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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 56 66
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,423 2,036 2,575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.85% 4.03% 3.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.09% 11.00% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 1,439 1,872
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £601 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £683
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 51 42
10th Percentile £14.00 £24.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.51 £32.35 £16.31
Median hourly rate £23.22 £55.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -57.79% +145.54% +6.67%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £56.95 £65.75 £62.70
UK median hourly rate £22.86 £53.75 £22.45
% change year-on-year -57.47% +139.42% +5.65%

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 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +18 739 £525 - 441
South East +11 172 £463 -6.57% 132
North of England -7 169 £450 -10.00% 186
Midlands +14 135 £425 -10.53% 149
South West -5 120 £500 - 73
North West -9 111 £450 -5.26% 105
West Midlands +13 96 £425 -10.99% 98
Yorkshire -6 50 £438 -12.50% 52
East of England -25 41 £411 -8.61% 53
East Midlands +24 37 £425 +30.77% 50
North East +14 8 £663 +29.27% 29
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
1 163 (11.45%) SharePoint
2 47 (3.30%) Confluence
3 33 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.98%) SAS
6 12 (0.84%) MTS
7 11 (0.77%) Apache
8 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.14%) Jadu
10 1 (0.070%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.070%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.070%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.070%) Umbraco
Applications
1 164 (11.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.28%) InVision
7 4 (0.28%) Sketch
8 3 (0.21%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.21%) SPSS
9 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 85 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (2.18%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.84%) Endur
5 12 (0.84%) EuroRunner
6 11 (0.77%) Aligne
7 8 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.35%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
9 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.21%) Primavera
11 2 (0.14%) ION MarketView
11 2 (0.14%) Maximo
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 558 (39.21%) Azure
2 268 (18.83%) PowerApps
3 249 (17.50%) Power Automate
4 201 (14.13%) Dynamics 365
5 160 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
6 126 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
7 110 (7.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 86 (6.04%) AWS
9 57 (4.01%) Snowflake
10 56 (3.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 50 (3.51%) Serverless
12 47 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 46 (3.23%) Entra ID
14 44 (3.09%) Azure Functions
15 30 (2.11%) GitHub
16 28 (1.97%) GCP
17 27 (1.90%) OneDrive
18 22 (1.55%) OCI
19 20 (1.41%) Google Analytics
20 19 (1.34%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.48%) Firewall
2 7 (0.49%) Intranet
3 6 (0.42%) DNS
3 6 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 4 (0.28%) MegaStream
4 4 (0.28%) VPN
5 3 (0.21%) Skype
6 2 (0.14%) DHCP
6 2 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) SNMP
6 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.14%) XCAP
7 1 (0.070%) FTP
7 1 (0.070%) LAN
7 1 (0.070%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.070%) VLAN
7 1 (0.070%) VoIP
7 1 (0.070%) WAN
7 1 (0.070%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,171 (82.29%) Power BI
2 205 (14.41%) Data Warehouse
3 185 (13.00%) SQL Server
4 182 (12.79%) Tableau
5 123 (8.64%) Data Lake
6 101 (7.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 69 (4.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 60 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 43 (3.02%) Relational Database
9 43 (3.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 42 (2.95%) Big Data
11 37 (2.60%) BusinessObjects
12 36 (2.53%) NoSQL
12 36 (2.53%) Power Query
13 34 (2.39%) Metadata
14 32 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
15 24 (1.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 23 (1.62%) QlikView
17 20 (1.41%) MySQL
18 19 (1.34%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 77 (5.41%) JIRA
2 22 (1.55%) ERwin
3 19 (1.34%) Git
3 19 (1.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 16 (1.12%) ER Studio
5 14 (0.98%) GitLab
5 14 (0.98%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.49%) Postman
6 7 (0.49%) Visual Studio Team System
7 6 (0.42%) Eclipse
7 6 (0.42%) PyCharm
8 5 (0.35%) Hudson
8 5 (0.35%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.28%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.21%) RStudio
11 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.14%) NUnit
11 2 (0.14%) Selenium
11 2 (0.14%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.070%) Subversion
General
1 420 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 376 (26.42%) Finance
3 301 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 86 (6.04%) Marketing
6 78 (5.48%) Retail
7 73 (5.13%) Banking
8 54 (3.79%) Manufacturing
9 52 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (2.60%) Legal
11 33 (2.32%) Telecoms
12 29 (2.04%) Local Government
13 28 (1.97%) General Ledger
13 28 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
