Power Platform Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Power Platform
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 40 57
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 +1
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 1,589 1,376 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.09% 4.75% 3.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.32% 12.95% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,089 933 1,021
10th Percentile £315 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 36
10th Percentile £15.50 £23.60 £16.10
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.18% -20.20%
75th Percentile £49.13 £52.25 £50.81
90th Percentile £80.00 £64.73 £79.26
UK median hourly rate £25.21 £27.75 £31.41
% change year-on-year -9.16% -11.65% -17.34%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,926 10,622 13,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.17% 36.66% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,199 7,102 9,536
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 134 249
10th Percentile £14.85 £17.13 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +29.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.00 £68.75 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.50% +11.00% +11.11%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in England

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in England

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
London 0 898 £500 -4.76% 311
North of England -10 198 £425 -9.57% 298
Midlands -16 150 £463 -6.57% 243
South East -22 131 £494 +3.95% 393
North West -12 105 £425 -10.53% 171
West Midlands -26 102 £500 - 141
Yorkshire -9 86 £425 -5.56% 101
South West -3 76 £463 -9.76% 136
East of England -1 57 £580 +35.28% 154
East Midlands +4 48 £428 -2.29% 95
North East -9 7 £475 +2.15% 28
Power Platform
UK

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 223 (14.03%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.64%) Confluence
3 36 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (1.32%) Apache
7 18 (1.13%) HCL Notes
8 8 (0.50%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
9 7 (0.44%) CMS
10 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.31%) Mendix
12 3 (0.19%) SAS
12 3 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.13%) FileNet
13 2 (0.13%) Moodle
13 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.063%) Kentico
14 1 (0.063%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 302 (19.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (2.08%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.31%) Trello
9 4 (0.25%) Notion
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.13%) Sketch
12 1 (0.063%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.063%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 114 (7.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.31%) Primavera
6 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.25%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.19%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.13%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 631 (39.71%) Azure
2 333 (20.96%) PowerApps
3 328 (20.64%) Power Automate
4 224 (14.10%) Dynamics 365
5 209 (13.15%) Microsoft 365
6 169 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
7 159 (10.01%) AWS
8 109 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 98 (6.17%) GCP
10 88 (5.54%) Snowflake
11 86 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 84 (5.29%) Microsoft Copilot
13 66 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 63 (3.96%) GitHub
15 58 (3.65%) Serverless
16 55 (3.46%) Entra ID
17 53 (3.34%) Copilot Studio
18 52 (3.27%) SaaS
19 46 (2.89%) Azure Functions
20 43 (2.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (0.69%) DNS
3 10 (0.63%) HTTP
4 7 (0.44%) Unified Communications
5 6 (0.38%) Internet
5 6 (0.38%) VPN
6 5 (0.31%) Network Security
7 4 (0.25%) VoIP
8 3 (0.19%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.19%) LAN
9 2 (0.13%) 2G
9 2 (0.13%) 5G
9 2 (0.13%) DHCP
9 2 (0.13%) Firewall
9 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.13%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) Mobile Backhaul
9 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.13%) Wireless
10 1 (0.063%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,254 (78.92%) Power BI
2 219 (13.78%) Tableau
3 145 (9.13%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (5.92%) SQL Server
5 89 (5.60%) Power Query
6 87 (5.48%) Data Lake
7 61 (3.84%) Metadata
8 48 (3.02%) Relational Database
9 47 (2.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 44 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 43 (2.71%) BigQuery
12 41 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
13 39 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (2.33%) Looker
15 25 (1.57%) Data Mining
16 23 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
16 23 (1.45%) Star Schema
17 22 (1.38%) Big Data
18 20 (1.26%) NoSQL
18 20 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 118 (7.43%) JIRA
2 62 (3.90%) Git
3 11 (0.69%) Visual Studio
4 10 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.57%) GitLab
6 8 (0.50%) DBeaver
6 8 (0.50%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.44%) Selenium
8 6 (0.38%) Postman
9 5 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.31%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.19%) ERwin
10 3 (0.19%) JMeter
10 3 (0.19%) MLflow
10 3 (0.19%) MSTest
10 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.13%) Chocolatey
11 2 (0.13%) JDeveloper
11 2 (0.13%) Maven
11 2 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 580 (36.50%) Social Skills
2 485 (30.52%) Finance
3 327 (20.58%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (12.02%) Public Sector
5 144 (9.06%) Banking
6 64 (4.03%) Marketing
7 46 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
