Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Power Platform
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 21 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 +25 +2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 8 16 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.11% 4.42% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.41% 17.98% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 4
10th Percentile £387 - £381
25th Percentile £420 £410 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £444
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -5.35% -19.32%
75th Percentile £600 £430 £519
90th Percentile £645 - £598
East of England median daily rate £575 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +36.90% -6.67% -10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 108 89 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 28.42% 24.59% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 48 38
10th Percentile £310 £300 £193
25th Percentile £400 £340 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £423 £498
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -15.08% +17.06%
75th Percentile £621 £588 £613
90th Percentile £700 £629 £683
East of England median daily rate £500 £420 £473
% change year-on-year +19.05% -11.11% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 22
10th Percentile £16.00 - -
25th Percentile £19.81 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +13.79% +30.07%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £20.75
90th Percentile - - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Cambridgeshire

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 November 2025. 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
Cambridge -14 8 £500 +19.05% 1
Power Platform
East of England

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (12.50%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) SAP HANA
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
2 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 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%) Accessibility
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
2 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media