14 24 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (1.26%) Electronics
16 17 (1.19%) Law
17 16 (1.12%) Billing
18 15 (1.05%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 328 (23.05%) Analyst
2 317 (22.28%) Developer
3 172 (12.09%) Architect
4 156 (10.96%) Data Analyst
5 121 (8.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 115 (8.08%) Consultant
7 108 (7.59%) Data Engineer
8 101 (7.10%) Senior
9 99 (6.96%) Power BI Developer
10 80 (5.62%) Business Analyst
11 78 (5.48%) Lead
12 72 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
13 67 (4.71%) Data Architect
14 61 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 56 (3.94%) Power Platform Developer
16 51 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
17 47 (3.30%) Power BI Analyst
18 46 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
19 42 (2.95%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
20 37 (2.60%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.50%) .NET
2 44 (3.09%) JSON
3 42 (2.95%) XML
4 37 (2.60%) CSS
5 34 (2.39%) HTML
6 33 (2.32%) PySpark
7 27 (1.90%) REST
8 20 (1.41%) Web Services
9 19 (1.34%) SPFx
10 18 (1.26%) Microsoft Graph
11 16 (1.12%) .NET Framework
11 16 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (0.91%) jQuery
13 9 (0.63%) ADO
14 8 (0.56%) Node.js
14 8 (0.56%) React
14 8 (0.56%) RESTful
14 8 (0.56%) SAML
15 7 (0.49%) ARM Templates
15 7 (0.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (3.65%) Management Information System
2 44 (3.09%) Product Ownership
3 43 (3.02%) Data Structures
4 22 (1.55%) NHS
5 19 (1.34%) Onboarding
6 18 (1.26%) Low-Code
7 16 (1.12%) Market Risk
8 15 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (1.05%) Reference Data
9 12 (0.84%) Life Science
9 12 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 10 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.63%) Housing Association
11 9 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
11 9 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (0.56%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.60%) Windows
2 16 (1.12%) Linux
3 14 (0.98%) Unix
4 9 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.56%) VMS
6 7 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (70.27%) Business Intelligence
2 294 (20.66%) Agile
3 279 (19.61%) Analytics
4 266 (18.69%) Data Modelling
5 256 (17.99%) Visualisation
6 215 (15.11%) ETL
7 200 (14.05%) Data Analysis
8 198 (13.91%) DevOps
8 198 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
9 159 (11.17%) Data Visualisation
10 151 (10.61%) Migration
11 124 (8.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 114 (8.01%) CRM
13 101 (7.10%) Decision-Making
14 92 (6.47%) Project Management
15 91 (6.39%) Data Governance
16 88 (6.18%) Data Analytics
17 84 (5.90%) Data Management
18 83 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
19 78 (5.48%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 510 (35.84%) SQL
2 214 (15.04%) Python
3 105 (7.38%) C#
4 89 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 89 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 86 (6.04%) JavaScript
6 65 (4.57%) T-SQL
7 35 (2.46%) Java
8 34 (2.39%) R
9 18 (1.26%) PL/SQL
9 18 (1.26%) Scala
10 14 (0.98%) VBA
11 12 (0.84%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.63%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.56%) X++
14 7 (0.49%) PHP
14 7 (0.49%) XPath
14 7 (0.49%) XQuery
15 6 (0.42%) Groovy
16 5 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 147 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 126 (8.85%) Degree
3 120 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 27 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 9 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.49%) Postgraduate
12 6 (0.42%) CIMA
12 6 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.21%) ACCA
13 3 (0.21%) HNC
13 3 (0.21%) MCSE
13 3 (0.21%) PMP
14 2 (0.14%) CISM
14 2 (0.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 73 (5.13%) QA
3 31 (2.18%) SLA
4 28 (1.97%) GDPR
5 19 (1.34%) PMO
6 15 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.98%) GxP
8 6 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.42%) Good Clinical Practice
9 5 (0.35%) GAMP
10 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.070%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.070%) GAAP
12 1 (0.070%) GRC
12 1 (0.070%) IFRS
12 1 (0.070%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 53 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.42%) Docker
4 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.070%) HDFS
7 1 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 24 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.26%) Terraform
3 17 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.35%) SysTrack
6 4 (0.28%) Ansible
7 3 (0.21%) Kibana
7 3 (0.21%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.070%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.070%) CASB
9 1 (0.070%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.070%) logstash
9 1 (0.070%) Matomo
9 1 (0.070%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 537 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.80%) Databricks
3 96 (6.75%) Oracle
4 77 (5.41%) SAP
5 41 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 36 (2.53%) Alteryx
7 35 (2.46%) Informatica
7 35 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 33 (2.32%) Google
9 23 (1.62%) Sparx
10 19 (1.34%) Adobe
11 18 (1.26%) Remedy
12 11 (0.77%) Blue Prism
12 11 (0.77%) Citrix
12 11 (0.77%) Talend
12 11 (0.77%) UiPath
13 10 (0.70%) CA
14 9 (0.63%) Cadence
14 9 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
15 8 (0.56%) Splunk