Power Platform Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 40 79 74
Rank change year-on-year +39 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 96 89 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.48% 3.32% 3.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.13% 9.17% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 67 73
10th Percentile £264 £363 £301
25th Percentile £400 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £544 £525
90th Percentile £663 £600 £573
UK median daily rate £497 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.70% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.90
25th Percentile £16.50 - £26.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 - £29.50
75th Percentile £20.61 - £34.00
90th Percentile £37.70 - £35.50
UK median hourly rate £23.22 £51.25 £26.40
% change year-on-year -54.70% +94.17% +22.77%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 731 971 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.11% 36.27% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 715 827
10th Percentile £225 £250 £313
25th Percentile £370 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -2.86% +8.67%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £620 £659
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 17
10th Percentile £16.08 £17.72 £17.74
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -55.10%
75th Percentile £22.28 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £33.05 £76.00 £48.75
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +33 45 £525 +10.53% 17
Glasgow +25 40 £450 -8.16% 17
South Lanarkshire +9 5 £458 -12.86% 1
Fife +1 1 - - 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 3
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 18 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (3.13%) Apache
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.04%) WildFly
Applications
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.17%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (3.13%) Maximo
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (39.58%) Azure
2 31 (32.29%) Power Automate
3 29 (30.21%) PowerApps
4 24 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (11.46%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.17%) GCP
9 3 (3.13%) Adverity
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.13%) Google Data Studio
9 3 (3.13%) Google Sheets
9 3 (3.13%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.13%) Sprout Social
10 2 (2.08%) AWS
10 2 (2.08%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) Firewall
1 5 (5.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (73.96%) Power BI
2 5 (5.21%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.17%) Star Schema
3 4 (4.17%) Tableau
4 3 (3.13%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.08%) Big Data
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.04%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.04%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.04%) DTS
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.04%) Power Query
6 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (3.13%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.04%) JUnit
3 1 (1.04%) Maven
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 32 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (18.75%) Finance
5 7 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.21%) Legal
7 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Marketing
8 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (33.33%) Analyst
2 19 (19.79%) Data Analyst
3 16 (16.67%) Consultant
4 15 (15.63%) Developer
5 11 (11.46%) Senior
6 8 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (8.33%) Senior Data Analyst
7 7 (7.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Security Specialist
9 5 (5.21%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 5 (5.21%) Power Platform Consultant
9 5 (5.21%) Report Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Coordinator
10 4 (4.17%) Functional Consultant
10 4 (4.17%) Lead
10 4 (4.17%) Operations Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) PMO Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) CSS
1 6 (6.25%) HTML
2 5 (5.21%) .NET
3 4 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (3.13%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (3.13%) React
4 3 (3.13%) RESTful
5 2 (2.08%) ADO
5 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.08%) NumPy
5 2 (2.08%) Pandas
5 2 (2.08%) PySpark
5 2 (2.08%) Regular Expression
5 2 (2.08%) REST
5 2 (2.08%) SOAP
6 1 (1.04%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.04%) STL
6 1 (1.04%) XML
6 1 (1.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.29%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (5.21%) DTCC
2 5 (5.21%) Market Risk
2 5 (5.21%) PKI
2 5 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.17%) CMDB
4 3 (3.13%) Social Media
5 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.38%) Windows
2 5 (5.21%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.08%) Linux
3 2 (2.08%) Unix
4 1 (1.04%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (28.13%) Analytics
3 19 (19.79%) Agile
3 19 (19.79%) Visualisation
4 18 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
4 18 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 11 (11.46%) Data Management
7 10 (10.42%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (10.42%) Decision-Making
7 10 (10.42%) DevOps
8 9 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (8.33%) Data Modelling
9 8 (8.33%) ITIL
9 8 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
9 8 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
9 8 (8.33%) Security Operations
9 8 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
10 7 (7.29%) ERP
10 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.63%) SQL
2 8 (8.33%) Python
3 6 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.04%) Scala
6 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (7.29%) MCSE
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) PMO
2 7 (7.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.08%) SLA
5 1 (1.04%) NCSC
5 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (5.21%) SCCM
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (52.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.46%) Atlassian
2 11 (11.46%) Databricks
3 6 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.21%) Oracle
5 4 (4.17%) Adobe
5 4 (4.17%) Google
5 4 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 4 (4.17%) Nintex
6 3 (3.13%) Brandwatch
6 3 (3.13%) Facebook
6 3 (3.13%) Hootsuite
6 3 (3.13%) IDERA
6 3 (3.13%) Instagram
6 3 (3.13%) Twitter
6 3 (3.13%) YouTube
7 2 (2.08%) Cadence
7 2 (2.08%) Informatica
7 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.04%) Sybase