Palantir Architect Contract Job Trends

Palantir Architect
UK

The median Palantir Architect daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 - 568
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Palantir Architect 13 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% - 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% - 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £475 - £505
25th Percentile £663 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £550
75th Percentile £688 - £688
90th Percentile £715 - £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,522 29,914 36,178
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.26% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,686 18,901 23,122
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,509 1,556 1,977
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.30 £19.59
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.38%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +14.67%

Palantir Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palantir Architect over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Palantir Architect in the UK

Palantir Architect
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Palantir Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. 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
England - 13 £675 -
Yorkshire - 8 £675 -
UK excluding London - 8 £675 -
North of England - 8 £675 -
London - 4 £605 -
Work from Home - 2 £588 -

Palantir Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 August 2026, Palantir 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 featuring Palantir Architect in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Palantir
2 12 (92.31%) Foundry
2 12 (92.31%) Palantir Foundry
3 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
4 5 (38.46%) Ontologies
5 4 (30.77%) AWS
6 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
6 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
6 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) FHIR
6 3 (23.08%) HL7
7 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 2 (15.38%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
8 1 (7.69%) AI
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 1 (7.69%) Analytics
8 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
8 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
8 1 (7.69%) Azure
8 1 (7.69%) Change Management
8 1 (7.69%) Data Collection
8 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering

Palantir Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (92.31%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) NHS
2 2 (15.38%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
1 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (38.46%) Ontologies
3 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
5 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
5 1 (7.69%) Data Collection
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Data Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Data-Flow Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
5 1 (7.69%) GitOps
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) HL7
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Palantir
2 12 (92.31%) Foundry
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks