Platform Architect Contracts in London

Platform Architect
England > London

The median Platform Architect daily rate in London is £669, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 363 478
Rank change year-on-year +27 +115 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 17 28 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.16% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.17% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 10
10th Percentile £608 £513 £473
25th Percentile £625 £531 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £690 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +10.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £734 £775 £725
90th Percentile £781 £843 £784
England median daily rate £650 £750 £625
% change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Architect in London

Platform Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Architect in London

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Architect in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) GCP
3 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Regulatory Compliance
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
5 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
5 4 (23.53%) Power Automate
5 4 (23.53%) Architectural Design
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
5 4 (23.53%) Java
5 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (17.65%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (17.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
6 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
6 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
6 3 (17.65%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (17.65%) Scala
6 3 (17.65%) AWS
6 3 (17.65%) C#
6 3 (17.65%) Banking
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) Python
6 3 (17.65%) Observability

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) GCP
2 4 (23.53%) Power Automate
2 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
4 2 (11.76%) IaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
4 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
4 2 (11.76%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) dbt
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.76%) OLTP
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
1 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
1 2 (11.76%) gRPC
1 2 (11.76%) Node.js
1 2 (11.76%) Pyramid
1 2 (11.76%) React
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) SOAP
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) EPoS
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps
1 5 (29.41%) Microservices
1 5 (29.41%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Architectural Design
2 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (17.65%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
3 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Observability
3 3 (17.65%) SOLID
3 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
4 2 (11.76%) Community of Practice
4 2 (11.76%) SDLC
4 2 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) Go
2 3 (17.65%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Scala
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) F5
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) NetScout
2 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
20 Platform Architect jobs in England