Platform Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Platform Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 439 588
Rank change year-on-year +113 +149 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 19 18 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.073% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.077% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 15
10th Percentile £513 £495 £497
25th Percentile £531 £540 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £713 £794 £681
90th Percentile £785 £1,000 £711
UK median daily rate £712 £638 £625
% change year-on-year +11.69% +2.00% +2.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,749 23,373 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.31% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,288 16,533 30,788
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 539 596
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.46 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.48
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.77 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.35 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Platform Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Platform Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Platform Architect over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

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 21 May 2024, 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 13 (68.42%) Power Platform
2 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
4 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (42.11%) SharePoint
4 8 (42.11%) Azure
5 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
5 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
5 7 (36.84%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
6 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
7 5 (26.32%) Power BI
7 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (26.32%) PowerApps
7 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
7 5 (26.32%) Low-Code
8 4 (21.05%) Power Automate
8 4 (21.05%) Migration
8 4 (21.05%) Agile
9 3 (15.79%) Banking
9 3 (15.79%) JIRA
9 3 (15.79%) Git
9 3 (15.79%) Finance
9 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (15.79%) DevOps
9 3 (15.79%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (10.53%) RESTful

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 8 (42.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Power Platform
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (26.32%) PowerApps
5 4 (21.05%) Power Automate
6 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) GitHub
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (5.26%) GCP
8 1 (5.26%) Miro
8 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Power BI
1 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Publishing
5 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) JSON
1 2 (10.53%) RESTful
1 2 (10.53%) SOAP
1 2 (10.53%) SPFx
1 2 (10.53%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.26%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Low-Code
2 3 (15.79%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
1 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Migration
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
5 2 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (10.53%) User Stories
6 1 (5.26%) Architectural Design
6 1 (5.26%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (5.26%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (5.26%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (5.26%) Design Patterns
6 1 (5.26%) Product Backlog
6 1 (5.26%) RBAC
6 1 (5.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) C#
1 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Checkmarx
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) SAP