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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 53 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 +13
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 162 78 110
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.11% 3.53% 4.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.15% 10.94% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 55 79
10th Percentile £400 £354 £318
25th Percentile £425 £399 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% - -2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £525
90th Percentile £604 £565 £605
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile £22.41 - -
25th Percentile £27.94 - -
Median hourly rate £29.96 - -
75th Percentile £47.44 - -
90th Percentile £69.00 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.31 £30.30
% change year-on-year -7.15% +6.65% -6.27%

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 1,232 713 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.24% 32.23% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 530 492
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £537 £575
90th Percentile £692 £630 £650
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 28 13
10th Percentile £18.85 £12.82 £13.09
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.50 £40.83 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% +13.40% +32.35%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.25 £58.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £74.50 £71.15
England median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%

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 29 August 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

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 29 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 29 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 +8 104 £500 +17.65% 113
Cheshire +16 31 £475 +6.15% 25
Merseyside -7 17 £437 -12.70% 21
Lancashire -9 8 £400 -15.79% 37
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 32 (19.75%) SharePoint
2 15 (9.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.94%) Confluence
3 8 (4.94%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.23%) Apache
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.23%) CMS
4 2 (1.23%) SAS
4 2 (1.23%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.62%) Mendix
Applications
1 28 (17.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (4.32%) MS Visio
5 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (2.47%) AutoCAD
6 4 (2.47%) Navisworks
6 4 (2.47%) ProjectWise
6 4 (2.47%) Revit
7 3 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (3.09%) Primavera
2 5 (3.09%) SAP MM
3 4 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.47%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 4 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.62%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.62%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.62%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 72 (44.44%) Azure
2 45 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (23.46%) Power Automate
4 31 (19.14%) PowerApps
5 23 (14.20%) Microsoft Copilot
6 20 (12.35%) Entra ID
7 18 (11.11%) AWS
8 15 (9.26%) OneDrive
9 14 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (8.02%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (5.56%) Azure AI
12 8 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (4.94%) Copilot Studio
13 7 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (3.09%) SaaS
15 4 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (2.47%) dbt
15 4 (2.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (76.54%) Power BI
2 19 (11.73%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (11.73%) Power Query
3 15 (9.26%) SQL Server
4 12 (7.41%) Tableau
5 10 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (5.56%) MySQL
7 7 (4.32%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.70%) Metadata
8 6 (3.70%) Star Schema
9 4 (2.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.47%) Looker
10 3 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.85%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.23%) Big Data
11 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.23%) Impala
12 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.62%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 13 (8.02%) JIRA
2 5 (3.09%) Git
3 1 (0.62%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.62%) GitLab
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (15.43%) Finance
4 21 (12.96%) Manufacturing
5 11 (6.79%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.70%) Banking
7 5 (3.09%) Law
8 3 (1.85%) Marketing
8 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Retail
9 2 (1.23%) Aviation
9 2 (1.23%) Billing
9 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Military
10 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (17.90%) Developer
2 20 (12.35%) Power BI Developer
3 19 (11.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 17 (10.49%) Analyst
5 12 (7.41%) Architect
6 10 (6.17%) Lead
7 9 (5.56%) Consultant
7 9 (5.56%) Data Analyst
7 9 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Senior
8 7 (4.32%) DBA
8 7 (4.32%) SQL DBA
9 6 (3.70%) Administrator
9 6 (3.70%) Automation Specialist
9 6 (3.70%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.70%) Voice Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Coordinator
10 5 (3.09%) Data Consultant
10 5 (3.09%) PowerShell Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (3.70%) PySpark
3 3 (1.85%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (1.85%) REST
4 2 (1.23%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.62%) EDI
5 1 (0.62%) OAuth
5 1 (0.62%) OpenID
5 1 (0.62%) SAML
5 1 (0.62%) SOAP
5 1 (0.62%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.94%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.70%) Clustering
3 6 (3.70%) CMDB
3 6 (3.70%) Replication
4 5 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.09%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.85%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.23%) FMCG
6 2 (1.23%) Life Science
6 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.88%) Windows
2 7 (4.32%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.09%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.09%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (70.37%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (37.04%) Analytics
3 36 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 35 (21.60%) Visualisation
5 33 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (18.52%) Agile
6 30 (18.52%) Migration
7 26 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (15.43%) AI
8 25 (15.43%) Data Visualisation
9 24 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (14.81%) Workflow
10 23 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (13.58%) ETL
12 20 (12.35%) Data Analysis
13 19 (11.73%) ITIL
14 18 (11.11%) ITSM
15 16 (9.88%) DevOps
16 15 (9.26%) Data Governance
16 15 (9.26%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 57 (35.19%) SQL
2 23 (14.20%) Python
3 21 (12.96%) PowerShell
4 20 (12.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (8.64%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.85%) C#
8 1 (0.62%) Java
8 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (22.22%) Degree
2 28 (17.28%) Security Cleared
3 22 (13.58%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (6.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.32%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.70%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.09%) CISSP
8 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.94%) GRC
3 4 (2.47%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.47%) GDPR
3 4 (2.47%) ISO 19650
3 4 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.47%) NIST
4 3 (1.85%) GxP
4 3 (1.85%) PMO
4 3 (1.85%) QA
5 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.32%) SCOM
2 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 96 (59.26%) Microsoft
2 39 (24.07%) ServiceNow
3 16 (9.88%) SAP
4 14 (8.64%) Splunk
5 12 (7.41%) Databricks
6 9 (5.56%) Remedy
7 7 (4.32%) BeyondTrust
7 7 (4.32%) Cisco
7 7 (4.32%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (3.70%) Ribbon
8 6 (3.70%) UiPath
9 5 (3.09%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.47%) Alteryx
10 4 (2.47%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.47%) Autodesk
10 4 (2.47%) Oracle
11 3 (1.85%) Workday
12 2 (1.23%) Cloudera
12 2 (1.23%) Google
12 2 (1.23%) Teradata