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 17 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 56 85
Rank change year-on-year +16 +29 -27
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 180 173 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.35% 3.44% 2.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.79% 10.11% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 129 168
10th Percentile £345 £265 £320
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% +2.78% +2.27%
75th Percentile £554 £550 £570
90th Percentile £626 £628 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £524
% change year-on-year - -4.53% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £22.51 £16.30
25th Percentile £26.25 £24.23 £18.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.20 £21.08
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% +29.03% +5.40%
75th Percentile £28.75 £45.15 £26.44
90th Percentile - £55.86 £46.05
England median hourly rate £30.30 £38.00 £23.68
% change year-on-year -20.28% +60.47% -8.92%

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 1,305 1,712 2,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.51% 34.02% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,254 2,133
10th Percentile £288 £265 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £598
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 65 66
10th Percentile £12.00 £15.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £18.50 £18.39
Median hourly rate £22.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +44.44% +28.57%
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.18 £63.44
90th Percentile £67.40 £67.20 £77.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £33.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year - +53.49% +2.54%

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 17 September 2024.

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 17 September 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
North West +8 108 £450 -2.70% 86
Yorkshire +30 69 £501 +0.10% 62
North East -11 5 £450 -5.26% 18
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 17 (9.44%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.11%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (11.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 68 (37.78%) Azure
2 38 (21.11%) Dynamics 365
3 31 (17.22%) PowerApps
4 21 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (10.56%) AWS
5 19 (10.56%) Power Automate
6 11 (6.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 8 (4.44%) GCP
9 6 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.78%) Mimecast
10 5 (2.78%) Serverless
11 4 (2.22%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.67%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.67%) dbt
12 3 (1.67%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.11%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.11%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) DNS
1 2 (1.11%) Internet
2 1 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (80.56%) Power BI
2 26 (14.44%) Relational Database
2 26 (14.44%) Tableau
3 25 (13.89%) SQL Server
4 24 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (12.22%) Qlik Sense
6 17 (9.44%) MySQL
7 12 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.00%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.78%) Power Query
10 5 (2.78%) QlikView
10 5 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (2.22%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.67%) Big Data
12 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (1.11%) OLAP
13 2 (1.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (6.11%) JIRA
2 5 (2.78%) Hudson
3 2 (1.11%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.11%) Git
4 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.56%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 41 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.56%) Finance
4 16 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.44%) Law
6 7 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.33%) Retail
8 5 (2.78%) Marketing
8 5 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.67%) Local Government
10 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.11%) Banking
11 2 (1.11%) Legal
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (27.78%) Developer
2 48 (26.67%) Analyst
3 28 (15.56%) Architect
3 28 (15.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 22 (12.22%) Data Analyst
5 17 (9.44%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (8.89%) Data Scientist
7 15 (8.33%) Lead
8 14 (7.78%) Power BI Developer
9 12 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 12 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 12 (6.67%) Senior
10 11 (6.11%) Power Platform Developer
11 7 (3.89%) Consultant
11 7 (3.89%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 7 (3.89%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
12 6 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (2.78%) Power Platform Architect
14 4 (2.22%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.89%) CSS
1 25 (13.89%) HTML
2 16 (8.89%) AngularJS
3 14 (7.78%) .NET
4 7 (3.89%) .NET Framework
4 7 (3.89%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (3.89%) JSON
4 7 (3.89%) WCF
4 7 (3.89%) XML
5 4 (2.22%) Entity Framework
5 4 (2.22%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
5 4 (2.22%) Web Services
6 3 (1.67%) ADO
6 3 (1.67%) PySpark
7 1 (0.56%) J2EE
7 1 (0.56%) Kafka
7 1 (0.56%) OpenLayers
7 1 (0.56%) PostGIS
7 1 (0.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.78%) NHS
2 3 (1.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (1.67%) Low-Code
3 2 (1.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.11%) Life Science
3 2 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.56%) Solar Power
4 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.33%) Linux
1 6 (3.33%) Windows
2 4 (2.22%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.22%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (73.89%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (26.11%) Data Modelling
3 29 (16.11%) Analytics
4 28 (15.56%) Visualisation
5 27 (15.00%) ETL
6 25 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (13.33%) Data Analysis
8 23 (12.78%) Data Visualisation
9 21 (11.67%) CRM
9 21 (11.67%) ITIL
10 20 (11.11%) Scrum
11 19 (10.56%) Data Integration
11 19 (10.56%) Data Security
12 18 (10.00%) DevOps
12 18 (10.00%) Migration
12 18 (10.00%) Service Management
13 17 (9.44%) ITSM
14 16 (8.89%) Computer Science
14 16 (8.89%) Data Science
14 16 (8.89%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (55.56%) SQL
2 30 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 26 (14.44%) Python
4 17 (9.44%) PowerShell
5 14 (7.78%) C#
6 13 (7.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.67%) R
9 2 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.56%) Bash
10 1 (0.56%) Java
10 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (18.33%) Degree
2 17 (9.44%) PMI Certification
2 17 (9.44%) PMP
3 16 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.89%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.78%) Master's Degree
5 11 (6.11%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.78%) QA
3 4 (2.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.56%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.22%) Terraform
3 2 (1.11%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.56%) SCCM
4 1 (0.56%) SCOrch
4 1 (0.56%) SCSM
Vendors
1 65 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.78%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.44%) Databricks
4 7 (3.89%) Oracle
5 5 (2.78%) Sophos
6 4 (2.22%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.67%) Google
7 3 (1.67%) UiPath
8 2 (1.11%) ESRI
8 2 (1.11%) IDERA
8 2 (1.11%) SAP
8 2 (1.11%) Sparx
9 1 (0.56%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.56%) Confluent
9 1 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.56%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.56%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.56%) Skytap
9 1 (0.56%) VMware
9 1 (0.56%) YouTube