Power Platform Contracts in England

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Power Platform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Power Platform over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 56 65
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,488 1,862 2,474
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.03% 3.92% 3.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.60% 10.82% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,331 1,820
10th Percentile £309 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £600
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £497 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.70% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 42 40
10th Percentile £14.00 £22.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.96 £26.46 £18.46
Median hourly rate £23.82 £52.50 £26.69
Median % change year-on-year -54.62% +96.72% +27.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.68 £65.75 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £23.22 £51.25 £26.40
% change year-on-year -54.70% +94.17% +22.77%

All Cloud Skills
England

Power Platform is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,806 17,214 27,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.26% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,506 12,625 20,019
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 287 322
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.98 £18.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £38.75 £70.00 £45.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
% change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in England.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power Platform within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +16 759 £524 -0.24% 412
North of England +6 193 £453 -4.74% 184
South East +14 175 £450 -10.00% 166
Midlands +14 142 £425 -11.46% 125
South West +9 133 £500 +1.27% 95
North West 0 126 £453 -2.16% 115
West Midlands +11 103 £425 -11.46% 86
Yorkshire +25 60 £450 -10.00% 48
East of England -22 44 £410 -4.65% 44
East Midlands +19 38 £413 -8.33% 39
North East +8 7 £663 +15.22% 21
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
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
1 183 (12.30%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.76%) Confluence
3 39 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.21%) Apache
6 13 (0.87%) SAS
7 10 (0.67%) MTS
8 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.13%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.13%) Jadu
9 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.067%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.067%) IIS
10 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.067%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.067%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.067%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 169 (11.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.27%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.27%) InVision
6 4 (0.27%) Sketch
7 3 (0.20%) SPSS
8 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 88 (5.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.75%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 17 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.67%) Endur
4 10 (0.67%) EuroRunner
5 9 (0.60%) Aligne
6 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.47%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.47%) SimCorp Dimension
8 5 (0.34%) Aareon QL
9 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.20%) Primavera
10 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.13%) Maximo
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.13%) Relativity
11 2 (0.13%) Sprinklr
11 2 (0.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
11 2 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 582 (39.11%) Azure
2 301 (20.23%) PowerApps
3 269 (18.08%) Power Automate
4 229 (15.39%) Dynamics 365
5 179 (12.03%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (7.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 98 (6.59%) AWS
9 64 (4.30%) Snowflake
10 62 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 52 (3.49%) Serverless
12 49 (3.29%) Entra ID
13 46 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
14 45 (3.02%) Azure Functions
15 35 (2.35%) OneDrive
16 34 (2.28%) GitHub
17 23 (1.55%) GCP
17 23 (1.55%) PaaS
18 22 (1.48%) Collibra
18 22 (1.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.28%) Firewall
2 6 (0.40%) DNS
2 6 (0.40%) Intranet
2 6 (0.40%) Unified Communications
3 4 (0.27%) MegaStream
3 4 (0.27%) VPN
4 3 (0.20%) Internet
4 3 (0.20%) Skype
4 3 (0.20%) SNMP
5 2 (0.13%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.13%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.13%) XCAP
6 1 (0.067%) DHCP
6 1 (0.067%) FTP
6 1 (0.067%) Network Security
6 1 (0.067%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.067%) VLAN
6 1 (0.067%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,218 (81.85%) Power BI
2 210 (14.11%) Data Warehouse
3 209 (14.05%) SQL Server
4 198 (13.31%) Tableau
5 133 (8.94%) Data Lake
6 107 (7.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 78 (5.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 64 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 61 (4.10%) Big Data
10 54 (3.63%) Relational Database
11 44 (2.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 41 (2.76%) Metadata
13 40 (2.69%) NoSQL
14 35 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
14 35 (2.35%) Power Query
15 32 (2.15%) MySQL
16 29 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
17 27 (1.81%) Qlik Sense
18 25 (1.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
19 24 (1.61%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 82 (5.51%) JIRA
2 24 (1.61%) Git
3 23 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 19 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 17 (1.14%) ERwin
6 16 (1.08%) GitLab
7 11 (0.74%) ER Studio
8 9 (0.60%) Postman
9 7 (0.47%) Visual Studio Team System
10 6 (0.40%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.40%) PyCharm
11 5 (0.34%) Hudson
11 5 (0.34%) Jenkins
12 4 (0.27%) RStudio
