Platform Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, 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 328 392 454
Rank change year-on-year +64 +62 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 8 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.034% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.036% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £469 £713 £588
25th Percentile £470 £731 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% +6.12%
75th Percentile £613 £794 £681
90th Percentile £620 £831 £693
UK median daily rate £607 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -16.28% +11.54% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Architect in the UK excluding London

Platform Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Architect in the UK excluding London

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Architect in the UK excluding London

Platform Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +18 3 £575 -23.33%
South East +46 2 £469 -40.44% 7
Midlands +23 2 £600 - 5
West Midlands +15 2 £600 - 5
Yorkshire +9 2 £575 -17.86%
North West +15 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £600 - 2
Platform Architect
UK

Platform Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) SQL
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Use Case
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 3 (37.50%) Scala
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (25.00%) GDPR
3 2 (25.00%) Metadata
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (25.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) HIPAA
3 2 (25.00%) ETRM

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 2 (25.00%) NewSQL
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (25.00%) Billing
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
1 3 (37.50%) ETL
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Use Case
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (25.00%) Data Reconciliation
2 2 (25.00%) Data Security
2 2 (25.00%) ETRM
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Scala
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Informatica
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow