Power Platform Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Power Platform
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 51 40 32
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 +21
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 75 113 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.81% 4.10% 5.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.74% 12.78% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 85 124
10th Percentile £318 £350 £322
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £650
90th Percentile £600 £575 £700
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - £31.75 £52.30
25th Percentile - £41.25 £60.70
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -34.62% +237.75%
75th Percentile - £43.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.07 £23.22 £55.00
% change year-on-year +25.22% -57.79% +144.99%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Power Platform in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Power Platform in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Power Platform in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +5 54 £465 +3.33% 141
Cheshire -16 14 £580 +22.11% 45
Lancashire +2 3 £425 +21.43% 64
Merseyside -1 1 £500 +33.33% 22
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England

Power Platform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (4.00%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.33%) Elite 3E
4 1 (1.33%) Maximo
4 1 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (44.00%) PowerApps
2 32 (42.67%) Azure
3 28 (37.33%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (30.67%) Power Automate
5 15 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.67%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.67%) AWS
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.67%) Serverless
10 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.33%) Boomi
10 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.33%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.33%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (69.33%) Power BI
2 11 (14.67%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (13.33%) Tableau
4 6 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.33%) MySQL
6 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (4.00%) Dremio
7 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.33%) Big Data
8 1 (1.33%) Power Query
8 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.33%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (4.00%) Hudson
2 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.67%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) Flyway
4 1 (1.33%) Liquibase
General
1 25 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.33%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.33%) Finance
4 7 (9.33%) Manufacturing
4 7 (9.33%) Marketing
5 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.33%) Retail
7 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Military
8 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (29.33%) Developer
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 9 (12.00%) Analyst
4 8 (10.67%) Data Analyst
4 8 (10.67%) Software Developer
5 7 (9.33%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (5.33%) Lead
7 4 (5.33%) Power Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Applications Support
8 3 (4.00%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) CRM Specialist
8 3 (4.00%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
8 3 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM Specialist
8 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) CSS
1 10 (13.33%) HTML
2 7 (9.33%) React
3 6 (8.00%) SPFx
4 2 (2.67%) .NET
4 2 (2.67%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.33%) ADO
5 1 (1.33%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.33%) Middleware
5 1 (1.33%) Next.js
5 1 (1.33%) Node.js
5 1 (1.33%) OAuth
5 1 (1.33%) OpenID
5 1 (1.33%) Pandas
5 1 (1.33%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.33%) Shiny
5 1 (1.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Life Science
2 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.67%) NHS
3 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.33%) IoT
3 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (56.00%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (22.67%) Data Modelling
2 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (20.00%) Analytics
4 14 (18.67%) Agile
5 12 (16.00%) ETL
5 12 (16.00%) Visualisation
6 10 (13.33%) CRM
6 10 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
6 10 (13.33%) Web Development
7 9 (12.00%) Task Automation
8 8 (10.67%) Data Governance
9 7 (9.33%) Customer Insight
9 7 (9.33%) Data Analytics
9 7 (9.33%) Data Loss Prevention
9 7 (9.33%) Migration
10 6 (8.00%) Data Engineering
10 6 (8.00%) Decision-Making
10 6 (8.00%) DevOps
10 6 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) SQL
2 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
3 11 (14.67%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.33%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.67%) Python
6 4 (5.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (4.00%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.67%) C#
8 2 (2.67%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (10.67%) Degree
2 5 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.33%) MCT
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.33%) RIBA
4 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.33%) Databricks
3 6 (8.00%) SAP
4 4 (5.33%) Ariba
5 2 (2.67%) Anaplan
5 2 (2.67%) Brio
5 2 (2.67%) Hyperion
5 2 (2.67%) Sage
5 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.33%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.33%) Google
6 1 (1.33%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.33%) Intapp
6 1 (1.33%) Ping Identity