Platform Architect Contracts in England

Platform Architect
UK > England

The median Platform Architect daily rate in England is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 622 723
Rank change year-on-year +125 +101 -124
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 36 25 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.051% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.054% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 26
10th Percentile £513 £477 £508
25th Percentile £600 £536 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £697
90th Percentile £850 £771 £778
UK median daily rate £700 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +6.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,813 46,135 67,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.65% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,418 32,774 48,161
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,361 1,875
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.52 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.52
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.02 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Architect in England

Platform Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Platform Architect in England

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Architect in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Architect in England

Platform Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +98 29 £690 +10.40% 6
North of England +28 4 £750 - 1
North West - 3 £750 -
South East - 2 £788 - 6
Midlands +23 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +21 1 £700 - 1
West Midlands +20 1 - - 1
Platform Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Platform Architect contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 24 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 23 (63.89%) Azure
3 21 (58.33%) Microsoft
4 14 (38.89%) Power BI
4 14 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (33.33%) Finance
5 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 12 (33.33%) PowerApps
6 11 (30.56%) Power Automate
7 10 (27.78%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (27.78%) Data Modelling
8 9 (25.00%) XML
8 9 (25.00%) JSON
8 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 8 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
9 8 (22.22%) SharePoint
9 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
10 7 (19.44%) Financial Institution
10 7 (19.44%) Agile
10 7 (19.44%) REST
10 7 (19.44%) Network Virtualisation
10 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (19.44%) Entra ID
10 7 (19.44%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (19.44%) XML Parsing
11 6 (16.67%) Databricks
12 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 23 (63.89%) Azure
3 14 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (33.33%) PowerApps
5 11 (30.56%) Power Automate
6 10 (27.78%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (19.44%) Entra ID
9 3 (8.33%) AWS
9 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (8.33%) GCP
10 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (5.56%) GitHub
11 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
11 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.78%) Collibra
11 1 (2.78%) Miro
11 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (38.89%) Power BI
2 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.56%) Big Data
3 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.56%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
1 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Financial Institution
3 5 (13.89%) Banking
3 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.78%) Publishing
7 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) JSON
1 9 (25.00%) XML
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (19.44%) REST
3 2 (5.56%) PySpark
3 2 (5.56%) RESTful
3 2 (5.56%) SOAP
3 2 (5.56%) SPFx
4 1 (2.78%) .NET
4 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.78%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.78%) Spring
4 1 (2.78%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Low-Code
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (27.78%) Data Modelling
3 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (19.44%) Agile
4 7 (19.44%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (19.44%) XML Parsing
5 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (11.11%) CRM
6 4 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.11%) Scrum
7 3 (8.33%) Analytics
7 3 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
7 3 (8.33%) Data Governance
7 3 (8.33%) DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 2 (5.56%) Logical Data Model
8 2 (5.56%) Physical Data Model
8 2 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.78%) C#
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
1 7 (19.44%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Talend