Power Platform Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Power Platform
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 71 44
Rank change year-on-year +27 -27 +8
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 38 41 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.05% 2.15% 4.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.29% 14.19% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 62
10th Percentile £318 £290 £213
25th Percentile £366 £405 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% +5.14%
75th Percentile £571 £488 £538
90th Percentile £615 £554 £600
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £18.38 - £28.50
25th Percentile £19.25 - £50.13
Median hourly rate £31.64 £35.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -46.56% +142.77%
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £55.00
% change year-on-year +25.22% -57.79% +144.99%

All Cloud 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 266 289 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.36% 15.14% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 167 344
10th Percentile £200 £214 £186
25th Percentile £350 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £586
90th Percentile £675 £662 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 65 55
10th Percentile - £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%
75th Percentile £21.92 £21.37 £49.38
90th Percentile £37.46 £60.95 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the East of England

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the East of England

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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 1 May 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
Bedfordshire +9 11 £580 +36.47% 15
Cambridgeshire +2 10 £431 - 37
Hertfordshire +31 8 £488 -3.47% 42
Essex +9 8 £321 -9.47% 28
Suffolk -9 1 £325 -35.00% 14
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (13.16%) SharePoint
2 4 (10.53%) Apache
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) Power Automate
3 8 (21.05%) PowerApps
4 5 (13.16%) Snowflake
5 4 (10.53%) GCP
6 3 (7.89%) dbt
6 3 (7.89%) GitHub
6 3 (7.89%) Vertex AI
7 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (86.84%) Power BI
2 8 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (13.16%) Tableau
4 4 (10.53%) BigQuery
4 4 (10.53%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.89%) Looker
6 2 (5.26%) Metadata
7 1 (2.63%) Data Mart
7 1 (2.63%) QlikView
7 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (42.11%) Finance
2 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Aviation
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Business Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Data Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 4 (10.53%) Training Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Applications Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Business Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Business Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Business Systems Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Applications Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) AngularJS
1 4 (10.53%) PySpark
1 4 (10.53%) React
2 3 (7.89%) HTML
2 3 (7.89%) Kafka
2 3 (7.89%) NumPy
2 3 (7.89%) Pandas
2 3 (7.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.53%) e-Learning
1 4 (10.53%) Learning Management System
1 4 (10.53%) Life Science
2 2 (5.26%) FMCG
2 2 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (34.21%) Analytics
4 10 (26.32%) Visualisation
5 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
5 8 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.79%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.79%) Data Management
8 5 (13.16%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (13.16%) Agile
8 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.16%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (13.16%) Data Engineering
8 5 (13.16%) Migration
8 5 (13.16%) Project Management
8 5 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (10.53%) Data Ingestion
9 4 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (10.53%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) Python
3 4 (10.53%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) CSPO
4 1 (2.63%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 6 (15.79%) GDPR
3 2 (5.26%) PMO
4 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Ariba
2 4 (10.53%) SAP
3 2 (5.26%) Anaplan
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.63%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace