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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 55 39
Rank change year-on-year -9 -16 -4
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 114 72 114
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.57% 3.66% 4.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.14% 11.27% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 52 85
10th Percentile £316 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £556 £525
90th Percentile £625 £580 £575
England median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 6
10th Percentile £17.13 - £31.75
25th Percentile £22.81 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £42.50
75th Percentile £53.75 - £43.75
90th Percentile £71.00 - -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £29.07 £23.22
% change year-on-year +8.36% +25.22% -55.14%

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 1,023 639 882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.04% 32.47% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 497 638
10th Percentile £230 £250 £284
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £487
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -2.46% -2.60%
75th Percentile £581 £551 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 12 65
10th Percentile £24.19 - £13.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.88 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +116.45% +79.79% -48.61%
75th Percentile £77.50 £50.66 £20.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.88 £43.75
England median hourly rate £46.40 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +81.96% +22.77% -35.70%

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 2 May 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 2 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 2 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 -11 73 £500 +8.70% 65
Cheshire +1 27 £463 -20.26% 22
Lancashire -6 7 £425 - 30
Merseyside -13 4 £700 +40.00% 25
Cumbria - 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 16 (14.04%) SharePoint
2 9 (7.89%) Confluence
3 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.63%) CMS
5 2 (1.75%) Apache
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.88%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 14 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.75%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.88%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.88%) Primavera
3 1 (0.88%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.88%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 52 (45.61%) Azure
2 26 (22.81%) Power Automate
3 17 (14.91%) PowerApps
4 16 (14.04%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (9.65%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (7.89%) AWS
8 9 (7.89%) Entra ID
9 8 (7.02%) GCP
10 7 (6.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (6.14%) Google Analytics
10 7 (6.14%) Google Tag Manager
10 7 (6.14%) OneDrive
11 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (4.39%) Azure Functions
12 5 (4.39%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (4.39%) Serverless
13 4 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Network Security
2 1 (0.88%) DHCP
2 1 (0.88%) DNS
2 1 (0.88%) Firewall
2 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.88%) VPN
2 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (74.56%) Power BI
2 18 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (13.16%) Tableau
4 12 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 9 (7.89%) Looker
6 7 (6.14%) BigQuery
6 7 (6.14%) Power Query
7 6 (5.26%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.26%) Metadata
7 6 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (3.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (2.63%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.63%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.75%) Impala
10 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.28%) JIRA
2 4 (3.51%) Git
3 1 (0.88%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.88%) gulp
3 1 (0.88%) Postman
3 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.88%) Yeoman
General
1 37 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.81%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (21.93%) Finance
4 18 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.26%) Banking
5 6 (5.26%) Law
6 5 (4.39%) Legal
7 4 (3.51%) Marketing
8 3 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Local Government
10 1 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.88%) Publishing
10 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (19.30%) Analyst
2 17 (14.91%) Developer
3 14 (12.28%) Data Engineer
4 10 (8.77%) Architect
4 10 (8.77%) Lead
5 9 (7.89%) Power BI Developer
6 8 (7.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (7.02%) Senior
7 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Performance Analyst
8 6 (5.26%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.51%) Data Manager
10 4 (3.51%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.26%) REST
2 3 (2.63%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (2.63%) PySpark
3 2 (1.75%) .NET
3 2 (1.75%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.75%) JSON
3 2 (1.75%) Node.js
3 2 (1.75%) RESTful
4 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.88%) LDAP
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.88%) OAuth
4 1 (0.88%) OpenID
4 1 (0.88%) React
4 1 (0.88%) SAML
4 1 (0.88%) SOAP
4 1 (0.88%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.26%) Data Structures
1 6 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.63%) IVR
3 3 (2.63%) PMI
4 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.75%) Clustering
4 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.75%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.88%) CMDB
5 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) FMCG
5 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.88%) Life Science
5 1 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.26%) Windows
2 4 (3.51%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.51%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (72.81%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (39.47%) Analytics
3 37 (32.46%) Agile
4 26 (22.81%) Data Modelling
5 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (20.18%) Actionable Insight
7 19 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (15.79%) ETL
8 18 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (15.79%) Visualisation
9 16 (14.04%) Data Analysis
10 15 (13.16%) AI
11 14 (12.28%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (12.28%) Migration
11 14 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (11.40%) Dashboard Development
12 13 (11.40%) Workflow
13 12 (10.53%) Data Governance
14 11 (9.65%) User Experience
15 9 (7.89%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 38 (33.33%) SQL
2 15 (13.16%) Python
3 9 (7.89%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (6.14%) T-SQL
6 6 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.39%) C#
8 2 (1.75%) VBA
9 1 (0.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.40%) Degree
3 11 (9.65%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.39%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.39%) PMP
6 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.63%) CISSP
6 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.63%) MBA
6 3 (2.63%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (23.68%) Data Quality
2 17 (14.91%) QA
3 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.39%) GRC
5 4 (3.51%) PMO
6 3 (2.63%) Basel III
6 3 (2.63%) GDPR
7 2 (1.75%) P3O
8 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.88%) NIST
8 1 (0.88%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.75%) Apache Ranger
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 46 (40.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.65%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.89%) Google
4 5 (4.39%) Databricks
5 4 (3.51%) BeyondTrust
5 4 (3.51%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (3.51%) Foundry
5 4 (3.51%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.51%) Remedy
5 4 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.51%) SAP
5 4 (3.51%) Splunk
6 3 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.63%) Genesys
6 3 (2.63%) Oracle
6 3 (2.63%) UiPath
7 2 (1.75%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.75%) Workday
8 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.88%) HubSpot