Power Platform Contracts

Microsoft Power Platform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 56 63
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,752 2,186 3,155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.05% 3.92% 3.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.49% 10.76% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,555 2,285
10th Percentile £313 £325 £356
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 42 44
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.08 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.99 £15.88
Median hourly rate £22.86 £45.04 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.25% +81.96% +15.12%
75th Percentile £43.75 £59.69 £35.00
90th Percentile £58.25 £65.68 £57.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.14 £34.80 £22.45
% change year-on-year -39.26% +54.99% +15.13%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,031 20,309 33,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 36.46% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,917 14,688 24,753
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 329 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +78.15% +1.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.73% +44.59% -3.76%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK

Power Platform
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +14 1,506 £493 -1.50% 1,063
UK excluding London +8 808 £450 -5.26% 640
London +13 760 £520 -0.95% 403
Work from Home +9 691 £488 -2.50% 594
North of England +6 204 £475 +2.70% 195
South East +17 176 £450 -10.00% 143
Midlands +11 140 £425 -11.46% 116
South West +13 136 £500 +2.56% 98
North West +2 128 £475 +2.70% 114
West Midlands +7 100 £425 -11.46% 74
Scotland +33 94 £470 -3.59% 45
Yorkshire +23 69 £490 -2.00% 57
East of England -14 47 £410 +2.50% 39
East Midlands +18 39 £413 +10.00% 42
Northern Ireland +4 12 £575 +27.78% 10
Wales +3 12 £475 -18.94% 4
North East +8 7 £663 +26.19% 24

Power Platform
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
1 231 (13.18%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.91%) Confluence
3 45 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.54%) Apache
5 25 (1.43%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.14%) SAS
7 9 (0.51%) MTS
8 5 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.11%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.11%) IIS
10 2 (0.11%) Jadu
10 2 (0.11%) Mendix
10 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.057%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.057%) JBoss
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 199 (11.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.23%) InVision
7 4 (0.23%) Sketch
8 3 (0.17%) SPSS
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.11%) InfoPath
9 2 (0.11%) Revit
9 2 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 115 (6.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.71%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.51%) Endur
5 9 (0.51%) EuroRunner
5 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.46%) Aligne
7 7 (0.40%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
8 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.29%) Maximo
9 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.23%) Shopify
10 3 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
10 3 (0.17%) Primavera
10 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 691 (39.44%) Azure
2 369 (21.06%) PowerApps
3 338 (19.29%) Power Automate
4 274 (15.64%) Dynamics 365
5 222 (12.67%) Microsoft 365
6 150 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (7.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 122 (6.96%) AWS
9 76 (4.34%) Snowflake
10 73 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 58 (3.31%) Serverless
12 55 (3.14%) Entra ID
13 52 (2.97%) Azure Functions
14 48 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (2.51%) OneDrive
16 42 (2.40%) GCP
16 42 (2.40%) GitHub
17 26 (1.48%) Google Analytics
17 26 (1.48%) PaaS
18 22 (1.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.31%) Firewall
2 8 (0.46%) DNS
3 7 (0.40%) Intranet
4 6 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (0.34%) Unified Communications
5 4 (0.23%) 3GPP
5 4 (0.23%) 4G
5 4 (0.23%) 5G
5 4 (0.23%) 5G NR
5 4 (0.23%) LTE
5 4 (0.23%) MegaStream
5 4 (0.23%) Network Security
5 4 (0.23%) SNMP
5 4 (0.23%) SSL
5 4 (0.23%) VPN
6 3 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.17%) Internet
6 3 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.17%) Skype
7 2 (0.11%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,403 (80.08%) Power BI
2 228 (13.01%) SQL Server
3 221 (12.61%) Tableau
4 220 (12.56%) Data Warehouse
5 149 (8.50%) Data Lake
6 121 (6.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 90 (5.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 69 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 69 (3.94%) Big Data
9 68 (3.88%) Relational Database
10 49 (2.80%) Power Query
11 48 (2.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 42 (2.40%) Metadata
12 42 (2.40%) NoSQL
13 40 (2.28%) MySQL
14 38 (2.17%) Qlik Sense
15 36 (2.05%) BusinessObjects
16 30 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
17 27 (1.54%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 24 (1.37%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 109 (6.22%) JIRA
2 28 (1.60%) Git
3 27 (1.54%) Visual Studio
4 21 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 17 (0.97%) GitLab
6 16 (0.91%) ERwin
7 11 (0.63%) ER Studio
8 10 (0.57%) Postman
9 7 (0.40%) Jenkins
9 7 (0.40%) Visual Studio Team System
10 6 (0.34%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.34%) PyCharm
11 5 (0.29%) Hudson
12 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.17%) RStudio
13 3 (0.17%) Subversion
14 2 (0.11%) NUnit
14 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 481 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 429 (24.49%) Finance
3 353 (20.15%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.76%) Banking
6 87 (4.97%) Marketing
7 80 (4.57%) Retail
8 52 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
9 50 (2.85%) Legal
10 45 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 34 (1.94%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.77%) General Ledger
13 30 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 28 (1.60%) Local Government
14 28 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 24 (1.37%) Front Office
17 21 (1.20%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 414 (23.63%) Analyst
2 412 (23.52%) Developer
3 204 (11.64%) Architect
4 192 (10.96%) Data Analyst
5 157 (8.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 148 (8.45%) Consultant
7 129 (7.36%) Power BI Developer
8 121 (6.91%) Senior
9 120 (6.85%) Data Engineer
10 98 (5.59%) Power Platform Developer
11 94 (5.37%) Lead
12 87 (4.97%) Business Analyst
13 76 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
14 67 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
15 66 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 65 (3.71%) Data Architect
17 50 (2.85%) Applications Developer
17 50 (2.85%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
18 46 (2.63%) Power Apps Developer
19 45 (2.57%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (4.79%) .NET
2 71 (4.05%) CSS
3 68 (3.88%) HTML
4 50 (2.85%) XML
5 42 (2.40%) JSON
6 32 (1.83%) REST
7 31 (1.77%) PySpark
8 28 (1.60%) Web Services
9 27 (1.54%) .NET Framework
9 27 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
10 18 (1.03%) AngularJS
11 17 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.68%) ADO
12 12 (0.68%) Entity Framework
12 12 (0.68%) SPFx
13 11 (0.63%) jQuery
13 11 (0.63%) RESTful
13 11 (0.63%) SOAP
14 10 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (0.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 69 (3.94%) Management Information System
2 56 (3.20%) Product Ownership
3 47 (2.68%) Data Structures
4 29 (1.66%) Low-Code
5 27 (1.54%) NHS
5 27 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (0.86%) Hedge funds
9 15 (0.86%) Reference Data
10 13 (0.74%) Market Risk
11 12 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (0.63%) PKI
12 11 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (0.57%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (0.51%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.51%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 58 (3.31%) Windows
2 21 (1.20%) Linux
3 19 (1.08%) Unix
4 17 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.68%) VMS
6 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.057%) AIX
9 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,217 (69.46%) Business Intelligence
2 361 (20.61%) Agile
3 337 (19.24%) Analytics
4 312 (17.81%) Data Modelling
5 301 (17.18%) Visualisation
6 250 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
7 243 (13.87%) DevOps
8 233 (13.30%) ETL
9 225 (12.84%) Data Analysis
10 202 (11.53%) Data Visualisation
11 186 (10.62%) Migration
12 145 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 142 (8.11%) CRM
14 121 (6.91%) Decision-Making
15 117 (6.68%) Scrum
16 111 (6.34%) Data Governance
17 110 (6.28%) Data Analytics
18 99 (5.65%) Data Management
19 98 (5.59%) ITIL
20 97 (5.54%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 628 (35.84%) SQL
2 245 (13.98%) Python
3 126 (7.19%) C#
4 124 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 104 (5.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 103 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 81 (4.62%) T-SQL
8 41 (2.34%) Java
9 31 (1.77%) PL/SQL
10 26 (1.48%) R
11 19 (1.08%) VBA
12 17 (0.97%) TypeScript
13 14 (0.80%) Scala
14 12 (0.68%) VB
15 11 (0.63%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.40%) PHP
16 7 (0.40%) X++
16 7 (0.40%) XPath
16 7 (0.40%) XQuery
17 6 (0.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 190 (10.84%) Degree
2 180 (10.27%) Security Cleared
3 149 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 53 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 19 (1.08%) PMP
12 16 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (0.51%) MCSE
14 8 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
14 8 (0.46%) Postgraduate
14 8 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.40%) CIMA
16 4 (0.23%) ACCA
16 4 (0.23%) HNC
17 3 (0.17%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 81 (4.62%) QA
3 38 (2.17%) SLA
4 32 (1.83%) PMO
5 28 (1.60%) GDPR
6 18 (1.03%) GxP
7 16 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
9 8 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.40%) CDISC
11 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.29%) GAMP
13 4 (0.23%) NCSC
14 3 (0.17%) GRC
14 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.057%) IFRS
16 1 (0.057%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 65 (3.71%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.29%) Docker
5 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.057%) HDFS
6 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (1.48%) Terraform
3 19 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.46%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.46%) SCCM
5 7 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.29%) SysTrack
7 4 (0.23%) Ansible
8 3 (0.17%) Kibana
8 3 (0.17%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.11%) CASB
10 1 (0.057%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.057%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.057%) Grafana
10 1 (0.057%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.057%) Matomo
10 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.057%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.057%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.057%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 710 (40.53%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.74%) Databricks
3 114 (6.51%) Oracle
4 88 (5.02%) SAP
5 73 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 53 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 48 (2.74%) Google
8 41 (2.34%) Alteryx
9 34 (1.94%) Informatica
10 21 (1.20%) Adobe
11 20 (1.14%) Remedy
11 20 (1.14%) Sparx
12 15 (0.86%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.68%) CA
14 11 (0.63%) Cadence
14 11 (0.63%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.57%) MicroStrategy
15 10 (0.57%) Talend
16 9 (0.51%) Citrix
17 8 (0.46%) Splunk