Platform Architect Contracts in England

Platform Architect
UK > England

The median Platform Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 488 585
Rank change year-on-year -12 +97 +149
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 19 36 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.069% 0.11% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.12% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 19
10th Percentile £461 £526 £443
25th Percentile £481 £598 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £734 £713 £704
90th Percentile £804 £836 £745
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +6.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,342 31,079 43,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 92.90% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,441 20,449 30,337
10th Percentile £285 £300 £307
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,310 1,833 1,343
10th Percentile £13.55 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.66 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.98% +5.88% +66.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Architect in England

Platform Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Architect in England

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Architect in England over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Architect in England

Platform Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 August 2025. 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
London -15 12 £725 +18.61% 7
South East +22 3 £468 -40.57% 4
North of England -23 3 £575 -8.00% 4
North West -7 2 - - 4
Yorkshire -9 1 £575 -17.86%
Platform Architect
UK

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

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

1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (42.11%) Java
3 7 (36.84%) Python
3 7 (36.84%) Scala
3 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) GCP
3 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
4 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
4 6 (31.58%) ETL
4 6 (31.58%) SQL
4 6 (31.58%) Finance
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
5 5 (26.32%) Banking
5 5 (26.32%) Power BI
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) NoSQL
5 5 (26.32%) Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
5 5 (26.32%) PowerApps
5 5 (26.32%) Power Automate
6 4 (21.05%) Architectural Design
6 4 (21.05%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (21.05%) Azure Stack
6 4 (21.05%) Observability
6 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
6 4 (21.05%) Customer Service

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Anypoint
2 1 (5.26%) Mule
2 1 (5.26%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
1 7 (36.84%) GCP
2 5 (26.32%) Power Automate
2 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
2 5 (26.32%) PowerApps
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Stack
3 4 (21.05%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (15.79%) AWS
4 3 (15.79%) Azure AKS
4 3 (15.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) dbt
5 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.26%) IaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) PaaS
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) NoSQL
1 5 (26.32%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) BigQuery
2 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Big Data
3 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata
3 2 (10.53%) NewSQL
3 2 (10.53%) OLTP
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Billing
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Back Office
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Spring
1 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
2 2 (10.53%) gRPC
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) Node.js
2 2 (10.53%) Pyramid
2 2 (10.53%) React
2 2 (10.53%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) SOAP
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) J2EE
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) EPoS
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) ETL
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
5 5 (26.32%) Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
6 4 (21.05%) Architectural Design
6 4 (21.05%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
6 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
6 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (21.05%) Observability
6 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Scala
3 6 (31.58%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) C++
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk