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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +30
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 66 17 37
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.54% 3.33% 4.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.22% 11.81% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 5 22
10th Percentile £325 £440 £168
25th Percentile £355 £463 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £606
90th Percentile £558 £523 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £15.32 - £11.03
25th Percentile £18.00 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +64.29% -
75th Percentile £25.62 - -
90th Percentile £52.25 - £21.70
England median hourly rate £28.36 £29.07 £22.86
% change year-on-year -2.46% +27.18% -59.47%

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 311 144 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.82% 28.18% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 106 169
10th Percentile £190 £197 £166
25th Percentile £333 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £546 £521 £550
90th Percentile £625 £553 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.17 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.48 £14.80 £17.17
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -13.83% +10.77%
75th Percentile £23.50 £17.19 £27.25
90th Percentile £26.27 £20.68 £31.53
England median hourly rate £40.25 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.39% +29.17% -16.00%

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 30 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 March 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
Northamptonshire -3 22 £398 -16.32% 11
Nottinghamshire -5 16 £450 -10.00% 16
Leicestershire +2 11 £338 - 16
Derbyshire -3 9 £444 - 8
Lincolnshire - 4 £485 - 11
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 12 (18.18%) Confluence
2 10 (15.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.52%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.52%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.24%) Azure
2 11 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 8 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 5 (7.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Storage
6 3 (4.55%) OneDrive
6 3 (4.55%) Serverless
7 2 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.52%) AWS
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.52%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (80.30%) Power BI
2 7 (10.61%) Power Query
3 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.06%) Tableau
4 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.03%) PowerPivot
5 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.52%) Big Data
6 1 (1.52%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.52%) MySQL
6 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (24.24%) JIRA
2 2 (3.03%) Git
General
1 22 (33.33%) Finance
2 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.15%) Banking
4 7 (10.61%) Corporate Banking
4 7 (10.61%) Retail Banking
5 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.55%) Marketing
6 3 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.03%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Publishing
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) Analyst
2 11 (16.67%) Developer
3 10 (15.15%) Project Manager
4 8 (12.12%) Data Analyst
4 8 (12.12%) Power Platform Developer
5 7 (10.61%) Lead
6 6 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Data Scientist
6 6 (9.09%) Senior
7 5 (7.58%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Administrator
8 3 (4.55%) Banking Project Manager
8 3 (4.55%) Consultant
8 3 (4.55%) Data Administrator
8 3 (4.55%) PMO Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Data Analyst
9 2 (3.03%) HR Analyst
9 2 (3.03%) Power BI Developer
9 2 (3.03%) Test Leader
9 2 (3.03%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) REST
2 3 (4.55%) PySpark
3 2 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (1.52%) .NET
4 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.52%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.52%) HTML
4 1 (1.52%) JSON
4 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.52%) Web Services
4 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.61%) PMI
3 6 (9.09%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.03%) EMV
6 1 (1.52%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.52%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (72.73%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (30.30%) Analytics
2 20 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (28.79%) Agile
4 17 (25.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (19.70%) Data Modelling
7 12 (18.18%) Project Management
8 11 (16.67%) Scrum
9 10 (15.15%) Change Management
9 10 (15.15%) Decision-Making
9 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.64%) Kanban
10 9 (13.64%) Process Improvement
10 9 (13.64%) Resource Allocation
11 8 (12.12%) Fintech
11 8 (12.12%) Project Delivery
11 8 (12.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 8 (12.12%) Visualisation
12 7 (10.61%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 27 (40.91%) SQL
2 15 (22.73%) Python
3 7 (10.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (10.61%) R
4 3 (4.55%) VBA
5 2 (3.03%) Bicep
5 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.52%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.52%) X++
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Degree
2 9 (13.64%) PMP
3 8 (12.12%) PMI Certification
4 7 (10.61%) Master's Degree
4 7 (10.61%) MBA
4 7 (10.61%) SAFe Agilist
5 6 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
7 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.52%) CISA
8 1 (1.52%) CISM
8 1 (1.52%) CISSP
8 1 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) Data Quality
1 8 (12.12%) QA
2 7 (10.61%) Basel III
3 5 (7.58%) PMO
4 2 (3.03%) GDPR
4 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.03%) PSD2
5 1 (1.52%) COBIT
5 1 (1.52%) GRC
5 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.52%) NIST
5 1 (1.52%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.52%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Databricks
3 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.03%) Sage
4 2 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (1.52%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.52%) Ariba
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) OpenText
5 1 (1.52%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) TSYS