Platform Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 453 508
Rank change year-on-year +59 +55 -81
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 7 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.033% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.035% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £713 £588 £434
25th Percentile £731 £606 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +6.12% +7.93%
75th Percentile £794 £681 £758
90th Percentile £831 £693 £794
UK median daily rate £725 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +11.54% - +10.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,242 22,667 29,600
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.17% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 15,893 20,733
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,165 1,485
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.45 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.51
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Architect in the UK excluding London

Platform Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Platform Architect in the UK excluding London

Platform Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England +37 4 £750 +7.14% 3
North West +22 3 £750 +7.14%
South East - 2 £788 - 5
Midlands +32 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +27 1 £700 - 3
West Midlands +26 1 - - 1
Platform Architect
UK

Platform Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 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 UK excluding London region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Fintech
3 1 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Release Train
3 1 (14.29%) Iteration Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Product Backlog
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Miro
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Management
3 1 (14.29%) Product Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Fintech
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Management
2 1 (14.29%) Iteration Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Product Backlog
2 1 (14.29%) Product Management
2 1 (14.29%) Release Train
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP