Power Platform Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Power Platform
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 49 72
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 133 144 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.09% 4.26% 3.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.56% 12.94% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 114 99
10th Percentile £359 £345 £323
25th Percentile £400 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +3.95% -
75th Percentile £569 £565 £538
90th Percentile £620 £612 £604
England median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £15.89 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.11% - -
England median hourly rate £23.82 £52.50 £26.69
% change year-on-year -54.62% +96.72% +27.08%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 803 1,113 1,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 24.70% 32.90% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 893 870
10th Percentile £213 £288 £250
25th Percentile £388 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £509
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.11% +7.11%
75th Percentile £600 £653 £611
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 61 21
10th Percentile £12.70 £16.54 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £29.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +155.81% -55.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol -2 49 £445 -1.20% 23
Wiltshire -19 31 £456 -16.89% 24
Gloucestershire +12 14 £450 - 6
Devon +4 10 £600 +54.84% 16
Somerset +1 8 £541 +13.89% 19
Dorset +1 1 - - 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 28 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.50%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) Mendix
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 67 (50.38%) Azure
2 27 (20.30%) PowerApps
3 25 (18.80%) Dynamics 365
3 25 (18.80%) Power Automate
4 22 (16.54%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (9.77%) Entra ID
7 12 (9.02%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (5.26%) OneDrive
9 6 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.01%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.26%) AWS
11 3 (2.26%) PaaS
12 2 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.50%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.75%) Azure Event Grid
13 1 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) Firewall
2 4 (3.01%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (74.44%) Power BI
2 25 (18.80%) SQL Server
3 19 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 18 (13.53%) Tableau
5 14 (10.53%) Relational Database
6 12 (9.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (9.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (6.77%) Data Lake
8 7 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.01%) Biml
9 4 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.26%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.26%) Power Query
11 2 (1.50%) Big Data
11 2 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.50%) Metadata
12 1 (0.75%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (5.26%) JIRA
2 3 (2.26%) Postman
3 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.54%) Public Sector
4 21 (15.79%) Finance
5 9 (6.77%) Marketing
6 7 (5.26%) Electronics
6 7 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.01%) Local Government
8 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Banking
9 2 (1.50%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (33.08%) Developer
2 23 (17.29%) Data Engineer
3 16 (12.03%) Power Platform Developer
4 15 (11.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 14 (10.53%) Architect
6 13 (9.77%) Power BI Developer
7 11 (8.27%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (7.52%) Analyst
9 9 (6.77%) Consultant
9 9 (6.77%) Senior
10 8 (6.02%) Service Manager
11 7 (5.26%) Applications Developer
11 7 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.76%) Applications Engineer
13 5 (3.76%) Azure Data Engineer
13 5 (3.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.76%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) CSS
2 6 (4.51%) REST
3 4 (3.01%) PySpark
3 4 (3.01%) SPFx
4 2 (1.50%) .NET
4 2 (1.50%) HTML
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.75%) OAuth
5 1 (0.75%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.51%) Management Information System
1 6 (4.51%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.76%) CMDB
3 4 (3.01%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.01%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) VMS
2 3 (2.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (75.19%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (22.56%) Agile
3 26 (19.55%) ETL
4 21 (15.79%) Visualisation
5 20 (15.04%) Data Modelling
6 17 (12.78%) Migration
7 15 (11.28%) ITIL
7 15 (11.28%) Translating Business Requirements
8 14 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
8 14 (10.53%) Service Management
9 13 (9.77%) ITSM
9 13 (9.77%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (9.02%) Analytics
11 11 (8.27%) DevOps
12 9 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (6.02%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (5.26%) Containerisation
14 7 (5.26%) Document Management
14 7 (5.26%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.83%) SQL
2 13 (9.77%) JavaScript
3 12 (9.02%) T-SQL
4 10 (7.52%) C#
4 10 (7.52%) Python
5 5 (3.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (45.11%) Security Cleared
2 54 (40.60%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.51%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.01%) Degree
7 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.03%) QA
2 3 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.50%) PMO
4 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.52%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 48 (36.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.77%) Remedy
3 10 (7.52%) CA
3 10 (7.52%) Databricks
4 9 (6.77%) SAP
5 2 (1.50%) Informatica
5 2 (1.50%) Oracle
5 2 (1.50%) VMware
5 2 (1.50%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.75%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.75%) Google
6 1 (0.75%) Salesforce