Power Platform Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Power Platform
England > North of England

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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 44 63
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 176 252 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.75% 4.41% 3.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.87% 12.13% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 170 194
10th Percentile £343 £313 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £563
90th Percentile £578 £656 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 19
10th Percentile - £38.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.77 £51.28 £15.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +209.52% -
75th Percentile £43.75 - £42.25
90th Percentile - - £63.40
England median hourly rate £23.22 £51.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -54.48% +126.67% +7.14%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,368 2,077 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.15% 36.39% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 1,552 1,901
10th Percentile £263 £300 £195
25th Percentile £375 £414 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £687 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 36 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.80 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.65% +112.27% -1.32%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -34.98% +51.55% +0.95%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the North of England

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the North of England

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the North of England

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the North of England

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the North of England

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West -2 115 £451 -3.73% 110
Yorkshire +12 53 £438 -12.50% 56
North East +11 8 £663 +30.86% 18
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (3.98%) Confluence
1 7 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.41%) SAS
3 2 (1.14%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (10.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (23.86%) Azure
2 32 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
3 22 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 15 (8.52%) Snowflake
5 14 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (7.39%) AWS
7 12 (6.82%) Power Automate
8 8 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (3.98%) Collibra
10 6 (3.41%) GCP
11 5 (2.84%) Mimecast
12 4 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.27%) Google Analytics
12 4 (2.27%) OCI
13 3 (1.70%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (1.70%) Serverless
14 2 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (1.14%) Entra ID
14 2 (1.14%) GitHub
14 2 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) Skype
2 1 (0.57%) Firewall
2 1 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (88.64%) Power BI
2 30 (17.05%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (13.07%) SQL Server
4 22 (12.50%) Tableau
5 14 (7.95%) Data Lake
6 12 (6.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (5.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (5.11%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.98%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (3.41%) Ataccama
10 6 (3.41%) Data Mining
11 4 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (1.70%) Power Query
13 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (1.14%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 11 (6.25%) JIRA
2 6 (3.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (2.84%) Hudson
4 2 (1.14%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.14%) Git
5 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.57%) Gatling
5 1 (0.57%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Gradle
5 1 (0.57%) JUnit
5 1 (0.57%) Postman
5 1 (0.57%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.57%) Selenium
5 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (19.89%) Finance
4 14 (7.95%) Manufacturing
4 14 (7.95%) Pharmaceutical
5 12 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.55%) Legal
7 7 (3.98%) Retail
8 5 (2.84%) Law
8 5 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.70%) Marketing
10 3 (1.70%) Police
11 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Billing
12 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 52 (29.55%) Analyst
2 38 (21.59%) Developer
3 34 (19.32%) Data Analyst
4 23 (13.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 19 (10.80%) Lead
6 18 (10.23%) Power BI Developer
7 17 (9.66%) Senior
8 14 (7.95%) Business Analyst
9 13 (7.39%) Architect
9 13 (7.39%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (6.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 11 (6.25%) Consultant
12 9 (5.11%) Data Quality Analyst
12 9 (5.11%) QA Analyst
12 9 (5.11%) Quality Analyst
12 9 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (4.55%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
13 8 (4.55%) Senior QA Analyst
13 8 (4.55%) Senior Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.55%) .NET
2 3 (1.70%) HTML
3 2 (1.14%) CSS
3 2 (1.14%) Web Services
4 1 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.57%) jOOQ
4 1 (0.57%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.57%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.57%) React
4 1 (0.57%) REST
4 1 (0.57%) Shiny
4 1 (0.57%) Spring
4 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.55%) Life Science
2 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.27%) NHS
4 3 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.57%) IoT
6 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.57%) PMI
6 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.57%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.27%) Apple iOS
1 4 (2.27%) Linux
1 4 (2.27%) Mac OS
2 3 (1.70%) Windows
3 2 (1.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (74.43%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (23.30%) Visualisation
3 32 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (17.05%) Analytics
5 29 (16.48%) Data Analysis
6 28 (15.91%) Agile
7 26 (14.77%) Data Visualisation
7 26 (14.77%) ETL
8 25 (14.20%) Migration
8 25 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (12.50%) Project Management
10 21 (11.93%) Data Modelling
11 20 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (7.95%) Data Architecture
13 13 (7.39%) CRM
13 13 (7.39%) Data Management
14 12 (6.82%) Data Extraction
15 11 (6.25%) Data Analytics
15 11 (6.25%) ERP
16 10 (5.68%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 77 (43.75%) SQL
2 33 (18.75%) Python
3 14 (7.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (6.82%) C#
4 12 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.27%) Java
5 4 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.27%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.70%) R
7 1 (0.57%) Groovy
7 1 (0.57%) Julia
7 1 (0.57%) PHP
7 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (8.52%) Degree
2 5 (2.84%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.70%) HNC
3 3 (1.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.57%) CBAP
5 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.23%) QA
2 15 (8.52%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.98%) GxP
4 5 (2.84%) GAMP
5 4 (2.27%) GDPR
6 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.57%) Kibana
2 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (28.41%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.09%) SAP
3 6 (3.41%) Alteryx
3 6 (3.41%) Databricks
3 6 (3.41%) Dataiku
3 6 (3.41%) Google
3 6 (3.41%) Oracle
3 6 (3.41%) Trillium
4 5 (2.84%) Sophos
5 4 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.14%) IDERA
6 2 (1.14%) Lotus
6 2 (1.14%) Remedy
7 1 (0.57%) Brio
7 1 (0.57%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.57%) Intel
7 1 (0.57%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.57%) VMware
7 1 (0.57%) Workday