Platform Architect Contracts in the South East

Platform Architect
England > South East

The median Platform Architect daily rate in the South East is £595 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 April 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
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 - 262
Rank change year-on-year - - -56
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% - 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £550 - -
25th Percentile £573 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 - -
75th Percentile £710 - -
90th Percentile £810 - -
England median daily rate £690 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +10.40% -3.85% +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,155 5,562 7,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.30% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,098 3,867 5,106
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £396 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 242 338
10th Percentile £12.79 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.03
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +127.57% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.01 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.45
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.76%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Architect in the South East

Platform Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Architect in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Platform Architect in the South East

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Architect in the South East

Platform Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
Surrey - 5 £595 -
Kent - 2 £788 -
Platform Architect
England

Platform Architect Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 20 April 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 South East region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Google
2 5 (71.43%) Load Balancing
2 5 (71.43%) Network Security
2 5 (71.43%) Open Source
2 5 (71.43%) Network Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) VPN
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) BigQuery
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 5 (71.43%) SDLC
2 5 (71.43%) API Development
2 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
1 5 (71.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) BigQuery
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) API Development
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
1 5 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (71.43%) Load Balancing
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
1 5 (71.43%) Network Architecture
1 5 (71.43%) Open Source
1 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
1 5 (71.43%) SDLC
2 4 (57.14%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Google