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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 39 69
Rank change year-on-year -27 +30 -22
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 49 38 41
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.27% 3.99% 2.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.56% 14.13% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 26 28
10th Percentile - £318 £293
25th Percentile £363 £366 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £411
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.54% -8.61%
75th Percentile £638 £571 £488
90th Percentile - £615 £553
England median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% -2.20% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £17.36 £18.38 -
25th Percentile £18.30 £19.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.99 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% -9.60% -46.56%
75th Percentile £21.57 - -
90th Percentile £22.44 - -
England median hourly rate £33.25 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year +14.38% +25.22% -56.81%

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 424 269 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.68% 28.23% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 163 171
10th Percentile £213 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £580 £574
90th Percentile £685 £675 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 37 62
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.65 £15.00 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% +15.46% -14.21%
75th Percentile £43.61 £24.66 £21.37
90th Percentile £60.00 £55.21 £64.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.99
% change year-on-year +70.13% +26.04% -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 25 April 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 25 April 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
Bedfordshire -8 13 £625 +7.76% 8
Cambridgeshire +6 9 £565 +31.01% 9
Essex -10 9 £375 +16.68% 16
Hertfordshire -21 9 £463 -5.13% 20
Suffolk +6 6 £550 +69.23% 7
Norfolk - 3 - - 6
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%) Apache
1 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.04%) CATIA
3 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.04%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Sage X3
2 4 (8.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.69%) Azure
2 11 (22.45%) Azure AI
3 10 (20.41%) AWS
4 9 (18.37%) GCP
5 8 (16.33%) Copilot Studio
5 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (8.16%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (8.16%) Serverless
6 4 (8.16%) Snowflake
7 3 (6.12%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.08%) Power Automate
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 44 (89.80%) Power BI
2 9 (18.37%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (18.37%) NoSQL
3 8 (16.33%) Power Query
4 7 (14.29%) Tableau
5 6 (12.24%) ZAP BI
6 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
6 3 (6.12%) Star Schema
7 2 (4.08%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (4.08%) Metadata
7 2 (4.08%) PowerPivot
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (2.04%) MS Access
8 1 (2.04%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
2 4 (8.16%) JIRA
General
1 28 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.61%) Finance
3 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (18.37%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (18.37%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.08%) Automotive
5 2 (4.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.04%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Billing
6 1 (2.04%) German Language
6 1 (2.04%) Local Government
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Developer
2 8 (16.33%) Architect
2 8 (16.33%) Power BI Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Report Developer
3 7 (14.29%) SQL BI Developer
3 7 (14.29%) SQL Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Lead
5 5 (10.20%) Sage Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) REST
2 7 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 7 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 7 (14.29%) TensorFlow
3 3 (6.12%) Node.js
4 2 (4.08%) .NET
4 2 (4.08%) ADO
4 2 (4.08%) JSON
5 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.04%) Kafka
5 1 (2.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) NHS
3 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) SystemC
4 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (89.80%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (57.14%) Analytics
3 15 (30.61%) Validation
4 14 (28.57%) AI
4 14 (28.57%) ETL
5 13 (26.53%) Data Modelling
5 13 (26.53%) DevOps
5 13 (26.53%) Machine Learning
6 12 (24.49%) LLM
6 12 (24.49%) Prompt Engineering
7 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
7 11 (22.45%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 10 (20.41%) Data Analysis
8 10 (20.41%) Data Governance
8 10 (20.41%) Data Validation
8 10 (20.41%) Kalman Filter
9 9 (18.37%) Data Lineage
9 9 (18.37%) Microservices
9 9 (18.37%) User Experience
9 9 (18.37%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (57.14%) SQL
2 18 (36.73%) Python
3 9 (18.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (12.24%) VBA
5 4 (8.16%) C#
6 1 (2.04%) C
6 1 (2.04%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (51.02%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.45%) Foundry
2 11 (22.45%) OpenAI
3 8 (16.33%) Databricks
4 7 (14.29%) Google
4 7 (14.29%) Sage
5 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.04%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (2.04%) Cerner
7 1 (2.04%) Informatica
7 1 (2.04%) Kepware
7 1 (2.04%) Orchard
7 1 (2.04%) Rockwell
7 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.04%) SAP
7 1 (2.04%) Siemens
7 1 (2.04%) Talend