Power Platform Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Power Platform
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 24 28 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 120 137 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.27% 4.97% 4.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.58% 19.91% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 97 108
10th Percentile £371 £200 £271
25th Percentile £400 £325 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £478
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.99% +6.11%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £665 £662
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £16.57 £11.03 £24.06
25th Percentile £18.50 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -43.15% +13.22%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £25.41
90th Percentile £45.58 £21.70 £25.69
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £55.00
% change year-on-year +25.22% -57.79% +144.99%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 583 688 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.46% 24.95% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 519 879
10th Percentile £200 £198 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +25.93% +9.00%
75th Percentile £19.87 £27.25 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £50.04 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
West Midlands +11 104 £475 +11.76% 176
East Midlands -10 15 £488 +14.71% 105
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
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 22 (18.33%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (17.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.17%) InfoPath
4 4 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Maximo
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 49 (40.83%) PowerApps
2 48 (40.00%) Azure
3 29 (24.17%) Power Automate
4 24 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (10.00%) AWS
7 9 (7.50%) GCP
8 5 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.17%) OneDrive
8 5 (4.17%) Serverless
9 4 (3.33%) Asana
9 4 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (3.33%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) VPN
1 2 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (67.50%) Power BI
2 11 (9.17%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.00%) RDBMS
4 6 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.17%) Power Query
5 5 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (4.17%) Tableau
6 4 (3.33%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.67%) Metadata
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.83%) Big Data
9 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.83%) MySQL
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) JIRA
2 3 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.83%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) Selenium
3 1 (0.83%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 63 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 29 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.33%) Finance
4 10 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.00%) Law
7 5 (4.17%) Local Government
8 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.67%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (24.17%) Developer
2 20 (16.67%) Lead
3 19 (15.83%) Analyst
4 17 (14.17%) Architect
5 14 (11.67%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (6.67%) Consultant
6 8 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 8 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
6 8 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
6 8 (6.67%) Technical Leader
7 5 (4.17%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) PMO Analyst
7 5 (4.17%) Power Apps Developer
8 4 (3.33%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.33%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.33%) IT Project Manager
8 4 (3.33%) Junior
8 4 (3.33%) Junior Architect
8 4 (3.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.50%) CSS
2 8 (6.67%) .NET
2 8 (6.67%) HTML
3 7 (5.83%) React
4 6 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 5 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 5 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 5 (4.17%) Middleware
6 4 (3.33%) LDAP
7 3 (2.50%) SPFx
8 1 (0.83%) ADO
8 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.83%) JSON
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.83%) PySpark
8 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.33%) Security Posture
2 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.83%) IoT
5 1 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Linux
3 2 (1.67%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (35.83%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (24.17%) Agile
3 29 (24.17%) Data Modelling
4 27 (22.50%) Migration
5 25 (20.83%) DevOps
6 21 (17.50%) Analytics
7 17 (14.17%) Data Analysis
8 16 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 16 (13.33%) Visualisation
9 14 (11.67%) Data Governance
9 14 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (11.67%) Test Strategy
10 13 (10.83%) Data Analytics
10 13 (10.83%) Problem Management
10 13 (10.83%) Process Improvement
11 12 (10.00%) Configuration Management
11 12 (10.00%) OO
11 12 (10.00%) Workflow
12 11 (9.17%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 58 (48.33%) SQL
2 13 (10.83%) Python
3 11 (9.17%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.50%) C#
5 8 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.50%) R
7 3 (2.50%) VB
8 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.67%) VBA
9 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.67%) Degree
2 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (3.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) MCSE
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.83%) CEH
5 1 (0.83%) CISM
5 1 (0.83%) CISSP
5 1 (0.83%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.83%) PMO
3 3 (2.50%) GDPR
4 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.67%) SLA
5 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.50%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.00%) Databricks
3 6 (5.00%) Oracle
3 6 (5.00%) SAP
4 4 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.67%) Apple
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco
5 2 (1.67%) Google
5 2 (1.67%) UiPath
6 1 (0.83%) Informatica
6 1 (0.83%) QAD