Platform Architect Contracts in Yorkshire

Platform Architect
England > Yorkshire

The median Platform Architect daily rate in Yorkshire 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 90 99 126
Rank change year-on-year +9 +27 -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.20% 0.059% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.065% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £750 £625
% change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Architect in Yorkshire

Platform Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Architect in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Platform Architect in Yorkshire

Platform Architect
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire +8 1 £575 -17.86%
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Platform Architect
England

Platform Architect Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) Service Design
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) ETL

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
1 1 (50.00%) Service Design
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow