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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 28 44
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 +21
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 109 120 111
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.43% 5.14% 4.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.82% 16.51% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 85 84
10th Percentile £306 £325 £263
25th Percentile £363 £413 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +15.15% -13.16%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £517
90th Percentile £560 £638 £604
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.52
25th Percentile £15.50 - £31.77
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £42.18
75th Percentile £16.50 - £52.59
90th Percentile - - £58.84
England median hourly rate £25.01 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -16.63% -7.18% -7.66%

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 850 727 986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.52% 31.12% 36.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 456 744
10th Percentile £300 £296 £265
25th Percentile £363 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £645 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £16.20
25th Percentile £17.38 £21.05 £18.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -11.76% +60.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.14 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.29 £73.63 £64.08
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%

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 November 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 November 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 -14 66 £425 -10.53% 50
Cheshire -15 25 £500 -4.76% 24
Merseyside -8 9 £500 +73.16% 10
Lancashire -11 6 £455 -4.21% 39
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 13 (11.93%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.92%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (14.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.75%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.92%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (42.20%) Azure
2 24 (22.02%) Power Automate
3 21 (19.27%) PowerApps
4 14 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (11.01%) GCP
6 10 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (8.26%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (7.34%) Google Tag Manager
9 7 (6.42%) Google Analytics
10 6 (5.50%) AWS
10 6 (5.50%) SaaS
11 5 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (3.67%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.75%) Copilot Studio
13 3 (2.75%) Serverless
14 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.83%) Cloud Functions
15 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) DNS
1 5 (4.59%) Internet
1 5 (4.59%) Unified Communications
1 5 (4.59%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.92%) Firewall
2 1 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (73.39%) Power BI
2 12 (11.01%) Tableau
3 11 (10.09%) Looker
4 10 (9.17%) BigQuery
4 10 (9.17%) Power Query
5 9 (8.26%) SQL Server
6 8 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.67%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.67%) Redis
8 4 (3.67%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (2.75%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.75%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.75%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.83%) Metadata
10 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (2.75%) JIRA
2 2 (1.83%) Git
2 2 (1.83%) Selenium
3 1 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.92%) GitLab
General
1 49 (44.95%) Social Skills
2 32 (29.36%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (22.94%) Public Sector
4 17 (15.60%) Finance
5 6 (5.50%) Banking
6 4 (3.67%) Law
7 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.75%) Local Government
7 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.83%) Marketing
8 2 (1.83%) Retail
9 1 (0.92%) Automotive
9 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (23.85%) Developer
2 25 (22.94%) Analyst
3 11 (10.09%) Data Analyst
4 10 (9.17%) Data Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (7.34%) Lead
6 8 (7.34%) Power BI Developer
7 7 (6.42%) Architect
7 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Performance Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Senior
9 5 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (4.59%) IT Support
9 5 (4.59%) IT Support Technician
9 5 (4.59%) IT Technician
9 5 (4.59%) Power Apps Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Service Desk Support
9 5 (4.59%) Service Desk Technician
9 5 (4.59%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.50%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (4.59%) HTML
2 5 (4.59%) JSON
3 4 (3.67%) .NET
4 2 (1.83%) Node.js
4 2 (1.83%) React
4 2 (1.83%) REST
5 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.92%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.92%) Flask
5 1 (0.92%) Flutter
5 1 (0.92%) Gradio
5 1 (0.92%) LangChain
5 1 (0.92%) Material-UI
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.92%) Next.js
5 1 (0.92%) PySpark
5 1 (0.92%) React Native
5 1 (0.92%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (0.92%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Low-Code
2 6 (5.50%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.59%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.83%) Clustering
6 2 (1.83%) FMCG
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) NHS
6 2 (1.83%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.92%) PMI
7 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.42%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (72.48%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (30.28%) Analytics
3 29 (26.61%) Agile
4 24 (22.02%) Data Modelling
4 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (19.27%) Actionable Insight
6 18 (16.51%) Data Governance
7 16 (14.68%) Visualisation
8 15 (13.76%) ETL
9 14 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (12.84%) DevOps
9 14 (12.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (12.84%) User Experience
10 12 (11.01%) Dashboard Development
10 12 (11.01%) Data Analysis
10 12 (11.01%) Decision-Making
10 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (10.09%) Data Visualisation
12 10 (9.17%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.28%) SQL
2 19 (17.43%) Python
3 10 (9.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.59%) C#
7 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.83%) VBA
10 1 (0.92%) Bicep
10 1 (0.92%) Java
10 1 (0.92%) Korn
10 1 (0.92%) LookML
10 1 (0.92%) R
10 1 (0.92%) Scala
10 1 (0.92%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (13.76%) Degree
2 13 (11.93%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.75%) PMP
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.83%) CISM
7 2 (1.83%) CISSP
7 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.83%) MBA
8 1 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.92%) MCSA
8 1 (0.92%) MCSE
8 1 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.92%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.60%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.84%) Accessibility
3 12 (11.01%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.92%) Basel III
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.92%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (4.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (4.59%) SCCM
2 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.92%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 57 (52.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.01%) Google
3 11 (10.09%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.50%) Databricks
5 4 (3.67%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.67%) Informatica
5 4 (3.67%) Oracle
5 4 (3.67%) Pega
5 4 (3.67%) Workday
6 3 (2.75%) SAP
6 3 (2.75%) Snow
7 2 (1.83%) Capita
7 2 (1.83%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.92%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.92%) Cognos
8 1 (0.92%) Genesys
8 1 (0.92%) IBM
8 1 (0.92%) Sage
8 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.92%) Splunk