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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 43 68
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +4
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 58 45 49
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.86% 3.55% 2.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.95% 15.90% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 25 37
10th Percentile £364 £240 £226
25th Percentile £456 £350 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +36.90% -6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £475 £510
90th Percentile £650 £533 £560
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.99 -
England median hourly rate £25.01 £30.00 £35.16
% change year-on-year -16.65% -14.68% +0.46%

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 388 283 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.85% 22.34% 22.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 166 276
10th Percentile £213 £220 £187
25th Percentile £363 £311 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £421 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% -11.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £561 £575
90th Percentile £700 £644 £675
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 29
10th Percentile £6.00 £20.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 - £15.33
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.88 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.38 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +30.05%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 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 +10 25 £603 +17.56% 13
Hertfordshire -3 21 £525 +13.51% 17
Cambridgeshire -15 8 £500 +19.05% 26
Essex -8 4 £400 +34.91% 15
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 (1.72%) Apache
1 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.72%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (15.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.45%) SAP CO
3 2 (3.45%) SAP FI
3 2 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.72%) Primavera
4 1 (1.72%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (15.52%) PowerApps
4 7 (12.07%) AWS
5 6 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (10.34%) GCP
6 5 (8.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (8.62%) Copilot Studio
6 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
7 4 (6.90%) Azure AI
8 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (5.17%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (84.48%) Power BI
2 6 (10.34%) Data Lake
2 6 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (10.34%) SAP HANA
3 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.62%) Tableau
4 3 (5.17%) Power Query
4 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.72%) Big Data
6 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 23 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.76%) Finance
3 10 (17.24%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (13.79%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Banking
6 3 (5.17%) Retail
7 2 (3.45%) Aviation
7 2 (3.45%) Local Government
7 2 (3.45%) Marketing
7 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Billing
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Lead
2 10 (17.24%) Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Architect
4 6 (10.34%) Consultant
4 6 (10.34%) Senior
5 5 (8.62%) Data Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Power BI Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Project Planner
8 2 (3.45%) SAP CO Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) REST
2 4 (6.90%) PyTorch
2 4 (6.90%) scikit-learn
2 4 (6.90%) TensorFlow
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (3.45%) HTML
4 2 (3.45%) JSON
5 1 (1.72%) .NET
5 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.72%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.72%) Node.js
5 1 (1.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Life Science
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.45%) Social Media
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) IVR
4 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.72%) Midjourney
4 1 (1.72%) NHS
4 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (74.14%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (48.28%) Analytics
3 12 (20.69%) Agile
3 12 (20.69%) ERP
3 12 (20.69%) Visualisation
4 11 (18.97%) AI
4 11 (18.97%) DevOps
5 9 (15.52%) Business Analysis
5 9 (15.52%) Data Science
6 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (12.07%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (12.07%) CRM
7 7 (12.07%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (10.34%) Biotechnology
8 6 (10.34%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (10.34%) Project Management
8 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (8.62%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) SQL
2 8 (13.79%) Python
3 3 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.72%) Bash
5 1 (1.72%) Bicep
5 1 (1.72%) C#
5 1 (1.72%) Java
5 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (6.90%) Degree
2 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) ACCA
3 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.17%) CIMA
3 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) PMP
5 1 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) GxP
1 5 (8.62%) PMO
1 5 (8.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (5.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (5.17%) SLA
3 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.72%) IFRS
4 1 (1.72%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
4 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (51.72%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.24%) SAP
3 5 (8.62%) Google
3 5 (8.62%) Oracle
4 4 (6.90%) Foundry
4 4 (6.90%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.45%) Anaplan
5 2 (3.45%) Ariba
5 2 (3.45%) Databricks
6 1 (1.72%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.72%) Facebook
6 1 (1.72%) Genesys
6 1 (1.72%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.72%) IFS
6 1 (1.72%) Instagram
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.72%) Snow
6 1 (1.72%) Virgin Media