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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 55 62
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,722 2,331 3,234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.00% 4.03% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.36% 10.94% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 1,661 2,337
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £455
% change year-on-year -6.25% +5.49% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 51 44
10th Percentile £14.00 £22.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.25 £18.26
Median hourly rate £23.22 £51.00 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year -54.48% +119.35% +8.14%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £54.50 £65.75 £62.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.21 £55.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -61.45% +145.54% +14.87%

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 13,934 21,306 33,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.80% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,402 24,532
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 £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 346 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.09% +23.10% -

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 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
England +9 1,453 £500 - 1,104
UK excluding London +5 768 £450 -6.25% 695
London +12 752 £525 - 417
Work from Home +12 708 £500 - 589
North of England +2 182 £450 -5.26% 180
South East +10 169 £463 -6.57% 143
Midlands +18 136 £425 -11.46% 169
South West -3 125 £500 - 81
North West -2 118 £453 -2.16% 113
Scotland +43 103 £480 -0.26% 38
West Midlands +9 99 £425 -12.14% 113
Yorkshire +10 56 £438 -12.50% 51
East of England -21 42 £410 +2.50% 63
East Midlands +26 36 £425 +9.68% 55
Northern Ireland +7 12 £600 +37.14% 10
Wales +2 12 £475 -18.52% 21
North East +10 8 £663 +29.27% 16

