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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 43 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 25 25 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.17% 3.15% 2.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.92% 11.90% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 12
10th Percentile £383 £263 £165
25th Percentile £394 £368 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £470 £588 £509
90th Percentile £531 £788 £639
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.31 £30.30 £38.00
% change year-on-year +6.65% -20.28% +60.47%

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 229 210 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.02% 26.45% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 121 232
10th Percentile £334 £189 £213
25th Percentile £375 £356 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £454
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -0.92% +0.93%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £530
90th Percentile £573 £645 £624
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 24
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.76 £12.23
25th Percentile £19.38 £16.63 £13.12
Median hourly rate £21.39 £18.32 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% +11.03% -20.96%
75th Percentile - £39.68 £40.00
90th Percentile - £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Leicestershire -2 7 £408 -4.12% 15
Derbyshire +6 6 £463 +23.33% 18
Nottinghamshire -5 5 £413 -9.34% 26
Lincolnshire +4 4 £550 -21.43% 10
Northamptonshire -16 1 £410 +17.14% 14
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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) PowerApps
3 5 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Functions
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (16.00%) Power Automate
4 4 (16.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (80.00%) Power BI
2 7 (28.00%) Tableau
3 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (20.00%) Power Query
4 4 (16.00%) Big Data
5 3 (12.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (8.00%) Data Mining
7 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (4.00%) Metadata
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
7 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Retail
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Integration Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Power BI Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Data Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Data Scientist
5 2 (8.00%) Junior
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Digital Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Excel Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) HR Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Junior Data Scientist
6 1 (4.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) Blazor
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) WPF
3 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Fabric
1 3 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (60.00%) Analytics
3 8 (32.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (32.00%) Visualisation
4 6 (24.00%) Data Visualisation
4 6 (24.00%) ETL
5 5 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (16.00%) Agile
6 4 (16.00%) Data Analytics
6 4 (16.00%) Data Management
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) Kanban
6 4 (16.00%) Log Analytics
6 4 (16.00%) Migration
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (12.00%) Data Transformation
7 3 (12.00%) IT Audit
7 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (24.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (16.00%) R
4 4 (16.00%) X++
5 2 (8.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) Java
6 1 (4.00%) VB
6 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) CISA
3 3 (12.00%) CISM
3 3 (12.00%) CISSP
3 3 (12.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) COBIT
1 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
1 3 (12.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) ISO 19650
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) RSA Archer
2 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Databricks
3 3 (12.00%) Alteryx
3 3 (12.00%) Rapid7
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.00%) Cognos
5 1 (4.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) IBM