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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 59 58
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 38 53 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.32% 2.78% 3.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.70% 18.40% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 36 51
10th Percentile £318 £250 £232
25th Percentile £400 £359 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £400
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% +2.50% -6.54%
75th Percentile £580 £430 £500
90th Percentile £585 £488 £575
England median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.33% -0.70% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £18.38 £16.38 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.99 -
Median hourly rate £31.64 £17.99 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.88% - -
75th Percentile - £19.00 -
90th Percentile - £19.60 -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £23.47 £38.75
% change year-on-year +34.84% -39.45% +66.67%

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 355 288 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.06% 15.12% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 168 368
10th Percentile £200 £220 £186
25th Percentile £389 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 56 33
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.44 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -25.91% +41.94%
75th Percentile £31.64 £21.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £56.94 £65.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +54.48%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 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
Bedfordshire +8 14 £550 +37.50% 53
Hertfordshire +34 9 £500 +57.48% 98
Essex +3 8 £321 +7.13% 68
Cambridgeshire -1 6 £450 +7.14% 54
Suffolk -8 1 £325 - 23
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 4 (10.53%) Apache
1 4 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) Power Automate
3 6 (15.79%) PowerApps
4 5 (13.16%) Snowflake
5 4 (10.53%) GCP
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (7.89%) dbt
6 3 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (7.89%) GitHub
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.89%) Vertex AI
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (86.84%) Power BI
2 9 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (15.79%) Data Lake
4 4 (10.53%) BigQuery
4 4 (10.53%) Tableau
5 3 (7.89%) Looker
6 2 (5.26%) Metadata
6 2 (5.26%) Power Query
6 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.63%) Big Data
7 1 (2.63%) Data Mart
7 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) JIRA
1 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 17 (44.74%) Finance
3 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (18.42%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (13.16%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.26%) Retail
8 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 4 (10.53%) Training Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Business Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (5.26%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Power BI Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) SAP Financial Specialist
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) AngularJS
1 4 (10.53%) HTML
1 4 (10.53%) PySpark
1 4 (10.53%) React
2 3 (7.89%) Kafka
2 3 (7.89%) NumPy
2 3 (7.89%) Pandas
2 3 (7.89%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
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 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (36.84%) Analytics
3 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (26.32%) Visualisation
5 9 (23.68%) Data Modelling
5 9 (23.68%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (18.42%) Migration
7 6 (15.79%) Agile
7 6 (15.79%) Critical Thinking
7 6 (15.79%) Data Engineering
7 6 (15.79%) ETL
8 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.16%) Data Governance
8 5 (13.16%) Data Management
8 5 (13.16%) Project Management
9 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis
9 4 (10.53%) Data Security
9 4 (10.53%) Logistics
9 4 (10.53%) Workflow
9 4 (10.53%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) Python
3 4 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.26%) PMP
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (13.16%) GDPR
3 3 (7.89%) PMO
4 2 (5.26%) SLA
5 1 (2.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (2.63%) ISO 22301
5 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Ariba
2 4 (10.53%) SAP
3 3 (7.89%) Anaplan
4 2 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (5.26%) Google
4 2 (5.26%) Hyperion
5 1 (2.63%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Snow