5.10%) Data Architecture
12 8 (5.10%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.91%) Python
2 2 (1.27%) Java
2 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
3 1 (0.64%) C#
3 1 (0.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (22.93%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.10%) Degree
4 4 (2.55%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.91%) COBIT
System Software
1 7 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.91%) OpenView
2 2 (1.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.10%) Google
3 5 (3.18%) SAP
3 5 (3.18%) Sparx
4 4 (2.55%) Oracle
5 3 (1.91%) BMC
5 3 (1.91%) HP
5 3 (1.91%) Remedy
5 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.64%) Citrix
6 1 (0.64%) Ivanti
6 1 (0.64%) Talend