8 45 (2.83%) Manufacturing
9 41 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (2.52%) Retail
11 35 (2.20%) Legal
12 34 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (1.70%) Local Government
15 26 (1.64%) Investment Banking
16 24 (1.51%) Front Office
17 23 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (1.07%) Law
20 16 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 376 (23.66%) Analyst
2 316 (19.89%) Developer
3 158 (9.94%) Data Analyst
4 147 (9.25%) Senior
5 142 (8.94%) Data Engineer
6 129 (8.12%) Lead
7 124 (7.80%) Architect
8 112 (7.05%) Business Analyst
9 91 (5.73%) Consultant
10 74 (4.66%) Power Platform Developer
11 67 (4.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 53 (3.34%) Power BI Developer
13 49 (3.08%) Data Architect
13 49 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
14 47 (2.96%) Data Scientist
14 47 (2.96%) Project Manager
15 42 (2.64%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 34 (2.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 33 (2.08%) Power BI Analyst
18 32 (2.01%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.54%) .NET
2 64 (4.03%) REST
3 53 (3.34%) PySpark
4 39 (2.45%) HTML
5 37 (2.33%) JSON
6 29 (1.83%) Microsoft Graph
7 27 (1.70%) HTML5 Canvas
8 24 (1.51%) Kafka
9 23 (1.45%) Pandas
10 21 (1.32%) scikit-learn
11 18 (1.13%) OAuth
12 17 (1.07%) CSS
12 17 (1.07%) NumPy
13 16 (1.01%) XML
14 15 (0.94%) React
15 12 (0.76%) LangChain
16 11 (0.69%) Web Services
17 10 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
17 10 (0.63%) PyTorch
17 10 (0.63%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 69 (4.34%) Low-Code
2 54 (3.40%) Product Ownership
3 44 (2.77%) Data Structures
4 43 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 36 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.70%) Algorithms
8 27 (1.70%) Cloud Native
8 27 (1.70%) Virtual Team
9 26 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.45%) Data Centre
11 22 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 17 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (0.94%) Derivative
14 14 (0.88%) NHS
14 14 (0.88%) Reinsurance
15 13 (0.82%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.27%) Windows
2 8 (0.50%) Linux
3 7 (0.44%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.25%) Unix
7 2 (0.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,147 (72.18%) Business Intelligence
2 458 (28.82%) Analytics
3 409 (25.74%) Agile
4 359 (22.59%) Data Modelling
5 336 (21.15%) Visualisation
6 306 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
7 272 (17.12%) Decision-Making
8 263 (16.55%) DevOps
9 234 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 230 (14.47%) Data Governance
11 202 (12.71%) AI
12 200 (12.59%) ETL
13 199 (12.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 198 (12.46%) Data Analysis
15 196 (12.33%) Actionable Insight
15 196 (12.33%) Data Visualisation
16 168 (10.57%) CI/CD
17 163 (10.26%) Migration
18 156 (9.82%) CRM
19 146 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 629 (39.58%) SQL
2 377 (23.73%) Python
3 123 (7.74%) C#
4 105 (6.61%) JavaScript
5 95 (5.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 58 (3.65%) PowerShell
7 57 (3.59%) R
8 42 (2.64%) Java
9 31 (1.95%) VBA
10 25 (1.57%) Scala
11 24 (1.51%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.51%) TypeScript
12 13 (0.82%) Bicep
13 11 (0.69%) X++
14 10 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.57%) Bash
15 9 (0.57%) Formula Language
15 9 (0.57%) LotusScript
16 7 (0.44%) Korn
17 6 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 245 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 194 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 150 (9.44%) Degree
4 50 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 33 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 25 (1.57%) PMI Certification
8 24 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.20%) PMP
10 13 (0.82%) ACCA
10 13 (0.82%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.76%) CIMA
12 11 (0.69%) CISSP
13 9 (0.57%) CFA
13 9 (0.57%) CISM
14 8 (0.50%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.50%) CISA
15 7 (0.44%) CBAP
15 7 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (13.53%) Data Quality
2 74 (4.66%) GDPR
2 74 (4.66%) QA
3 65 (4.09%) PMO
4 57 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.94%) NIST
7 14 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.69%) GRC
9 8 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.50%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.44%) COBIT
10 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.44%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.38%) GxP
11 6 (0.38%) IFRS
11 6 (0.38%) SLA
11 6 (0.38%) WCAG
12 5 (0.31%) Basel III
12 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 52 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.70%) Docker
3 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.063%) HDFS
5 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (3.08%) Terraform
2 36 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (1.01%) SCCM
5 11 (0.69%) RSA Archer
6 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.13%) Ansible
7 2 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.063%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.063%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.063%) Puppet
8 1 (0.063%) SCOM
8 1 (0.063%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.063%) WSUS
Vendors
1 677 (42.61%) Microsoft
2 142 (8.94%) Databricks
3 110 (6.92%) Oracle
4 84 (5.29%) SAP
5 70 (4.41%) Google
6 60 (3.78%) ServiceNow
7 46 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.51%) Alteryx
9 23 (1.45%) OpenAI
10 22 (1.38%) Foundry
11 20 (1.26%) Informatica
12 18 (1.13%) Lotus
13 15 (0.94%) Adobe
14 13 (0.82%) Splunk
15 11 (0.69%) Planview
16 10 (0.63%) MuleSoft
17 9 (0.57%) Cognos
17 9 (0.57%) Rapid7
18 8 (0.50%) Blue Prism
18 8 (0.50%) IBM