Power Platform Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Power Platform
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Power Platform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 29 47
Rank change year-on-year -16 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 105 119 112
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.37% 5.05% 4.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.82% 16.19% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 85 85
10th Percentile £313 £321 £263
25th Percentile £372 £413 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £519 £548 £538
90th Percentile £550 £638 £606
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.52
25th Percentile £15.50 - £31.77
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £42.18
75th Percentile £16.50 - £52.59
90th Percentile - - £58.84
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% -21.05% +8.57%

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 819 735 1,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.08% 31.20% 36.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 463 771
10th Percentile £303 £308 £265
25th Percentile £367 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -2.02% -1.00%
75th Percentile £542 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £655 £650
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 56
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.44 £15.88
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.05 £18.31
Median hourly rate £23.31 £30.00 £28.31
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +5.99% -56.45%
75th Percentile £67.75 £49.14 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.01 £73.63 £57.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +27.16%

Power Platform
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power Platform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Power Platform job vacancy trend in the North West

Power Platform
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power Platform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power Platform

Power Platform
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power Platform in the North West over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the North West

Power Platform
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power Platform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Power Platform

Power Platform
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 10 November 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 -8 62 £425 -10.53% 184
Cheshire -12 24 £500 -4.76% 55
Merseyside -5 8 £500 +73.16% 22
Lancashire -10 8 £488 +2.63% 86
Power Platform
England

Power Platform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.86%) Confluence
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.95%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (16.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.86%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.95%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (41.90%) Azure
2 25 (23.81%) Power Automate
3 23 (21.90%) PowerApps
4 15 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (7.62%) GCP
7 6 (5.71%) AWS
7 6 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (4.76%) SaaS
9 4 (3.81%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (3.81%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (2.86%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.86%) Serverless
11 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.95%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.76%) DNS
1 5 (4.76%) Internet
1 5 (4.76%) Unified Communications
1 5 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.95%) Firewall
2 1 (0.95%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (71.43%) Power BI
2 13 (12.38%) Tableau
3 9 (8.57%) Power Query
4 8 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.71%) BigQuery
5 6 (5.71%) Looker
6 5 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.81%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.81%) Redis
8 3 (2.86%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.86%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.90%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.95%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Git
1 2 (1.90%) JIRA
1 2 (1.90%) Selenium
2 1 (0.95%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (0.95%) GitLab
General
1 45 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 31 (29.52%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (21.90%) Public Sector
4 16 (15.24%) Finance
5 6 (5.71%) Banking
6 4 (3.81%) Law
7 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.86%) Local Government
7 3 (2.86%) Retail
8 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.95%) Automotive
9 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (24.76%) Developer
2 23 (21.90%) Analyst
3 10 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) Data Analyst
4 9 (8.57%) Lead
5 8 (7.62%) Power Platform Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Architect
7 6 (5.71%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Consultant
8 5 (4.76%) IT Support
8 5 (4.76%) IT Support Technician
8 5 (4.76%) IT Technician
8 5 (4.76%) Power Apps Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Senior
8 5 (4.76%) Service Desk Support
8 5 (4.76%) Service Desk Technician
8 5 (4.76%) Support Technician
9 4 (3.81%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (4.76%) .NET
2 5 (4.76%) HTML
2 5 (4.76%) JSON
3 2 (1.90%) Node.js
3 2 (1.90%) React
3 2 (1.90%) REST
4 1 (0.95%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.95%) Flutter
4 1 (0.95%) Gradio
4 1 (0.95%) Kafka
4 1 (0.95%) LangChain
4 1 (0.95%) Material-UI
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.95%) Next.js
4 1 (0.95%) PySpark
4 1 (0.95%) React Native
4 1 (0.95%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (0.95%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.95%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) Low-Code
2 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.86%) Shadow IT
4 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.90%) NHS
4 2 (1.90%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.95%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.95%) FMCG
5 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.95%) PKI
5 1 (0.95%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (70.48%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (27.62%) Analytics
3 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (22.86%) Agile
5 21 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 15 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 15 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (14.29%) DevOps
7 14 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
7 14 (13.33%) Visualisation
8 13 (12.38%) ETL
8 13 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (11.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (10.48%) CI/CD
10 11 (10.48%) Decision-Making
10 11 (10.48%) User Experience
11 10 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (8.57%) AI
12 9 (8.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.62%) SQL
2 17 (16.19%) Python
3 9 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.76%) C#
5 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.86%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.90%) VBA
8 1 (0.95%) Java
8 1 (0.95%) Korn
8 1 (0.95%) LookML
8 1 (0.95%) R
8 1 (0.95%) Scala
8 1 (0.95%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Degree
1 14 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.90%) CISM
6 2 (1.90%) CISSP
6 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.90%) PMP
7 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.95%) MBA
7 1 (0.95%) MCSA
7 1 (0.95%) MCSE
7 1 (0.95%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) Accessibility
2 11 (10.48%) Data Quality
3 7 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (0.95%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (4.76%) SCCM
2 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.95%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 55 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.71%) Databricks
3 6 (5.71%) Google
4 4 (3.81%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.81%) Informatica
4 4 (3.81%) Oracle
4 4 (3.81%) Pega
4 4 (3.81%) Workday
5 3 (2.86%) Snow
6 2 (1.90%) Capita
6 2 (1.90%) SAP
6 2 (1.90%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.95%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.95%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.95%) Brio
7 1 (0.95%) Cognos
7 1 (0.95%) IBM
7 1 (0.95%) Netlify
7 1 (0.95%) Splunk