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
1 211 (12.25%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.37%) Confluence
3 39 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.16%) SAS
6 17 (0.99%) Apache
7 12 (0.70%) MTS
8 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.12%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.12%) IIS
10 2 (0.12%) Jadu
10 2 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.058%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.058%) JBoss
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 204 (11.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.23%) InVision
7 4 (0.23%) Sketch
8 3 (0.17%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.17%) SPSS
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.12%) InfoPath
9 2 (0.12%) Revit
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 107 (6.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.92%) Dynamics AX
3 23 (1.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.70%) Endur
5 12 (0.70%) EuroRunner
6 11 (0.64%) Aligne
7 9 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.29%) Aareon QL
9 5 (0.29%) Maximo
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
11 3 (0.17%) Primavera
11 3 (0.17%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.17%) Shopify
12 2 (0.12%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 670 (38.91%) Azure
2 340 (19.74%) PowerApps
3 321 (18.64%) Power Automate
4 248 (14.40%) Dynamics 365
5 205 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
6 150 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
7 134 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 112 (6.50%) AWS
9 70 (4.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 67 (3.89%) Snowflake
11 65 (3.77%) Serverless
12 53 (3.08%) Azure Functions
13 49 (2.85%) Entra ID
14 46 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 46 (2.67%) GCP
15 39 (2.26%) GitHub
16 34 (1.97%) OneDrive
17 24 (1.39%) Google Analytics
17 24 (1.39%) OCI
18 23 (1.34%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.39%) Firewall
2 9 (0.52%) Intranet
3 8 (0.46%) DNS
4 6 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (0.35%) 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%) DHCP
5 4 (0.23%) LTE
5 4 (0.23%) MegaStream
5 4 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (0.23%) VPN
6 3 (0.17%) Network Security
6 3 (0.17%) Skype
6 3 (0.17%) SNMP
6 3 (0.17%) SSL
7 2 (0.12%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.12%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,394 (80.95%) Power BI
2 228 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
3 219 (12.72%) SQL Server
4 203 (11.79%) Tableau
5 145 (8.42%) Data Lake
6 115 (6.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 83 (4.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 71 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (3.14%) Power Query
10 53 (3.08%) Big Data
10 53 (3.08%) Relational Database
11 47 (2.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 46 (2.67%) Metadata
13 38 (2.21%) BusinessObjects
14 37 (2.15%) NoSQL
15 32 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
16 27 (1.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 27 (1.57%) MySQL
17 25 (1.45%) QlikView
18 24 (1.39%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 112 (6.50%) JIRA
2 24 (1.39%) Visual Studio
3 23 (1.34%) Git
4 20 (1.16%) ERwin
5 19 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 16 (0.93%) GitLab
7 15 (0.87%) ER Studio
8 8 (0.46%) Postman
9 7 (0.41%) Jenkins
9 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio Team System
10 6 (0.35%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.35%) PyCharm
11 5 (0.29%) Hudson
12 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.17%) RStudio
13 3 (0.17%) Selenium
13 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 485 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 426 (24.74%) Finance
3 349 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.52%) Marketing
6 85 (4.94%) Banking
7 79 (4.59%) Retail
8 55 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
9 49 (2.85%) Manufacturing
10 48 (2.79%) Legal
11 36 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 34 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 31 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 30 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.68%) General Ledger
16 27 (1.57%) Local Government
17 20 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (1.05%) Billing
18 18 (1.05%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.99%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 402 (23.34%) Analyst
2 382 (22.18%) Developer
3 211 (12.25%) Architect
4 196 (11.38%) Data Analyst
5 151 (8.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 143 (8.30%) Consultant
7 128 (7.43%) Data Engineer
7 128 (7.43%) Power BI Developer
8 124 (7.20%) Senior
9 98 (5.69%) Lead
10 87 (5.05%) Business Analyst
11 86 (4.99%) Solutions Architect
12 72 (4.18%) Power Platform Developer
13 71 (4.12%) Data Architect
14 67 (3.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 56 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
16 54 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
17 52 (3.02%) Power BI Analyst
18 51 (2.96%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
19 42 (2.44%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (4.70%) .NET
2 47 (2.73%) CSS
2 47 (2.73%) XML
3 46 (2.67%) JSON
4 44 (2.56%) HTML
5 37 (2.15%) PySpark
6 30 (1.74%) REST
7 25 (1.45%) Web Services
8 21 (1.22%) HTML5 Canvas
9 20 (1.16%) .NET Framework
10 18 (1.05%) SPFx
11 17 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
12 14 (0.81%) jQuery
13 11 (0.64%) ADO
13 11 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (0.58%) SOAP
15 9 (0.52%) Node.js
16 8 (0.46%) Entity Framework
16 8 (0.46%) React
16 8 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 67 (3.89%) Management Information System
2 51 (2.96%) Product Ownership
3 48 (2.79%) Data Structures
4 25 (1.45%) NHS
4 25 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 23 (1.34%) Low-Code
6 20 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (1.10%) Market Risk
8 16 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (0.93%) Reference Data
9 13 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
10 12 (0.70%) Life Science
11 11 (0.64%) Data Centre
11 11 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (0.58%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
12 10 (0.58%) PKI
13 9 (0.52%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.79%) Windows
2 20 (1.16%) Linux
3 17 (0.99%) Unix
4 16 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.46%) VMS
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.058%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,199 (69.63%) Business Intelligence
2 353 (20.50%) Agile
3 339 (19.69%) Analytics
4 314 (18.23%) Visualisation
5 307 (17.83%) Data Modelling
6 252 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
7 246 (14.29%) ETL
8 242 (14.05%) DevOps
9 238 (13.82%) Data Analysis
10 199 (11.56%) Data Visualisation
11 184 (10.69%) Migration
12 143 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 138 (8.01%) CRM
14 119 (6.91%) Data Governance
15 114 (6.62%) Decision-Making
16 111 (6.45%) Data Management
17 107 (6.21%) Data Analytics
17 107 (6.21%) Project Management
18 92 (5.34%) Data Science
19 90 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 602 (34.96%) SQL
2 266 (15.45%) Python
3 126 (7.32%) C#
4 110 (6.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 104 (6.04%) PowerShell
6 102 (5.92%) JavaScript
7 75 (4.36%) T-SQL
8 45 (2.61%) Java
9 41 (2.38%) R
10 22 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 21 (1.22%) Scala
12 17 (0.99%) VBA
13 13 (0.75%) TypeScript
14 12 (0.70%) VB
15 10 (0.58%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.41%) PHP
16 7 (0.41%) X++
16 7 (0.41%) XPath
16 7 (0.41%) XQuery
17 6 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 180 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 162 (9.41%) Degree
3 149 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 40 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 20 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 19 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.46%) MCSE
11 8 (0.46%) Postgraduate
12 6 (0.35%) CIMA
12 6 (0.35%) CISM
12 6 (0.35%) CISSP
12 6 (0.35%) PMP
12 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.23%) HNC
14 3 (0.17%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 86 (4.99%) QA
3 38 (2.21%) SLA
4 33 (1.92%) PMO
5 31 (1.80%) GDPR
6 20 (1.16%) GxP
7 15 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.41%) CDISC
10 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.29%) GAMP
12 4 (0.23%) NCSC
13 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.12%) GRC
14 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.058%) IFRS
15 1 (0.058%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 63 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.52%) Docker
4 6 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.058%) HDFS
7 1 (0.058%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.058%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.28%) Terraform
3 19 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.52%) Kubernetes
5 8 (0.46%) SCCM
6 7 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.29%) SysTrack
8 4 (0.23%) Ansible
9 3 (0.17%) Kibana
9 3 (0.17%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.12%) SCOM
11 1 (0.058%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.058%) CASB
11 1 (0.058%) Grafana
11 1 (0.058%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.058%) logstash
11 1 (0.058%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.058%) SCOrch
11 1 (0.058%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.058%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 689 (40.01%) Microsoft
2 134 (7.78%) Databricks
3 112 (6.50%) Oracle
4 88 (5.11%) SAP
5 51 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 48 (2.79%) Google
7 44 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 39 (2.26%) Alteryx
9 33 (1.92%) Informatica
10 24 (1.39%) Sparx
11 22 (1.28%) Adobe
12 20 (1.16%) Remedy
13 15 (0.87%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.70%) CA
14 12 (0.70%) Cadence
15 11 (0.64%) Citrix
15 11 (0.64%) Talend
16 10 (0.58%) MicroStrategy
17 9 (0.52%) Splunk
17 9 (0.52%) UiPath