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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 40 45
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +26
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 132 183 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.99% 3.91% 4.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.08% 13.12% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 130 160
10th Percentile £313 £344 £317
25th Percentile £400 £370 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £578
90th Percentile £575 £600 £651
England median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £31.50 - £34.72
25th Percentile £31.54 £20.77 £46.16
Median hourly rate £32.96 £42.50 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% -24.65% +166.04%
75th Percentile £34.38 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £23.82 £51.04
% change year-on-year +32.82% -53.32% +91.23%

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 1,093 1,395 2,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.02% 29.78% 36.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 981 1,496
10th Percentile £263 £263 £300
25th Percentile £388 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -5.37% +2.50%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £680
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 78 43
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.04
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -41.60% +31.64%
75th Percentile £43.39 £22.00 £56.20
90th Percentile £83.75 £44.48 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.03% -38.94% +62.79%

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 29 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 29 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 -33 64 £475 +5.56% 773
Yorkshire +11 57 £430 -4.44% 624
North East +5 13 £450 -32.08% 213
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 20 (15.15%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.30%) Confluence
3 4 (3.03%) IBM Domino
4 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.52%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (18.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.03%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.76%) Revit
5 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.27%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.52%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.76%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.76%) Maximo
5 1 (0.76%) Sage CRM
5 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.33%) Azure
2 30 (22.73%) PowerApps
3 25 (18.94%) Power Automate
4 18 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (10.61%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (6.82%) Snowflake
8 7 (5.30%) AWS
8 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (3.03%) GCP
11 2 (1.52%) Cloud Composer
11 2 (1.52%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.52%) Lucidchart
11 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.76%) SaaS
12 1 (0.76%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (84.09%) Power BI
2 29 (21.97%) Tableau
3 19 (14.39%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 11 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.06%) Power Query
5 8 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.03%) MySQL
7 4 (3.03%) QlikView
8 3 (2.27%) Dremio
8 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.52%) Looker
9 2 (1.52%) Metadata
9 2 (1.52%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (1.52%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.76%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 12 (9.09%) JIRA
2 4 (3.03%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.27%) Hudson
3 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.76%) Flyway
4 1 (0.76%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.76%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.76%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 41 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.67%) Finance
4 18 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.30%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.30%) Retail
6 5 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.03%) Banking
7 4 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Environmental Health
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (37.12%) Analyst
2 28 (21.21%) Developer
3 23 (17.42%) Data Analyst
4 11 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 10 (7.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 10 (7.58%) Power BI Developer
6 9 (6.82%) Consultant
7 7 (5.30%) Architect
7 7 (5.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.55%) Performance Analyst
8 6 (4.55%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (4.55%) Senior
9 5 (3.79%) Lead
9 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Developer
10 4 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 4 (3.03%) Data Analytics Specialist
10 4 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.03%) Technical Business Analyst
11 3 (2.27%) Power BI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.55%) .NET
2 2 (1.52%) CSS
2 2 (1.52%) HTML
2 2 (1.52%) JSON
2 2 (1.52%) Middleware
2 2 (1.52%) React
3 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.76%) D3.js
3 1 (0.76%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.76%) Next.js
3 1 (0.76%) Node.js
3 1 (0.76%) OAuth
3 1 (0.76%) OpenID
3 1 (0.76%) Pandas
3 1 (0.76%) REST
3 1 (0.76%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.76%) Swagger
3 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.06%) Low-Code
2 6 (4.55%) NHS
3 5 (3.79%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.03%) Life Science
4 4 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.27%) FMCG
6 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.52%) Shadow IT
7 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) IoT
7 1 (0.76%) PMI
7 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (72.73%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (31.06%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (25.76%) Visualisation
4 33 (25.00%) Analytics
5 28 (21.21%) Agile
6 27 (20.45%) Data Analysis
6 27 (20.45%) Data Modelling
7 21 (15.91%) Data Visualisation
8 20 (15.15%) Decision-Making
8 20 (15.15%) ETL
9 16 (12.12%) Data Governance
10 13 (9.85%) Migration
11 11 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
11 11 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (7.58%) DevOps
12 10 (7.58%) Process Improvement
13 9 (6.82%) Business Analysis
13 9 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (6.82%) Data Analytics
14 8 (6.06%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 54 (40.91%) SQL
2 16 (12.12%) Python
3 11 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (6.82%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.79%) C#
5 5 (3.79%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.52%) R
7 1 (0.76%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.76%) Groovy
7 1 (0.76%) Korn
7 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.76%) VB
7 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (9.85%) Degree
2 8 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.52%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.76%) CBAP
7 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.76%) MCSA
7 1 (0.76%) MCSE
7 1 (0.76%) MCT
7 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.76%) RIBA
7 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.79%) PMO
3 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) COSHH
5 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.52%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.52%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.76%) Ansible
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.33%) SAP
3 6 (4.55%) Databricks
3 6 (4.55%) Google
4 4 (3.03%) Ariba
5 2 (1.52%) Anaplan
5 2 (1.52%) Dell
5 2 (1.52%) Hyperion
5 2 (1.52%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.52%) Veeam
5 2 (1.52%) Veritas
5 2 (1.52%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.52%) VMware
6 1 (0.76%) Infoblox
6 1 (0.76%) Intapp
6 1 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.76%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.76%) Workday