13 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.13%) NUnit
14 2 (0.13%) Subversion
14 2 (0.13%) Zephyr
15 1 (0.067%) Selenium
General
1 424 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 395 (26.55%) Finance
3 309 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.25%) Banking
6 78 (5.24%) Retail
7 72 (4.84%) Marketing
8 49 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
9 45 (3.02%) Manufacturing
10 40 (2.69%) Legal
11 31 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 30 (2.02%) General Ledger
13 27 (1.81%) Local Government
14 24 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (1.48%) Front Office
16 21 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (1.28%) Investment Banking
18 17 (1.14%) Financial Institution
19 15 (1.01%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 359 (24.13%) Developer
2 352 (23.66%) Analyst
3 177 (11.90%) Architect
4 165 (11.09%) Data Analyst
5 131 (8.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 115 (7.73%) Consultant
7 113 (7.59%) Data Engineer
8 106 (7.12%) Power BI Developer
9 104 (6.99%) Senior
10 89 (5.98%) Power Platform Developer
11 81 (5.44%) Business Analyst
12 72 (4.84%) Lead
12 72 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
13 63 (4.23%) Data Architect
14 59 (3.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 57 (3.83%) Senior Analyst
16 47 (3.16%) Applications Developer
17 43 (2.89%) Power Apps Developer
18 41 (2.76%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
19 40 (2.69%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (4.57%) .NET
2 50 (3.36%) CSS
3 47 (3.16%) HTML
4 45 (3.02%) XML
5 38 (2.55%) JSON
6 30 (2.02%) PySpark
7 29 (1.95%) REST
8 25 (1.68%) Web Services
9 21 (1.41%) HTML5 Canvas
10 20 (1.34%) .NET Framework
11 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (0.87%) SPFx
13 12 (0.81%) jQuery
14 11 (0.74%) ADO
15 10 (0.67%) Entity Framework
16 9 (0.60%) SOAP
17 8 (0.54%) ARM Templates
17 8 (0.54%) Node.js
17 8 (0.54%) RESTful
17 8 (0.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (4.10%) Management Information System
2 48 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.16%) Data Structures
4 26 (1.75%) Low-Code
5 25 (1.68%) NHS
6 23 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (0.94%) Reference Data
10 13 (0.87%) Hedge funds
11 12 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.67%) Market Risk
13 10 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.60%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.54%) Life Science
16 7 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (0.47%) Marketing Technology
16 7 (0.47%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 42 (2.82%) Windows
2 17 (1.14%) Linux
3 16 (1.08%) Unix
4 11 (0.74%) VMS
5 9 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,046 (70.30%) Business Intelligence
2 313 (21.03%) Agile
3 281 (18.88%) Data Modelling
4 278 (18.68%) Analytics
5 258 (17.34%) Visualisation
6 215 (14.45%) DevOps
7 214 (14.38%) ETL
8 205 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
9 202 (13.58%) Data Analysis
10 167 (11.22%) Data Visualisation
11 158 (10.62%) Migration
12 127 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 117 (7.86%) CRM
14 104 (6.99%) Decision-Making
15 100 (6.72%) Data Governance
16 97 (6.52%) Data Analytics
17 93 (6.25%) Project Management
17 93 (6.25%) Scrum
18 82 (5.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 82 (5.51%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 540 (36.29%) SQL
2 216 (14.52%) Python
3 110 (7.39%) C#
4 97 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 94 (6.32%) PowerShell
6 89 (5.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 72 (4.84%) T-SQL
8 35 (2.35%) Java
9 26 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.21%) R
11 16 (1.08%) VBA
12 12 (0.81%) Scala
13 10 (0.67%) MATLAB
13 10 (0.67%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.47%) PHP
14 7 (0.47%) X++
14 7 (0.47%) XPath
14 7 (0.47%) XQuery
15 6 (0.40%) Groovy
16 5 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 152 (10.22%) Degree
2 150 (10.08%) Security Cleared
3 123 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 39 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.81%) PMI Certification
11 10 (0.67%) PMP
12 9 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
14 7 (0.47%) CIMA
14 7 (0.47%) Postgraduate
15 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.27%) ACCA
17 3 (0.20%) HNC
17 3 (0.20%) MCSE
18 2 (0.13%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (8.27%) Data Quality
2 78 (5.24%) QA
3 33 (2.22%) SLA
4 29 (1.95%) GDPR
5 18 (1.21%) PMO
6 16 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.87%) GxP
8 7 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
10 5 (0.34%) GAMP
11 3 (0.20%) GRC
11 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.067%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.067%) GAAP
13 1 (0.067%) IFRS
13 1 (0.067%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 54 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.40%) Docker
5 3 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.067%) HDFS
7 1 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 25 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (1.61%) Terraform
3 17 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (0.47%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.34%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.27%) Ansible
7 3 (0.20%) Kibana
7 3 (0.20%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.13%) CASB
8 2 (0.13%) SCCM
9 1 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.067%) logstash
9 1 (0.067%) Matomo
9 1 (0.067%) Nagios
9 1 (0.067%) Nessus
9 1 (0.067%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 582 (39.11%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.85%) Databricks
3 98 (6.59%) Oracle
4 76 (5.11%) SAP
5 54 (3.63%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.49%) Salesforce
7 40 (2.69%) Alteryx
8 32 (2.15%) Google
9 30 (2.02%) Informatica
10 20 (1.34%) Remedy
11 18 (1.21%) Sparx
12 16 (1.08%) Adobe
13 10 (0.67%) CA
13 10 (0.67%) Citrix
13 10 (0.67%) Cloudera
13 10 (0.67%) MicroStrategy
13 10 (0.67%) Talend
14 9 (0.60%) Cadence
15 8 (0.54%) Dataiku
16 7 (0.47%) Nexthink