Power Platform Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Power Platform
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 54 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +14
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 49 30 49
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.10% 2.79% 2.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.17% 11.54% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 34
10th Percentile £360 £328 £225
25th Percentile £481 £347 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year +38.03% -1.39% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £531
90th Percentile £650 £535 £550
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £23.03 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £24.02 £30.30 £30.50
% change year-on-year -20.73% -0.67% -49.17%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 323 260 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.44% 24.21% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 153 198
10th Percentile £213 £213 £185
25th Percentile £350 £310 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £550
90th Percentile £713 £685 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 32
10th Percentile £6.00 £16.28 -
25th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +19.22% +16.13%
75th Percentile £35.88 £55.00 £39.69
90th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £76.88
England median hourly rate £27.71 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.77% +26.67% -0.32%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in the East of England

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the East of England

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Bedfordshire +11 22 £625 +47.06% 10
Hertfordshire -8 18 £513 -12.77% 21
Cambridgeshire -6 7 £500 +23.08% 13
Essex -7 1 £250 -34.90% 7
Norfolk - 1 - - 14
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (2.04%) Apache
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.04%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (18.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (10.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (4.08%) SAP CO
3 2 (4.08%) SAP FI
3 2 (4.08%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (2.04%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) Azure
2 11 (22.45%) AWS
3 10 (20.41%) GCP
3 10 (20.41%) Microsoft Copilot
4 9 (18.37%) Azure AI
4 9 (18.37%) Copilot Studio
5 7 (14.29%) PowerApps
6 5 (10.20%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (8.16%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.04%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.04%) OCI
8 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (91.84%) Power BI
2 11 (22.45%) NoSQL
3 6 (12.24%) SAP HANA
3 6 (12.24%) Tableau
4 4 (8.16%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.08%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Power Query
6 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 22 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.69%) Finance
3 10 (20.41%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (20.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Aviation
7 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.08%) Retail
8 1 (2.04%) Billing
8 1 (2.04%) Local Government
8 1 (2.04%) Marketing
8 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Social Housing
8 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Lead
2 8 (16.33%) Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) Consultant
4 6 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Senior
6 3 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Project Planner
7 2 (4.08%) SAP CO Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) SAP FI Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
8 1 (2.04%) Business Change Manager
8 1 (2.04%) Change Manager
8 1 (2.04%) CRM Consultant
8 1 (2.04%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) REST
2 9 (18.37%) PyTorch
2 9 (18.37%) scikit-learn
2 9 (18.37%) TensorFlow
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.04%) .NET
4 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.04%) Node.js
4 1 (2.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Life Science
2 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Midjourney
4 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) SystemC
4 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (81.63%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (61.22%) Analytics
3 14 (28.57%) AI
3 14 (28.57%) Data Science
3 14 (28.57%) DevOps
4 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
4 11 (22.45%) Visualisation
5 10 (20.41%) ERP
5 10 (20.41%) LLM
5 10 (20.41%) Machine Learning
5 10 (20.41%) MLOps
5 10 (20.41%) Prompt Engineering
6 9 (18.37%) Agile
6 9 (18.37%) API Development
6 9 (18.37%) B2B
6 9 (18.37%) B2C
6 9 (18.37%) Business Analysis
6 9 (18.37%) Data Analytics
6 9 (18.37%) Microservices
6 9 (18.37%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) SQL
2 13 (26.53%) Python
3 2 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) Bicep
4 1 (2.04%) C#
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) ACCA
2 3 (6.12%) CIMA
2 3 (6.12%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) GxP
1 5 (10.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (8.16%) PMO
3 3 (6.12%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.08%) SLA
5 1 (2.04%) GDPR
5 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (53.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.45%) SAP
3 10 (20.41%) Google
4 9 (18.37%) Foundry
4 9 (18.37%) OpenAI
5 5 (10.20%) Oracle
6 2 (4.08%) Ariba
7 1 (2.04%) Anaplan
7 1 (2.04%) Cerner
7 1 (2.04%) Cribl.io
7 1 (2.04%) Databricks
7 1 (2.04%) Hyperion
7 1 (2.04%) IFS
7 1 (2.04%) Orchard
7 1 (2.04%) Virgin Media