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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 64 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 -27 -4
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 115 61 117
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.49% 3.15% 4.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.20% 9.67% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 41 86
10th Percentile £325 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £451
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +5.26% -2.43%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £525
90th Percentile £613 £580 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile £15.96 - £31.75
25th Percentile £17.13 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 - £42.50
75th Percentile £53.13 - £43.75
90th Percentile £67.00 - -
England median hourly rate £28.55 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year -1.79% +25.22% -48.45%

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 1,027 631 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.19% 32.54% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 478 608
10th Percentile £291 £261 £279
25th Percentile £400 £391 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -2.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 17 64
10th Percentile £23.24 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £27.72 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +53.98% +152.74% -41.60%
75th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.25 £63.18
England median hourly rate £41.78 £26.45 £21.37
% change year-on-year +57.96% +23.77% -34.04%

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

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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 22 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power Platform in the North West

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power Platform in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 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 22 May 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 0 72 £500 +17.65% 70
Cheshire 0 26 £463 -20.26% 15
Lancashire -5 7 £425 -10.53% 27
Merseyside -12 7 £573 +14.60% 10
Cumbria - 2 - - 2
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England

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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 (13.91%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.96%) Confluence
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.61%) CMS
4 2 (1.74%) Apache
4 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.87%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.74%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.87%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.87%) Primavera
3 1 (0.87%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.87%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 54 (46.96%) Azure
2 26 (22.61%) Power Automate
3 17 (14.78%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (14.78%) PowerApps
4 13 (11.30%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (10.43%) AWS
5 12 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (8.70%) Entra ID
8 9 (7.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (6.09%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (6.09%) OneDrive
10 6 (5.22%) GCP
11 5 (4.35%) Azure Functions
11 5 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (4.35%) Google Analytics
11 5 (4.35%) Google Tag Manager
11 5 (4.35%) Serverless
12 4 (3.48%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) Network Security
2 1 (0.87%) DHCP
2 1 (0.87%) DNS
2 1 (0.87%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.87%) VPN
2 1 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (73.91%) Power BI
2 17 (14.78%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (12.17%) Tableau
4 11 (9.57%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.96%) Power Query
6 6 (5.22%) Looker
7 5 (4.35%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.35%) Metadata
7 5 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (3.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.61%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (2.61%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.74%) Impala
10 2 (1.74%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.87%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.87%) MySQL
11 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) JIRA
2 4 (3.48%) Git
3 1 (0.87%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.87%) gulp
3 1 (0.87%) Postman
3 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.87%) Yeoman
General
1 30 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.74%) Finance
3 24 (20.87%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.78%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.96%) Banking
6 6 (5.22%) Law
7 5 (4.35%) Legal
8 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.74%) Marketing
9 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Publishing
9 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Local Government
10 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.87%) Military
10 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (16.52%) Analyst
1 19 (16.52%) Developer
2 14 (12.17%) Data Engineer
3 11 (9.57%) Power BI Developer
4 10 (8.70%) Architect
4 10 (8.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 10 (8.70%) Lead
5 7 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) Security Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) Senior
6 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (3.48%) Administrator
7 4 (3.48%) Data Analyst
7 4 (3.48%) Data Manager
7 4 (3.48%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (3.48%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (3.48%) SQL Analyst
7 4 (3.48%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) REST
2 3 (2.61%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (2.61%) PySpark
3 2 (1.74%) .NET
3 2 (1.74%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.74%) JSON
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.74%) Node.js
3 2 (1.74%) RESTful
4 1 (0.87%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.87%) LDAP
4 1 (0.87%) OAuth
4 1 (0.87%) OpenID
4 1 (0.87%) React
4 1 (0.87%) SAML
4 1 (0.87%) SOAP
4 1 (0.87%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.22%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.48%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.61%) IVR
5 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.74%) PMI
6 1 (0.87%) Clustering
6 1 (0.87%) CMDB
6 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.87%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.87%) PKI
6 1 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.96%) Windows
2 6 (5.22%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.22%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (71.30%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (39.13%) Analytics
3 35 (30.43%) Agile
4 26 (22.61%) Data Modelling
5 25 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (15.65%) Actionable Insight
7 18 (15.65%) Migration
7 18 (15.65%) Visualisation
8 17 (14.78%) ETL
8 17 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (13.91%) AI
10 15 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (12.17%) Workflow
12 12 (10.43%) Data Analysis
13 11 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (9.57%) User Experience
14 10 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
14 10 (8.70%) DevOps
14 10 (8.70%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.43%) SQL
2 17 (14.78%) Python
3 12 (10.43%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (5.22%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.22%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.35%) C#
7 2 (1.74%) VBA
8 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.30%) Degree
3 11 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.35%) CISSP
6 4 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.48%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.48%) PMP
7 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.74%) MBA
7 2 (1.74%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.61%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.17%) QA
3 5 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.35%) GRC
4 4 (3.48%) PMO
5 3 (2.61%) GDPR
6 2 (1.74%) Basel III
6 2 (1.74%) P3O
7 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.87%) NIST
7 1 (0.87%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.74%) Apache Ranger
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 47 (40.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.17%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.96%) Splunk
4 7 (6.09%) BeyondTrust
4 7 (6.09%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (6.09%) Remedy
5 6 (5.22%) Google
6 5 (4.35%) Databricks
7 4 (3.48%) Foundry
7 4 (3.48%) OpenAI
7 4 (3.48%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.61%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.61%) Genesys
8 3 (2.61%) Oracle
8 3 (2.61%) SAP
8 3 (2.61%) UiPath
9 2 (1.74%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.74%) Workday
10 1 (0.87%) Cisco
10 1 (0.87%) HubSpot