Power Platform Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Power Platform
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 50 47 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +23
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 138 174 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.19% 3.65% 4.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.42% 12.36% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 128 183
10th Percentile £313 £342 £321
25th Percentile £400 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £506 £511 £600
90th Percentile £579 £575 £688
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £31.50 - £52.30
25th Percentile £31.54 £20.77 £60.70
Median hourly rate £32.96 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% -34.62% +217.07%
75th Percentile £34.38 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £55.00
% change year-on-year +25.22% -57.79% +144.99%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the North of England

Power Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the North of England

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the North of England

Power Platform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power Platform in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the North of England

Power Platform
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -11 75 £475 +5.56% 238
Yorkshire +8 54 £435 -0.57% 127
North East +5 13 £455 -31.32% 45
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 34 (24.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.62%) Confluence
3 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.45%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (18.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.72%) Revit
4 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.17%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.45%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.72%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.72%) Maximo
5 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.06%) Azure
2 46 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 39 (28.26%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (26.09%) Power Automate
5 15 (10.87%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (6.52%) Snowflake
8 7 (5.07%) AWS
9 6 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (2.17%) GCP
12 2 (1.45%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.45%) Cloud Composer
12 2 (1.45%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.45%) Lucidchart
12 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.45%) Serverless
13 1 (0.72%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (76.09%) Power BI
2 24 (17.39%) Tableau
3 19 (13.77%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.25%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.52%) Data Lake
6 8 (5.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (4.35%) MySQL
7 6 (4.35%) Power Query
8 5 (3.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.17%) Dremio
9 3 (2.17%) QlikView
9 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.45%) Looker
10 2 (1.45%) Metadata
10 2 (1.45%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.45%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (1.45%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.72%) Big Data
11 1 (0.72%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 11 (7.97%) JIRA
2 6 (4.35%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.17%) Hudson
3 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.72%) Flyway
4 1 (0.72%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.72%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 43 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.84%) Public Sector
3 19 (13.77%) Finance
4 17 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.07%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.07%) Marketing
6 6 (4.35%) Retail
7 4 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.17%) Banking
8 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.45%) Military
9 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.72%) Legal
10 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (28.99%) Developer
2 38 (27.54%) Analyst
3 20 (14.49%) Data Analyst
4 15 (10.87%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 11 (7.97%) Software Developer
6 10 (7.25%) Business Analyst
6 10 (7.25%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 9 (6.52%) Power BI Developer
8 8 (5.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (5.80%) Senior
9 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Architect
10 6 (4.35%) Performance Analyst
11 5 (3.62%) Consultant
12 4 (2.90%) Power Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) SharePoint Developer
12 4 (2.90%) Technical Analyst
12 4 (2.90%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.42%) CSS
1 13 (9.42%) HTML
2 12 (8.70%) React
3 9 (6.52%) SPFx
4 5 (3.62%) .NET
5 2 (1.45%) Pandas
5 2 (1.45%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.72%) ADO
6 1 (0.72%) D3.js
6 1 (0.72%) JSON
6 1 (0.72%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.72%) Middleware
6 1 (0.72%) Next.js
6 1 (0.72%) Node.js
6 1 (0.72%) OAuth
6 1 (0.72%) OpenID
6 1 (0.72%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.72%) Shiny
6 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.35%) NHS
2 4 (2.90%) Life Science
3 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.17%) FMCG
3 3 (2.17%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.45%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.45%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.72%) IoT
5 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.72%) PMI
5 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (67.39%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (23.91%) Visualisation
3 32 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (20.29%) Agile
5 27 (19.57%) Data Modelling
6 25 (18.12%) Analytics
6 25 (18.12%) Data Analysis
7 22 (15.94%) Data Visualisation
8 21 (15.22%) ETL
9 19 (13.77%) Decision-Making
10 13 (9.42%) Data Governance
10 13 (9.42%) Web Development
11 12 (8.70%) Migration
11 12 (8.70%) Task Automation
12 10 (7.25%) Actionable Insight
12 10 (7.25%) CRM
13 9 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (6.52%) Data Science
13 9 (6.52%) DevOps
13 9 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (37.68%) SQL
2 16 (11.59%) JavaScript
2 16 (11.59%) PowerShell
3 13 (9.42%) Python
4 11 (7.97%) TypeScript
5 10 (7.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (5.80%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.17%) C#
7 3 (2.17%) R
8 2 (1.45%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.45%) VB
9 1 (0.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (9.42%) Degree
2 10 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.07%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.45%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.72%) CBAP
7 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.72%) MCT
7 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.72%) RIBA
7 1 (0.72%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.32%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.35%) PMO
3 5 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.45%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.45%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.72%) Ansible
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (44.93%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.25%) Databricks
2 10 (7.25%) SAP
3 5 (3.62%) Google
4 4 (2.90%) Ariba
5 2 (1.45%) Anaplan
5 2 (1.45%) Brio
5 2 (1.45%) Dell
5 2 (1.45%) Hyperion
5 2 (1.45%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (1.45%) Sage
5 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.45%) Veritas
5 2 (1.45%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.72%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.72%) Infoblox
6 1 (0.72%) Intapp
6 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.72%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.72%) Workday