Platform Architect Jobs in England

Platform Architect
UK > England

The median Platform Architect salary in England is £91,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 726 872
Rank change year-on-year +68 +146 +190
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Architect 33 117 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.14% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.14% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 12 107 14
10th Percentile £73,500 £57,000 -
25th Percentile £82,500 £58,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £93,438
90th Percentile £104,250 £100,000 £105,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -13.51%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Architect in England

Platform Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Architect in England.

Salary trend for Platform Architect in England

Platform Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Architect in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Architect in England

Platform Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +88 16 £90,000 +44.00% 14
East of England +52 10 - -
North of England +30 4 £95,000 -5.00% 1
South West +104 2 £87,500 -2.78% 2
North West -2 2 £95,000 +2.70% 1
Yorkshire +54 1 - -
North East - 1 £95,000 -
Platform Architect
UK

Platform Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Platform Architect 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 18 (54.55%) Agile
1 18 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (39.39%) Degree
2 13 (39.39%) Azure
3 12 (36.36%) Architectural Design
4 11 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 10 (30.30%) Business Enablement
5 10 (30.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (30.30%) User Experience
5 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (30.30%) Computer Science
5 10 (30.30%) Electronics
6 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 9 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (21.21%) Presales
7 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
7 7 (21.21%) Law
7 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
8 6 (18.18%) .NET
8 6 (18.18%) Analytics
8 6 (18.18%) PowerApps
8 6 (18.18%) Power Automate
9 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
9 5 (15.15%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (15.15%) Data Governance
9 5 (15.15%) DevOps
9 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 9 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (18.18%) Power Automate
4 6 (18.18%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.06%) AWS
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.06%) Serverless
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.03%) Azure WebJobs
6 1 (3.03%) dbt
6 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DHCP
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (3.03%) Network Security
1 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Electronics
3 7 (21.21%) Law
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Marketing
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Advertising
6 1 (3.03%) Automotive
6 1 (3.03%) Finance
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (6.06%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (6.06%) JSON
3 2 (6.06%) REST
3 2 (6.06%) SOAP
3 2 (6.06%) Web Services
4 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) CMDB
2 1 (3.03%) IoT
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
1 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Agile
2 12 (36.36%) Architectural Design
3 10 (30.30%) Business Enablement
3 10 (30.30%) Computer Science
3 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (30.30%) User Experience
4 7 (21.21%) Presales
4 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
4 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (18.18%) Analytics
6 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (15.15%) Data Governance
6 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.12%) Line Management
7 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.12%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) C#
1 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.03%) Bicep
2 1 (3.03%) Python
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Degree
2 10 (30.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) Forefront TMG
1 1 (3.03%) ISA Server
1 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.03%) NetApp
3 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.03%) VMware