Power Platform Contracts in Cardiff

Microsoft Power Platform
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 26 20
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +22
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 12 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 7.50% 4.25% 7.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.75% 8.33% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 22
10th Percentile £167 £328 £224
25th Percentile £203 £416 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -5.66% +37.18%
75th Percentile £384 £563 £586
90th Percentile £445 - -
South Wales median daily rate £275 £550 £583
% change year-on-year -50.00% -5.66% +29.56%

All Cloud Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 64 108 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 40.00% 50.94% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 91 87
10th Percentile £200 £188 £202
25th Percentile £240 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £600
90th Percentile £596 £645 £663
South Wales median daily rate £409 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -18.25% -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £19.06 - -
25th Percentile £19.88 £12.25 £16.22
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -23.99% -3.97%
75th Percentile £23.75 £12.75 £16.67
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £14.25
% change year-on-year +80.00% -12.28% +2.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.33%) tSQLt
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Database Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) FHIR
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
1 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) ETL
2 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Database Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) CRM
5 1 (8.33%) Data Extraction
5 1 (8.33%) Data Integration
5 1 (8.33%) Data Security
5 1 (8.33%) MVC
5 1 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) RedGate
2 1 (8.33%) VMware