Platform Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Platform Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £607, 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 291 329 457
Rank change year-on-year +38 +128 +149
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 13 16 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.10% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.11% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 12
10th Percentile £585 £513 £499
25th Percentile - £531 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £681 £706 £766
90th Percentile £705 £790 £985
UK median daily rate £607 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -16.28% +11.54% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Platform Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Platform Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Platform Architect.

Platform Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Platform Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Platform Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) Regulatory Compliance
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) Firewall
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Data Lake
4 4 (30.77%) Snowflake
4 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
4 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (30.77%) Docker
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) User Experience
4 4 (30.77%) Data Encryption
4 4 (30.77%) Databricks
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (30.77%) Data Strategy
4 4 (30.77%) Data Security
4 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 4 (30.77%) VPN

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) Snowflake
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
5 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
5 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.69%) IaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.69%) PaaS
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 4 (30.77%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Data Lake
1 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (30.77%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Back Office
2 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) EPoS
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Regulatory Compliance
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Data Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Data Encryption
3 4 (30.77%) Data Management
3 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (30.77%) Data Security
3 4 (30.77%) Data Strategy
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (30.77%) User Experience
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) F5
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) NetScout
2 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto