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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 51 69
Rank change year-on-year -16 +18 -20
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 47 34 41
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.11% 3.47% 2.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.76% 11.56% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 23 28
10th Percentile £350 £316 £275
25th Percentile £363 £381 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +15.85% +2.50%
75th Percentile £630 £559 £478
90th Percentile £638 £580 £499
England median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £17.48 £18.38 -
25th Percentile £18.61 £19.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -9.60% -46.56%
75th Percentile £24.27 - -
90th Percentile £25.01 - -
England median hourly rate £28.55 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year -1.79% +25.22% -54.51%

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 437 294 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.63% 30.03% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 181 155
10th Percentile £197 £205 £211
25th Percentile £389 £413 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 35 65
10th Percentile £14.13 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.67 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.36 £17.80 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% +9.20% -20.10%
75th Percentile £54.69 £22.24 £21.37
90th Percentile £60.00 £31.64 £53.45
England median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 11 £565 +29.14% 8
Bedfordshire -8 11 £625 +7.76% 10
Essex -7 10 £375 +17.85% 9
Suffolk -3 6 £550 +69.23% 6
Hertfordshire -21 6 £360 -24.21% 16
Norfolk - 3 - - 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 (4.26%) Confluence
1 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (31.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.13%) CATIA
3 1 (2.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Sage X3
2 3 (6.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.13%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) Azure AI
3 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Copilot
4 7 (14.89%) AWS
4 7 (14.89%) GCP
5 6 (12.77%) Copilot Studio
6 5 (10.64%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.38%) Power Automate
7 3 (6.38%) PowerApps
7 3 (6.38%) Serverless
7 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) Network Security
2 1 (2.13%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Intranet
2 1 (2.13%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (85.11%) Power BI
2 9 (19.15%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (17.02%) Power Query
4 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
4 6 (12.77%) Tableau
4 6 (12.77%) ZAP BI
5 3 (6.38%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.38%) Star Schema
6 2 (4.26%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (4.26%) Metadata
6 2 (4.26%) PowerPivot
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (2.13%) MS Access
7 1 (2.13%) QlikView
7 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git
1 5 (10.64%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.79%) Finance
3 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Manufacturing
4 7 (14.89%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Automotive
5 2 (4.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.13%) German Language
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Local Government
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Developer
2 8 (17.02%) Analyst
2 8 (17.02%) Architect
2 8 (17.02%) Power BI Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Report Developer
3 7 (14.89%) SQL BI Developer
3 7 (14.89%) SQL Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Sage Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Consultant
5 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Lead
6 3 (6.38%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) REST
2 5 (10.64%) PyTorch
2 5 (10.64%) scikit-learn
2 5 (10.64%) TensorFlow
3 2 (4.26%) .NET
3 2 (4.26%) ADO
3 2 (4.26%) JSON
3 2 (4.26%) Node.js
4 1 (2.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
2 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.26%) NHS
2 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) BYOD
3 1 (2.13%) IoT
3 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.13%) SystemC
3 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (85.11%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (51.06%) Analytics
3 15 (31.91%) Validation
4 14 (29.79%) Data Modelling
5 13 (27.66%) AI
5 13 (27.66%) ETL
6 11 (23.40%) Data Analysis
6 11 (23.40%) DevOps
7 10 (21.28%) Data Governance
7 10 (21.28%) Data Validation
7 10 (21.28%) Kalman Filter
7 10 (21.28%) LLM
7 10 (21.28%) Machine Learning
8 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
8 9 (19.15%) Data Lineage
8 9 (19.15%) Prompt Engineering
8 9 (19.15%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 9 (19.15%) User Experience
9 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (14.89%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) SQL
2 14 (29.79%) Python
3 9 (19.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (12.77%) VBA
5 4 (8.51%) C#
6 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.13%) C
7 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.13%) VB
7 1 (2.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.13%) PMP
4 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) SCCM
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (48.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) Foundry
2 9 (19.15%) OpenAI
3 8 (17.02%) Databricks
4 7 (14.89%) Sage
5 6 (12.77%) Google
6 5 (10.64%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.26%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.13%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (2.13%) Cerner
8 1 (2.13%) Informatica
8 1 (2.13%) Kepware
8 1 (2.13%) Orchard
8 1 (2.13%) Rockwell
8 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.13%) SAP
8 1 (2.13%) Siemens
8 1 (2.13%) Talend