Architect Jobs in Sheffield

Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Architect salary in Sheffield is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 25 80
Rank change year-on-year -3 +55 -42
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 12 75 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.05% 6.79% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.23% 7.09% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9 56 7
10th Percentile £54,597 £47,500 £69,750
25th Percentile £59,168 £59,202 £80,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £93,375
90th Percentile £85,250 £91,250 £105,050
South Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.76% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 284 1,058 797
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.95% 95.83% 88.56%
Number of salaries quoted 195 851 400
10th Percentile £26,350 £27,500 £24,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,875 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,813
90th Percentile £82,000 £78,750 £70,600
South Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -10.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Sheffield

Architect
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Architect in Sheffield

Architect
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Sheffield over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, 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 Sheffield region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (33.33%) WAN
2 4 (33.33%) VPN
2 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) .NET
3 3 (25.00%) Confluence
3 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Coaching

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
1 4 (33.33%) WAN
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (16.67%) FCoE
3 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 2 (16.67%) Multicast
3 2 (16.67%) NAS
3 2 (16.67%) SAN
3 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (8.33%) DNS
4 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) WebEx
4 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Power BI
4 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (8.33%) Couchbase
5 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (8.33%) MySQL
5 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (8.33%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) LDAP
2 2 (16.67%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) NHS
3 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Solaris
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) Coaching
2 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (16.67%) Line Management
3 2 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (8.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (16.67%) KVM
1 2 (16.67%) NFS
1 2 (16.67%) SRDF
1 2 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) Xen
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) EMC
2 2 (16.67%) F5
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Meraki
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) NetApp
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Zscaler