Solutions Architect Jobs in Sheffield

Solution Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Solution Architect salary in Sheffield is £62,779 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 61 94
Rank change year-on-year +21 +33 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 3 26 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.05% 2.41% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 2.53% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1 26 2
10th Percentile - £56,809 £61,625
25th Percentile £59,168 £72,493 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £82,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +20.00% -23.61%
75th Percentile £66,389 £86,250 £74,063
90th Percentile - £91,250 £76,875
South Yorkshire median annual salary £62,779 £82,500 £81,250
% change year-on-year -23.90% +1.54% -9.72%

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 273 1,029 816
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.79% 95.54% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 186 833 399
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £24,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £47,754
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -0.53% -9.04%
75th Percentile £73,688 £65,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,087 £72,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Sheffield

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Solutions Architect in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (66.67%) SRDF
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (66.67%) Xen
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory

Solutions 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
1 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (66.67%) FCoE
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) Multicast
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (66.67%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Server Virtualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) KVM
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
1 2 (66.67%) SRDF
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) VMware