Power Platform Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 35 34 53
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 12 29 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.99% 4.60% 2.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.33% 18.13% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 21
10th Percentile £344 £233 £375
25th Percentile £408 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £574 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +27.56% +18.03%
75th Percentile £563 £586 £550
90th Percentile - - £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 144 160 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 35.91% 25.36% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 136 193
10th Percentile £164 £159 £215
25th Percentile £345 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £539 £600 £575
90th Percentile £623 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.54 -
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +2.63% -16.18%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £19.72
90th Percentile £18.53 £16.43 £22.88
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
South Wales -2 9 £550 -5.66% 21
West Wales - 1 £425 - 5
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Power Automate
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Power BI
2 6 (50.00%) Power Query
3 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) Budgeting
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (8.33%) Health Informatics
3 1 (8.33%) Informatics
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Test Management
3 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (8.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) T-SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft