Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Bolton

Microsoft Power Platform
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bolton requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 6
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 8 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bolton 21.62% 4.76% 11.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 80.00% 18.18% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.50 - -
Median hourly rate £29.50 - -
75th Percentile £30.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median hourly rate £29.96 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Bolton

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 Bolton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bolton 27.03% 26.19% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £208 -
25th Percentile £550 £243 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £300 £525
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -42.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £369 £538
90th Percentile - £410 -
Manchester median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.50 - -
Median hourly rate £29.50 - -
75th Percentile £30.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +4.48% +252.63%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Bolton

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Daily Rate Trend in Bolton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Power Platform

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bolton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Power Platform

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Primavera
1 4 (50.00%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Power Query
General
1 4 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Coordinator
1 4 (50.00%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Project Officer
3 1 (12.50%) PMO Coordinator
3 1 (12.50%) Project Support Coordinator
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) AI
1 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (50.00%) LLM
1 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 4 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
1 4 (50.00%) Project Management
1 4 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) OCR
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Use Case
2 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Foundry
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 4 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks