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

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 42 52
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 20 28 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.77% 3.22% 2.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.39% 12.67% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 19
10th Percentile £391 £182 £180
25th Percentile £397 £200 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £484 £550 £588
90th Percentile £504 £758 £668
England median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £18.95 £10.28 -
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 - -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £23.47 £36.50
% change year-on-year +34.84% -35.71% +56.99%

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 213 221 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.54% 25.40% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 142 225
10th Percentile £308 £173 £202
25th Percentile £366 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +4.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £538
90th Percentile £541 £638 £695
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 15
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.62 £13.06
25th Percentile £16.89 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £20.95 £14.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.61% -30.00% +1.91%
75th Percentile £21.39 £26.50 £27.62
90th Percentile £21.55 £27.50 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +14.32% -32.10% +50.70%

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

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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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the East Midlands

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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 4 July 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
Derbyshire +9 5 £463 +15.63% 59
Nottinghamshire -1 5 £439 +119.38% 65
Leicestershire +3 4 £385 - 42
Lincolnshire 0 2 - - 35
Northamptonshire -13 2 £443 +60.91% 40
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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 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (85.00%) Power BI
2 7 (35.00%) Tableau
3 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (20.00%) Power Query
5 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (10.00%) Big Data
7 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.00%) Metadata
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Excel Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Integration Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) HR Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) Blazor
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) WPF
3 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (65.00%) Analytics
3 7 (35.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 5 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (20.00%) Kanban
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.00%) IT Audit
6 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) Logistics
7 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) X++
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) R
5 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CISA
1 3 (15.00%) CISM
1 3 (15.00%) CISSP
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) COBIT
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (15.00%) NIST
1 3 (15.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) RSA Archer
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Alteryx
2 3 (15.00%) Rapid7
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Cognos
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) IBM