Platform Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Platform Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Platform Architect daily rate in the City of London is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.14% - 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £633 - £695
25th Percentile £645 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - £750
75th Percentile £682 - £775
90th Percentile £693 - £805
Central London median daily rate £663 - £750

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,026 1,606 2,190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 92.73% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 1,028 1,558
10th Percentile £350 £363 £342
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 17
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £19.05 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +41.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 £45.23 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.13 £49.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £26.56
% change year-on-year -13.07% +13.08% -24.11%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Platform Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Platform Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Platform Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 April 2026, Platform Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Camunda
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Planview
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow