Power Platform Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Power Platform
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Power Platform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Platform over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 25 37 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.44% 5.41% 6.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.89% 16.37% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 33 52
10th Percentile £252 £310 £313
25th Percentile £316 £350 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £520
90th Percentile £639 £648 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.06
25th Percentile £56.88 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £58.75 - £24.63
75th Percentile £60.63 - £25.41
90th Percentile - - £25.69
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.88 £34.47 £24.63
% change year-on-year -1.70% +39.96% -

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

Power Platform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 148 226 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.29% 33.04% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 179 220
10th Percentile £200 £250 £262
25th Percentile £331 £363 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £625 £600
90th Percentile £613 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £38.09 £17.05 £17.14
25th Percentile £41.22 £18.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £47.38 £22.50 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +110.56% +3.45% +71.80%
75th Percentile £54.47 £39.38 £24.47
90th Percentile £58.16 £48.75 £25.31
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.43 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year +11.51% +66.89% +5.71%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Birmingham over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (4.00%) SAP CRM
1 1 (4.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (4.00%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) PowerApps
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (84.00%) Power BI
2 7 (28.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (24.00%) Tableau
4 2 (8.00%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (4.00%) Data Mining
5 1 (4.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Law
4 2 (8.00%) Legal
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Games
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Analytics Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Data Analytics Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Power Apps Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Risk Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (8.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.00%) NumPy
2 1 (4.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (40.00%) Analytics
3 7 (28.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) Migration
6 4 (16.00%) Visualisation
7 3 (12.00%) Business Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Data Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) Data Architecture
7 3 (12.00%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.00%) Project Management
7 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (12.00%) User Experience
8 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery Management
8 2 (8.00%) Supply Chain Management
8 2 (8.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (12.00%) R
5 2 (8.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) IIBA
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) Cognos
4 1 (4.00%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) New Relic