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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 55 66
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,461 1,932 2,551
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.01% 3.99% 3.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.51% 10.93% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 1,375 1,875
10th Percentile £312 £325 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 44 40
10th Percentile £14.00 £22.11 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.33 £26.21 £18.46
Median hourly rate £23.22 £45.04 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year -48.45% +93.70% +10.71%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.60 £65.75 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £23.22 £40.50 £24.75
% change year-on-year -42.68% +63.64% +15.12%

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 11,675 17,684 27,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.07% 36.49% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,429 12,966 20,152
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £417 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 288 339
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.88 £18.44 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.81 £49.08
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +13 756 £525 - 508
North of England +1 179 £450 -5.26% 186
South East +6 173 £463 -7.04% 235
Midlands +16 142 £425 -11.46% 167
South West -1 124 £500 - 104
North West -6 117 £451 -2.43% 113
West Midlands +11 104 £425 -12.14% 121
Yorkshire +13 55 £438 -12.50% 54
East of England -23 42 £410 +2.50% 69
East Midlands +20 37 £425 +9.68% 45
North East +8 7 £663 +20.45% 19
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
1 169 (11.57%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.35%) Confluence
3 34 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.51%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.96%) Apache
6 13 (0.89%) SAS
7 12 (0.82%) MTS
8 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.14%) Jadu
9 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.068%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.068%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.068%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.068%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.068%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.068%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 169 (11.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.27%) InVision
7 4 (0.27%) Sketch
8 3 (0.21%) SPSS
9 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.14%) InfoPath
9 2 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 85 (5.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.85%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.82%) Endur
5 12 (0.82%) EuroRunner
6 11 (0.75%) Aligne
7 8 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.48%) Aladdin
8 7 (0.48%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.34%) Aareon QL
9 5 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.21%) Primavera
11 3 (0.21%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.14%) ION MarketView
12 2 (0.14%) Maximo
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
12 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
12 2 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 566 (38.74%) Azure
2 279 (19.10%) PowerApps
3 258 (17.66%) Power Automate
4 213 (14.58%) Dynamics 365
5 164 (11.23%) Microsoft 365
6 131 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
7 118 (8.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 91 (6.23%) AWS
9 58 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 55 (3.76%) Snowflake
11 52 (3.56%) Serverless
12 45 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 44 (3.01%) Azure Functions
13 44 (3.01%) Entra ID
14 30 (2.05%) GitHub
14 30 (2.05%) OneDrive
15 27 (1.85%) GCP
16 23 (1.57%) Collibra
17 19 (1.30%) Google Analytics
17 19 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.37%) Firewall
2 8 (0.55%) Intranet
3 7 (0.48%) DNS
4 6 (0.41%) Unified Communications
5 4 (0.27%) MegaStream
5 4 (0.27%) VPN
6 3 (0.21%) Skype
6 3 (0.21%) SNMP
7 2 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.14%) DHCP
7 2 (0.14%) Internet
7 2 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.14%) XCAP
8 1 (0.068%) FTP
8 1 (0.068%) LAN
8 1 (0.068%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.068%) VoIP
8 1 (0.068%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,207 (82.61%) Power BI
2 210 (14.37%) Data Warehouse
3 207 (14.17%) SQL Server
4 185 (12.66%) Tableau
5 128 (8.76%) Data Lake
6 106 (7.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 74 (5.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 63 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (3.49%) Big Data
10 49 (3.35%) Relational Database
11 43 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 41 (2.81%) Metadata
13 39 (2.67%) BusinessObjects
14 36 (2.46%) NoSQL
15 34 (2.33%) Power Query
16 30 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
17 27 (1.85%) MySQL
18 26 (1.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
19 23 (1.57%) Data Mining
19 23 (1.57%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 88 (6.02%) JIRA
2 21 (1.44%) Visual Studio
3 20 (1.37%) Git
4 19 (1.30%) ERwin
5 18 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (1.03%) GitLab
7 13 (0.89%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.55%) Postman
9 7 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
10 6 (0.41%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.41%) PyCharm
11 5 (0.34%) Hudson
11 5 (0.34%) Jenkins
12 4 (0.27%) RStudio
13 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.14%) NUnit
14 2 (0.14%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.14%) Subversion
14 2 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 432 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 387 (26.49%) Finance
