Power Platform Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Power Platform
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 41 31 54
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 +13
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 15 37 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.80% 4.79% 2.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.56% 17.45% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 22 22
10th Percentile £466 £168 £205
25th Percentile £472 £228 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £497 £606 £563
90th Percentile £499 £688 £646
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £18.95 £11.03 -
25th Percentile £19.63 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
75th Percentile £22.13 - -
90th Percentile £22.65 £21.70 -
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £55.00
% change year-on-year +25.22% -57.79% +144.99%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 142 212 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.49% 27.43% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 149 231
10th Percentile £240 £163 £181
25th Percentile £356 £310 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -3.41% -2.22%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £538
90th Percentile £558 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 12
10th Percentile £13.25 - £14.57
25th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £15.09 £16.63 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -11.82% +10.26%
75th Percentile £19.50 £27.50 £24.43
90th Percentile £21.60 £32.10 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the East Midlands

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the East Midlands

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the East Midlands

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Nottinghamshire +9 6 £500 +150.00% 26
Derbyshire +10 5 - - 18
Leicestershire +3 3 - - 31
Northamptonshire -13 1 £475 +88.12% 19
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) Asana
4 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Tableau
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Power Query
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) General Ledger
3 1 (6.67%) Local Government
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) IT Manager
1 4 (26.67%) IT Project Manager
1 4 (26.67%) Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Excel Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) HR Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) HR Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) JSON
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
1 1 (6.67%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (66.67%) Analytics
3 8 (53.33%) Data Analytics
4 6 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) ERP
5 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
6 4 (26.67%) CRM
6 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Project Management
6 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
7 3 (20.00%) ETL
8 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
8 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
8 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) R
4 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google