Power Platform Contracts in Lancashire

Microsoft Power Platform
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 26 28 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 3 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.71% 2.05% 2.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.45% 7.02% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £373 - £401
25th Percentile £388 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £495
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -29.29% +32.00%
75th Percentile £463 £475 £519
90th Percentile £478 £550 £553
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £47.18
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate - - £52.99
75th Percentile - - £55.55
90th Percentile - - £56.06
North West median hourly rate - £42.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -34.62% +237.75%

All Cloud Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 55 57 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 31.43% 29.23% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 36
10th Percentile £392 £200 £173
25th Percentile £481 £463 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +21.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £675
90th Percentile £630 £740 £775
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 21 2
10th Percentile - - £47.18
25th Percentile £26.88 - £48.72
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £52.99
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -69.69% +184.98%
75th Percentile £30.63 - £55.55
90th Percentile £37.01 - £56.06
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in Lancashire

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in Lancashire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Blackpool - 1 - - 3
Lancaster - 1 £375 -
Power Platform
North West

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft