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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 47 55
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 58 47 47
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.39% 3.54% 3.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.41% 12.88% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 28
10th Percentile £375 £369 £210
25th Percentile £438 £444 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £525 £420
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% +25.00% -5.35%
75th Percentile £638 £609 £441
90th Percentile £784 £649 £508
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £19.45 - £16.38
25th Percentile £20.69 - £16.99
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £17.99
75th Percentile £67.50 - £19.00
90th Percentile £68.25 - £19.60
England median hourly rate £35.00 £28.53 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.68% -4.90% -25.93%

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 557 365 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.00% 27.48% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 212 175
10th Percentile £188 £225 £216
25th Percentile £325 £406 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £508 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +20.83% -11.58%
75th Percentile £574 £580 £563
90th Percentile £638 £688 £625
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 29 18
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.30 £14.62
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +53.37% -18.50%
75th Percentile £60.38 £65.25 £21.37
90th Percentile £75.50 £67.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -9 25 £613 +19.51% 72
Cambridgeshire +7 11 £565 +25.56% 42
Bedfordshire -10 11 £600 +3.45% 15
Essex -13 11 £563 +40.75% 28
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 12 (20.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (6.90%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (3.45%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (1.72%) Primavera
5 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.59%) Azure
2 12 (20.69%) Power Automate
3 8 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Copilot
4 7 (12.07%) PowerApps
5 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (8.62%) GCP
7 4 (6.90%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (6.90%) Google Workspace
8 3 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (5.17%) Azure Storage
8 3 (5.17%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.45%) GitHub
9 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
9 2 (3.45%) Serverless
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.72%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (77.59%) Power BI
2 6 (10.34%) BigQuery
2 6 (10.34%) Looker
2 6 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (8.62%) Power Query
4 3 (5.17%) Tableau
5 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) Metadata
5 2 (3.45%) PowerPivot
6 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) JIRA
3 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Finance
4 5 (8.62%) Aerospace
4 5 (8.62%) Local Government
5 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Automotive
6 2 (3.45%) Law
6 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.72%) Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) German Language
7 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Developer
2 14 (24.14%) Lead
3 8 (13.79%) Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Applications Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Report Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Applications Specialist
5 5 (8.62%) Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Report Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Analytics Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Data Analytics Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Data Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (5.17%) ICT Officer
7 3 (5.17%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (5.17%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) .NET
2 3 (5.17%) REST
3 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.72%) Kafka
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) AI Agents
1 6 (10.34%) CMDB
2 2 (3.45%) BYOD
2 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.45%) Low-Code
2 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.45%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.72%) NHS
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (39.66%) Data Modelling
3 22 (37.93%) Analytics
4 18 (31.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (25.86%) Data Governance
5 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (18.97%) Decision-Making
7 11 (18.97%) ETL
7 11 (18.97%) Validation
8 10 (17.24%) ITIL
9 9 (15.52%) Asset Management
9 9 (15.52%) Data Analysis
9 9 (15.52%) Data Transformation
9 9 (15.52%) Migration
9 9 (15.52%) Visualisation
10 8 (13.79%) Change Management
10 8 (13.79%) Dashboard Development
10 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (12.07%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) SQL
2 12 (20.69%) Python
3 9 (15.52%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.62%) C#
5 4 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (6.90%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (3.45%) X++
7 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.72%) APMG
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.07%) SLA
3 2 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.45%) PMO
3 2 (3.45%) QA
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.97%) ServiceNow
3 7 (12.07%) Databricks
4 5 (8.62%) Google
4 5 (8.62%) Remedy
5 4 (6.90%) Planon
6 3 (5.17%) SAP
7 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.72%) Civica
7 1 (1.72%) Genesys
7 1 (1.72%) Orchard
7 1 (1.72%) Salesforce