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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 54 51
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 45 40 45
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.03% 3.13% 2.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.15% 11.11% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 26
10th Percentile £338 £372 £200
25th Percentile £400 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £420
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +25.00% -5.35%
75th Percentile £614 £588 £488
90th Percentile £638 £638 £513
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 £29.96 £32.31 £30.59
% change year-on-year -7.27% +5.62% -5.35%

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 492 360 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.23% 28.17% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 202 157
10th Percentile £190 £213 £213
25th Percentile £351 £406 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £503 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +18.24% -5.56%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £553
90th Percentile £614 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 41 30
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £15.75 £16.30 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.39 £21.28 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% +30.55% -25.91%
75th Percentile £25.50 £43.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £62.70 £67.00 £22.23
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -21 12 £463 -9.76% 37
Cambridgeshire +12 11 £565 +29.14% 26
Bedfordshire -1 10 £538 -7.33% 7
Essex -11 10 £563 +40.75% 22
Norfolk - 2 - - 8
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 10 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.44%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (2.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (2.22%) Primavera
3 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) Power Automate
3 8 (17.78%) PowerApps
4 7 (15.56%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Copilot
5 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.89%) Snowflake
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Storage
7 3 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (4.44%) AWS
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.44%) GCP
8 2 (4.44%) OneDrive
8 2 (4.44%) Serverless
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (77.78%) Power BI
2 6 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (11.11%) Power Query
4 4 (8.89%) Tableau
5 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.67%) Metadata
6 2 (4.44%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.44%) PowerPivot
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.22%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Local Government
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.44%) Automotive
5 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Retail
6 1 (2.22%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) German Language
6 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) Analyst
2 9 (20.00%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) Project Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (6.67%) ICT Officer
6 3 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Data Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Databricks Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Junior Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (4.44%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) Kafka
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) ADO
3 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) AI Agents
1 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.44%) BYOD
2 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.44%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) NHS
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (75.56%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (35.56%) Analytics
3 14 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (28.89%) Data Modelling
5 8 (17.78%) Data Analysis
5 8 (17.78%) ETL
5 8 (17.78%) Migration
5 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (17.78%) Validation
5 8 (17.78%) Visualisation
6 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.56%) Decision-Making
6 7 (15.56%) DevOps
7 6 (13.33%) Agile
7 6 (13.33%) Data Governance
7 6 (13.33%) Data Management
7 6 (13.33%) Data Transformation
7 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (11.11%) AI
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) SQL
2 8 (17.78%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) C#
4 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.44%) X++
7 1 (2.22%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
2 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.22%) APMG
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) PMO
2 2 (4.44%) SLA
3 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Databricks
2 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) Civica
4 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.22%) Genesys
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Informatica
4 1 (2.22%) Orchard
4 1 (2.22%) Planon
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) Talend