Power Platform Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Power Platform
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring Power Platform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Power Platform over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 8 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 10.00% 4.95% 7.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.77% 21.15% 25.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 12
10th Percentile - - £201
25th Percentile £315 £275 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £321 £355 £415
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -14.46% -2.35%
75th Percentile £475 £415 £500
90th Percentile £517 - £545
East of England median daily rate £488 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.75
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £20.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £35.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -9.60% -46.56% +142.77%

All Cloud Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26 52 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 32.50% 23.42% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 44
10th Percentile £181 £270 £202
25th Percentile £243 £405 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% -3.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £475 £553 £548
90th Percentile £495 £650 £621
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £64.00 - £20.03
25th Percentile £115.00 - £21.60
Median hourly rate £200.00 £88.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% +257.43% -8.75%
75th Percentile - - £26.78
90th Percentile - - £48.88
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Power Platform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Essex

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in Essex.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Essex

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Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Essex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Essex

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Essex

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Basildon - 4 £315 - 21
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - - 2
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Apache
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) dbt
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) Vertex AI
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Power BI
2 5 (62.50%) Tableau
3 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (37.50%) Looker
5 1 (12.50%) Metadata
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Aviation
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Fraud Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Report Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Reporting Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (50.00%) PySpark
1 4 (50.00%) React
2 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) NumPy
2 3 (37.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) Visualisation
3 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
3 5 (62.50%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Analytics
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (50.00%) Data Management
4 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (50.00%) Data Security
4 4 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Data Science
5 3 (37.50%) DataOps
5 3 (37.50%) Open Source
5 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (37.50%) Workflow
5 3 (37.50%) Workflow Management
6 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) GDPR
2 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Checkmarx
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace