Platform Architect Contracts in Chester

Platform Architect
Cheshire > Chester

As of 3 August 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Platform Architect daily rate in Chester.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 1.35% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cheshire median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Chester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Chester. 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 Chester with a recognized job title 69 50 99
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 92.59% 96.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 56
10th Percentile £325 £199 £288
25th Percentile £350 £284 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +6.33% +16.18%
75th Percentile £703 £688 £582
90th Percentile £808 £738 £631
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 13
10th Percentile £27.19 £31.20 £19.72
25th Percentile £30.99 - £30.54
Median hourly rate £33.40 £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +6.06% +51.52%
75th Percentile £49.38 £47.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £50.00 - £39.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.01% +14.60% +36.40%

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, 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 Chester region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Mule
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Mule ESB
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 (100.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (100.00%) Mule
1 1 (100.00%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk