Power Platform Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Power Platform
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Power Platform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Power Platform over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 47 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 134 149 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.90% 4.30% 4.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.68% 12.10% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 102 177
10th Percentile £200 £275 £320
25th Percentile £338 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £550 £572 £530
90th Percentile £673 £646 £629
England median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £11.03 £24.06 £19.28
25th Percentile - £24.16 £19.69
Median hourly rate £14.00 £24.63 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% +13.22% +14.47%
75th Percentile - £25.41 £24.19
90th Percentile £21.70 £25.69 £24.83
England median hourly rate £23.22 £53.75 £22.40
% change year-on-year -56.81% +139.96% +6.67%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

Power Platform is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 681 1,231 1,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.89% 35.55% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 874 1,230
10th Percentile £200 £216 £205
25th Percentile £325 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 34
10th Percentile - £14.81 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +2.41% +15.35%
75th Percentile £27.00 £24.00 £20.88
90th Percentile £48.17 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.99 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.05% +42.86% -2.33%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +16 95 £425 -11.46% 94
East Midlands +19 37 £425 +9.68% 50
Power Platform
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 13 (9.70%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (20.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.73%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.73%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.49%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 53 (39.55%) Azure
2 20 (14.93%) PowerApps
3 19 (14.18%) Power Automate
4 17 (12.69%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (9.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (7.46%) Azure Functions
7 10 (7.46%) Serverless
8 9 (6.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (5.97%) OneDrive
10 6 (4.48%) Entra ID
10 6 (4.48%) GCP
11 5 (3.73%) OCI
11 5 (3.73%) Oracle Service Cloud
12 4 (2.99%) Apigee
12 4 (2.99%) AWS
12 4 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.24%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.48%) Unified Communications
2 4 (2.99%) MegaStream
3 2 (1.49%) VPN
3 2 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (84.33%) Power BI
2 30 (22.39%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (7.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (7.46%) Tableau
4 9 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (5.97%) BusinessObjects
6 7 (5.22%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.73%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (3.73%) Power Query
8 4 (2.99%) Big Data
8 4 (2.99%) Data Mining
8 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.24%) MySQL
9 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.49%) OLAP
10 2 (1.49%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.49%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Git
2 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.49%) JIRA
3 1 (0.75%) GitLab
3 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (28.36%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (25.37%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.69%) Finance
4 6 (4.48%) Marketing
4 6 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.73%) Retail
6 4 (2.99%) Legal
6 4 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.99%) Publishing
7 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.24%) Law
7 3 (2.24%) Local Government
8 2 (1.49%) Banking
8 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.75%) Police
9 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (21.64%) Analyst
2 21 (15.67%) Architect
3 20 (14.93%) Developer
4 16 (11.94%) Senior
5 14 (10.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 12 (8.96%) Data Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 10 (7.46%) Administrator
8 10 (7.46%) Consultant
8 10 (7.46%) Data Architect
9 9 (6.72%) Power BI Developer
9 9 (6.72%) Report Analyst
10 8 (5.97%) Azure Architect
10 8 (5.97%) Data Administrator
10 8 (5.97%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 6 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 6 (4.48%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (2.99%) .NET
3 3 (2.24%) ADO
3 3 (2.24%) Flask
3 3 (2.24%) Pandas
4 2 (1.49%) React Native
4 2 (1.49%) XML
5 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.75%) HTML
5 1 (0.75%) JSON
5 1 (0.75%) REST
5 1 (0.75%) SOAP
5 1 (0.75%) SPFx
5 1 (0.75%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.21%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.48%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.48%) Digital Signage
2 6 (4.48%) PKI
3 5 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.24%) Freedom of Information
4 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.49%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.75%) FMCG
6 1 (0.75%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.94%) Windows
2 6 (4.48%) Windows Server
2 6 (4.48%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (3.73%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.49%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (70.90%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (21.64%) ETL
3 28 (20.90%) Analytics
3 28 (20.90%) Data Modelling
4 24 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (14.93%) Visualisation
6 16 (11.94%) Data Analysis
6 16 (11.94%) Data Analytics
6 16 (11.94%) Migration
7 14 (10.45%) Agile
7 14 (10.45%) ITIL
7 14 (10.45%) Roadmaps
8 13 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (8.96%) CRM
10 11 (8.21%) Customer Service
10 11 (8.21%) Data Management
10 11 (8.21%) Data Migration
11 10 (7.46%) Data Architecture
11 10 (7.46%) Decision-Making
12 9 (6.72%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 42 (31.34%) SQL
2 13 (9.70%) Python
3 11 (8.21%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (4.48%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.73%) C#
7 3 (2.24%) Java
7 3 (2.24%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.49%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.49%) VBA
8 2 (1.49%) X++
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.75%) R
9 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (9.70%) Degree
2 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (3.73%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.24%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.49%) MCSE
6 1 (0.75%) ACCA
6 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.75%) CIMA
6 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.99%) SLA
3 3 (2.24%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (2.24%) PMO
3 3 (2.24%) QA
System Software
1 11 (8.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.49%) Docker
4 1 (0.75%) HDFS
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (3.73%) SysTrack
4 3 (2.24%) Terraform
5 2 (1.49%) Ansible
5 2 (1.49%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (41.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.19%) Oracle
3 5 (3.73%) Autodesk
3 5 (3.73%) Citrix
3 5 (3.73%) New Relic
3 5 (3.73%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.99%) Databricks
4 4 (2.99%) SAP
5 3 (2.24%) Informatica
6 2 (1.49%) Anaplan
6 2 (1.49%) Apple
6 2 (1.49%) Cisco
6 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.75%) Civica
7 1 (0.75%) Denodo
7 1 (0.75%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.75%) QAD
7 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.75%) Talend