Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft Power Platform
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 18 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 8 14 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 4.00% 6.93% 2.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.60% 21.21% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 4
10th Percentile £383 - £381
25th Percentile £410 £410 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £528 £430 £456
90th Percentile £534 - £468
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £420 £375
% change year-on-year +13.10% +12.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 93 66 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 46.50% 32.67% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 38 26
10th Percentile £309 £294 £171
25th Percentile £416 £340 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £622 £534 £531
90th Percentile £700 £604 £591
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £503 £420 £440
% change year-on-year +19.64% -4.55% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £19.54
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £16.86
% change year-on-year - -3.32% +16.28%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Cambridge over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Cambridge

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SAP HANA
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Database Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Database Security
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) IFRS
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) IFS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP