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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 48 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 +3
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 54 36 45
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.01% 3.43% 2.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.85% 13.19% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 31
10th Percentile £328 £315 £226
25th Percentile £431 £338 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £444 £410
Median % change year-on-year +23.94% +8.23% -18.00%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £494
90th Percentile £650 £543 £550
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £23.03 £20.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.34% -41.43% -46.56%
England median hourly rate £22.00 £28.60 £24.43
% change year-on-year -23.08% +17.07% -59.28%

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 390 273 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.70% 26.02% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 160 204
10th Percentile £197 £212 £189
25th Percentile £350 £318 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -0.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £566
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 41
10th Percentile £7.60 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.44 £15.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +7.30% +23.08%
75th Percentile £39.50 £22.48 £65.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £49.38 £77.50
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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
Hertfordshire -7 19 £513 -12.77% 6
Bedfordshire -2 18 £625 +25.00% 2
Cambridgeshire 0 7 £500 +23.08% 5
Suffolk +7 6 £550 +33.33% 3
Essex -10 3 £375 +17.92% 13
Norfolk - 1 - - 3
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 (1.85%) Apache
1 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.85%) CATIA
3 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.85%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.85%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.85%) Primavera
3 1 (1.85%) Sage X3
3 1 (1.85%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.85%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.85%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) Azure
2 13 (24.07%) Azure AI
3 10 (18.52%) AWS
3 10 (18.52%) Microsoft Copilot
4 9 (16.67%) Copilot Studio
4 9 (16.67%) GCP
5 7 (12.96%) PowerApps
6 6 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.56%) Serverless
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.85%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (85.19%) Power BI
2 11 (20.37%) NoSQL
3 6 (11.11%) Tableau
4 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.70%) Power Query
5 2 (3.70%) SAP HANA
5 2 (3.70%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.85%) MS Access
6 1 (1.85%) QlikView
6 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.85%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.85%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 26 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.63%) Finance
3 11 (20.37%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.56%) Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.70%) Aviation
7 2 (3.70%) Local Government
7 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.85%) Billing
8 1 (1.85%) Marketing
8 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Lead
2 9 (16.67%) Analyst
3 8 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Architect
4 6 (11.11%) Consultant
5 5 (9.26%) Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Senior
7 3 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Coordinator
8 2 (3.70%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Project Planner
8 2 (3.70%) Report Developer
8 2 (3.70%) SQL BI Developer
8 2 (3.70%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.22%) REST
2 9 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 9 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 9 (16.67%) TensorFlow
3 3 (5.56%) Node.js
3 3 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (3.70%) JSON
5 1 (1.85%) .NET
5 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.56%) NHS
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Life Science
4 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.85%) IoT
5 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.85%) Midjourney
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.85%) SystemC
5 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (81.48%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (51.85%) Analytics
3 17 (31.48%) AI
4 15 (27.78%) DevOps
5 14 (25.93%) LLM
5 14 (25.93%) Machine Learning
5 14 (25.93%) Prompt Engineering
6 13 (24.07%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
7 11 (20.37%) Data Science
7 11 (20.37%) Microservices
8 10 (18.52%) Agile
8 10 (18.52%) MLOps
8 10 (18.52%) Visualisation
9 9 (16.67%) API Development
9 9 (16.67%) B2B
9 9 (16.67%) B2C
9 9 (16.67%) CRM
9 9 (16.67%) Data Analytics
9 9 (16.67%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.89%) SQL
2 16 (29.63%) Python
3 5 (9.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) Bash
5 1 (1.85%) Bicep
5 1 (1.85%) Java
5 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.85%) VB
5 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) ACCA
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.70%) CIMA
5 1 (1.85%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
1 4 (7.41%) PMO
2 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.70%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) GxP
3 2 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) NIST
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (24.07%) Foundry
2 13 (24.07%) OpenAI
3 10 (18.52%) Google
4 4 (7.41%) Oracle
4 4 (7.41%) SAP
5 3 (5.56%) Databricks
6 2 (3.70%) Sage
7 1 (1.85%) Cerner
7 1 (1.85%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.85%) IFS
7 1 (1.85%) Orchard
7 1 (1.85%) Virgin Media