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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 62 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 -27 -4
Contract jobs citing Power Platform 115 65 127
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.40% 3.32% 4.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.09% 10.19% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 47 91
10th Percentile £359 £320 £350
25th Percentile £405 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% - +2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £544 £531
90th Percentile £612 £580 £613
England median daily rate £500 £481 £493
% change year-on-year +3.95% -2.34% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 6
10th Percentile £16.74 - £31.75
25th Percentile £19.97 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 - £42.50
75th Percentile £50.63 - £43.75
90th Percentile £59.00 - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £23.82
% change year-on-year -8.34% +32.82% -51.94%

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 1,037 638 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.65% 32.55% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 489 620
10th Percentile £313 £298 £283
25th Percentile £400 £393 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £652 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 19 60
10th Percentile £25.38 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £19.85 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +79.02% -35.41%
75th Percentile £77.50 £56.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.75 £71.54
England median hourly rate £40.28 £25.26 £21.37
% change year-on-year +59.49% +18.18% -38.94%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -12 69 £500 +15.94% 85
Cheshire +2 26 £463 -20.26% 22
Merseyside -7 10 £438 -10.15% 14
Lancashire -7 7 £425 -10.53% 24
Cumbria - 2 - - 1
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 14 (12.17%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.96%) Confluence
3 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.61%) CMS
5 2 (1.74%) Apache
5 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (16.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.74%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.87%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.87%) Primavera
3 1 (0.87%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.87%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 52 (45.22%) Azure
2 25 (21.74%) Power Automate
3 19 (16.52%) PowerApps
4 16 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (11.30%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (10.43%) AWS
7 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (7.83%) Entra ID
10 8 (6.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (6.09%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (5.22%) OneDrive
13 5 (4.35%) Azure Functions
13 5 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (4.35%) Serverless
14 4 (3.48%) Azure AI
15 3 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
16 2 (1.74%) Azure Cognitive Search
16 2 (1.74%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) Network Security
2 1 (0.87%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (75.65%) Power BI
2 17 (14.78%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.57%) Power Query
3 11 (9.57%) SQL Server
4 10 (8.70%) Tableau
5 5 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.48%) Looker
6 4 (3.48%) Metadata
7 3 (2.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.61%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (2.61%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.61%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.74%) Impala
8 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) JIRA
2 4 (3.48%) Git
3 1 (0.87%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.87%) Postman
3 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.87%) Finance
3 22 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.17%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.96%) Banking
6 6 (5.22%) Law
7 5 (4.35%) Legal
7 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.61%) Marketing
9 2 (1.74%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Local Government
10 1 (0.87%) Military
10 1 (0.87%) Publishing
10 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (19.13%) Developer
2 16 (13.91%) Analyst
3 15 (13.04%) Power BI Developer
4 14 (12.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 13 (11.30%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Lead
7 7 (6.09%) Architect
7 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Security Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Senior
8 6 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Administrator
9 4 (3.48%) Data Manager
9 4 (3.48%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.48%) SQL Analyst
9 4 (3.48%) Test Analyst
10 3 (2.61%) C# Developer
10 3 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) REST
2 3 (2.61%) HTML5 Canvas
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%) PySpark
3 2 (1.74%) RESTful
4 1 (0.87%) LDAP
4 1 (0.87%) OAuth
4 1 (0.87%) OpenID
4 1 (0.87%) SAML
4 1 (0.87%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (3.48%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.74%) Life Science
4 2 (1.74%) PMI
5 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.87%) CMDB
5 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.87%) FMCG
5 1 (0.87%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.09%) Windows
2 5 (4.35%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.35%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (73.04%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (35.65%) Analytics
3 34 (29.57%) Agile
4 26 (22.61%) Data Modelling
5 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (19.13%) Visualisation
7 20 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (16.52%) AI
8 19 (16.52%) Migration
9 18 (15.65%) Data Visualisation
9 18 (15.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (13.91%) ETL
10 16 (13.91%) Workflow
11 13 (11.30%) Actionable Insight
12 12 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (9.57%) Data Analysis
13 11 (9.57%) ERP
14 10 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
14 10 (8.70%) Generative AI
14 10 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 38 (33.04%) SQL
2 19 (16.52%) Python
3 14 (12.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.35%) C#
5 5 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.74%) VBA
7 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (14.78%) Degree
2 14 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.70%) 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 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.74%) MBA
8 2 (1.74%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.13%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.57%) QA
3 5 (4.35%) GRC
4 4 (3.48%) PMO
5 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.74%) Basel III
6 2 (1.74%) GDPR
6 2 (1.74%) P3O
7 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (7.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.74%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (41.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.57%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.96%) Databricks
3 8 (6.96%) Splunk
4 7 (6.09%) BeyondTrust
4 7 (6.09%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (6.09%) Remedy
4 7 (6.09%) SAP
5 4 (3.48%) Foundry
5 4 (3.48%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.48%) Oracle
5 4 (3.48%) UiPath
6 3 (2.61%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.74%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.74%) Workday
8 1 (0.87%) Cisco
8 1 (0.87%) Google
8 1 (0.87%) Reuters
8 1 (0.87%) Ribbon