Power Platform Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Power Platform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Platform over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 56 65
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 816 858 1,075
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.83% 3.78% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.93% 11.58% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 608 805
10th Percentile £300 £275 £300
25th Percentile £375 £381 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 38
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.30 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.24 £23.63 £14.56
Median hourly rate £21.50 £32.30 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -33.44% +43.88% +7.54%
75th Percentile £38.84 £56.43 £34.69
90th Percentile £43.75 £76.78 £50.40
UK median hourly rate £23.22 £38.75 £23.50
% change year-on-year -40.09% +64.89% +6.82%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Power Platform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the UK excluding London

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +8 206 £475 +2.70% 195
South East +12 176 £450 -10.00% 135
South West +10 141 £500 +5.26% 95
Midlands +12 138 £425 -11.46% 107
North West +2 129 £475 +2.70% 115
West Midlands +10 100 £433 -9.90% 68
Scotland +36 96 £478 -2.05% 44
Yorkshire +20 71 £490 -2.00% 60
East of England -16 49 £411 +2.81% 35
East Midlands +12 37 £413 +10.00% 39
Wales +7 12 £475 -18.94% 7
Northern Ireland +1 12 £575 +27.78% 11
North East +4 6 £850 +61.90% 20
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 100 (12.25%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (2.70%) Confluence
4 12 (1.47%) SAS
5 7 (0.86%) Apache
6 5 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.37%) Mendix
8 2 (0.25%) IBM Notes
8 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.12%) Jadu
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 111 (13.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.25%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 40 (4.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.84%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.61%) Aareon QL
5 4 (0.49%) Maximo
5 4 (0.49%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.12%) Relativity
8 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.12%) Shopify
8 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.12%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 296 (36.27%) Azure
2 151 (18.50%) PowerApps
3 143 (17.52%) Power Automate
4 116 (14.22%) Dynamics 365
5 92 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
6 69 (8.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 44 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (4.66%) AWS
9 34 (4.17%) Snowflake
10 32 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 27 (3.31%) Serverless
12 26 (3.19%) Entra ID
13 25 (3.06%) Azure Functions
14 24 (2.94%) OneDrive
15 23 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
16 18 (2.21%) GCP
17 13 (1.59%) Collibra
18 11 (1.35%) OCI
19 10 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
20 9 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.84%) Firewall
2 6 (0.74%) Unified Communications
3 4 (0.49%) Intranet
3 4 (0.49%) MegaStream
3 4 (0.49%) SSL
4 3 (0.37%) Skype
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VPN
5 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.25%) XCAP
6 1 (0.12%) DNS
6 1 (0.12%) FTP
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) SNMP
6 1 (0.12%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 642 (78.68%) Power BI
2 96 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (10.54%) SQL Server
3 86 (10.54%) Tableau
4 64 (7.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 57 (6.99%) Data Lake
6 51 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 48 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 30 (3.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 28 (3.43%) MySQL
9 28 (3.43%) Qlik Sense
10 26 (3.19%) Power Query
11 24 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 16 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
14 15 (1.84%) Big Data
15 14 (1.72%) Data Mining
16 10 (1.23%) GIS
16 10 (1.23%) Star Schema
17 8 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (5.27%) JIRA
2 14 (1.72%) Visual Studio
3 13 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.74%) Eclipse
4 6 (0.74%) Postman
4 6 (0.74%) PyCharm
5 5 (0.61%) Hudson
6 4 (0.49%) Git
6 4 (0.49%) GitLab
7 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.25%) JUnit
8 2 (0.25%) Subversion
9 1 (0.12%) ERwin
9 1 (0.12%) Gatling
9 1 (0.12%) Gradle
9 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.12%) Maven
9 1 (0.12%) NUnit
9 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 218 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 182 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
3 150 (18.38%) Finance
4 88 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 31 (3.80%) Retail
6 29 (3.55%) Manufacturing
6 29 (3.55%) Marketing
7 28 (3.43%) Legal
8 22 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 21 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.33%) Local Government
