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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 51 53
Rank change year-on-year -16 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 49 42 51
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.22% 3.41% 2.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.04% 11.38% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 27 34
10th Percentile - £353 £240
25th Percentile £363 £419 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £416
Median % change year-on-year - +20.12% +4.06%
75th Percentile £573 £580 £430
90th Percentile £632 £608 £488
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £17.86 £18.38 £16.38
25th Percentile £19.56 £19.25 £16.99
Median hourly rate £38.00 £31.64 £17.99
Median % change year-on-year +20.10% +75.88% -
75th Percentile £55.25 - £19.00
90th Percentile £59.30 - £19.60
England median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.31% +5.47% -18.92%

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 488 369 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.10% 29.98% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 201 159
10th Percentile £193 £200 £220
25th Percentile £386 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £565
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 47 53
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.75 £15.93 £14.48
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.50 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +25.77% -25.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £71.25 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%

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 21 July 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
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 21 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the East of England

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 21 July 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
Cambridgeshire +15 16 £565 +29.14% 10
Bedfordshire -13 10 £425 -26.09% 3
Essex -14 10 £375 -3.23% 9
Suffolk -2 6 £550 +69.23% 4
Hertfordshire -17 5 £360 -28.00% 9
Norfolk - 2 - - 4
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 2 (4.08%) Confluence
1 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.04%) CATIA
3 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.04%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Sage X3
2 5 (10.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (4.08%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (2.04%) Primavera
4 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.69%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Copilot
3 6 (12.24%) Power Automate
4 4 (8.16%) Azure AI
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (8.16%) PowerApps
4 4 (8.16%) Serverless
4 4 (8.16%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Functions
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (6.12%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.08%) GCP
6 2 (4.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Network Security
2 1 (2.04%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) Intranet
2 1 (2.04%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (83.67%) Power BI
2 10 (20.41%) Power Query
3 9 (18.37%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (12.24%) ZAP BI
5 5 (10.20%) Tableau
6 4 (8.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
7 3 (6.12%) Star Schema
8 2 (4.08%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (4.08%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (4.08%) Metadata
8 2 (4.08%) PowerPivot
8 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (2.04%) MS Access
9 1 (2.04%) QlikView
9 1 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Git
2 6 (12.24%) JIRA
3 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.57%) Finance
3 10 (20.41%) Manufacturing
4 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.08%) Automotive
6 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Retail
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) German Language
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Local Government
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Developer
2 9 (18.37%) Architect
2 9 (18.37%) Power BI Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Analyst
4 7 (14.29%) Report Developer
4 7 (14.29%) SQL BI Developer
4 7 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Data Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Lead
6 5 (10.20%) Sage Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Project Manager
8 3 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Data Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 2 (4.08%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) .NET
2 3 (6.12%) REST
3 2 (4.08%) ADO
3 2 (4.08%) JSON
3 2 (4.08%) Kafka
3 2 (4.08%) Node.js
4 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.12%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.08%) BYOD
3 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (83.67%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (46.94%) Analytics
3 16 (32.65%) ETL
3 16 (32.65%) Validation
4 14 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 12 (24.49%) Data Analysis
6 11 (22.45%) Data Governance
6 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (20.41%) Kalman Filter
7 10 (20.41%) Visualisation
8 9 (18.37%) Agile
8 9 (18.37%) AI
8 9 (18.37%) Data Lineage
8 9 (18.37%) Data Validation
8 9 (18.37%) DevOps
9 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (16.33%) User Experience
10 7 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
10 7 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (53.06%) SQL
2 12 (24.49%) Python
3 9 (18.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (16.33%) C#
5 6 (12.24%) VBA
6 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.08%) X++
8 1 (2.04%) C
8 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Degree
2 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.12%) DBS Check
5 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.04%) APMG
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (34.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.08%) PMO
3 2 (4.08%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Terraform
2 1 (2.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (44.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.41%) Databricks
3 7 (14.29%) Sage
4 6 (12.24%) ServiceNow
5 4 (8.16%) Foundry
5 4 (8.16%) OpenAI
6 3 (6.12%) SAP
7 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.04%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (2.04%) Genesys
8 1 (2.04%) Google
8 1 (2.04%) Informatica
8 1 (2.04%) Kepware
8 1 (2.04%) Rockwell
8 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.04%) Siemens
8 1 (2.04%) Talend