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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 52 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 -20 +2
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 133 76 136
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.80% 3.82% 4.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.38% 11.50% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 53 99
10th Percentile £362 £320 £355
25th Percentile £413 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £612 £579 £613
England median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 6
10th Percentile £17.13 - £31.75
25th Percentile £28.50 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £29.96 - £42.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £43.75
90th Percentile £64.00 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -5.18% +32.82% -38.52%

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 1,074 661 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.72% 33.23% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 506 633
10th Percentile £315 £313 £284
25th Percentile £400 £393 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -4.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £514 £514 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 20 61
10th Percentile £24.15 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.36 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +80.27% +115.88% -28.34%
75th Percentile £77.50 £54.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% +16.98% -36.10%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -7 83 £500 +13.31% 56
Cheshire +5 28 £463 -11.90% 21
Merseyside -1 14 £435 -10.77% 17
Lancashire -9 5 £500 +5.26% 23
Cumbria - 2 - - 1
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 16 (12.03%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.02%) Confluence
3 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.50%) CMS
4 2 (1.50%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (18.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.26%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.26%) Primavera
2 3 (2.26%) SAP MM
2 3 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.75%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.75%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.36%) Azure
2 31 (23.31%) Power Automate
3 25 (18.80%) PowerApps
4 21 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (12.03%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (9.02%) AWS
6 12 (9.02%) Entra ID
6 12 (9.02%) Microsoft Copilot
7 9 (6.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.02%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (6.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.51%) Azure Functions
9 6 (4.51%) Copilot Studio
9 6 (4.51%) OneDrive
9 6 (4.51%) Serverless
10 4 (3.01%) Azure AI
10 4 (3.01%) dbt
10 4 (3.01%) SaaS
11 3 (2.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) Network Security
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (75.94%) Power BI
2 18 (13.53%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (12.03%) Power Query
4 14 (10.53%) Tableau
5 10 (7.52%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.51%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.76%) Star Schema
8 4 (3.01%) Looker
8 4 (3.01%) Metadata
9 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.26%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (2.26%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.26%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (2.26%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.50%) Impala
10 2 (1.50%) MySQL
10 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.75%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 4 (3.01%) Git
3 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.75%) Postman
3 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (20.30%) Finance
3 14 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.27%) Manufacturing
5 8 (6.02%) Banking
6 5 (3.76%) Law
6 5 (3.76%) Legal
7 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.50%) Marketing
7 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Aviation
8 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Local Government
8 1 (0.75%) Military
8 1 (0.75%) Publishing
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
8 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (21.05%) Developer
2 20 (15.04%) Power BI Developer
3 19 (14.29%) Analyst
3 19 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 11 (8.27%) Data Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) Architect
5 9 (6.77%) Lead
6 8 (6.02%) Senior
7 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
7 7 (5.26%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Administrator
8 6 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Data Analyst
8 6 (4.51%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Power Platform Developer
9 5 (3.76%) SQL Analyst
10 4 (3.01%) Data Manager
10 4 (3.01%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (3.01%) Test Analyst
11 3 (2.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.26%) REST
2 5 (3.76%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (3.01%) PySpark
4 2 (1.50%) .NET
4 2 (1.50%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.50%) JSON
4 2 (1.50%) Node.js
4 2 (1.50%) RESTful
5 1 (0.75%) LDAP
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.75%) OAuth
5 1 (0.75%) OpenID
5 1 (0.75%) SAML
5 1 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
1 7 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.51%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.50%) FMCG
4 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.50%) Life Science
4 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.75%) CMDB
5 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Licensing
5 1 (0.75%) PKI
5 1 (0.75%) PMI
5 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.77%) Windows
2 5 (3.76%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.76%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (72.18%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (37.59%) Analytics
3 34 (25.56%) Data Modelling
4 29 (21.80%) Visualisation
5 28 (21.05%) Agile
6 25 (18.80%) Migration
7 24 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (16.54%) AI
8 22 (16.54%) Data Visualisation
9 21 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (14.29%) ETL
12 17 (12.78%) Workflow
13 16 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (11.28%) Data Analysis
15 14 (10.53%) Data Transformation
16 13 (9.77%) Actionable Insight
16 13 (9.77%) Data Analytics
17 12 (9.02%) ERP
17 12 (9.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.34%) SQL
2 22 (16.54%) Python
3 19 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (7.52%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.26%) C#
5 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.76%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.50%) VBA
8 1 (0.75%) Java
8 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 20 (15.04%) Degree
2 17 (12.78%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.76%) CISSP
6 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.26%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.26%) PMP
7 2 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.75%) MBA
8 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.05%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.02%) QA
3 6 (4.51%) GRC
4 5 (3.76%) PMO
5 3 (2.26%) GDPR
6 2 (1.50%) P3O
7 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.75%) Basel III
7 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (9.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.50%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 59 (44.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 10 (7.52%) SAP
4 8 (6.02%) Databricks
4 8 (6.02%) Splunk
5 7 (5.26%) BeyondTrust
5 7 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (5.26%) Remedy
6 4 (3.01%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.01%) Foundry
6 4 (3.01%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.01%) UiPath
7 3 (2.26%) Oracle
8 2 (1.50%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.50%) Workday
9 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.75%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.75%) Infor
9 1 (0.75%) Ribbon