Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Essex

Microsoft Power Platform
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Power Platform skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 5 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 4.24% 4.62% 7.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.83% 20.69% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 15
10th Percentile £370 £132 £240
25th Percentile £381 £152 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £169 £488
Median % change year-on-year +136.83% -65.35% +8.33%
75th Percentile £450 £219 £555
90th Percentile £480 £298 £575
East of England median daily rate £525 £420 £431
% change year-on-year +25.00% -2.61% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.99 -
East of England median hourly rate - £17.99 -

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 24 29 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 20.34% 22.31% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 55
10th Percentile - £173 £216
25th Percentile £225 £196 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £238 £530
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -55.19% +7.07%
75th Percentile £450 £313 £600
90th Percentile £495 £525 £649
East of England median daily rate £505 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +20.24% -11.58% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £16.38 £72.02
25th Percentile - £16.99 £74.93
Median hourly rate - £17.99 £79.81
Median % change year-on-year - -77.46% +9.33%
75th Percentile - £19.00 £84.65
90th Percentile - £19.60 £87.52
East of England median hourly rate £31.25 £16.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year +91.72% -18.50% +29.03%

Power Platform
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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Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Essex over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Essex

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Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

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

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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 26 September 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 - 2 £400 -
Chelmsford - 1 £375 - 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Power Query
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Local Government
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Report Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Document Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) SFIA
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft