Power Platform Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Microsoft Power Platform
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 22 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 7 11 9
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 2.79% 4.85% 5.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.00% 11.58% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £447 £167 £250
25th Percentile - £191 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £213 £350
Median % change year-on-year +135.29% -39.29% -37.08%
75th Percentile £603 £399 £450
90th Percentile £725 £430 £510
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £428
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.11% -10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 70 95 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 27.89% 41.85% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 53 30
10th Percentile £133 £143 £199
25th Percentile £150 £163 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £293 £263 £350
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -25.00% -30.00%
75th Percentile £458 £500 £517
90th Percentile £564 £583 £605
North West median daily rate £448 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - £17.44 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -8.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £26.72 £20.75
90th Percentile - £32.29 £21.50
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £31.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year +29.03% +31.30% -22.35%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Power Platform job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in Merseyside over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in Merseyside

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 15 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
Liverpool -8 5 £500 +135.29% 16
Power Platform
North West

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Firebase
1 1 (14.29%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Looker
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Star Schema
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Local Government
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) CRM Manager
1 1 (14.29%) CRM Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Head of CRM
1 1 (14.29%) Head of Projects
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) D3.js
1 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
1 1 (14.29%) Flask
1 1 (14.29%) Flutter
1 1 (14.29%) Gradio
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) LangChain
1 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
1 1 (14.29%) Next.js
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) React Native
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Streamlit
1 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Campaign Management
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Content Development
2 2 (28.57%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Creative Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
2 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Funnel Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
2 2 (28.57%) Multivariate Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Personalization
2 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Capita
3 1 (14.29%) Netlify
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) Zoho