Platform Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Platform Architect
England > London

The median Platform Architect daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 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
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 369 433
Rank change year-on-year +13 +64 +128
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 12 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.090% 0.12% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.13% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 9
10th Percentile £583 £531 £413
25th Percentile £613 £590 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £690 £638
90th Percentile £775 £714 £640
England median daily rate £625 £625 £625

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 12,330 15,131 21,374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 94.09% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,254 10,318 15,628
10th Percentile £325 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 182 232
10th Percentile £17.04 £17.54 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.29 £22.44
Median hourly rate £31.00 £34.25 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% -8.47% +16.03%
75th Percentile £50.56 £55.75 £63.81
90th Percentile £66.54 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -47.05% +8.20% +68.85%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Architect in London over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Architect in London

Platform Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Central London +8 1 £625 -3.85% 3
Platform Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 September 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 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
2 5 (41.67%) Power BI
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (41.67%) PowerApps
2 5 (41.67%) Power Automate
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Stack
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 4 (33.33%) Observability
3 4 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
4 3 (25.00%) SOLID
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Go
4 3 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (25.00%) Scala
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (25.00%) C#

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 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
2 5 (41.67%) Power Automate
2 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (41.67%) PowerApps
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Stack
3 4 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (8.33%) dbt
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) OLTP
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Back Office
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 2 (16.67%) gRPC
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
1 2 (16.67%) Pyramid
1 2 (16.67%) React
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) EPoS
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) Observability
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (25.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
4 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) SOLID
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 2 (16.67%) Evolutionary Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) Go
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
1 3 (25.00%) Scala
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Google