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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 33 41
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +27
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 107 99 125
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.59% 4.27% 4.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.31% 13.90% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 69 95
10th Percentile £313 £318 £263
25th Percentile £375 £413 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £519
90th Percentile £550 £628 £618
England median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.51
25th Percentile £15.50 - £24.23
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £27.20
75th Percentile £16.50 - £45.15
90th Percentile - - £55.86
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -20.83% -7.18% -2.06%

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 804 712 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.52% 30.72% 36.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 441 781
10th Percentile £305 £310 £265
25th Percentile £369 £390 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £485 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 17 58
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.44 £15.93
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.31 £36.00 £30.10
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +19.60% -54.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £69.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.90 £75.70 £55.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% +30.91% +22.22%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +3 63 £410 -13.68% 138
Cheshire -20 23 £488 -7.14% 56
Lancashire -2 9 £488 +2.63% 68
Merseyside -2 9 £500 +36.99% 24
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 (11.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.74%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (14.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.80%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.87%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.93%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (42.06%) Azure
2 25 (23.36%) Power Automate
3 23 (21.50%) PowerApps
4 15 (14.02%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (9.35%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (6.54%) GCP
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (4.67%) AWS
8 5 (4.67%) SaaS
9 4 (3.74%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (3.74%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.80%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (2.80%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.80%) Serverless
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) DNS
1 5 (4.67%) Internet
1 5 (4.67%) Unified Communications
1 5 (4.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.93%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (72.90%) Power BI
2 12 (11.21%) Tableau
3 8 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.48%) Power Query
3 8 (7.48%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.61%) BigQuery
4 6 (5.61%) Looker
5 5 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.74%) Redis
7 3 (2.80%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.80%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.87%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.87%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.93%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.80%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Git
2 2 (1.87%) Selenium
3 1 (0.93%) Browser DevTools
General
1 44 (41.12%) Social Skills
2 29 (27.10%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (21.50%) Public Sector
4 15 (14.02%) Finance
5 6 (5.61%) Banking
6 5 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.74%) Law
8 3 (2.80%) Local Government
8 3 (2.80%) Retail
9 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Automotive
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (25.23%) Developer
2 25 (23.36%) Analyst
3 10 (9.35%) Data Analyst
3 10 (9.35%) Data Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 8 (7.48%) Lead
4 8 (7.48%) Power Platform Developer
5 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Developer
5 7 (6.54%) Power BI Developer
6 6 (5.61%) Architect
7 5 (4.67%) Consultant
7 5 (4.67%) IT Support
7 5 (4.67%) IT Support Technician
7 5 (4.67%) IT Technician
7 5 (4.67%) Power Apps Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Senior
7 5 (4.67%) Service Desk Support
7 5 (4.67%) Service Desk Technician
7 5 (4.67%) Support Technician
8 4 (3.74%) Power BI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (4.67%) .NET
2 5 (4.67%) HTML
2 5 (4.67%) JSON
3 2 (1.87%) Node.js
3 2 (1.87%) React
3 2 (1.87%) REST
4 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.93%) D3.js
4 1 (0.93%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.93%) Flutter
4 1 (0.93%) Gradio
4 1 (0.93%) LangChain
4 1 (0.93%) Material-UI
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.93%) Next.js
4 1 (0.93%) PySpark
4 1 (0.93%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (0.93%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.93%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Low-Code
2 5 (4.67%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.67%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.80%) Shadow IT
5 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.87%) NHS
6 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.93%) FMCG
6 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Tandem
6 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (71.96%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (27.10%) Analytics
3 28 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (21.50%) Agile
5 21 (19.63%) Data Modelling
6 17 (15.89%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (14.95%) Data Governance
8 14 (13.08%) Actionable Insight
8 14 (13.08%) DevOps
8 14 (13.08%) ETL
8 14 (13.08%) Visualisation
9 12 (11.21%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (10.28%) User Experience
11 10 (9.35%) CI/CD
11 10 (9.35%) Data Visualisation
11 10 (9.35%) Decision-Making
11 10 (9.35%) Translating Business Requirements
12 8 (7.48%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.04%) SQL
2 18 (16.82%) Python
3 9 (8.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.67%) C#
5 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.87%) VBA
8 1 (0.93%) Java
8 1 (0.93%) Korn
8 1 (0.93%) LookML
8 1 (0.93%) R
8 1 (0.93%) Scala
8 1 (0.93%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (14.02%) Degree
2 14 (13.08%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.87%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.87%) PMP
8 1 (0.93%) CISM
8 1 (0.93%) CISSP
8 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.93%) MBA
8 1 (0.93%) MCSA
8 1 (0.93%) MCSE
8 1 (0.93%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.21%) Accessibility
1 12 (11.21%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.54%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (4.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (4.67%) SCCM
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (54.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.35%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.61%) Databricks
3 6 (5.61%) Google
4 4 (3.74%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.74%) Informatica
4 4 (3.74%) Oracle
4 4 (3.74%) Pega
5 3 (2.80%) Snow
5 3 (2.80%) Workday
6 2 (1.87%) Capita
6 2 (1.87%) SAP
6 2 (1.87%) Veeam
6 2 (1.87%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.87%) VMware
7 1 (0.93%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.93%) Brio
7 1 (0.93%) Cognos
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) Netlify