Power Platform Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Power Platform
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Power Platform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Power Platform over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 42 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 31 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.15% 3.70% 3.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.13% 8.66% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 7
10th Percentile £361 £410 £242
25th Percentile £369 £413 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +0.53%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £513
90th Percentile £528 £528 £593
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £28.60
25th Percentile £41.25 - £41.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £63.00
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -34.62% +237.75% -12.52%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

Power Platform is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 171 231 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.93% 42.70% 26.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 168 87
10th Percentile £289 £214 £163
25th Percentile £364 £385 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +21.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £538
90th Percentile £588 £638 £630
North West median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 8
10th Percentile £16.98 £12.63 £18.18
25th Percentile - £15.50 £19.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% -18.44% +49.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.60 £39.00
90th Percentile - £52.88 £63.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £18.59
% change year-on-year -54.11% +88.25% +2.07%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Macclesfield -6 16 £500 +15.94%
Chester +9 5 - - 3
Crewe +7 1 £388 -
Wilmslow - 1 £363 - 2
Power Platform
North West

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (19.35%) SAS
2 3 (9.68%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.45%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP BPC
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Snowflake
2 7 (22.58%) Collibra
3 6 (19.35%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.23%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (93.55%) Power BI
2 7 (22.58%) Data Lake
3 6 (19.35%) Ataccama
3 6 (19.35%) Qlik Sense
3 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
4 5 (16.13%) Data Mining
5 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (9.68%) Tableau
6 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.23%) Metadata
7 1 (3.23%) Power Query
7 1 (3.23%) SAP BW
7 1 (3.23%) SAP HANA
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (16.13%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.23%) PyCharm
General
1 13 (41.94%) Pharmaceutical
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Finance
5 5 (16.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (61.29%) Analyst
2 16 (51.61%) Data Analyst
3 9 (29.03%) Data Quality Analyst
3 9 (29.03%) QA Analyst
3 9 (29.03%) Quality Analyst
3 9 (29.03%) Senior
4 8 (25.81%) Senior Analyst
4 8 (25.81%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
4 8 (25.81%) Senior QA Analyst
4 8 (25.81%) Senior Quality Analyst
5 5 (16.13%) Manufacturing Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Support Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) Business Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Consultant
7 3 (9.68%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) IT Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) IT Support
7 3 (9.68%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Life Science
2 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (87.10%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (38.71%) Data Analysis
2 12 (38.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (35.48%) Data Management
4 9 (29.03%) Analytics
4 9 (29.03%) Project Management
4 9 (29.03%) Visualisation
5 8 (25.81%) Data Governance
5 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (19.35%) Data Architecture
7 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (16.13%) Data Analytics
7 5 (16.13%) Data Cleansing
7 5 (16.13%) Data Extraction
7 5 (16.13%) FMEA
7 5 (16.13%) Process Improvement
7 5 (16.13%) Smart Manufacturing
7 5 (16.13%) Test Scripting
7 5 (16.13%) Validation
8 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) SQL
2 10 (32.26%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) C#
3 2 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.23%) Groovy
4 1 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) Julia
4 1 (3.23%) R
4 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) Data Quality
1 9 (29.03%) QA
2 7 (22.58%) GxP
3 5 (16.13%) GAMP
4 1 (3.23%) GDPR
4 1 (3.23%) Good Clinical Practice
4 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) SAP
2 6 (19.35%) Alteryx
2 6 (19.35%) Dataiku
2 6 (19.35%) Trillium
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.45%) Lotus
5 1 (3.23%) Databricks
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) Hyperion