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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 10 9 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.95% 4.25% 8.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.71% 8.74% 23.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 21
10th Percentile £166 £328 £219
25th Percentile £181 £416 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £550 £586
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -6.14% +24.15%
75th Percentile £369 £563 -
90th Percentile £409 - £600
South Wales median daily rate £275 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -50.00% -6.14% +16.82%

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 68 103 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 40.48% 48.58% 36.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 85 86
10th Percentile £193 £161 £201
25th Percentile £250 £369 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +18.92%
75th Percentile £480 £550 £600
90th Percentile £587 £588 £663
South Wales median daily rate £400 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.61% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £19.06 - £16.40
25th Percentile £19.88 £12.25 £16.67
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £18.22
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -31.40% +6.41%
75th Percentile £23.75 £12.75 £20.67
90th Percentile - - £21.47
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £15.35
% change year-on-year +80.00% -18.55% +24.73%

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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 June 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Power BI
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (10.00%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Database Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (20.00%) FHIR
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
1 2 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) ETL
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) API Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) HL7
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) RedGate