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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 50 55
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 46 43 46
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.10% 3.42% 2.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.52% 11.91% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 29
10th Percentile £363 £364 £215
25th Percentile £398 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £420
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +33.93% -1.75%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £430
90th Percentile £618 £641 £490
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £18.24 £21.95 £16.38
25th Percentile £20.50 £28.18 £16.99
Median hourly rate £23.00 £31.64 £17.99
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% +75.88% -
75th Percentile £53.00 - £19.00
90th Percentile £58.40 - £19.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -10.60%

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 483 361 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.06% 28.72% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 199 152
10th Percentile £193 £200 £213
25th Percentile £372 £409 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £563
90th Percentile £611 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 43 43
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.30 £14.29
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.28 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +30.55% -25.91%
75th Percentile £53.19 £44.97 £21.37
90th Percentile £62.88 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +11 14 £565 +29.14% 12
Essex -14 10 £375 -6.25% 15
Hertfordshire -14 10 £450 -10.00% 16
Bedfordshire -9 8 £488 -15.95% 6
Suffolk -10 2 £448 +37.69% 2
Norfolk - 2 - - 5
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 8 (17.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Sage X3
2 4 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (4.35%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (2.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (2.17%) Primavera
4 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) Power Automate
3 8 (17.39%) PowerApps
4 7 (15.22%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (8.70%) Snowflake
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.52%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (4.35%) AWS
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.35%) GCP
8 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
8 2 (4.35%) Serverless
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.17%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) Intranet
1 1 (2.17%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (82.61%) Power BI
2 10 (21.74%) Power Query
3 7 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (10.87%) Tableau
4 5 (10.87%) ZAP BI
5 4 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
6 3 (6.52%) Star Schema
7 2 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (4.35%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (4.35%) Metadata
7 2 (4.35%) PowerPivot
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.17%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.17%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Finance
3 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (15.22%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.52%) Local Government
6 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.35%) Automotive
6 2 (4.35%) Retail
7 1 (2.17%) Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) German Language
7 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Law
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
7 1 (2.17%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Developer
2 7 (15.22%) Analyst
2 7 (15.22%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Lead
3 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Power BI Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Report Developer
4 5 (10.87%) SQL BI Developer
4 5 (10.87%) SQL Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Power Platform Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Sage Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) .NET
2 2 (4.35%) ADO
2 2 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.52%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.35%) BYOD
3 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.17%) IoT
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (80.43%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (45.65%) Analytics
3 15 (32.61%) ETL
3 15 (32.61%) Validation
4 14 (30.43%) Data Modelling
5 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (23.91%) Data Analysis
6 11 (23.91%) Visualisation
7 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (19.57%) Data Validation
9 8 (17.39%) Data Governance
9 8 (17.39%) Data Lineage
9 8 (17.39%) Migration
9 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (15.22%) Agile
10 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
10 7 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (15.22%) DevOps
10 7 (15.22%) User Experience
11 6 (13.04%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) Python
3 8 (17.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (13.04%) C#
5 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.87%) VBA
6 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.35%) X++
7 1 (2.17%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.17%) APMG
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.96%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) PMO
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) Databricks
3 6 (13.04%) ServiceNow
4 5 (10.87%) Sage
5 3 (6.52%) SAP
6 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.17%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (2.17%) Civica
7 1 (2.17%) Genesys
7 1 (2.17%) Google
7 1 (2.17%) Informatica
7 1 (2.17%) Kepware
7 1 (2.17%) Planon
7 1 (2.17%) Rockwell
7 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.17%) Siemens
7 1 (2.17%) Talend