10 19 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.35%) Banking
13 9 (1.10%) Billing
13 9 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.98%) Electronics
14 8 (0.98%) Law
14 8 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (26.10%) Developer
2 200 (24.51%) Analyst
3 106 (12.99%) Data Analyst
4 87 (10.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 73 (8.95%) Power BI Developer
6 72 (8.82%) Senior
7 61 (7.48%) Architect
8 60 (7.35%) Data Engineer
9 57 (6.99%) Consultant
10 54 (6.62%) Power Platform Developer
11 48 (5.88%) Lead
12 39 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
13 38 (4.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 31 (3.80%) Applications Developer
15 28 (3.43%) Business Analyst
15 28 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (3.31%) Power Apps Developer
17 26 (3.19%) Power BI Analyst
18 21 (2.57%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
19 20 (2.45%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.64%) CSS
2 42 (5.15%) HTML
3 36 (4.41%) .NET
4 21 (2.57%) REST
4 21 (2.57%) XML
5 18 (2.21%) AngularJS
6 11 (1.35%) HTML5 Canvas
7 10 (1.23%) .NET Framework
8 9 (1.10%) Web Services
9 8 (0.98%) ADO
9 8 (0.98%) Entity Framework
9 8 (0.98%) JSON
9 8 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (0.86%) SPFx
11 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.74%) PySpark
11 6 (0.74%) React
12 5 (0.61%) SOAP
12 5 (0.61%) XSLT
13 4 (0.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.04%) Management Information System
2 16 (1.96%) Product Ownership
3 15 (1.84%) Data Structures
4 14 (1.72%) NHS
5 12 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.23%) PKI
7 9 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.10%) CMDB
7 9 (1.10%) Low-Code
8 8 (0.98%) Life Science
9 7 (0.86%) Housing Association
10 6 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (0.74%) Digital Signage
10 6 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.74%) Smart Meter
11 5 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.61%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.78%) Windows
2 13 (1.59%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.47%) Linux
3 12 (1.47%) Unix
4 7 (0.86%) VMS
5 6 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (69.36%) Business Intelligence
2 152 (18.63%) Analytics
3 134 (16.42%) Visualisation
4 121 (14.83%) Agile
5 120 (14.71%) Data Modelling
6 114 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (13.24%) ETL
8 107 (13.11%) Data Analysis
9 87 (10.66%) Migration
10 83 (10.17%) Data Visualisation
11 74 (9.07%) DevOps
11 74 (9.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 58 (7.11%) ITIL
13 53 (6.50%) Decision-Making
13 53 (6.50%) Project Management
14 52 (6.37%) CRM
15 49 (6.00%) Data Analytics
16 48 (5.88%) Scrum
17 47 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
18 46 (5.64%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 305 (37.38%) SQL
2 87 (10.66%) Python
3 66 (8.09%) JavaScript
4 48 (5.88%) C#
5 46 (5.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 44 (5.39%) T-SQL
7 33 (4.04%) PowerShell
8 16 (1.96%) Java
9 7 (0.86%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.86%) VBA
9 7 (0.86%) X++
10 6 (0.74%) Groovy
10 6 (0.74%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.49%) C
11 4 (0.49%) R
11 4 (0.49%) VB
12 2 (0.25%) PHP
13 1 (0.12%) C++
13 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 93 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 81 (9.93%) Degree
3 80 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 22 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.57%) PMI Certification
6 20 (2.45%) PMP
7 17 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.96%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.10%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.98%) MCSE
12 7 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.37%) HNC
14 3 (0.37%) Postgraduate
15 2 (0.25%) ACCA
15 2 (0.25%) CIMA
16 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.78%) QA
3 21 (2.57%) PMO
4 18 (2.21%) GDPR
5 13 (1.59%) GxP
6 12 (1.47%) SLA
7 7 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
8 6 (0.74%) Good Clinical Practice
9 5 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.61%) GAMP
10 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.37%) Docker
5 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.86%) Terraform
4 6 (0.74%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.74%) SCCM
5 5 (0.61%) SysTrack
6 2 (0.25%) Ansible
6 2 (0.25%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Nagios
7 1 (0.12%) Nessus
Vendors
1 314 (38.48%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.64%) Oracle
3 41 (5.02%) Databricks
3 41 (5.02%) SAP
4 36 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 26 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.21%) Google
7 17 (2.08%) Remedy
8 14 (1.72%) Alteryx
8 14 (1.72%) Informatica
9 12 (1.47%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.23%) CA
11 7 (0.86%) Ab Initio
11 7 (0.86%) Dataiku
11 7 (0.86%) Trillium
12 6 (0.74%) Adobe
12 6 (0.74%) Anaplan
12 6 (0.74%) Citrix
13 5 (0.61%) Ariba
13 5 (0.61%) Sophos