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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 25 41
Rank change year-on-year -13 +16 +16
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 7 21 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.97% 4.83% 2.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.80% 21.00% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 11
10th Percentile £379 - £305
25th Percentile £401 £410 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £420 £375
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +12.00% -13.29%
75th Percentile £491 £488 £447
90th Percentile £519 £503 £450
East of England median daily rate £525 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% +5.88%

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 103 100 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 29.01% 22.99% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 50 61
10th Percentile £246 £287 £180
25th Percentile £416 £340 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £556 £506
90th Percentile £703 £601 £575
East of England median daily rate £505 £423 £456
% change year-on-year +19.53% -7.40% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 18
10th Percentile - - £14.18
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.58
Median % change year-on-year - +4.65% +3.83%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £20.00
90th Percentile - - £67.00
East of England median hourly rate £30.03 £16.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year +84.23% -18.50% +29.03%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -10 7 £438 +4.17% 8
Power Platform
East of England

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (42.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Power Automate
1 3 (42.86%) PowerApps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Business Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Biotechnology
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Security Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) IFRS
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) SAP