3 311 (21.29%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 84 (5.75%) Banking
6 80 (5.48%) Marketing
7 77 (5.27%) Retail
8 49 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
9 47 (3.22%) Manufacturing
10 41 (2.81%) Legal
11 31 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.92%) General Ledger
12 28 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
13 26 (1.78%) Local Government
14 25 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.30%) Front Office
17 17 (1.16%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.10%) Electronics
18 16 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 346 (23.68%) Analyst
2 334 (22.86%) Developer
3 178 (12.18%) Architect
4 165 (11.29%) Data Analyst
5 130 (8.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 115 (7.87%) Data Engineer
7 114 (7.80%) Consultant
8 108 (7.39%) Power BI Developer
9 103 (7.05%) Senior
10 86 (5.89%) Business Analyst
11 75 (5.13%) Lead
11 75 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
12 73 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
13 66 (4.52%) Data Architect
14 58 (3.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 53 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
16 43 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
16 43 (2.94%) Power BI Analyst
17 42 (2.87%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
18 41 (2.81%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (4.52%) .NET
2 44 (3.01%) XML
3 43 (2.94%) CSS
4 40 (2.74%) HTML
4 40 (2.74%) JSON
5 32 (2.19%) PySpark
6 27 (1.85%) REST
7 24 (1.64%) Web Services
8 19 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
9 17 (1.16%) .NET Framework
10 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (1.10%) SPFx
11 13 (0.89%) jQuery
12 10 (0.68%) ADO
13 9 (0.62%) Entity Framework
13 9 (0.62%) SOAP
14 8 (0.55%) ARM Templates
14 8 (0.55%) Node.js
14 8 (0.55%) RESTful
14 8 (0.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (3.90%) Management Information System
2 48 (3.29%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 24 (1.64%) NHS
5 23 (1.57%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.37%) Low-Code
7 15 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (1.03%) Reference Data
8 13 (0.89%) Market Risk
9 12 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (0.75%) Life Science
11 10 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.62%) Data Centre
12 9 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (0.62%) Hedge funds
12 9 (0.62%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.55%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.46%) Windows
2 17 (1.16%) Linux
3 16 (1.10%) Unix
4 10 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.62%) VMS
6 6 (0.41%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,030 (70.50%) Business Intelligence
2 309 (21.15%) Agile
3 274 (18.75%) Analytics
4 270 (18.48%) Data Modelling
5 269 (18.41%) Visualisation
6 218 (14.92%) ETL
7 217 (14.85%) DevOps
8 210 (14.37%) Data Analysis
8 210 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
9 164 (11.23%) Data Visualisation
10 155 (10.61%) Migration
11 129 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 116 (7.94%) CRM
13 100 (6.84%) Decision-Making
14 98 (6.71%) Project Management
15 96 (6.57%) Data Governance
16 90 (6.16%) Data Analytics
17 83 (5.68%) Data Migration
18 82 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
19 79 (5.41%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 534 (36.55%) SQL
2 230 (15.74%) Python
3 108 (7.39%) C#
4 93 (6.37%) PowerShell
5 90 (6.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 88 (6.02%) JavaScript
7 69 (4.72%) T-SQL
8 37 (2.53%) Java
9 28 (1.92%) R
10 19 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.23%) Scala
12 16 (1.10%) VBA
13 9 (0.62%) MATLAB
13 9 (0.62%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.48%) PHP
14 7 (0.48%) X++
14 7 (0.48%) XPath
14 7 (0.48%) XQuery
15 6 (0.41%) Groovy
16 5 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 148 (10.13%) Security Cleared
2 135 (9.24%) Degree
3 119 (8.15%) SC Cleared
4 35 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 14 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.48%) Postgraduate
12 6 (0.41%) CIMA
12 6 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.41%) PMP
13 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.21%) ACCA
14 3 (0.21%) CISM
14 3 (0.21%) CISSP
14 3 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 78 (5.34%) QA
3 33 (2.26%) SLA
4 30 (2.05%) GDPR
5 19 (1.30%) PMO
6 16 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.10%) GxP
7 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
8 5 (0.34%) GAMP
9 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.14%) GRC
11 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.068%) GAAP
12 1 (0.068%) IFRS
12 1 (0.068%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 50 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.48%) Docker
4 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.068%) HDFS
7 1 (0.068%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 22 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
1 22 (1.51%) Terraform
2 17 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (0.41%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.34%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.27%) Ansible
7 3 (0.21%) Kibana
7 3 (0.21%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.068%) CASB
9 1 (0.068%) logstash
9 1 (0.068%) Matomo
9 1 (0.068%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 562 (38.47%) Microsoft
2 110 (7.53%) Databricks
3 98 (6.71%) Oracle
4 73 (5.00%) SAP
5 45 (3.08%) Salesforce
6 44 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.67%) Alteryx
8 33 (2.26%) Google
9 30 (2.05%) Informatica
10 20 (1.37%) Adobe
10 20 (1.37%) Remedy
10 20 (1.37%) Sparx
11 11 (0.75%) Talend
12 10 (0.68%) CA
12 10 (0.68%) Citrix
13 9 (0.62%) Cadence
13 9 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
14 8 (0.55%) Dataiku
14 8 (0.55%) Splunk
15 7 (0.48%) Nexthink