Platform Architect Contract Job Trends

Platform Architect
UK

The median Platform Architect daily rate in the UK is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 515 579
Rank change year-on-year -63 +64 +151
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 17 29 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.046% 0.085% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.091% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 20
10th Percentile £559 £520 £415
25th Percentile £596 £597 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £607 £585
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% +3.76% -2.50%
75th Percentile £681 £675 £664
90th Percentile £830 £708 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +2.17% -2.04% +6.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 33,289 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,068 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Platform Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Platform Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Architect job vacancies in the UK

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Architect over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Architect in the UK

Platform Architect
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England -43 16 £620 -2.75% 41
London -4 8 £775 +19.23% 5
UK excluding London -48 7 £613 +2.17% 42
North of England -45 6 £594 - 5
Yorkshire -36 5 £594 - 2
Work from Home -19 4 £689 +13.51%
North West - 1 - - 3
South East - 1 £650 - 8

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) Azure
1 8 (47.06%) Power Platform
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) Power Automate
2 7 (41.18%) PowerApps
3 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) OpenShift
3 6 (35.29%) Power BI
4 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Ansible
5 4 (23.53%) Dell
5 4 (23.53%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Network Architecture
5 4 (23.53%) OCP
5 4 (23.53%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (23.53%) Pure Storage
5 4 (23.53%) Terraform
5 4 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (17.65%) Azure Stack
6 3 (17.65%) Customer Engagement
6 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
6 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
6 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (17.65%) VMS
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) AI
7 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) DevOps

Platform 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 1 (5.88%) Anypoint
1 1 (5.88%) Mule
1 1 (5.88%) Mule ESB
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
1 8 (47.06%) Power Platform
2 7 (41.18%) Power Automate
2 7 (41.18%) PowerApps
3 6 (35.29%) OpenShift
4 4 (23.53%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Stack
6 1 (5.88%) AWS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) J2EE
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
1 1 (5.88%) Spring
1 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.88%) Web Services
1 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Network Architecture
4 3 (17.65%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) AI
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (5.88%) Coaching
6 1 (5.88%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (5.88%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.88%) Microservices
6 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.88%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) OCP
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Ansible
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Dell
2 4 (23.53%) Pure Storage
3 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Virgin Media