Power Platform Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 38 86 63
Rank change year-on-year +48 -23 +15
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 110 86 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.98% 3.01% 3.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.82% 8.37% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 68 81
10th Percentile £290 £362 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £481 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +13.24% -
75th Percentile £556 £550 £525
90th Percentile £670 £613 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.90
25th Percentile £16.50 - £26.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 - £29.50
75th Percentile £20.61 - £34.00
90th Percentile £37.70 - £35.50
UK median hourly rate £22.86 £53.75 £22.45
% change year-on-year -57.47% +139.42% +5.65%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 742 1,027 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.62% 35.98% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 771 784
10th Percentile £256 £250 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £661 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.83
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 Scotland

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Scotland

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Scotland

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +23 56 £465 -4.62% 15
Edinburgh +43 39 £575 +21.05% 14
South Lanarkshire +2 5 £458 -12.86%
Aberdeenshire - 2 £525 - 3
Fife - 2 £250 - 2
Perthshire +8 1 £675 +29.19%
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 19 (17.27%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.91%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) JBoss
4 1 (0.91%) SAS
4 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.91%) WildFly
Applications
1 19 (17.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.73%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (2.73%) Maximo
2 3 (2.73%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 38 (34.55%) Azure
2 28 (25.45%) Power Automate
3 26 (23.64%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (22.73%) PowerApps
5 12 (10.91%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.55%) SaaS
8 3 (2.73%) AWS
8 3 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.73%) OCI
8 3 (2.73%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.73%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.91%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.91%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) Firewall
1 3 (2.73%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (71.82%) Power BI
2 6 (5.45%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.64%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (3.64%) Star Schema
3 4 (3.64%) Tableau
4 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.73%) Metadata
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.82%) Big Data
5 2 (1.82%) Power Query
5 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.91%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.91%) DTS
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.91%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 12 (10.91%) JIRA
2 3 (2.73%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.91%) JUnit
3 1 (0.91%) Maven
3 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.91%) Subversion
General
1 31 (28.18%) Public Sector
2 26 (23.64%) Finance
3 25 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 18 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.64%) Legal
8 3 (2.73%) Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Marketing
9 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (34.55%) Analyst
2 20 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 15 (13.64%) Consultant
4 13 (11.82%) Architect
4 13 (11.82%) Developer
5 11 (10.00%) Senior
6 10 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (7.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (7.27%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (7.27%) Senior Data Analyst
8 7 (6.36%) Power BI Developer
9 6 (5.45%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 5 (4.55%) Power Platform Consultant
11 4 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 4 (3.64%) Functional Consultant
11 4 (3.64%) Lead
11 4 (3.64%) PMO Analyst
11 4 (3.64%) Security Specialist
11 4 (3.64%) Vulnerability Analyst
11 4 (3.64%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.73%) .NET
2 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.73%) CSS
2 3 (2.73%) HTML
3 2 (1.82%) NumPy
3 2 (1.82%) Pandas
3 2 (1.82%) PySpark
3 2 (1.82%) REST
3 2 (1.82%) SOAP
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.91%) Java EE
4 1 (0.91%) JPA
4 1 (0.91%) JSTL
4 1 (0.91%) MDX
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.91%) OpenJDK
4 1 (0.91%) STL
4 1 (0.91%) XML
4 1 (0.91%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.64%) CMDB
2 4 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (3.64%) DTCC
2 4 (3.64%) Market Risk
3 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.73%) PKI
3 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.91%) BYOD
5 1 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.91%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.36%) Windows
2 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.82%) Linux
3 2 (1.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.91%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (56.36%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (29.09%) Analytics
3 21 (19.09%) Agile
4 18 (16.36%) Visualisation
5 17 (15.45%) Data Visualisation
6 16 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.64%) Data Analysis
8 14 (12.73%) ERP
9 13 (11.82%) Data Management
10 10 (9.09%) Data Modelling
10 10 (9.09%) Project Management
11 9 (8.18%) DevOps
12 8 (7.27%) Asset Management
12 8 (7.27%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (7.27%) CRM
12 8 (7.27%) Decision-Making
12 8 (7.27%) Project Delivery
12 8 (7.27%) Project Governance
12 8 (7.27%) Resource Management
12 8 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.73%) SQL
2 7 (6.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 7 (6.36%) Python
3 3 (2.73%) Java
3 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.82%) C#
4 2 (1.82%) Scala
5 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.82%) Degree
2 11 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (3.64%) CISM
5 4 (3.64%) CISSP
5 4 (3.64%) MCSE
5 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.82%) PMO
2 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.73%) QA
4 2 (1.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.91%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.73%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) SCCM
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 56 (50.91%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.91%) Databricks
3 11 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 9 (8.18%) Oracle
5 6 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.64%) Adobe
6 4 (3.64%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.64%) Nintex
6 4 (3.64%) Qualys
7 3 (2.73%) Cadence
7 3 (2.73%) IDERA
8 2 (1.82%) Informatica
8 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.91%) Google
9 1 (0.91%) IFS
9 1 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.91%) SAP
9 1 (0.91%) Sybase
9 1 (0.91%) VMware