Power Platform Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Power Platform
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 26 37
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 14 29 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.90% 5.58% 4.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.22% 16.96% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 12
10th Percentile £471 £361 £400
25th Percentile £508 £369 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £475 £444
Median % change year-on-year +22.11% +7.04% -6.58%
75th Percentile - £500 £459
90th Percentile £630 £529 £488
North West median daily rate £475 £451 £463
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.43% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
North West median hourly rate - £42.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year - -24.65% +168.57%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 137 171 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.42% 32.88% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 115 154
10th Percentile £275 £279 £215
25th Percentile £358 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £491
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -8.37% +15.56%
75th Percentile £500 £522 £575
90th Percentile £580 £635 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 8
10th Percentile - £16.98 £13.18
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £22.47
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -21.14% +3.17%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile - - £47.73
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.35
% change year-on-year +79.02% -41.28% +3.62%

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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 25 May 2025.

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 25 May 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
Macclesfield 0 4 £580 +16.00% 1
Alderley Edge - 3 - -
Warrington - 2 £525 - 166
Crewe +5 1 - - 2
Knutsford - 1 £496 - 2
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North West

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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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Power Automate
2 5 (35.71%) PowerApps
3 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) Power BI
2 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Manufacturing
3 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (14.29%) Retail
7 1 (7.14%) Banking
7 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) SAP Financial Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.14%) ADO
1 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Life Science
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Inventory Management
4 4 (28.57%) Logistics
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
6 2 (14.29%) Community of Practice
6 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (14.29%) Information Security
6 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Profit Centre Accounting
6 2 (14.29%) Quality Management
6 2 (14.29%) Record to Report
6 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Ariba
2 4 (28.57%) SAP
3 2 (14.29%) Anaplan
3 2 (14.29%) Hyperion
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
4 1 (7.14%) Ping Identity
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow