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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 57 34
Rank change year-on-year +10 -23 +4
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 154 79 113
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.06% 3.61% 4.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.75% 11.57% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 55 81
10th Percentile £400 £330 £356
25th Percentile £425 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -0.55% -4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £535 £538
90th Percentile £611 £578 £600
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 0
10th Percentile £21.52 - -
25th Percentile £26.81 - -
Median hourly rate £29.48 - -
75th Percentile £41.81 - -
90th Percentile £65.49 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.18% +5.47% -25.93%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,208 683 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.86% 31.22% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 510 503
10th Percentile £249 £312 £306
25th Percentile £400 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £478
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.86% -4.40%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 23 37
10th Percentile £18.85 £12.82 £14.84
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.87 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £40.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% +152.74% -41.28%
75th Percentile £76.00 £56.25 £32.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £75.50 £70.45
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%

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 8 August 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the North West over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Power Platform in the North West

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 8 August 2026. 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 +5 101 £500 +17.65% 69
Cheshire -2 26 £518 -1.43% 19
Merseyside -9 14 £437 -12.70% 21
Lancashire -8 10 £400 -15.79% 28
Cumbria - 2 - - 2
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 29 (18.83%) SharePoint
2 14 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (5.19%) Confluence
4 7 (4.55%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.30%) Apache
5 2 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.30%) CMS
5 2 (1.30%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.60%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.95%) AutoCAD
5 3 (1.95%) Chatbot
5 3 (1.95%) Navisworks
5 3 (1.95%) ProjectWise
5 3 (1.95%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (3.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.60%) Primavera
2 4 (2.60%) SAP MM
2 4 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.95%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.65%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.05%) Azure
2 41 (26.62%) Power Automate
3 38 (24.68%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (23.38%) PowerApps
5 25 (16.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 15 (9.74%) AWS
7 14 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 14 (9.09%) OneDrive
8 13 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (8.44%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (5.19%) Azure AI
9 8 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (4.55%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.60%) dbt
12 4 (2.60%) SaaS
13 3 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (75.32%) Power BI
2 17 (11.04%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (11.04%) Power Query
3 15 (9.74%) SQL Server
4 12 (7.79%) Tableau
5 10 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (5.84%) MySQL
7 6 (3.90%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.90%) Metadata
8 5 (3.25%) Star Schema
9 4 (2.60%) Looker
10 3 (1.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.95%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (1.95%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.30%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.30%) Impala
12 1 (0.65%) Big Data
12 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.65%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 12 (7.79%) JIRA
2 4 (2.60%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.65%) Postman
3 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (16.88%) Finance
4 19 (12.34%) Manufacturing
5 13 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.90%) Banking
7 4 (2.60%) Law
8 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Aviation
9 2 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.30%) Legal
9 2 (1.30%) Marketing
9 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Local Government
10 1 (0.65%) Military
10 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.65%) Publishing
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (17.53%) Developer
2 20 (12.99%) Power BI Developer
3 19 (12.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 15 (9.74%) Analyst
5 11 (7.14%) Lead
6 10 (6.49%) Senior
7 9 (5.84%) Data Analyst
7 9 (5.84%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.19%) Architect
9 7 (4.55%) Consultant
9 7 (4.55%) DBA
9 7 (4.55%) Security Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) SQL DBA
10 6 (3.90%) Administrator
10 6 (3.90%) Automation Specialist
10 6 (3.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Engineer
11 4 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (2.60%) Coordinator
11 4 (2.60%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.25%) PySpark
2 4 (2.60%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (1.95%) REST
4 2 (1.30%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.65%) OAuth
5 1 (0.65%) OpenID
5 1 (0.65%) SAML
5 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.44%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.90%) Clustering
3 6 (3.90%) Replication
4 5 (3.25%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.60%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.95%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.95%) CMDB
7 2 (1.30%) FMCG
7 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.30%) Life Science
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.65%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.65%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.39%) Windows
2 7 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.25%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (70.78%) Business Intelligence
2 55 (35.71%) Analytics
3 35 (22.73%) Data Modelling
4 34 (22.08%) Visualisation
5 29 (18.83%) Migration
6 27 (17.53%) Agile
6 27 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (15.58%) Data Visualisation
8 23 (14.94%) AI
9 22 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (14.29%) Workflow
10 21 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (12.99%) Data Analysis
12 18 (11.69%) ETL
12 18 (11.69%) ITIL
13 16 (10.39%) ITSM
14 14 (9.09%) Data Analytics
14 14 (9.09%) Data Transformation
14 14 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (34.42%) SQL
2 22 (14.29%) Python
3 20 (12.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (10.39%) PowerShell
5 13 (8.44%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.90%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.95%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Java
8 1 (0.65%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (21.43%) Degree
2 25 (16.23%) Security Cleared
3 19 (12.34%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (8.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.25%) CISSP
6 5 (3.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.48%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.90%) GRC
3 3 (1.95%) GDPR
3 3 (1.95%) GxP
3 3 (1.95%) ISO 19650
3 3 (1.95%) PMO
3 3 (1.95%) QA
4 2 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.30%) NIST
4 2 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (7.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.55%) SCOM
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.30%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 87 (56.49%) Microsoft
2 35 (22.73%) ServiceNow
3 14 (9.09%) SAP
4 11 (7.14%) Databricks
5 10 (6.49%) Splunk
6 9 (5.84%) Remedy
7 7 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
7 7 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (3.90%) UiPath
9 4 (2.60%) Alteryx
9 4 (2.60%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.60%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.95%) Autodesk
10 3 (1.95%) Cisco
10 3 (1.95%) Oracle
10 3 (1.95%) Ribbon
11 2 (1.30%) Cloudera
11 2 (1.30%) Workday
12 1 (0.65%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.65%) Blue Prism