Power Platform Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Power Platform
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 46 40
Rank change year-on-year +23 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 68 20 30
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.99% 2.85% 3.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.67% 9.52% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 10 14
10th Percentile £303 £391 £183
25th Percentile £383 £397 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £444 £413
Median % change year-on-year +9.86% +7.58% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £484 £616
90th Percentile £650 £504 £758
England median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £17.98 £18.95 £10.28
25th Percentile £17.99 £19.63 -
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £22.50 £22.13 -
90th Percentile £25.20 £22.65 -
England median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -5.31% +32.82% -35.61%

All Cloud Computing 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 329 210 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.96% 29.96% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 156 144
10th Percentile £199 £308 £175
25th Percentile £383 £365 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £444 £445
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% -0.16% +4.71%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £656 £542 £638
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 10 13
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.96 £13.62
25th Percentile £13.51 £16.89 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.95 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% +49.61% -30.00%
75th Percentile £19.03 £21.39 £26.50
90th Percentile £24.44 £21.55 £27.50
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the East Midlands

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Power Platform

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 July 2026. 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
Lincolnshire +1 17 £370 - 11
Nottinghamshire -10 17 £481 +9.69% 22
Northamptonshire +15 11 £393 -11.19% 4
Leicestershire 0 11 £575 +49.35% 13
Derbyshire -1 10 £506 +9.46% 9
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.29%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.06%) Azure
2 11 (16.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.82%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (7.35%) Power Automate
6 4 (5.88%) AWS
6 4 (5.88%) PowerApps
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Storage
7 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.94%) GitHub
8 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.94%) Serverless
9 1 (1.47%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (88.24%) Power BI
2 11 (16.18%) Data Lake
3 10 (14.71%) SQL Server
4 8 (11.76%) Power Query
5 5 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (7.35%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.94%) Big Data
6 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.94%) PowerPivot
6 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.94%) Tableau
7 1 (1.47%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.47%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.47%) MySQL
7 1 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (13.24%) JIRA
2 3 (4.41%) Git
General
1 26 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
1 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.59%) Finance
3 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.29%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.35%) Banking
7 3 (4.41%) Police
8 2 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.94%) Law
8 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.94%) Marketing
8 2 (2.94%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Analyst
2 13 (19.12%) Data Analyst
3 11 (16.18%) Data Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) Lead
5 9 (13.24%) Architect
5 9 (13.24%) Developer
5 9 (13.24%) Senior
6 6 (8.82%) Data Architect
7 5 (7.35%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Project Manager
7 5 (7.35%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Administrator
8 4 (5.88%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Business Support Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Support Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Data Administrator
9 3 (4.41%) PMO Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) .NET
1 3 (4.41%) PySpark
2 2 (2.94%) Node.js
2 2 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.47%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.47%) HTML
3 1 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.47%) Middleware
3 1 (1.47%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.47%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.94%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.94%) EMV
4 2 (2.94%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.94%) PMI
5 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (79.41%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (48.53%) Data Modelling
3 25 (36.76%) Analytics
4 18 (26.47%) Decision-Making
5 17 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (22.06%) DevOps
6 15 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (22.06%) Visualisation
7 14 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (19.12%) Validation
9 12 (17.65%) Data Engineering
9 12 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
10 11 (16.18%) Agile
10 11 (16.18%) AI
10 11 (16.18%) Data Analysis
10 11 (16.18%) ETL
11 10 (14.71%) Translating Business Requirements
12 9 (13.24%) CRM
12 9 (13.24%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.65%) SQL
2 9 (13.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 9 (13.24%) Python
3 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.94%) Bicep
4 2 (2.94%) C#
4 2 (2.94%) R
4 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.94%) VBA
5 1 (1.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (11.76%) Degree
1 8 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.41%) PMI Certification
3 3 (4.41%) PMP
4 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.94%) MBA
4 2 (2.94%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.47%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.06%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.35%) GDPR
3 4 (5.88%) PMO
3 4 (5.88%) QA
4 2 (2.94%) Basel III
4 2 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.94%) PSD2
5 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.47%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.18%) Databricks
2 11 (16.18%) SAP
3 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.41%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Ariba
5 1 (1.47%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.47%) OpenText
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.47%) TSYS