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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 19 35
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 0
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 10 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 5.05% 5.53% 2.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.39% 14.46% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £388 £476 £504
25th Percentile £434 £497 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% - +26.47%
75th Percentile £525 £572 £588
90th Percentile £529 £589 £610
North West median daily rate £450 £451 £475
% change year-on-year -0.28% -5.00% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £26.32
25th Percentile - - £33.76
Median hourly rate - - £49.57
75th Percentile - - £54.69
90th Percentile - - £55.72
North West median hourly rate - - £49.57
% change year-on-year - - +194.53%

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 61 83 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 30.81% 38.25% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 53
10th Percentile £390 £344 £233
25th Percentile £425 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £576 £634 £645
90th Percentile £630 £719 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 23 15
10th Percentile - - £27.92
25th Percentile £26.88 - £46.17
Median hourly rate £34.67 £16.06 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +115.88% -65.22% +139.96%
75th Percentile £46.36 - -
90th Percentile £49.55 £25.61 £52.59
North West median hourly rate £40.59 £16.06 £24.87
% change year-on-year +152.74% -35.41% +7.13%

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

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Lancashire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 14 August 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
Blackburn - 3 £488 -
Blackpool - 2 £528 - 2
Preston - 2 £393 - 6
Lytham St Annes - 1 - -
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Looker
4 1 (10.00%) Power Query
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Retail
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (20.00%) Low-Code
1 2 (20.00%) Shadow IT
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Business Process Modelling
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) CRM
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (10.00%) ERP
6 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (10.00%) Service Management
6 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Google