Platform Architect Contracts

Platform Architect
UK

The median Platform Architect daily rate in the UK is £712 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 656 803
Rank change year-on-year +128 +147 -132
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 42 34 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.060% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.064% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 33
10th Percentile £513 £489 £501
25th Percentile £600 £553 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £712 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.69% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £775 £766 £700
90th Percentile £840 £904 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £725 £625
% change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% +9.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,467 53,505 83,509
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.60% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,700 37,347 58,712
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,724 1,494 2,029
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Architect in the UK

Platform Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Architect in the UK

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Architect over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Architect in the UK

Platform Architect
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 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
England +105 39 £733 +17.20% 23
London +110 32 £701 +12.16% 10
Work from Home +127 19 £625 - 14
UK excluding London +54 7 £750 +3.45% 12
North of England +31 4 £750 -
North West - 3 £750 -
South East +18 2 £788 +5.00% 6
Midlands +32 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +18 1 £700 -
West Midlands +15 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 27 (64.29%) Power Platform
2 23 (54.76%) Azure
3 21 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 16 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (38.10%) Power BI
5 14 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (28.57%) Finance
6 12 (28.57%) PowerApps
6 12 (28.57%) Power Automate
6 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
7 11 (26.19%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (23.81%) Data Modelling
9 9 (21.43%) SharePoint
9 9 (21.43%) XML
9 9 (21.43%) JSON
9 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
10 8 (19.05%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
10 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (16.67%) Agile
11 7 (16.67%) Banking
11 7 (16.67%) Financial Institution
11 7 (16.67%) Active Directory
11 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
11 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
11 7 (16.67%) REST
11 7 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
11 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (16.67%) Entra ID

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (64.29%) Power Platform
2 23 (54.76%) Azure
3 14 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (28.57%) Power Automate
4 12 (28.57%) PowerApps
5 11 (26.19%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (19.05%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (16.67%) Entra ID
8 3 (7.14%) AWS
8 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.14%) GCP
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.76%) GitHub
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (2.38%) Collibra
10 1 (2.38%) Miro
10 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (38.10%) Power BI
2 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.76%) Big Data
3 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.76%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
1 3 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (28.57%) Finance
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Banking
2 7 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Marketing
7 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.38%) Publishing
7 1 (2.38%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) JSON
1 9 (21.43%) XML
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (16.67%) REST
3 2 (4.76%) PySpark
3 2 (4.76%) RESTful
3 2 (4.76%) SOAP
3 2 (4.76%) SPFx
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.38%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.38%) Spring
4 1 (2.38%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Low-Code
2 3 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (23.81%) Data Modelling
3 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (16.67%) Agile
5 7 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 7 (16.67%) XML Parsing
6 5 (11.90%) Migration
6 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (9.52%) CRM
7 4 (9.52%) Customer Service
7 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.52%) Scrum
8 3 (7.14%) Analytics
8 3 (7.14%) Customer Engagement
8 3 (7.14%) Data Governance
8 3 (7.14%) DevOps
8 3 (7.14%) Project Delivery
9 2 (4.76%) Data Architecture
9 2 (4.76%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.38%) C#
3 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 7 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 21 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.38%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.38%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) SAP
4 1 (2.38%) Talend