Platform Architect Contracts

Platform Architect
UK

The median Platform Architect daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 656 786
Rank change year-on-year +119 +130 -101
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Architect 47 41 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.074% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.078% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 22 34
10th Percentile £513 £499 £502
25th Percentile £600 £566 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £612
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +6.30% -2.16%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £697
90th Percentile £828 £854 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £676 £625
% change year-on-year -2.00% +8.16% +8.70%

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Platform Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Architect in the UK

Platform Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Architect in the UK

Platform Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Architect over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Architect in the UK

Platform Architect
Top 8 Contract 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 12 June 2024. 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 +95 44 £690 +6.15% 13
London +99 35 £690 +15.00% 6
Work from Home +115 19 £606 -6.73% 7
UK excluding London +22 8 £663 -2.00% 8
North of England - 6 £625 -
North West - 5 £625 -
South East +11 2 £788 +16.49% 5
Yorkshire - 1 £700 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 job ads featuring Platform Architect in the job title.

1 31 (65.96%) Power Platform
2 26 (55.32%) Microsoft
3 23 (48.94%) Azure
4 16 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
4 16 (34.04%) Power BI
5 15 (31.91%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (29.79%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (27.66%) Data Modelling
8 12 (25.53%) PowerApps
8 12 (25.53%) Power Automate
9 11 (23.40%) Finance
10 10 (21.28%) REST
11 9 (19.15%) Agile
11 9 (19.15%) JSON
11 9 (19.15%) SharePoint
11 9 (19.15%) XML
11 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
12 8 (17.02%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (17.02%) CRM
12 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (17.02%) Dynamics CRM
12 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
13 7 (14.89%) Banking
13 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
13 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
13 7 (14.89%) Financial Institution
13 7 (14.89%) Active Directory
13 7 (14.89%) Network Virtualisation

Platform Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (19.15%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (65.96%) Power Platform
2 23 (48.94%) Azure
3 15 (31.91%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (29.79%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (25.53%) Power Automate
5 12 (25.53%) PowerApps
6 8 (17.02%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (14.89%) Entra ID
8 3 (6.38%) AWS
8 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.38%) GCP
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.26%) GitHub
9 2 (4.26%) Serverless
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.13%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) Power BI
2 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.26%) Big Data
3 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.26%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Banking
3 7 (14.89%) Financial Institution
4 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Marketing
8 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.13%) Publishing
8 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) REST
2 9 (19.15%) JSON
2 9 (19.15%) XML
3 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.26%) PySpark
4 2 (4.26%) RESTful
4 2 (4.26%) SOAP
4 2 (4.26%) SPFx
5 1 (2.13%) .NET
5 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.13%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (2.13%) Spring
5 1 (2.13%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Low-Code
2 3 (6.38%) CMDB
2 3 (6.38%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (27.66%) Data Modelling
3 9 (19.15%) Agile
3 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
4 8 (17.02%) CRM
4 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (14.89%) Analytics
5 7 (14.89%) Network Virtualisation
5 7 (14.89%) XML Parsing
6 5 (10.64%) Migration
6 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (8.51%) Customer Service
7 4 (8.51%) ITSM
7 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
8 3 (6.38%) Architecture Roadmap
8 3 (6.38%) Customer Engagement
8 3 (6.38%) Data Governance
8 3 (6.38%) ITIL
8 3 (6.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.26%) Python
3 1 (2.13%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.13%) C#
3 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Active Directory
1 7 (14.89%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 26 (55.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) Databricks
2 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.13%) Google
4 1 (2.13%) Talend