Platform Architect Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Platform Architect
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Platform Architect daily rate in South Yorkshire is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 45 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.53% 0.29% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £572 - -
25th Percentile £585 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £618 - -
90th Percentile £621 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £594 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 684 295 400
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 86.76% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 176 251
10th Percentile £315 £208 £350
25th Percentile £400 £372 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £538 £596 £622
90th Percentile £623 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £16.01
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £19.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £27.50
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £23.34 £21.31
% change year-on-year +17.82% +9.53% +0.88%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Platform Architect job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Architect job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Platform Architect
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Sheffield -47 3 £613 -
Platform Architect
Yorkshire

Platform Architect Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Dell
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) OCP
1 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) VMS
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) OCP
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Dell
1 4 (100.00%) Pure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft